Walking Dead Finale Too Far Gone

It's hard to believe that the mid-season finale is tomorrow. I found a sneak peek that will have your head spinning. 

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The Walking Dead Too Far Gone

Walking Dead - Dead Weight

The Walking Dead episode 7 Dead Weight opens with a pretty good microcosm of events to come. 

We see The Governor and Megan playing chess outside of an RV. Along with scenes of Carlos Martinez, pulling Brian aka The Governor and Megan from out the biter pit.

Martinez is surprise to hear Lily refer to The Governor as Brian. Nevertheless, he invites him and his family into his camp. He makes it clear that he is in charge and will not accept any Dead Weight.

While hanging clothes and playing chess with Megan we learned a few things, most notably (and probably not surprisingly) that The Governor had a rough childhood and an abusive father.

He tells Megan “He used to beat me in chess, too; heck, he used to beat me in everything.” But the chess game was the central metaphor: The Governor tells the child “You can’t think forever, sooner or later you’ve got to make a move.”

Watching Brian with Megan is so different from who he has been. You find yourself wanting him to do the right thing. Megan tells him that “we are all good.” You see him struggle with that notion.

On a supply run with Martinez, Pete and Mitch, Brian stay in the back and follows Martinez lead. They happen across a series of dead bodies without heads. Each body has a different sign hung around its necks - Liar, Rapist and Murderer.

Once they reach a cabin, Martinez orders Brian to lead the way inside where they find two zombies, (a young girl, and the dead owner’s wife) and several still living severed heads. Brian’s quick reaction basically controls the entire situation.

Back at the camp, everybody’s drinking beers and relaxing. A drunken Martinez takes Brian up on the roof of an RV to hit golf balls, something they used to do in Woodbury. Martinez starts rambling about not wanting to have another family due to his lack of confidence in keeping the camp safe.

He says, “now that you’re here, maybe we can share the crown a little.” Brian instantly snaps into a blind rage and turns into The Governor and quickly reacts with a single swing to the back of the head with a golf club. Martinez is down and dazed. 

The Governor kicks him off the RV and drags him to the very walker pit he was rescued from. “I don’t want it,” he screams, madly, as he feeds Martinez to the Walkers. But it is obvious this is innate to him it is absolutely a part of him.

Brian is guilt ridden and convinced that the camp isn’t safe. He tells Lily they have to leave, he says, “I can’t lose you again.” He’s not talking about Lily. He is referring to his dead wife. Yikes! The Governor is slowly slipping back into his consciousness. She tells him “We are home. I feel safe here”

After the discovery of Martinez death, Pete takes over temporarily as the leader. Once Brian goes on a supply run with Pete and Mitch he is convinced the family is not safe under their guidance. He decides to flee the camp that night with his new family (Lilly, Megan and Tara and Alicia, Tara’s new squeeze.)

They quietly slip out under cover of darkness, none of the women quite understanding what’s going on but trusting him all the same. They don’t get far. The road is blocked by a couple dozen biters stuck waist-deep in mud. No escape. He watches the walkers and devises his plan. Brian is officially gone now.

The Governor does what he does best. He kills Pete and throws him in the lake. In the mind of The Governor, killing Martinez and Pete wasn’t about anything more than insuring his and his new family’s survival.

The Governor explains the new reality to Mitch. “I promise you,” he tells Mitch while offering to make him a Lieutenant; “you’ll never have to worry about whether you’re doing the right thing or the wrong thing, because we will do the only thing.” Mitch agrees.

Quickly the Governor establishes the new regime, and has the camp working like a well-oiled machine. He’s good at this. People immediately feel safe with him in charge.

Tara and Megan are comfortable enough to play tag – with Megan almost inevitably running right into a Walker. 

The Governor, true to his promise to the child, saves Megan with one single shot to the Walker’s head.

The Governor drives off alone ad visits Pete in the lake, He watches him struggle against the chain shackled on his foot. He is a Walker now and is the true meaning of “Dead Weight." You can’t deny the eerie reminder of last season with The Governor’s obsession with his aquarium tanks full of Walker heads. The Governor is officially back!

Of course now he is ready to go over to the former West Georgia Correctional Facility. We finally linked back to the end of “Internment”, with The Governor watching Rick and Carl from the shadows outside the Prison. In the distance he sees, Michonne and Hershel standing by the jeep – this is clearly right after the flu outbreak and the two are burying the bodies.

The Governor raises his gun, with his eye on Michonne. The woman who took his eye and his daughter. This isn’t about survival. This is about revenge.

Fade to black.

The Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 6 Live Bait

Walking Dead Season 4 episode 6 “Live Bait” opens right where we last saw The Governor in Season 3.

As you recall, The Governor was on the streets gunning down his disciples from Woodbury. He then drove off with his two faithful henchmen.

When night fell, The Governor sat staring at the camp fire. Could he possibly be reflecting on his depraved behavior? He looked as if he was in a trance. He sits unresponsive to the imminent danger as a Walker approaches him.

Carlos takes matters into his own hands and shoots the Walker. Carlos’s expression is nothing less than frustration and disappointment in his great leader. To no surprise, The Governor awakes the next morning to find his men gone.

The Governor is truly lost and returns to his only home. He breaks through Woodbury’s barriers only to find the place is overrun by Walkers. He watches his beloved town burn.

Abandoned and lost, The Governor begins to wander the countryside. He staggers around looking like a “Living Walker.” He appears to be a broken man and cares about nothing. He just exists. He is nonchalant as he passes Walkers on the street.

He wanders for months. He is a mere shell of his former self, which is evident from his over grown beard and lifeless expression on his face. Until one day he spots a little girl staring at him from an apartment window.

The Governor explores the building and finds Tara, the tough-talking wannabe cop; single mom Lily, her adorable daughter, Megan, and the sisters’ dying father.

He explains that he came from a group that “the leader lost it, I barely got out alive.” Could The Governor actually realized somewhere along the way he lost he’s humanity?

Like other characters, The Governor’s storyline seems to also ring the theme of change in Season 4. The Governor is brought back to life while living with this little family.

He reinvents himself as Brian Harriet and becomes a protector of his new family. It is unclear how The Governor was as a man before the zombie apocalypse, but from his relaxed demeanor with Megan, it is clear that she brings out the best of him. Are we seeing glimpses of his former personality when his daughter was alive?

She obviously reminds him of his deceased daughter Penny. Do you remember how tenderly he interacted with her in Season 3, despite the fact she was a Walker in a straightjacket locked in a closet.

The Governor clearly has replaced Penny in his heart, which is symbolized by him burning the family photograph, in other words erasing his past. We can guess that losing his family was the traumatic event that brought about the rise of The Governor.

After the father passes away, Lily convinces The Governor to help them find a better location. A romance is developing between him and Lilly and it seems real. His protecting of his new found family starts immediately as they hit the road.

After parking the truck for the night, it won't start in the morning. The group is forced to walk the streets until they find another car. Of course, Walkers appear and they all run for cover. Brian - aka The Governor scoops up Megan and runs pass the struggling sisters hobbling along.

Brian and Megan fall in a walker trap and he must kill all of them to protect the child. Megan clings to him. He promises to always keep her safe. Ironically, at the end of the episode The Governor finds out the trap was made by his once loyal henchman, Caesar.

Can people change so drastically from evil to a genuinely good person? 

Do you believe The Governor has put his dark side in the past for good?

The Walking Dead – Season 4 Episode 6 "Live Bait" Where Has The Governor Been?

We finally got a quick glimpse of the absent Governor at the end of the Walking Dead Season 4 episode 5, “Internment.”

The Governor was gone so long that even Michonne decided to give up looking for him.

It appears that the Season 4 episode 6, “Live Bait,” will provide some details on what he’s been up to during his hiatus.

There have been rumors that The Governor will get two standalone episodes during Season 4. Some are speculating that it will be this week’s Episode 6 "Live Bait"and the following week.

In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Robert Kirkman, executive producer of The Walking Dead, and show runner Scott Glimple, were asked why the Governor has been missing from Season 4 for so long?

“You know what? I’m sick of The Governor.” Glimple said.

“It’s not that we don’t like that character; we needed to give that character a break. Going right back into that would seem like more retread of season three, and that’s the thing we don’t want to do,” said Kirkman.

To Kirkman’s point, without The Governor’s presence, the writers were able create new challenges and threats for the group to deal with. Those included the most unlikely killer in their midst – a deadly outbreak of a viral disease.

The group is also being taunted by a mysterious person baiting Walkers for the sole purpose of weakening the Prison’s fences (perhaps some of The Governor’s handy work?).

With the trifecta of events over the last few episodes, we see the group morphing into one of its weakest points. This is perfect timing for the demented eye-patched villain to return to exact his twisted revenge on Rick and Michonne.

Do you think the group will figure out that The Governor is watching before he attacks? Will Michonne pick up her search for him before it's too late? Or will The Governor make a surprise attack and slaughter the group? What do you think?

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The Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 5: Internment

Last week, The Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 4 “Indifference” attracted 13.3 million viewers, which beat NFL Sunday Night Football!

This week’s episode of the The Walking Dead Season 4, “Internment”, was more intense, chaotic and gives a truer sense of danger than many full-scale movies can ever hope to achieve. The episode is a non-stop thrill ride.

The show opens with our group struggling to keep things together while awaiting medicine to help the sick. Rick returns and tells Maggie about Carol while they are securing the fence from the hoard. He says “I couldn’t have her here”. He finds comfort in her understanding reaction.

The increase of Walkers around the fence makes it essential for Rick to assure that it is secure. He and Carl work on the fence just as the Walkers break through and trample it down. Rick and Carl are forced to use assault rifles to clear the area. Rick seems impressed with Carl’s precise shooting.  Since episode 1 of Season 4 of the Walking Dead, we have witnessed an increase of Walkers around the fence. We know someone is luring the Walkers to the prison but who…?

Hershel battles to keep the infected alive, but things get worse in the ‘sick ward’. Several of the survivors die and the others are barely holding on. We learned from Glenn that Hershel had never before been forced to put down someone who is about to turn into a Walker. We watch him struggle after one of his patients dies and he is the only one there able to do the grisly deed. The process was so upsetting to him that he had to pull a sheet over the man’s face before stabbing him through the skull.

This all changes when the unthinkable happens. The infection moves into the final stage in Glen and he slowly starts choking to death, just as a number of others have turned.

We see Hershel’s character change instantly. He doesn’t hesitate for a minute and puts down all that threaten their safety. In order to save Glen, Hershel throws himself in harm’s way, trying to remove a breathing tube from a Walker. Thankfully Maggie breaks into the quarantine area in time to display some pretty good sharp shooting skills and takes down the Walker.

Bob creates an antidote and the sick members of the group seem to be heading towards recovery.  Hershel finally leaves the quarantine area and learns about Carol from Rick.

Maggie said that Rick made the right call and Hershel seemed to be all right with Rick’s decision. But Daryl still hasn’t heard the bad news, though he knows that something is up. It seems unlikely he will take the news lightly.

What about Tyreese? How will he react? Will he take Rick’s dismissal of Carol as a suitable punishment?

We see The Governor is back, but it appears he never really left. He obviously has been keeping an eye on the Prison since his departure at the end of Season 3. Can we assume that he is the one driving the Walkers to the Prison and that he is plotting revenge? 

A sneak peek at next week’s episode of The Walking Dead is below.