![]() ![]() Maybe she'll save the day in the end, but even then I hope a biter gets her. But she just told Hershel she can't go back with them and then she turns around and does it, and I have little faith left that she's willing to kill the Governor. Will he try to warn them? Will he tell Andrea? Will she attempt to redeem herself by warning her old friends?īetter question: Can Andrea be redeemed? At this point I'd bet on Merle becoming a likable character sooner than Andrea.Įven after learning of Maggie's near-rape at the hands of the Governor she still goes back to Woodbury. ![]() Milton is obviously upset by this, perhaps remembering his conversation with Hershel. Later in the episode the Governor relays his plans to Milton-that the deal is a trap, that they're going to ambush Rick's crew no matter what. We can see the seeds sewn for a reluctant slaughter on both sides. Meanwhile, Daryl and Caesar have a bit of a bonding moment over some dead walkers, and Milton and Hershel hit it off over the stump of Hershel's leg. He's tempted even though he now likes Michonne and even though he knows, or strongly suspects, that the Governor is planning to kill them all anyways. He's tempted by the Governor's offer: to hand over Michonne in exchange for peace. Rick sees right through the Governor, but maybe not quite far enough. Andrea shows up and finds herself once again torn between worlds. While the two alpha males talk shop inside, Hershel and Daryl shoot the breeze with Milton and Caesar outside. Read my Forbes blog here.Sunday night's episode of AMC's The Walking Dead was yet another in this ever-expanding chain of hits.Īrrow on the Doorpost opens to an encounter between Rick and the Governor. ![]() Hopefully we move beyond the prison, however, because another season sitting around in a structure, instead of battling it out on the road, isn't going to cut it.įollow me on Twitter or Facebook. Season 4 starts up in October and I'll be waiting eagerly enough for the shambling dead. Disappointing finale or no, the show has been at its best over the past few weeks. Not just fighting some final walker, but really fighting, going toe-to-toe with the Governor and his goons.Īh well. For all my gripes with Andrea, I would have liked to see her at least go out fighting like Merle. Then, when it's all said and done, she's killed off by walker-Milton in the Governor's dungeon. She was placed in one ludicrous situation after another, and made bad choices almost every single time. The writers tasked her with ridiculous motivations and reactions. As a character, she was given one impossible predicament after another. Still, something about it doesn't sit right with me. She got the suicide she wanted in Season 1, and we are relieved of one of the worst characters on the show. She tried to do the right thing and she failed and the price of failure this time was death. True, she died with her slate wiped clean. I know this is something I've wished for all season, but it almost felt cheap at the end. But that's precisely what AMC did with Season 4 of Breaking Bad, and that remains one of the most incredible, poignant, and important moments in that show's incredible run.įinally, Andrea is dead. It's risky to kill off a great villain and resolve an important narrative. But what this feels like to me is a show desperate to not lose one of its strongest characters (and actors) and one of its best conflicts all in one fell swoop. I don't really care that it's different, probably because I've waited to read the comics and avoided as many spoilers as possible. ![]() I'm not a reader of the comics yet, but I know this isn't how this story arc ends. Instead we have an episode that really doesn't live up to many of the recent entries in Season 3, not so much because there was a great deal riding on this episode (though there was) but because the show took the easy way out and didn't give us what it's promised, at least implicitly, since we first met the Governor. If it had all come down to the final fight between the Governor and Rick and then pow! we were given a cliff-hanger.I'd be annoyed, but I could buy it. If the Governor had simply shot two or three of the people and then frightened the rest back to fight again, I could have bought that. Each good moment seemed to trail off into confusion and indirection. The attack on the prison started off really solid and then ended in a confusing retreat. Carl's internal conflict and anger over Rick's betrayal of Michonne. The opening scene between the Governor and Milton, especially. Fundamentally, this is a business decision, and sometimes business decisions are terrible for creative endeavors. None of these questions result in satisfying answers. ![]()
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