Just a few things to say about the first non-Rick episode of the year, if not of the entire series:
--So the Governor is Brian Heriot? Or did he just make that up?
--And he just strolls into the house of these two women? And the kid, and the guy on oxygen?
--The Governor sorta looks like Kurt Russell in his 80s action movies, like Escape from New York.
--In the beginning of the series, most of the characters would kill almost all of the walkers that came at them, often out of sympathy. (Or at least it seemed that way to me.) Now, there's no pity. The Governor, for example, just closed a door on one, and left one strapped into a wheelchair, theoretically forever.
--The guy got "killed" with the oxygen tank that the Governor got to save him. If I remember right, that's called irony.
--This is the family guy before the zombie apocalypse transformed him to the dark side and he became the Governor.
--The creators of the show are giving the Governor a lot of his own time in order to set him up as Rick's foil character--that is, the one character who he is most similar to, but who also has a couple of glaring differences in order to set up the traits of both.
--The pit kills, especially the last one with the bone and the face-stretching, are the kills of the week.
--I don't mind the total focus on the Governor here, and it seems like next week will be more of the same, but I'm hearing that many viewers are less than thrilled. A few are threatening to stop watching.
--The show's creators are taking a heckuva chance here, and if the ratings plummet over these two episodes, there'll be a lot of finger-pointing.
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