AMC's The Walking Dead

The nerdy lieutenant is going to switch sides I'm betting.

 

He's going to die. I just can't see him making it out of this season.

 

Hopefully he gets to buy Hershel dinner first.

 

I disagree. I think he has to make it. If they don't add at least one from Woodbury to their group, what was the point? The faux-scientist and the Governor are the only Woodbury characters they have bothered developing at all. And he built a relationship with Hershel. And as much as I don't want to admit that Andrea probably gets to live, she probably gets to live at least long enough to switch sides and bring the faux-scientist with her.

 

The scientist would add a dimension to the group that would allow the story to move forward in a number of ways. I think Vers is right. He lives.

 

But could anyone in the group ever trust the guy? I guess that could be one of the storylines for next season, with Andrea and Herschel saying they think he can be, and Merle and others thinking there's no way the Governor's right-hand man can be trusted. Really, if anyone from Woodbury survives and makes it into the group, he makes the most sense. The guy Daryl interacted with last episode would be the only other one since he's the only other one with even a little character development, but he seems too much like Daryl 2.0.

I still think the Doc ends up zombie food somehow.

 

Developed a relationship with Hershel? They had one conversation.

I think he gets eaten in the effort to switch over.

 

On this show, that's about as deep as character and relationship development gets for fringe characters.

 

Couple more lines and they would have equaled T-Dog's output during his run.

 

The point was to give the group yet another challenge and to hammer the point home about what the zombie apocalypse is turning people into. I think a big part of the story is creating characters to compare Rick to, whether it be the Governor or Morgan.

Just because there is a story reason to let the nerdy lieutenant live doesn't mean he would, anyway.

 

On this show, it does. The deaths are predictable. (There are about to be many spoilers from the TV show in this post.)

The victims fall into three categories: did something that meant the only way to move forward was to kill them off (Lori's pregnancy and pussycattiness, Shane's betrayal, Dale's stubbornness); weren't well developed until the end, at which point they made for good familiar deaths without impacting the dynamics established (T-Dog, Jacqui, Jim); or needed to die to develop other characters (Lori, Ed, Amy).

 

Hoping to see Rick standing over a dying Gov, explaining why he didn't take the deal giving up Michonne. "...but noooooo, an eye for an eye wasn't going to be good enough for you..."