AMC's The Walking Dead

the governor was moving from a bad dude to an unhinged dude to a full-on crazy. Should surprise no one that his plan for the prison was less than robust.

 

I can accept some finagling of the timeline -- the Andrea/Milton stuff might have been more compressed than the prison siege, just intercut for dramatic purposes -- but the bite high up on the neck did seem like an unlikely place. And with one arm free, she could have gotten out of and behind the barber/dentist chair, and kept it between her and Milton for a while, couldn't she, even as she yanked a little more at the other shackle? (Assuming the Governor went for the swivel upgrade.)

How did Zombie Milton ultimately get put down anyway? Stomping a "freshly-minted" zombie would seem harder -- could a grown man stomp a head/skull/brain flat on a living, struggling person? -- than all the woods walkers we'd encountered. Pliers don't have the sharpest edge for penetrating into a brain either.

 

I would imagine she put the handle into his eye. That's what I would have done, at least.

 

Not to analyze too deeply, but maybe the events of the past few weeks, as shown in the Governor's actions, made him loopy. The fact the last prison attack was well-planned, vs. the cluster of the last one, shows the degradation in his judgement. It still was lame, though. I guess his best shooters, except for the ones who left with him in the truck, were killed in Merle's one-man ambush.

 

I think he told her pretty early in the process. Because there were those agonizing, stupidity-riddled, multiple scenes of her trying to pick up the pliers then stopping and staring at Milton or engaging him in conversation when she should have been trying to set herself free. There was even the scene when Milton said to her "You should hurry up." That came right after I screamed at the TV the same thing.

The Andrea character was sooooo stupid and annoying.

 

I understand the story played out the way it played out...but could have Milton crawled over to Andrea, gotten the pliers and someone figured a way for her to help him die sooner and then as soon as he died, she could have given him a head shot. So, no zombie Milton.

 

I think him crawling or doing anything would have made him bleed out quicker than he did.

 

They did that in previous episodes, showing the Governor marshaling his force of 90-year-old women and young children. We saw during that training scene how woefully unprepared that group was for a battle. He had a few henchmen who were good, but as someone else noted, Merle got a bunch of them ("Merle ain't never done anything like that in his life." "He gave us a chance."). Hell, the Governor himself acknowledged to Rick that his people weren't warriors, but he had a lot more of them than Rick did. So I think their weakness was pretty well set up by previous episodes.

Also, I agree with whomever noted that the prison is much easier to defend, making it more suitable than Woodbury.

I liked the episode overall, but I was waiting for a cliffhanger. My biggest problem is actually that they spend so much time showing the Governor set up his torture chamber for Michonne and then all he did in there was handcuff Andrea to a chair and maybe smack her around a little bit. Not that I wanted to see AMC's version of "Saw," but it made the time previously spent establishing that room as a scary place seem like it was wasted.

 

I do agree with those who would like to see emphasis shifted back to the walkers as the most formidable and frightening threats. They've become straw men and women, more nuisance than scary. Awfully easy to dispatch, even in numbers.

BTW, I never understood why Michonne's lower-de-jawed armless pets still weren't a problem. They could sink their upper teeth into your shoulder as if bobbing for apples and you still could get the same bacteria-loaded death wound.

 

Did they still have teeth?

 

Andrea curbed hers on a rock. Presumably Michonne did the same?

 

I don't remember seeing Michonne's pets with any teeth.