Instead, The Governor proved that he was the kind of man whose brutal impulses ruined everything he touched. If The Governor could take over the prison and kill Grimes, he could prove that his way – which involved taking power in his own group by killing two people and lying to his followers about it – was the only way to survive. Grimes forged a coalition of people inside a prison and let go of power, allowing the group to be ruled by a council. The show gambled by taking two episodes to focus just on his story – revealing that he wanted to think of himself as a good man, forced to act brutally to survive in a twisted world.īut hero Rick Grimes (played by another ace British actor, Andrew Lincoln) was in many ways his negative. Kilgore – The Governor was revealed this season as a man broken by the zombie disaster and turned into something pathologically ruthless and twisted. If this is what hope looks like in a post-apocalyptic world, maybe it's better to abandon it when the dead start hopping out of graves.Įxcept, that's not the message of "Too Far Gone." This episode revealed that, as much as the start of The Walking Dead's fourth season seemed to be about Grimes and his hardy band of fellow survivors' prison life, it was really a head fake – a set up to make us appreciate the real star of this season's second half, The Governor.Īs played by silky voiced Brit David Morrissey – equal parts Marlboro Man cool and Apocalypse Now's Col. And the Governor himself wound up dead, shot in the head by a woman he had declared his love to just hours earlier. The hero's infant daughter may have been eaten by a zombie. Several ancillary characters were killed in an assault on the prison involving a tank. We also saw a child The Governor had emotionally adopted as a second daughter get bitten by a zombie, requiring the man himself to shoot her in the head.
In that episode – yes there are spoilers aplenty coming in the post, including right now – longtime fans saw the show's conscience, Hershel Greene (Scott Wilson), decapitated by the show's Big Villain, The Governor, in an attempt to take over a prison complex led by the show's hero, Rick Grimes.
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This is a strange thing to say about a TV show which ended its fall season Sunday with the death of two children, a gun battle, waves of flesh-eating zombies and a decapitation.īut it is easy to forget, in the midst of all the carnage, that The Walking Dead is essentially a show about hope.Īnyone who watched Sunday's action packed midseason finale, "Too Far Gone," might think that was a ludicrous idea. Bob Stookey (Larry Gilliard Jr.), Maggie Greene (Lauren Cohan), Tyreese (Chad Coleman), Beth Greene (Emily Kinney), Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Carl Grimes (Chandler Riggs) on AMC's The Walking Dead.
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