The Walking Dead (no comics spoilers)

So, what a good episode last night. I've been waiting for Rick to find his pair again and get some walker killing in. Although I do wonder if Carl was just appeasing Rick when he was telling him how the AR-15 worked. I had a feeling Carl already knew. Nice to see such a Herschel-centric episode too. Left us with a ton of questions though.
What will Daryl's reaction be when Rick tells him about Carol? What about Tyrese?
How do they secure the prison now that some of the fences fell?
What does the re-emergence of our favorite eye-patched villain mean?

 

Okay, so I'm a bit confused. This episode isn't in the current day, is it? I'm assuming this is just telling us where the Governor was up until now?

 

You know, when I realized that this episode wouldn't focus on the prison at all I was a little bit ticked. But the more I thought about it the more I like it. It was interesting to see his character evolution. I agree, knowing what we know, I would find it hard to ever 100% trust him. I'm curious what thoughts are going through Martinez's head when he found the Governor. Will he blow his cover with the women he was with?
I'd like to think the Governor is a changed person, and he was looking at the prison thinking about making amends. But somehow I doubt that was the case.

 

My thoughts/questions exactly after watching the episode. I can't believe he'd have good intentions, but this episode made me wonder just a little.

I felt that way at first, too, but it isn't the first time they've had a character centric episode like this. I ended up really liking it by the end.

 

So the Governor is back. I really wasn't sure which way he was going to go, but I was having a hard time thinking he'd gone soft. He really primed the one guy (didn't catch his name on the show, but he played Charles Francis on Fringe). He set him up for the prison raid/takeover by killing (Peter?) and telling him he was right to want to kill the people on the smaller camp to take their supplies. He was doing that to get him ready to do the same thing against Rick and Co.

 

Kinda surprised everyone bought that Martinez fell off the RV and wandered into the ditch. What a way for him to go.
As was mentioned on the Talking Dead, I wonder what the Governor's end game is. He still is obsessed with the prison. What happens if he manages to kill everyone in the prison, then what? What is driving him?
And, who killed that other small group? In the show it didn't seem like they were gone from that camp too long before they wrapped back around. What other kind of evil lies out there? Is this another threat that we don't know about yet?
Can't believe the midseason finale is here already. How many people die? Think we see a main character from the prison go down?

 

Yeah, I just figured that it was another of the many groups of hostiles out there that we don't see on the show regularly.

 

Now that crazy ****er has a tank.

 

Damn another one of fave character's are gone ,kinda figured from lst week's preview. But didnt see the other main chracter commin. So now what happens now that there all seperated???

 

Hell of an episode. Not sure where they go from here. Where is the new safe haven? And, where's Carol? You know she's still around somewhere.

 

Whew!

 

I'm betting that Carl is feeding the walkers and dissecting squirrels. It's just a matter of time before his transformation into mini-gov.

 

After some of the dialogue last night, I'm starting to wonder if one of the young girls didn't kill the 2 infected people and if Carol was covering for her. She kept telling them that they have to learn to protect themselves, and the one girl seems to really be aggressive with that idea. She was naming the zombies, so I thought she may have been the one feeding them, too.

 

Hmm, interesting idea. I guess it's possible. But, would she have the strength to drag the bodies?

If I remember correctly, didn't Tyrese and the two girls end up together at the end of that episode? I'd be willing to bet those three are by themselves for the immediate future, and they run into Carol. Remember, Rick never got a chance to tell Tyrese that Carol was the one that killed the others.