WARNING: COMIC BOOK SPOILERS CONTAINED WITHIN SPOILER TAGS
Regarding The Governor and the final scene this week with the heads in the tanks:
[spoiler]I let a friend borrow my comic books so I could not go back and refresh my memory. I don’t recall this being in the comic book at all. I do recall The Governor’s big secret was his daughter being in the locked room.
(I will not go into more detail than that so that those who cannot resist looking at spoilers even when they don’t really want to do not get too much information)
1.) Am I wrong about the heads being in the comic?
2.) Do you think they’ll work the daughter into the story or just try to make the point that The Governor is really disturbed due to the heads?
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Yep. Eyes, too. Looks like if you don’t actually penetrate the skull and damage the brain, it doesn’t completely finish the job.
Grawr! Get back here! I’ll bite your knees off!
That’s what I was thinking. The Governor might take on a straggler or two occasionally, but would not want too many additions to the group at once.
And he sure would not want any one who might usurp his authority!
About 60 days. It appears the outbreak started at the same time he entered the coma, and he was in the coma for about 2 weeks before Shane last saw him (when the military started shooting the patients and the hospital fell). Seems remarkable he could survive 45 days without food or water, and within one day be traveling on horseback, toting a duffel bag that must have had at least 40 lbs of guns and ammo, running around with Glenn and the gang, etc.
For the record, I hate Lori too. For all the reasons already stated. Plus, I realize this is a touchy subject, but I think it was damned irresponsible of her to stay pregnant when she could have ended the pregnancy early on with little risk (setting aside the stupid writing error confusing morning after with RU486). Pregnancy, childbirth, and caring for an infant are huge drains on the group resources, AND it clearly must be Shane’s baby, which adds a massive amount of conflict between the two possible leaders of the group! And wasn’t she the one ragging on Andrea for not reverting to 1950s division of labor at the farm? She’s just irritating and causing trouble at every opportunity. I like Oft’s term - she’s a walking difficulty generator.
I’m not sure that was actually a writer’s error as opposed to a character error. Lori knew they were morning-after pills and that she didn’t know if ODing on them would work. It was Maggie who started yelling about “abortion pills”; which is not an unrealistic mistake for a pro-lifer in the Bible belt to make. Which is ironic since another episode established that Maggie takes (or took) birth control pills; some morning-after pills are just highter dose birth control pills.
They’re all “alive”; severing the spinal column doesn’t cause brain damage. What would be the point of putting a dead zombie head in an aquarium?
She vomited up the pills before Rick discovered them or knew she was pregnant. Actually I think Rick may have found them while she was vomiting. Either way he was pissed, but it’s not clear if it he was opposed to abortion in general, or just mad that his wife would make a decsicion like that behind his back. I don’t see how he could’ve really thought the kid was his though.
Am I the only one who totally thought of The Village, watching this episode?
I don’t have the vicious Lori hate of a lot of other viewers, but I don’t particularly like her. She’s definitely my least favourite of the female characters. Though if Michonne doesn’t start doing something other than scowling she might be giving her a run for her money.
Michonne’s definitely lacking in the characterization department at the moment, but she’s killed infinity percent more zombies and needlessly crashed infinity percent less cars than Lori has, so she’s got a strong head start in my book.