The Governor Evolution

To those of you who are familiar with "The Walking Dead", you certainly know who I'm talking about when I say "The Governor".

Today I was watching the latest episode of the 4th season, and got myself amazed by some things I noticed.

First. 

The fact that I was analyzing every character and every action. Good. It is the first time I actually felt I was absorbing, consciously, intellectual content from the show, and from any show for that matter. I repeat, consciously.

Second.

Now onto the analysis itself.

Just a recap of what happened (SPOILER ALERT)

He and his new family were admitted to a camp.

He killed the leader.

He killed the candidate to leadership.

He threatened the number 2 and a sort of joint leadership was created (based on the fact that he was discussing some decisions some things with that guy, so I could be wrong). 

I'm guessing that his goal when he killed the leader (a former "acquaintance of his) was to become the leader himself (just like he was in the previous season). He knows he is good, he knows he has the ability, he needs to do it. Nor just for himself, but for the best interests of his own group. 

Then he goes into the woods with the other two I already mentioned and we see that the contender is very soft hearted guy that does not want to risk attacking other people because he is a good person, even if it means sacrificing his own. His number 2 (his brother, I think) is a little more aggressive and does not mind attacking.

With this in mind, I suppose The Governor not killing the number 2 and was due to the 2's nature. He was not afraid of doing whatever it takes to protect his people, he wanted to steal the camp where they found provisions even if it meant getting into fight.

The other part that I was fascinated with was when the little girl The Governor adopted as his daughter was being pursued by a zombie. The kid's young aunt came to her rescue but was kind of useless. She was inexperienced, she was pulling the zombie by his legs instead of just going straight to the skull. She was, naturally, afraid. Without knowing what to do. 

And then you hear a gunshot. It was The Governor. Experienced, cold hearted, fierce and fearless. 

In last week's episode we see The Governor (image above) killing 4 or 5 zombie with his bare hands (and a bone) after getting enraged with his instincts of protection and fear of losing his child. 

Actually, I decided to talk about this here because of this contrast. Even though they are not the same person, I could identify with both.

First, the inexperienced girl. Who did not know how to attack, how to react, how to kill.

And then the experienced, absolutely fearless Governor. Who just kills zombies (and humans too) without the minimum hesitation because he knows it all, he is not afraid. He needs to do it. He needs to protect his family. He needs to survive.

And just as a side note. 

I love this show. I admit, that when I'm watching it, during those moments, when you know something bad is going to happen, I need to be doing something else at the same time (lol) because I'm so scared (watching this show alone kind of sucks), but it is precisely this. This fear I didn't feel for so many years. I used to like watching horror movies when I was like 5 years old (lol), but while growing up I got very sensitive to blood and gore that I completely stopped watching horror shows. Until I started watching "The Walking Dead". One needs to go out of the comfort zone, even when it comes to TV shows in order to learn something new.

And I'm going to leave you with two songs that pretty much say everything about my current mental software. It gets updated every time I read something.