Few things really drove me nuts about this episode,
1) Except for the shooter in the woods, who I think was the Gov's current right hand man Martinez, NONE of the Governor's people, or even the Governor himself made ANY effort WHATSOEVER to take cover. I absolutely CRINGED at the # of salvoes it took to drop that idiot in the guard tower. He was skylined, not even bothering to use the guardhouse to pop in and out of, and it took FOUR characters a total of TWELVE distinct 4-12 round salvoes to down that moron. Make excuses for people's aim degrading when other people are shooting at them all you like, but Maggie had a friggin automatic weapon, cover, and a clear line of fire. In the most forgiving realistic scenario imaginable, Maggie shoulda tagged the guard tower guy with 2-3 short bursts close together almost as soon as she was settled in behind that box thing.
Same goes for the driver of the Walker-truck. WTH!?!?! He hops out, with a PISTOL, and dashes the length of the outer yard while popping off a few blind shots and a couple to keep Michonne pinned down as he neared the gate. I don't even want to get into the Governor's statue-like positioning during the attack.
Axel getting nailed made perfect sense. First shot of a surprise attack. EVERYTHING from that point onward can be summarized as "Rick & Co. suddenly lost all skill with firearms so as to make the impact of the Governor's attack so severe."
2) Where the Hell is the Governor finding enough thugs!?!?! From the look of things when Walkers were getting in and attacking Woodbury Sheeple, there was Martinez, two other guys and an armed woman who I'd never seen before now atop the gate. Ie: A force barely sufficient to hold and resecure Woodbury. Martinez was in the woods, one of his thugs in the guard tower, and the other in the Walker delivery truck, + the Governor. Now the Gov. is -1 more Thug. Ok, forget the battle's logistics. HOW DOES HE HAVE THE MANPOWER TO POST SPIES OUTSIDE THE PRISON, AND HOLD WOODBURY!?!?!
I can accept the Governor didn't lose more men than the one killed, but no one else even INJURED? C'mon now. As others have said, there were a LOT of rounds fired at guys who didn't seem to comprehend the concept of taking cover. Letting them act like that, and have their plan still work perfectly IMO devalued the entire scene. I could go on and on. Such as why Michonne didn't shoot into the windshield of the Walker-truck just before it hit the gates. She had a perfect line of sight to the target, cover and was less than twenty-five feet away at the point the truck hit the outer gate. Why not spray the windshield instead of using that same timeframe to fire aimless bursts into the woods at a far more distant and much more obscured target? It wouldn't have stopped the fences from being smashed, but it would have stopped the Walkers from being released. However, it would just be belaboring the obvious.
Bottom line? Personally, I thought it was one of the weakest scenes in the entire show and absolutely HATED its execution, results, and vast demands for ridiculously stupid amounts of suspension of disbelief. TWD is better than this. Season 1, Episode 1. The car crash shootout where Rick got shot...a picture perfect example of just how deadly, just how fast death or grave injury can come if your concentration wavers or you drop your guard too soon. The absolutely tragic thing? I LOVED the entire structure of the Governor's overall surprise attack. Sneak a guy into a sniper's nest, another setting up in the treeline, pin them down with suppressive fire, and let the Walker delivery truck's payload do the work of sowing chaos and destruction in his enemy's ranks. All they had to do was have the Governor firing over the hood of the truck beside him and hunkering down behind it when he wasn't shooting. Have the guy in the guard tower pop in and out of the tower guardhouse, and have Martinez dip back into the woods before moving further down the line in either direction before returning to the treeline edge in another position and it could have WONDERFULLY explained the complete ineffectiveness of Rick & Co.'s defensive efforts. Had they done that, the driver's brazen dash after dropping off the Walkers would've been well within my suspension of disbelief comfort zone. Simply because one could have said Rick & Co.'s accuracy was shit because their opponents had the initiative and used it to gain strong positions from which to attack.
Instead we got 4 jerkoffs standing out in the wide open, unmoving and demonstrating all the concern about the bullets being shot at them as Superman does when nameless criminals shoot at him.
Be honest, and tell me it didn't make you all a bit nuts when the Governor was just standing there unmoving, and ever 7-10 seconds just idly fired off his weapon. Sometimes even into the air 1-handed. Didn't you feel like the writers were rubbing your noses in the out-of-story logistical reality that the Governor is currently just as unkillable as Rick due to the ongoing needs of the story. They could craft the illusion of the primary protagonist being in mortal danger. So why no more risk for the Governor than a single Walker strolling up to him and negligently getting headshot while the Governor smirked at the corpse as it fell.
Wouldn't the scene have just FELT BETTER if Martinez took a slug in the thigh, the Delivery truck driver got winged, half spun around but barely managed to keep his balance and continue his dash...and then seeing that the Governor waved em in to pull back, job done?
Don't really think of this stuff as nitpicking, as it absolutely WRECKED the last 10 mins of the episode for me.
Just my .02
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Wow, nobody had an opinion about the actual details of the Governor's opening sally versus the prison? "It's pulpy, and no need to consider their actions in realistic terms" is the general consensus?
Why? Help me out here. If one cares about the future of the show, and the entire impetus of the show is currently orbiting the clash between Woodbury and Rick & Co., doesn't it follow that the future quality of subsequent episodes/seasons is determined by the pivotal actions occurring now in the storyline? Even if I'm wrong there, I genuinely meant what I said when I asked for help understanding why that scene didn't really seem to drive anyone else nuts. Is it because it's what you expected, or do you consider the attack fine as it happened?
I mean, I understand that obviously bitching about it won't change it. Yet isn't discussing what we do and don't care for and why at the heart of talking about the show and its current episodes?
Genuinely puzzled here.
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Originally Posted by MinionZombie
especially the Gov's Rambo act. Jesus, make an effort lad.
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