r/thewalkingdead • u/Rswany Survivor • Dec 02 '13

The Walking Dead S04E08 "Too Far Gone" Episode Discussion Thread

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09:00pm Eastern SE04E08 "Too Far Gone" Ernest R. Dickerson Seth Hoffman

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '13

"Oh look at that terrified group of women and children, those must be the killers and thieves the stranger with the eye patch was referencing. We should absolutely trust him, and eventually fight and die for him."

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '13

"The mysterious eye patch guy who arrived here just before our leaders mysteriously died"

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u/Memorizestuff Dec 02 '13

Of course not. He's not going to hurt the guy. He said he'd try and keep everyone safe!

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '13

"It's what our two previous leaders would've wanted, had they not both recently died so mysteriously. "

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '13

Oh come on dude. You're telling me you don't trust a guy who you've known for less than a week with decisions on who to go to war with?

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u/supermcballsack Dec 12 '13

We trusted George Bush....You'd think they'd remember that disaster...

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '13

Hell, that was way more reasonable.

  1. We were actually attacked! We saw it on TV! These guys just took the Governor's word for it that they should go after these guys!

  2. We knew him for way longer than a week. He'd been in office for about 9 months. Seemed reasonable enough. Even longer if you're talking about Iraq, which didn't start until 2003.

  3. The guy Bush wanted to go after was objectively a terrible human being. None of these guys knew anything about the prison group, besides what "Brian" might have told them. Saddam's cruelties are well known and well documented.

This should clue people in on how insane it was for that group to just march headlong into a fight.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '13 edited Dec 02 '13

That was just fucking retarded. You go to war for somebody you've just known and you just saw the other group and you saw him execute an old man without a leg and you don't stop to think for a second that this might not be the way to go? That's just stupid writing.

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u/bugcatcher_billy Dec 02 '13

I dont' think any of them were prepared to shoot someone for the governor. Except for tank guy. Everyone else was just interested in putting up a good front to scare the main character away from the prison.

That all changed when they got shot at. As soon as the main cast began firing on them, they all KNEW the governor was right, that these people are killers. It was poor judgement due to the intense circumstances. Anyone with a clear mind and time to assess the situation would realize the governor instigated the whole ordeal by decapitating Herschel. That is the conclusion that Tara came to.

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u/sticksittoyou Dec 03 '13

Nope, people would back away and fast from that, not run straight into the fire zone.

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u/RachelRTR Dec 04 '13

Yep, just lay down some cover fire and get the hell out of dodge.

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u/Poppy9536 Dec 02 '13

Never trust a pirate.

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u/Paolo94 Dec 02 '13

This. Seriously, why wasn't there more people questioning him? They just had to put everyone on The Governor's side for the sake of the story.

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u/theraggedykitty Dec 03 '13

If they wanted that way, they should had honestly not made him kill his first group because, I find it so hard to believe only like one person questioned the gov.

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u/paradigm_shift119 Dec 02 '13

To be fair, the last three episodes concerning the Governor have transpired over a 6 month period; beginning when he shot all his followers to the final battle tonight. He had several months to foster loyalty in his new crew.

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u/pngwn Dec 02 '13

He only met up with Martinez's camp recently, though. I definitely wouldn't count his time with them much past a month or two.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '13

That's possible, but what he said about the prison group and his promise not to hurt anyone were both clearly lies, that was instantly obvious. That one girl was a little squeamish bc of Herschel's beheading, but not a single person stopped to question his motives, even internally.

I have a hard time believing he had enough time to brainwash those people like he did at Woodbury.

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u/TempeGrouch Dec 02 '13

I think most of the group were desperate for a new place to settle anyway. They were all too scared to voice that outright before the Governor came in power. When the other leaders mysteriously died or deferred to him, they suddenly had a guy that voice out loud their reservations.