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The governor would be the best leader in the show if he was a bit more rational
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His public persona was charming, but also he never had to manage more than a handful of people.
The later leaders in the show had to look after multiple communities, negotiate with rival leaders etc
I mean his community could’ve grown massively if he wasn’t an egocentric prick. Who knows how many countless people he killed for resources like the military men who could’ve been so beneficial to his community
Not really how growth works. More people in the community would mean they need more resources for them and if they're not killing people for resources they become harder to attain.
And then there's the security aspect. Woodbury is safe because anyone who knows about it is either a member or dead. And at that, the people who he keeps alive to join are ones that won't cause any trouble with coups or thefts.
You don't build a safe community like that without people. I very much doubt the Governor couldn't fit in more people slowly as his community grows and they have a harvesting operation going on.
How much longer would this community prosper till somebody like Negan with an army finds it? If the Governor (which I titled this post) was a bit more sensible and practical, then he could amass a very big community and have someone loyal like Martinez lead the army.
My argument isn't against the growth, it's about impractically killing everyone you run into which we can assume the Governor was doing.
So far as I remember; Woodbury didn't seem to have a farming operation going. I could be wrong though
I agree! This is a big factor.
yeah and if my grandma had wheels she'd be a bike
Every rewatch i wish the governor would turn good lol
Definitely! I think that goes for a lot of people tho, Shane, negan ect.
Ooooo you should check out the novel series by Robert kirkman and jay bonansinga if you wanna know why he’s so insane!!! Even if you just read the first book, it gives you all the context needed to his character and why he does these awful things
Terminus would have been a good place to live if they didn't eat people.
Here we go. Shane glazing is gone, now its governor glazing month
“Either you kill or you die… or you die and you kill.”-my favorite the governor quote
I think i will never understand that governor glazing
I love the show Governor but I don't see how Woodbury was sustainable.
He chose to have bbq days when Milton said they were a waste of resources.
Truthfully I think things would have been great until it wasn't it was always on borrowed time and life was only so good because he kept up a great illusion.
In the show, yeah, maybe. Compared to season 9 Rick, I guess you could say he was ok'ish. But in the comics... ugh... rapey and sadistic, not really leader qualities.
He was plenty rapey and sadistic in the tv show to give me a hard pass on the OP's take.
I remember seeing the Glen/ Maggie interrogation the first time and feeling like the Governor was a monster. Then I read the comics and man did they tone him way down.
If michonne hadn't killed his daughter and tried to reason with him, specially because of how vulnerable he was, he wouldn't be the batshit insane villain he turned into
He was mowing down random soldiers and stealing resources long before Michonne killed the corpse that USED to be Penny...
he was less fucked in the head back then. he was still approachable until michonne fucked up
Nope. This guy invokes no sense of fear. Any goon with a banjo can take him down.
Negan would be a great leader if he was a totally different person
I find the governor more charismatic and a people’s person in a political sense. Negan is a better general in like an army
The governor was a manchild who only succeeded when things went his way. He was good at leading for a while but things fell apart when he faced adversity. He gave up immediately on Woodbury
It’s like Rick said “you’re the town drunk, nothing more”
Name checks out
Am I wrong?
No, he was, hands down, the greatest villain in the show
I’m not saying he isn’t, you can have that opinion, but he was a failed leader. Due to the personality traits that make him a villain