(12-02-2013 12:14 AM)Shrack Wrote:  You honestly think The Governor was going to let them live if they accepted his bargain?

Who knows, they didn't take the bargain even knowing the deck was stacked against them, and that they would take heavy losses even if they did win, and likely lose the shelter anyway.

Do you really think those average joe people would have shot them in the back or allowed their leader to as they were all driving off (together, organized, and with supplies I might add), as much convincing as they need to even be there? I don't.

Quote:He just wanted it to be easy killing them and not ruin the prison in the process. He was never going to let anyone live and he certainly wasn't going to let Michonne or Rick live.

It wasn't his choice. If he couldn't kill them in a surprise attack where he had them cornered he couldn't kill them when they were mobile and aware and on alert for that danger.

He couldn't have shot them as they drove off or go that group to go after them either if they left willingly. He would have lost his army on that. You saw that happen once already and how it turned out with his first army.

Quote:Rick pretty clearly didn't "choose" to fight them as he was trying to get them to band together.

Which is even more dumb. He can't live with Carrol who had his and his family's interest at heart even if she was twisted, but he's going to live under the same roof as that guy. Yeah. Rick was like the kid caught with his hand in the candy jar saying anything trying to buy time yet he didn't do the most obvious thing that would have and potentially even saved herchel by taking the Gov up on his offer.

Quote:The Governor chose to have the fight because he wanted to kill them all in the first place.

If he really wanted them dead he could have probably shelled the prison and not offered any deal. A good leader would have known he wasn't in a position of power like Rick at that time and if nothing else bought some time tried to organize a better fight if nothing else. He had till sunrise, instead he chose to fight 5 minutes later in the most disorganized manner imaginable. You can't say we are leaving, stall, go weapon up and make a plan and fight in an hour?