Yeah. It's not exactly something you can sit there and watch on a tv screen and try to analyze. I mean I do that same stuff all of the time and over analyze, but in real life people actually do make incredibly stupid decisions and mistakes.

Quote: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. 03-lmfao 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.

It also wasn't that he "can't live with Carol", but more that he thought she was going to be killed if she came back.

Quote: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.

It's more about how he is a master of manipulation. And you can say whatever you want, but he killed a guy's brother and then had that same man driving his tank around for him. Most of the randoms would probably just let it slide because they're looking out for themselves. I mean, you watched the episode right? Those average joes watched him cut off an old, defenseless man's head with a sword and tried to go through with the plan of assaulting the prison along side with him.

And like I said, Rick didn't choose to fight 5 minutes later. Rick didn't want a conflict at all, but he also didn't want to be transporting a bunch of sick people around either on a crowded bus with limited supplies. He tried to reason with them. Them being the other people following the governor. I'm pretty sure that ultimately all of those people would have gone through with banding together had The Governor not started the fight. It wasn't a "how can I lie to buy us more time so we can murder all of these people" kind of moment for Rick. He was thinking from a more humane and civil perspective like Herschel had tried to ingrain in him through all of their talks. That was pretty much the entire point of the episode.