Anyone in the town could do that already. The only reason to not bring them in is if he sucks at controlling people. Which the series goes out of its way to try to assure us he is good at. Their chain of command was decimated. Their leader is a guy not used to leading but rather used to being delegated orders by a sgt/lt who was in turn delegated orders by a captain who in turn was delegated orders as well.WolfThomas said:
And he can't bully or cajole a bunch of reservists? I'm not trying to be mean, I know people in the military who are very smart, but none of them are reservists and none of them are corporal or below. He should easily be more intellectually/mentally capable than they are. And he doesn't look like hes physically inadequate either.BloatedGuppy said:
1) They have been trained to accept orders
2) Their chain of command was wiped out when the military base was overrun less than a week prior.
3) The Governor is supposed to be a capable manipulator.
4) He has a group of clearly highly capable combatants already(they were able to bullseye a dozen soldiers from across a field, which also means they were able to perfectly delegate targets in a very short period of time and then effectively engage them.)
5) He apparently has the loyalty of the towns inhabitants.
6) He could easily come up with reasons to split up the reservists on their patrols of the wall. Thus undermining any ability they might have to plan against him, as well as bringing them into the fold with the rest of his people.
7) They are also reservists so it is assumed that most of them are more used to doing non-combat stuff before the apocalypse. Thus he could easily convince some of them to help with non-patrol stuff a lot of the time, which would divide them more and integrate them into the community more.
Everything above gives him a distinct and large advantage in maintaining and keeping power/control. I've never heard of an egotistical power maniac refusing an easy chance to expand their power. Apparently hes the only high ego person who has almost no ambition whatsoever, go figure.
Their internal chain of command was wiped out and replaced by one apparent corporal. Controlling them would be easy.BloatedGuppy said:
It's a fictional series. The 'how' is usually not relevant unless it's clearly outside the bounds of possibility. Shooting accurately does not overstep those bounds, it merely pushes them, but does not break the story nor its internal logic.BloatedGuppy said:
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The only possible sense that what he did could make is if he was trying scare people into staying. IE: look what happened to those soldiers they were well armed but they died, you guys should never leave my safe walls. Except several things make that a poor explanation given the script/writing.
Michonne and Andrea had already been outside for a very long time and knew exactly what the score was. Swaying their opinions was not possible by doing such a thing. Also trading a dozen fighters for one or two is retarded. And no one else in the town showed any inclination of wanting to leave whatsoever. Everyone Michdrea saw seemed happy/content and everyone they talked to seemed pleased with the Governor. If there was a group of like 20 people who wanted to leave and take their chances in Atlanta trying to find their families or something; and he was like damn I need to sway their opinions to get them to stay. Then yeah killing a dozen soldiers or so would make sense from a psychopaths point of view. But that didn't happen, at all.
So it's either poor writing or poor writing from where I'm standing.
