re: The Walking Dead Season 3, Episode 6. "Hounded"

I'm still loving the show this season. But it's edging just a tad towards more plot driven developmens and away from character driven developments.

For instance, it just doesn't seem like Glenn and Maggie to hesitate to the point that Merle gets the drop on them. I think with all they've been through, they would have filled him full of holes the first time he twitched a finger wrong.

Also, and this is just a guess on my part but I'm thinking that Andrea's going all ga ga over the governor is in the service of some plot rather than a reflection of her character (although to be honest, that's kind of all over the place so it's not really that out of character). I think they're getting her in the governor's place to "accidently" discover some of his creepy stuff or overhear something - maybe about Glenn and Maggie or finding his daughter or something.

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I also noticed that Merle not only didn't mention his brother to Gov, but Gov also didn't ask. I was waiting for one of them to ask/say something about that, since a few episodes ago Merle wanted to go out looking for him and Gov said to wait till he had something more concrete (and that he'd go himself).

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I think Merle has in his head that he will find out where the prison is and go find Daryl on his own. I think slowly but surely Merle is trying to pull away from the governor because he sees himself as a leader and has trouble with authority, just as he did in season 1.