Live Bait

The Governor makes new friends after the events of the previous season.

This is a welcome break from events at the prison and solid attempt at developing one character.

'The Walking Dead' was never going to hold my attention by focussing on the same group of characters continuously. The third season wisely brought Woodbury into to the frame and keeping the Governor on the periphery of this season's narrative is a good idea.

This episode focuses purely on the Governor in the aftermath of his assault on the prison and the writers start to develop him into more than just a one-note villain. The foundations were laid in the previous season during the scenes with his daughter and this episode, albeit slightly contrived, builds on it very well. There is a lot of strong imagery associated with his attempts to erase his past via burning. It's early days to give a verdict on this concept as there is still a lot of questions unanswered about his intentions towards the prison group and how he will treat this new family.

David Morrissey carries the episode exceptionally well with a strong presence, good verbal delivery, mannerisms and generally solid physical performance.

There is more great post-apocalypse imagery such as the messages graffitied on buildings and zombie art design. Some zombies tell a story with their makeup and costumes alone, such as the bathtub suicide and the abandoned nursing home.

It is slow in pace due to the need for the character time, but the abrupt ending (for the sake of intrigue) feels like we have only had half a story about where the character is both physically and mentally.

For me it's a 7.5/10 but I round upwards.

It was an excellent episode, quite interesting and gives a new look to the season , shows the good side of the governor, the development of the characters is quite good, the home setting , gloomy and loneliness is quite got to show feelings characters...

It is not an episode of action and a lot of blood but have violent Kills both zombies and persons , is a chapter very interesting appearance and relationship as novels by Robert Kirkman.

Good points:

-) History and development -) environment -) interesting characters

Bad points :

-) Not much red

total: 9.4 / 10

After "Internment", the greatest episode of Walking Dead to date (my opinion), it would have been hard to beat it from there. Although not as good, "Live Bait" was definitely a great episode where we see the events that took place straight after The Governor's massacre on his Woodbury people.

In this episode we see a soft side to The Governor, which will make you re-think your feelings towards him. Let's be honest - in season three he was the biggest asshole on the show.

The ending to the episode also raised questions on where they'll go from here - hopefully a good direction. Season Four has been an amazing season and has not disappointed yet!

Keelan's rating: 9/10.

This episode was very different from anything we have seen from this show so far! Yet.. it still feels like The Walking Dead, as it explores how a character can change in this ruthless world!

This episode centers on The Guvernnor where we left off at the end of season 3! It is clear that the recent experiences had shaped him quite a bit, while also reminding us, what was the most important thing to his character!

This shows us how the cruelest of people still has a human side burried somewhere! Family was the most important thing to him, and this episode shows! That was all he ever cared about!

The episode has very little tension, but makes up for that with excellent writting!

At some point, you forget that The Guvernnor was the main antagonist!

This is the sixth episode of the fourth season of the Walking Dead. It was a decent episode, highlighted by the return of the sadistic Governor, who doesn't seem so sadistic in this episode. But we get to see what he has been up to since his rage against the Woodbury army. The episode on the whole is slow and it takes time to tell the story, when compared to the prison story arc. It's not as strong of an episode, but I liked it.

In this episode, "Live Bait," The Governor, now named Brian is on the road trying to survive after being abandoned by his remaining henchmen. He meets this small family, whom resembles a family of one he had. He bonds with the two young adult women, and the one autistic girl.

Overall, this was a solid episode. It takes a slight reprieve from the prison arc and we see that the Governor is still alive and will factor in somehow with Rick's group some point this season. It's not the greatest episode thanks to the tepid pace, but the story itself is still compact and worth watching. I rate this episode 8/10.