I honestly don't have much recollection about the scenes between Merle, Andrea and Michonne so I can't say about what she gleaned from those conversations. I am just trying to figure out any good reason besides Michonne being a crab as to why she is being so tightlipped about certain things.Excuse me if I'm wrong but wasn't Michonne there for the conversion between Merle abs Andrea about his brother and the group from Atlanta? Wasn't she there for the conversion between Merle and Glenn about Darryl? Did she not lead a group including Darryl back to Woodbury? There is no excuse for her not to know
As for the Governor, while the show is taking the tact of having him be a charismatic cult-type leader I don't see him as sympathetic in the least. And the heads in jars in a scret locked room inside your house (not in Poindexter's lab or the infirmary) equals crazy town regardless of whether you ae living in the zombie apocalypese or not. And I am liking this version of the Governor...the comic version was a crazy scumbag from the first scene and for the story that the TV show is looking to tell that character would never have worked. So instead we get a less obvious villain who we now get to watch descend into the more depraved person that he was in the comic.In regards to Andrea, I disagree with you. Fish tanks with heads don't mean shyt in that world. In an insane world people do crazy site to maintain normalcy. We've got Rick accepting phone calls from dead people when we all know ain't no damn electricity. Still, we see him as an effective leader...not a psycho.
Those soldiers were not threatening him at all. They were a bunch of scared desperate dudes looking for a safe place to live. Rick would have been cautious of them but he wouldn't have just killed them in cold blood.What has he don't that was so wrong? Kill some soldiers that we know nothing about? L ied to keep vital information to himself? Had the information beat out of a prisoner for his group's well-being? Hasn't Rick done all of this also?
Those two dudes in the bar were going to kill Rick, Glenn and Herschel if Rick didn't kill them first.
The beating of Randall when he was Rick's prisoner came after Randall was a part of a group that had already shown themselves to be dangerous and even then Rick still saved him from being eaten by zombies.
So far it's been"my group vs your group" and the show has succeeded in making the governor a sympathetic figure instead of the piece of shyt he was from jump in the comics
And maybe its just me but I don't find anything about the Governor sympathetic. there was no reason to massacre those National Guard guys, or chop off the one dudes head before he even became a zombie and the way he was all anxious asking Merle about Michonne's head was like a junkie wanting a fix. the dude has been shown as enough of a megalomanical freak for me to consider him a villain.
The TV show has made the Governor a more complicated and nuanced character but I am not confused as to whether he is a villain or not.