10 Times The Walking Dead Went Too Far
4. The Governor Massacres His Own People
After an adaptation of the prison battle so poor that we'd see another one in just eight episodes, The Governor came to realise that he had lost the war against Rick and his group. Coming to a stop on the side of a road, the people of Woodbury begin to voice their thoughts on the conflict. They don't want to fight anymore, they'd rather just return home and let Rick and the others keep the prison.
Instead of going home with his army to try think of an alternative strategy or another way to manipulate events, The Governor decides to gun down his entire army. The Governor was always unhinged, but him killing his entire army after one failed assault is ridiculous. As is the fact that he's able to kill over a dozen of these soldiers without any of them firing back.
While some may defend this as The Governor truly losing his way, it seems more likely that the writers just weren't sure what to do with this group.
Having them all die in the prison battle would've made Rick's group look just as evil as the Governor as we the viewers knew many of them were innocent, so rather than explore that internal conflict they just had The Governor shoot them all.
It just doesn't make sense and doesn't benefit him at all, but instead serves to make sure that season three has one more shocking twist.