Re: Walking Dead back this week
To me the Governor seems like a guy who actually means well.... kinda.
I think he is a true diplomat. He can spin any story to those that look up to him for leadership (like the guard being overrun). They believe his flowery words and follow him. They are safer with him than alone. He is not necessarily safer with them. So I do think that he wants to give them something, and wants to be the leader.
He also wants to help his daughter. So he needs his experiments, and his lackies.
BUT
I think that he is not a REAL leader. His guards look like thugs rather than warriors. He doesn't seem understand the power dynamic between independent people, only the role between leader and sheep.
Therefore, anyone that isn't sheep (national guard, or groups larger than a few stragglers), he doesn't know how to control them. Or lead them (Andrea doesn't need to be controlled... simply pointed at something).
This lack of effective leadership over independent people/warriors means that they threaten his role as leader of the sheep. Since he wants to stay leader of the sheep, he kills them.
I do not think that he is a good guy, but this is what I believe about him and why I like the show. I can't hate the characters when I see both good and bad sides to their actions, they are more "human" to me, rather than flat epitomes of good or evil of normal shows.