Once again, Robert Kirkman and Frank Darabont have proven with The Walking Dead that a television show can, though incredibly rarely, be far superior to a comic book. So, Season 3, episode 9 kicked off the second half of the season with a bang. Entitled "The Suicide King", this episode lives up to it's name quite nicely. Having found Woodbury, Rick and his crew were faced with having to go back inside to spring Daryl from a death match of brother vs. brother in an arena gauntlet of walkers.
In the aftermath of the attack on Woodbury, the once peaceful encampment is being torn apart from within as people fight to leave. With the Governor in seclusion, licking his preverbal and physical wounds, the colony lacks a leading force. The ‘guardians’ of Woodbury will not allow denizens to leave and Andrea tries to literally fight 'City Hall' as Woodbury finds itself over run with a small invasion of Walkers. As a citizen who had been bitten lays dying, everyone stands around and watches as the Governor walks out of nowhere and puts a bullet in this man's head and simply walks off leaving Andrea with the epiphany that Phillip has gone over the deep end.
Overall, this episode has come to be yet another episode in what I have come to expect from The Walking Dead; sure, some of the openers are a little dull, perhaps even ‘filler’, but they all manage to build up towards something bigger and better…