I know he's supposed to be the bad guy, but so far the Governor is just another guy... More of a good guy if anything. I think they're making Rick the bad guy.
Well, except for that massacre thingie and that keeping-heads-in-jars thingie.
....and brushing the hair of his little zombie daughter.
In the same time frame Ricks group has lost how many people? A dozen?
And how many people do you figure the governor has lost? How many do you figure he has killed.I'm pretty sure both numbers are well over a dozen.
I guess nobody can know for sure. What we do know is the Guvnor has saved a lot more lives than Rick and it's not even close.
This is how I look at the story of the show at this point. This chapter in the story is very much about preserving humanity.At the end of last season Rick had to kill Shane because Shane was trying to convince Rick that there is no place for humanity in the world any longer and at the same time undermining everything Rick and the group had sacrificed for.
The governor represents a potential road Rick could take now that he has found their
home - relative safety with the comforts of pre-apocalypse life at the cost of your humanity. A parallel they are actually forcing down our throats by injecting Andrea into Woodbury - an event that never happened before the show.
Its easy to say you will sacrifice everything to insure the safety of yourself and yours, but when you see the reality of it and kills pretty much everything that makes you human.
At the end of the day, Rick and the Governor use others to guarantee their personal safety (and in Rick's case, his families safety also) - the difference being, Rick cares about what happens to his peers and the governor does not.
Its entirely possible that if the governors wife and kid survived, things would have turned out completely differently, he could have been Rick, but they didn't and he isn't, and now he represents everything evil in this world.