Tales Of The Walking Dead: A Christmas Wishlist

2) “Nine People In An Apartment”

During a speech in season three of The Walking Dead, Philip Blake, a.k.a. “The Governor”, mentioned how the community that would become Woodbury began as “Nine people in an apartment”, before eventually expanding outwards into the town we came to know, and, that story is one I want to see.

My first question is: Who else were these people? I imagine that The Governor’s daughter, Penny, was one of them, but…who were the other seven? Were they people we saw in the town? If they weren’t, what happened to them?

Part of my intrigue stems from the fact that this is a story set in the early days of the outbreak (My love for which I make no bones about), but also, because the circumstances seem so unique compared to any other stories we’ve seen of that period in The Walking Dead. We’ve seen people trying to escape cities, searching service tunnels for survivors, stuck on highways, holed up in their houses, and on airplanes, but, we’ve never seen a group of, presumably, strangers, forced to survive together in a relatively small space, and actually make a go of it.

I think it could be an intimate little story following The Governor, Penny, and this random collection of people they’re stuck with, learning to coexist, learning to survive, maybe sharing their own stories of what they’d seen up to this point, maybe showing them all learning the nature of what’s going on, and maybe, watching as Philip Blake begins to morph into the man we all know as The Governor (Perhaps even with some early signs of him becoming the megalomaniac we think of him as). It would be so unlike almost everything else we’ve seen, that that alone would make it worth watching.

…Besides, it’d be a great excuse to see more of The Governor, and who couldn’t go for more of him?