For those of us who know the story, the Governor would have been killed a long long time ago. The screenwriters sold out and did not kill the governor -- which is their way of saying that the TV show is no longer in league with the comic book. I understand that the producers do not want to follow the show to the tee so that the show has it's own identity. So far they have killed Sophia (who is still living in the comic), they have kept Carol alive (who is dead in the comic), they prolonged Shane for a long long long time, they have kept Julia alive, they killed Lori early, they had Tyreese with the governor rather than with the group, they changed the storyline with Morgan and Hershal is still alive. All of that would have been fine since they are telling the story in their point of view--but allowing the governor to live was the ultimate sellout and it provided an anti-climatic end to the season that was highly disappointing.