The Walking Dead Season 3 Ending - Thoughts?

Spoilers.

My theory is they wanted to make it a two hour finale but AMC told them no. They had enough to fill two hours, but not enough that if they didn't get over the 1 hour hump they could make a decent season ender. So they left it on sort of a bitter-sweet, uneventful ending. Oh, and 20 minutes of Andrea trying to pick up a pair of pliers with her feet.

That said, at first I was annoyed at the prospect of The Governor becoming a two-season big bad, but if you think about it, now that he's either killed half of Woodbury, or had the other half defect, he's truly going rogue from here on out. He has no city to look after or keep up appearances for. One thing I loved about the season so far is his transition into a bonafide villain. Look at the way he carries himself the last few episodes compared to before. Ever since he put on his actual eyepatch. He looks more menacing than handsome or charming now. I lost sight of that awesome character development because of my frustration with the lack of resolution, but now I'm realizing that this can go very interesting places. The governor constantly proves he can actually get worse with each thing he does, just when you thought he reached the bottom. He may finally become the villain I've heard so much about from the comics.

The Governor has been made into nothing, while the prisoner is now taking in a society's worth of people to look after. I was excited for the prospect of a new setting entirely, but I'm willing to hear them out next season. Plus I do suppose a new setting each season would have become predictable.