It is a metaphor for his psychological descent. Like the novel in 'The Shining' - "All work and no play make Jack a dull boy..." over and over and over again. No sane person would do that. At least, not without cut and paste in MS Word. Then its easy to do.

 

This is a list of people Governor lost, the last one in this list is his daughter Penny, after her death, the Governor lost it, similar with Rick's reaction when he heard Lori's death, this explains the squiggles in the notebook, and no other names are written after penny.

 

Rick is stronger, however, and comes back to himself. Weakness of heart and mind are the only differences between most heroes and villains.

 

You can say that, before Penny's death, every death in his group hit the Governor hard, he wrote down their name in his notebook to remember them, after her death, there is no new name adding into this list, this tells a lot about the Governor.

 

I agree with what has been said in general and I also think it means he could no longer write down any more names (just keeps writing slashes) as he just can't bring himself to admit fully that Penny is dead. He can't bring himself to add more names so he just keeps filling it with slashes.

 

You beat me to it!!! I was just going to type the same thing!!!!:zombies_lol::zombies_lol::zombies_lol::zombies_lol::zombies_lol:

 

My take on the scene that at, as Penny was the last he that he entered was people that mattered the most to him as he had a personal connection with them. Maybe the tally is maker in that matter is the dead are only numbers to him .... They don't not matter and leaving them name less makes it seem less personally involved and expendable. I see the same parallels with Glenn wanting to burn the dead and bury family....

 

Looks to me like he was counting something after Pennys name.

What was it though ? days? numbers of zombies killed or spotted? brushes of her hair?

It was too high of a count to be days (maybe hours or minutes with out his daughter)

Maybe that's the number of times he has thought of his daughter.. each day he tries to recall how many times he thought of and marks his journal... I could see myself going that style of crazy if my daughter became a zombie.

 

I thought the same about it being days. But that's obviously too high. Hmm.

 

Sorry but you are quite wrong there.. Not your fault though, as you haven't read Robert Kirkman's book "The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor". It is basically about how he became who he is. It is quite the journey.. Anyway i'll tell you why you're wrong. But if anyone intend to read this great book.. This will be a spoiler (not for the show i believe):

^ If you're a fan of TWD, and don't intend to read the book.. You should read this
And if you don't, well you'll be missing some interesting facts about the Govenor and his "daughter"..

If any of you are readers, i definitely recommend this book. "The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor". There is also another book i'm about to start on, "The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury". Should be interesting.


Oh also, Penny died before the Governor found Woodbury. She was shot.

 

i think it was a notebook to keep count how many days penny had been a walker.

 

It was how many People he'd witnessed Mcleod kill.

 

Never understand the notebook and the squiggles.. first I thought he counted the days of the ZA. But when I saw how many it were and the fact that 'Penny' was bold and underlined I thought It must have to do something with her. Still not knowing what.. maybe we'll know in Season 4 or maybe it is a gab we will never understand.

 

Yea i guess you might be right. When i was reading it, it just felt more like the TV series universe instead of the comic books.. Like one guy says:

Still though i think you are right. However, it is an interesting possibility, to me at the very least..

 

Hmmmm...

 

the gov has some feminine handwriting.

 

Its interesting that the novels have nothing to do with the show, yet the first 3 names are Brian, Bobby, and Nick, from the novel. I think this was just a nod to the novel, so nerds like us can recognize it and mentally high five ourselves.