I still don't know if the govenor truly believes them. He's a lets see if there telling the truth then off them type of guy. For all they know it could be still over run by Walkers. I'm guessing the Guv. is still skeptical

 

Even skepticism shouldn't have kept them alive. The second Maggie opened her mouth they should have both kissed this mortal coil goodbye.

 

Merle told him that taking the prison from the walkers was impossible, yet a small group of people did exactly that. IMHO, He is simply waiting for the recon team to come back with intel. Then he would kill Glenn and rape and kill Maggie.

 

He can use them to entertain Woodbury citizens at the arena (that's what the preview seems to suggest), make up a story about how they tried to sabotage the community and are some a group trying to take over Woodbury. He couldn't risk brining National Guardsmen to Woodbury.

They can also be used as hostages, since the Governor fears their group looking for them. More useful alive than dead in either case.

 

Again with the raping? TV Gov, so far to my knowledge has not raped anyone. I know this is about a TV show, but seriously show a little respect...that shit is not funny.

 

No it is not. I am going off of the way he kept rubbing up against her.
I didn't make a joke, It is what I think he is planning. BTW this is the FIRST time I have mentioned the Gov and rape so please don't go ballistic on me because others have mentioned it.

 

Yeah even though rape isn't easy to talk about you can definetly tell that was what the governor was thinking. He's perverted.

 

I didn't mean you particularly. Sorry if it came off that way.

 

Leverage. Governor is threatened by their group. regardless of their size, they represent a formidable opponent. if they show up at Woodbury, the ability to threaten killing Glenn and Maggie is a bargaining chip that they may need down the road

 

The Gov gets off on torturing people. That's why they're not dead. There's still plenty of fun to have with them from his point of view. Plus he can use them as leverage.

 

The governor will definitely wax glenn and maggie, but in different ways.

 

The gov. is a cunning man and would never waste a hostage until they no longer have any value.

 

I think he's going to wait and see if Maggie was telling the truth first, and then he might want to keep them around just to entertain himself. They aren't like the military guys. There are only two of them and they aren't armed. They aren't much of a threat, and something tells me The Governor wouldn't mind having a couple prisoners around just because he's a prick. He can still use them as leverage against Rick's group if he feels he has to, and can still rape Maggie... He probably wouldn't want to rape a zombie / corpse, so he won't kill her yet if he's got that on his mind. But then, if he did want to rape a zombie, I wouldn't be surprised. Can the zombie disease pass from person to person that way? Is it an STD? Milton needs to do some experiments with that...

 

Hope that's alot of off scene stuff if they ahhh, take that route

 

These are my thoughts as well.

 

Like one guy said before, leverage. If Rick's group attacks they can hold them hostage. If you kill them, well you have nothing to use to gain the upper hand. Simple.