I didnt think so. I mean, realistically, what would they be doing for three months that we really need to see? Gathering food, fortifying their motel, picking up new people, letting their tensions build as people struggle for control of the group. We learned what we needed to know during the expositional walk in the woods with Mark and Lee. It didnt bother me that we didnt get a whole lot of backstory on him either because it seems to fit in with what I read of the comic where characters pretty much come in and out of the story as they join or leave the group.
I didn't mind the three month gap, I think it's realistic to assume that for that 3 months life was simply 'boring' and we didn't really need to experience any of it.
As for introducing new characters without back story to get killed off, that's pretty much a TV show staple, so I'm used to it. I'm aware that killing off a character we have grown attached to has more impact but I felt the way it was done in this episode gave it great impact anyway.
I couldn't have been more pleased with Episode 2. I was simply enthralled from start to finish.
It was a good way to make it realistic for them to be out of food. I admit having someone be introduced completely off screen was strange, but they did an ok job at covering basically what happened through dialogue.
Well, Mark's backstory hints at the group going to a military base, where the shit already hit the fan hard. They find him there and let him join, because he probably has access to the commissary and all the food in there (probably locked himself up in there prior to the group's arrival).
This must have happened shortly after the first episode, because episode 2 starts three months after and Mark says himself something like: "I can't believe the commissary food lasted only 3 months."
I guess they holed up at the Motor Inn for a few days, waiting for the military to save the day, just like they planned to do at the end of the first episode. However, the military never came and supplies probably started to run out. I suppose one of their first expeditions led them to the military base looking for help, rescue or just some supplies like food or weapons. Might have even been the base, where Lilly worked. Anyway, that's where they ended up finding Mark.
To be honest I believe this would have made a terrific episode, but I guess Telltale just wanted to fast-forward to the more advanced stages of the zombie apocalypse.
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As for introducing new characters without back story to get killed off, that's pretty much a TV show staple, so I'm used to it. I'm aware that killing off a character we have grown attached to has more impact but I felt the way it was done in this episode gave it great impact anyway.
I couldn't have been more pleased with Episode 2. I was simply enthralled from start to finish.
This must have happened shortly after the first episode, because episode 2 starts three months after and Mark says himself something like: "I can't believe the commissary food lasted only 3 months."
I guess they holed up at the Motor Inn for a few days, waiting for the military to save the day, just like they planned to do at the end of the first episode. However, the military never came and supplies probably started to run out. I suppose one of their first expeditions led them to the military base looking for help, rescue or just some supplies like food or weapons. Might have even been the base, where Lilly worked. Anyway, that's where they ended up finding Mark.
To be honest I believe this would have made a terrific episode, but I guess Telltale just wanted to fast-forward to the more advanced stages of the zombie apocalypse.