How will it end? Predictions

edited October 2012 in The Walking Dead
Lee dies. Clementine lives. The entire game is about Clementine. Season 2 will be about a new character that meets Clementine and is her new protector/guardian.

Just a hunch.
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  • edited September 2012
    My guess is that season two's main character will be an older Clementine.
  • edited September 2012
    Either Clementine will be older/meet someone new, or entirely new characters.

    Not sure which one I prefer.
  • edited September 2012
    I think it'd end as one big nightmare for Lee the day before his birthday. :o And then the night of, all Hell breaks loose. :P Gotta love bookends.
  • edited September 2012
    Clementine will run off and Lee will run after her
    The group will leave without them
    Lee will have a final showdown with the walkie talkie guy
    Clementine and Lee will be left alone in a city of walkers no allies, no supplies.
  • edited September 2012
    That'd be really predictable... I don't want that. Why do people think that makes a good ending?

    Because different people have different opinions. And predictability doesn't matter as long as the narrative is compelling, IMO.
    And Clementine can't be the player character for season 2 because it would require far too big a time skip.

    It could be set two years in the future, and plenty of games feature young protagonists. See Heart of Darkness, virtually any Legend of Zelda game, Limbo, A Boy and His Blob and others.
  • edited September 2012
    I'm expecting that everyone dies from S1 and we start off in a new town/city for S2.

    Kind of hoping that Lee gets bit, changes into a zombie so that I can chase after the people in the group eating them with great joy. :)
  • edited September 2012
    Alex1939 wrote: »
    Lee dies. Clementine lives. The entire game is about Clementine. Season 2 will be about a new character that meets Clementine and is her new protector/guardian.

    Just a hunch.
    I think Lee will die too, but i really doubt season 2 will have anything to do with Clementine. I would like them to continue their story though --> Clem and Lee.
  • edited September 2012
    Alex1939 wrote: »
    Lee dies. Clementine lives. The entire game is about Clementine. Season 2 will be about a new character that meets Clementine and is her new protector/guardian.

    Just a hunch.

    That would be a no deal for me on Season 2. It was a cute little device for one season, but had I known this game was the story of an 8yr old surviving the ZA I would've moved on.
  • edited September 2012
    I think Lee will die & something might happen to Clementine, perhaps Lilly save her then in a weird "6 months/years later" moment.

    I just hope we see Walking Dead in a total different country like UK or Germany and when not I would like to see a character like Andrea have a big role in the 2nd season :)
  • edited September 2012
    Walkie Talkie guy captures Clementine near the end of episode 4, You hole up in a apartment, walkers are trying to break down the door, and its breaking, Kenny demands you leave Omid behind because you'd have to carry him, and there are walkers all over the streets, Christa demands Lee take him with him or she'll stay behind, In the end you go with Kenny/Ben and leave the apartment complex to hear the door breaking down and christa screaming, you find the boat, Ben tells kenny that he did it, and that Lee told him not to tell, Kenny refuses to take Lee and Ben at gunpoint and leaves without them both, at some point Ben and Lee get surrounded, Ben does something to divert the walkers then runs away, In the end Lee gets shot by the walkie talkie guy and finds Clementine dead right before he bleeds out.-- This is precisely what I hope doesn't happen.
  • edited September 2012
    Lee, Clem, and Clem's parents try to escape the city. Clem's parents get bitten. Lee has a choice of putting them down or letting them turn into walkers. Sorrow endues. End of season 1.
  • edited September 2012
    It all goes sidways when you're close to finding the boat. The herd from the train station hits town and the streets are filling with walkers. Near the river, the remnants of the group get split up, with Clementine and Lee cut off from the boat as walkers close in all around. They dodge through buildings and streets until they come to The Marsh House. Trying to get inside, Clem is grabbed again by a walker. Lee moves to free her, but there's too many. Clem is freed but Lee is bitten. Taking cover inside the Marsh House, they search the halls and find Clem's mother. As Lee nears death, and eventual reanimation, he hands Clem's mom his gun. Depending on how you raised Clem, she'll take the gun and end your suffering, or she and her mother will leave you to reanimate.
  • edited September 2012
    I really hope it's "Lee is alive", who ever is able to join in, is welcome... There is no point wanting Lee to die from a (or at least my) player point of view.
  • edited September 2012
    Deventh wrote: »
    I think Lee will die too, but i really doubt season 2 will have anything to do with Clementine. I would like them to continue their story though --> Clem and Lee.

    I think that this is Lee's story not Clems. I think Clem won't be in the next season. Depending on your choices she is either alive or dead, but Lee will be alone. The new series will then start with Lee alone and meeting a new group of survivors.
  • edited September 2012
    I think it will end with the sound of screams and walkers eating.
  • edited September 2012
    DreadMagus wrote: »
    I think it will end with the sound of screams and walkers eating.

    And the players in tears. :(
  • edited September 2012
    Depends on who's getting eaten. :D
  • edited September 2012
    I haven't given much thought to the specifics but I think the ending arc with Lee and Clem would be something like Lee delivering Clem to one or both of her parents who have somehow miraculously survived. That sort of doesn't mesh with the way that Kirkman tells the stories but maybe TTG will go that route of a bittersweet ending. Bittersweet as in Clem leaves Lee for her parent(s).

    The remaining characters I'm not feeling any strong tugs about their fates either way..or that much interest.
  • edited September 2012
    one of my guesses of how it ends:
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  • edited September 2012
    Oh look! Sharks!
  • edited September 2012
    Oh look! Sharks!

    yeah, what people dont realise is that it is not only a zombie apocalypse but its the octoshark apocalypse as well, doh!
  • edited September 2012
    I will bust out laughing if after they leave in a boat, the episode ends with the Jaws music....
  • edited September 2012
    Nanites !!!

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    alternate ending :D

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    other alternate ending:

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  • edited September 2012
    The popular UFO ending from Silent Hill :D Would love to see that ;)
  • CapnJayCapnJay Banned
    edited September 2012
    Lee realizes Clem is just a Hallucination. That house he broke into in episode one? That was his house. His head jumbled from the crash forgot that the reason he killed the senator was because the senator and lee's wife left Clementine unattended and there was an accident and she died. Everyone whose pretended to interact with Clementine has been humoring the escaped criminal with an imaginary friend. And it's all written by Steven Moffat.
  • edited September 2012
    With a song and a dance...
  • edited September 2012
    FarmerJoe wrote: »
    With a song and a dance...

    Zombie: Get your shotgun out my face, you damn dirty apes!
    Lee: He can talk!
    Kenny: He can talk!
    Omid: He can talk!
    Clem: He can talk!
    Zombie: I can SIIIIIIIIIING!
  • edited September 2012
    My prediction: Carley & necrophillia
  • edited September 2012
    Zombie: Get your shotgun out my face, you damn dirty apes!
    Lee: He can talk!
    Kenny: He can talk!
    Omid: He can talk!
    Clem: He can talk!
    Zombie: I can SIIIIIIIIIING!
    Red Panda wrote: »
    My prediction: Carley & necrophillia

    Telltale, I'm seeing potential DLC...

    Disturbingly, I suspect the second would probably be the money maker :confused:
  • edited October 2012
    *snip* That would be terrible. First it would no make sense. Second, who wants to play as a girl. That would be boring.
  • edited October 2012
    In my mind, my ideal ending would be either Lee or Clementine dying (or an option for both if they want to do the ME2 thing). It would be dependent on the choices you make earlier and one last choice near the end. It would be a moment of intense drama, either of one of them sacrificing themselves, putting the other out of their misery or a tragic end.

    I would prefer the Clementine living option though. We then see some kind of epilogue where Clementine (either older or immediately after the previous event) reflects the choices Lee made. She becomes a hardened survivor, an innocent victim, a morally upright person or whatever it is. Perhaps the epilogue would end with Clem offering a summary on who your Lee was in the game and who he is to her (I would be so moved it Clem had a photo or something of Lee and referred to him as some kind of "dad" if he was good to her).

    As much as I hate obligatory "hero needs to die" endings, they work if there is a point! If the emotional payoff, relevance to the theme or final lines nail why it had to happen, I would be fine.
  • CapnJayCapnJay Banned
    edited October 2012
    zgamer wrote: »
    In my mind, my ideal ending would be either Lee or Clementine dying (or an option for both if they want to do the ME2 thing). It would be dependent on the choices you make earlier and one last choice near the end. It would be a moment of intense drama, either of one of them sacrificing themselves, putting the other out of their misery or a tragic end.

    I would prefer the Clementine living option though. We then see some kind of epilogue where Clementine (either older or immediately after the previous event) reflects the choices Lee made. She becomes a hardened survivor, an innocent victim, a morally upright person or whatever it is. Perhaps the epilogue would end with Clem offering a summary on who your Lee was in the game and who he is to her (I would be so moved it Clem had a photo or something of Lee and referred to him as some kind of "dad" if he was good to her).

    As much as I hate obligatory "hero needs to die" endings, they work if there is a point! If the emotional payoff, relevance to the theme or final lines nail why it had to happen, I would be fine.

    Judging by what I've read posted by other users who have read the comics. They would just kill off Clementine via pneumonia, and Lee through slipping and cracking his skull in just because the message is "Shit Happens".
  • edited October 2012
    Are you actually being serious CapnJay?

    Are you saying that the comics are so bleak that being true to them would would mean killing both Lee and Clem? Isn't that the equivalent of killing that sheriff that is the main star of the comic? Surely there is a limit to how bleak this ending can get, especially with a sequel being planned... Right?

    At this point, I could imagine one of them dying but I never even considered that both might bite it.
  • edited October 2012
    TomaO2 wrote: »
    Surely there is a limit to how bleak this ending can get, especially with a sequel being planned... Right?

    Okay, that just made me laugh.
  • edited October 2012
    TomaO2 wrote: »
    At this point, I could imagine one of them dying but I never even considered that both might bite it.

    I think there is a possibility that NONE of the group will survive Savannah. Lee or Clem dying seems to be a pretty strong outcome, and I could definately see both happening. Who knows, Clem might die and Lee the final choice of the season is the player choosing to "opt out" or not. Ben and Omid will certainly be killed. Christa and Kenny might make it, but since Kenny has nothing to live for it seems likely that he'll just give up along the way if he isn't already dead by that point. Chuck could die, or slip away in the night, but I don't think he'll be with us at the end of Episode 5. Walkie-guy has no chance if we're given a choice to kill him or not. It seems the only people with even a moderate chance of survival are Christa and...the ninja girl?
  • edited October 2012
    I see. Well then, I appreciate the heads up, Rock. I had been assuming either Lee or Clem would survive. Actually, I had been assuming Clem would make it alone at this point (although, I currently feel like I would let her rot if it kept Lee alive) but now I'm not going to assume anything and that makes me grateful cause I won't be utterly shocked if it happens now, like I was when people died in episode 3.

    My goal now is to think of the most horrible things that can happen, so that if it doesn't, I can be pleasantly surprised. I did NOT appreciate how this game jerked me around and I'm determined not to let it do so again.
  • edited October 2012
    TomaO2 wrote: »
    I see. Well then, I appreciate the heads up, Rock. I had been assuming either Lee or Clem would survive. Actually, I had been assuming Clem would make it alone at this point (although, I currently feel like I would let her rot if it kept Lee alive) but now I'm not going to assume anything and that makes me grateful cause I won't be utterly shocked if it happens now, like I was when people died in episode 3.

    My goal now is to think of the most horrible things that can happen, so that if it doesn't, I can be pleasantly surprised. I did NOT appreciate how this game jerked me around and I'm determined not to let it do so again.

    Don't get too immersed in all TWD doom and gloom. It's still a story, and a pretty good one at that, about Lee and what he lived through during a ZA. If it was about killing off people just to kill them off then the story would be one episode about some guy on riot control duty in Atlanta. Likewise it's not so much one-upsmanship on who can come up with the sickest thing to send Lee into. Rather, when you have a character who did not die right away, the longer he lives the more bad and good things he's going to encounter.

    TTG picked Lee's story to tell just like Kirkman picked Rick's story to tell. Lots of drama about someone who lived a long time in a ZA (relatively speaking of course) :)
  • edited October 2012
    Think Shakespeare's Macbeth. It's really not much different. It's all dark, twisted, angst and then everybody dies.
  • edited October 2012
    Interesting analogy Cyreen.

    Honestly though, I never got emotionally involved with Shakespeare. The stories can be okay (if you can get past the ye old english) but I never felt upset on any of the deaths. Nothing he wrote is emotionally gripping, in my mind. Not even the double suicide for Romeo and Juliet.
  • edited October 2012
    So which is it? Is emotionally gripping good or bad? Because you seem to be slamming Telltale for doing a good job.
    TomaO2 wrote: »
    I did NOT appreciate how this game jerked me around and I'm determined not to let it do so again.
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