The Walkie-Talkie Problem
So after watching many lps and then finally purchasing the game and playing for myself, I still am wondering where radio guy got the walkie. I know there's some theories that well maybe he didn't need the EXACT one of the set of Clem's to get in contact with her, maybe he could just be on the same frequency.
Well, my friend made a good point. When Clem's mom calls the house at first she is trying to get in touch with the babysitter to tell her to get Clem out of town. But then she is specifically talking to Clem and I have to wonder why she didn't try to contact her daughter through the walkie-talkie which means that they probably lost it or somehow left it behind with all the madness in Savannah/the hospital. Maybe radio guy found it because he heard someone's voice coming out of it (through her pretend talks) and decided to find out about who's on the other end. Maybe it is a very lonely guy who, after talking with Clem, realized he knew Lee or something about him?
Anyway I can't wait til we finally have some answers!!
Well, my friend made a good point. When Clem's mom calls the house at first she is trying to get in touch with the babysitter to tell her to get Clem out of town. But then she is specifically talking to Clem and I have to wonder why she didn't try to contact her daughter through the walkie-talkie which means that they probably lost it or somehow left it behind with all the madness in Savannah/the hospital. Maybe radio guy found it because he heard someone's voice coming out of it (through her pretend talks) and decided to find out about who's on the other end. Maybe it is a very lonely guy who, after talking with Clem, realized he knew Lee or something about him?
Anyway I can't wait til we finally have some answers!!
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Because at the beginning there are two, not one: the one that Clem has in the treehouse and the one that Lee picks up from the kitchen drawer. I always assumed the one Lee had is the one that was her parents'. It makes sense. When Clem said that her parents would talk to her with the walkie, I always assumed this meant that they would talk to her from the house while she was in the treehouse.
Besides, I think it's been said before that Glenn has the other. Doesn't Clem say that herself in Ep 1? I can't remember.
thus meaning a desktop version aka NOT PORTABLE will also exist.
powered by a generator or batteries or a crystal radio that doesn't need any power source. as it uses radio waves or something to create power..
i'd assume crawford being so intent on surviving on their own would need some sort of communication device to keep an eye/ear out for other survivors who are suitable candidates for membership, to 'better their chances'
people should think outside the box, a phone for example mobile/car/landline/satellite all connect with each other, radio transimitters come in different forms/shapes sizes..
There's no reason Clem's parents would have taken a walkie with them to Savannah or tried to contact Clem on it. A walkie's range would be maybe 30 miles under the absolute best of conditions (ie: having both parties at the top of a mountain with no weather in between). More likely, the range would be ten miles or less. Atlanta and Savannah are about 250 miles away from each other.
It's more likely that Clem and her parents only have two walkies and they usually just use it to talk to each other in different rooms or when Clem is up in her tree house.
Glenn also wouldn't have taken a walkie with him because, again, the range would have made it useless for communicating with the group. He probably left it with them - they would have had more use for it than he did. I'm sure the other walkie was with the group at the Motor Inn and creepy walkie-man somehow got it from there.
So it looks like the car does and maybe will have long term repercussions.
I still say the walkie talkie bloke is the owner of the car.
I would need to go back again but I thought that she specifically said they used it to talk when they went to Savannah, no? I also thought it would be a little far obviously but then again think of how Glenn contacted Clem when he was at the motor inn from the pharmacy (I know they're much closer, but still).
I don't really think it's a plot hole or anything, I just want to see how TTG decides to explain - maybe the walkie guy has been following them a long time?
The lack of this method being used more often is an oversight in TWD universe.
Everyone keeps saying this, but why would Glenn take the group's only other walkie to Atlanta with him? It would be too far away for him to be able to make any contact. It's far more likely that he left it with the group so they could actually use it if they ever fixed the other one.
Clem states Glen took the other one when she complains its broken.
Christa points out that it is not a toy
a bit like this
maybe not military grade, but my dad likes camping and stuff like that, and he has bought some expensive equipment for his hobby, so it doesn't seem unreasonable for Clementine's family (they seem reasonably well off) to buy an expensive set of walkie talkies
yeah 30 miles is about the maximum limit with clear line of sight, to overcome the curvature of the earth they would need to be on a hill or tower etc.
Ill give you that point, but Im pretty well heeled and my boys got ToysRUs stuff when they were kids.
Still unsure whether to believe there are 3 or 2 of them either. From playing it I was sure that her parents did take one with her but now I'm starting to think maybe she would just talk to her parents while in her tree house and they were in the house. Anyway, 3 seems like a weird number to sell in a pack of something so it was likely just a pair.
this kind of walkie talkie would not need an exact matching set like toy walkie talkies, they probably only had two, but the guy talking to them is transmitting on the same frequency and he could be using all sorts of different radio equipment to talk to clementine it wouldn't even have to be a walkie talkie
Yeah that seems more logical than trying to think of a scenario where he came across the other one that Glenn had or whatever. So then I wonder if he happened to be on the same frequency and heard Clem and decided to talk back or how their conversations went.
i made a bad script/gist of the idea of what a possible scenario could be on another thread
she just pretending the whole time and it wasn't until the train she actually got a response, but of course i don't know this, but this is how it may have happened
We'll im just saying that because i noticed it and then it was said on the wiki
who writes the wiki anyway? and can you show me a link to the page?
http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Campman
if i had written the wiki
"In Episode 2: Starved for Help, Clementine is seen talking into her walkie-talkie. She says it's broken, but she likes pretending she is talking to her parents. It is likely that she was pretending to talk to her parents. Another instance of this also happened in the beginning of Episode 3: Long Road Ahead. She is seen talking into her walkie-talkie as Lee and Kenny return from their trip to the drug store."
it's safe to assume the batteries thing, but assuming the radio guy has been following us the whole time is a stretch (still possible) but not a safe bet
i think the whole its broken thing was to make us forget about it until the train
i tried to make it ambiguous so it would be interpreted in a good or bad way, mainly because its speculation and also because what we have actually heard him say could be interpreted in a good or bad way