Theory on Lee's Fate/Cure

edited November 2012 in The Walking Dead
Lee's death is ambiguous. If you take certain actions it can end up this way.
  1. You can cut his arm off.
  2. You can handcuff the guard and not Lee.
  3. You have have Clem leave you, and even then she might not have shot you. Even IGN's Greg Miller speculated this.
  4. When she leaves you, Lee slumps over on the radiator. Is he dead or has he just went unconscious again? I'm thinking the latter
  5. Bites are deadly because of bacterial infections and blood loss. What fights bacterial infections? Antibiotics. Where were antibiotics located? Crawford. Who's from Crawford? Molly. Who's still in Savannah to the best of our knowledge? Molly.

So I'm thinking the cure is a certain type of antibiotic. I mean, why not have the cure in the Walking Dead be painfully obvious? Just like the fact that you turn no matter how you die.

Comments

  • edited November 2012
    Lee's fate is either corpse or walker. Either way he is dead.
  • edited November 2012
    Considering a member of Telltale said Lee is dead, i think it's safe to assume that Lee is dead.
  • edited November 2012
    I think most folk's attachment to the game at this point is for Clem. I never really questioned his demise and it makes sense in terms of the story.

    I haven't got a clue how they're going to top Lee with a replacement protagonist. Short of Clem herself, or maybe Omid.
  • edited November 2012
    I haven't got a clue how they're going to top Lee with a replacement protagonist. Short of Clem herself, or maybe Omid.

    Yeah, same here. No game protagonist has ever resonated with me like this since the Gabriel Knight series.
  • edited November 2012
    Mornai wrote: »
    Considering a member of Telltale said Lee is dead, i think it's safe to assume that Lee is dead.

    Lol, well that puts my theory in shambles. I still think antibiotics is the cure.
  • edited November 2012
    I think most folk's attachment to the game at this point is for Clem. I never really questioned his demise and it makes sense in terms of the story.

    I haven't got a clue how they're going to top Lee with a replacement protagonist. Short of Clem herself, or maybe Omid.

    They need a new protagonist. No way is Omid going to be able to be half as good a protagonist as Lee was 0.o;

    In my opinion it would kind of feel like a downgrade after playing Lee's story
  • edited November 2012
    Right....
    I'm sure antibiotics helped a ton pre-society collapse when everyone who got sick were in hospitals and yet still turned. Derp.
  • edited November 2012
    Did no one look at Lees face? He was extremely close to turning. His eyes were yellow, his face was blue/purple. The bite totally infected his entire body there is no way in hell Lee could survive without totally breaking all the rules of The Walking Dead-universe. Not gonna happen. He is dead 100%
  • edited November 2012
    Doctanian wrote: »
    Lol, well that puts my theory in shambles. I still think antibiotics is the cure.

    The Walking Dead comics have had spanned over 2 years after the apocalypse and there is still no cure. Antibiotics clearly isn't it. Plus the reason why Kirkman doesn't go into the science of the walkers is due to then the series being focused too much on "magic" so I have an odd feeling science won't hold the cure :p
  • edited November 2012
    Mornai wrote: »
    Considering a member of Telltale said Lee is dead, i think it's safe to assume that Lee is dead.

    damn...so he is dead :(
  • edited November 2012
    I'm gonna sit down and assume the worst my friends.
  • edited November 2012
    Jake wrote: »
    [spoilers]

    okay, it's a really silly question,
    but can you confirm that lee is really dead? Yes, i know it's a really silly question.
    yes, he's dead.

    qfe
  • edited November 2012
    This was a decent interactive comic, and a lot of its success or failure was going to come down to the ending. TTG simply blew it, there. Lee's fate is as a walker, chained to a radiator until his wrist rots off, haunting Clem's dreams until the day she dies.

    The ending was a hopeless bungle. Lee's great sacrifice is no sacrifice at all. First, it's unimaginable that Clem, if she even survives the city (and recall that Lee forgot to, you know, actually tell her how to find Omid and Christa--oops!), won't be forever haunted by the image of zombie Lee chained to a radiator in a windowless room for all eternity. The big deal he makes, that she shouldn't shoot him, is horribly, horribly misguided. Putting down someone before they turn is extremely cathartic. It was a point of honor and pride and closure for Carl to put down Lori in the tv series. In the game it completely spoils the whole ending. Clem doesn't get that closure.
  • edited November 2012
    Mornai wrote: »
    Considering a member of Telltale said Lee is dead, i think it's safe to assume that Lee is dead.

    Well, there you have it folks.

    Time to give him a proper burial. :p

    If a dev says it, that's pretty much final.
  • edited November 2012
    Bringing Lee back would ruin the legacy a bit, i dont think TTG will bring him back.
  • edited November 2012
    DreadMagus wrote: »
    Well, there you have it folks.

    Time to give him a proper burial. :p

    If a dev says it, that's pretty much final.
    What if he said 'No, he is alive'?
    That would basically mean that his 'death scene' was pointless as shit other than to leave in suspense.
    I still think that blue vase that fell on his head is somehow related to his 'unconsciousness' or it somehow has affected the zombification process!
    You really have to think outside the box as these developers are CRAZY with their ideas.
  • edited November 2012
    This was a decent interactive comic, and a lot of its success or failure was going to come down to the ending. TTG simply blew it, there. Lee's fate is as a walker, chained to a radiator until his wrist rots off, haunting Clem's dreams until the day she dies.

    The ending was a hopeless bungle. Lee's great sacrifice is no sacrifice at all. First, it's unimaginable that Clem, if she even survives the city (and recall that Lee forgot to, you know, actually tell her how to find Omid and Christa--oops!), won't be forever haunted by the image of zombie Lee chained to a radiator in a windowless room for all eternity. The big deal he makes, that she shouldn't shoot him, is horribly, horribly misguided. Putting down someone before they turn is extremely cathartic. It was a point of honor and pride and closure for Carl to put down Lori in the tv series. In the game it completely spoils the whole ending. Clem doesn't get that closure.

    So you are saying the ending you choose wasn't one you are happy with. Not that TTG themselves screwed up because, frankly, you can ask Clem to shoot you and she does.

    So really, what is your actual gripe with the ending here?
  • edited November 2012
    Muni wrote: »
    What if he said 'No, he is alive'?
    That would basically mean that his 'death scene' was pointless as shit other than to leave in suspense.
    I still think that blue vase that fell on his head is somehow related to his 'unconsciousness' or it somehow has affected the zombification process!
    You really have to think outside the box as these developers are CRAZY with their ideas.

    good point. it'd totally ruin the ambiguity of his death if they flat out said he was alive. Could just be a clever troll on the dev's part, especially with season 2 still in early production stages


    idk who to believe D:
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited November 2012
    Besides: Kirkman would never, ever let Telltale render even the slightest whiff of a cure in their game.

    The group had plenty of antibiotics at their disposal by episode 2. Katjaa probably used it specifically with the idea to fight 'zombie infection', and her patients turned nonetheless.
  • edited November 2012
    Right....
    I'm sure antibiotics helped a ton pre-society collapse when everyone who got sick were in hospitals and yet still turned. Derp.

    I don't mean the cure cure.
  • edited November 2012
    Oh, PLEASE don't let Lee's death turn into another Carley thing. Dead, dead, dead, DEAD, DEAD.

    Dead.
  • edited November 2012
    I wish it were true in a way, I will miss Lee, but I'd feel cheated if he were still alive =/ they sealed Lees fate the second he was bit, there is no backing out now. That boy is 100% walker. (I'm going with the theory that Clem didn't shoot Lee even when the option was given)
  • edited November 2012
    Cyreen wrote: »
    Oh, PLEASE don't let Lee's death turn into another Carley thing. Dead, dead, dead, DEAD, DEAD.

    Dead.

    This is coming from the guy using "The cake is a lie" meme.

    That's dead.
  • edited November 2012
    Doctanian wrote: »
    This is coming from the guy using "The cake is a lie" meme.

    That's dead.

    How would you presume to pronounce "Cyreen"? Strike you as manly did it? Your opinion is invalid due to lack of intelligence.

    Have a nice day. :)
  • edited November 2012
    antibiotics don't cure everything and also there are different antibiotics for different infections, and for all we know it the zombie virus could be a mutated hospital virus that is immune to any antibiotic anyway

    plus lee is dead
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