Should we have told Clementine about her parents?
While I was playing I, like many it seems, avoided telling Clementine that her parents were probably dead. Now I know telling her doesn't really effect anything in the plot, but if this were happening in real life, do you think it would be better to tell her the truth?
I mean, on one hand, we don't know for sure that her parents are dead, and the possibility that they may be alive seems to give her some hope.
On the other hand, she does several dangerous things trying to find her parents, and it seems wrong to lie to her about something so important.
I mean, on one hand, we don't know for sure that her parents are dead, and the possibility that they may be alive seems to give her some hope.
On the other hand, she does several dangerous things trying to find her parents, and it seems wrong to lie to her about something so important.
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I would tell her about the message on the answering machine and let her interpret that in her own way.
^ This. It was a shame we were never able to tell her about the messages.
I don't know, on some level she knew they were probably dead but on another she refused to completely accept it. If you tell her point blank you can't look for her parents because they're dead she insists they're not and starts crying. She's also still asking about them when you get back from Crawford if you didn't take her with you.
Dealing with the loss of a family member is incredibly difficult for most adults, I don't think Clementine truly believed her parents were dead until she finally saw them in person. One of the first things she says after Lee's wakes up is "They're dead for sure." If she had already accepted their death I don't think she would have said that.
"They're not dead!"
"Do you... want them to be?"
*cries*
At least that's how I remember it.
After this replica:
Lee: You think we have a good plan?
Clementine: I think it's very good... Can I tell my parents...you know...
Lee: ... *silence * (it's my variant)
Clementine: They like it, promise.
Now I understand with whom she wanted to talk.
I don't understand what she wanted to tell them that she can shoot about how he murdered idk
Me neither, I personally thought that she wanted to let them know how Lee had taken care of her.
They should have given it a bit more context.
About all what happened from the moment of their last radiocommunication (when Lee and Kenny returned from the drugstore at the beginning of the episode).
About attack by motel, about Carley/Doug, about what Lee has done with Lilly... and about that they go to Savannah by train.
He had no contact due to radio with her. They were just faked.
No, she had not. Walkie Talkies don't reach from Macon to Savannah.
She just doesn't want to believe it and was hoping against hope. Seeing is believing... and sadly she saw the truth for herself.
I try not to tell her about her parents... I'm just not sure how to break it to her without breaking her heart!
I wished there was an option to tell her what her parents said in the answering machine, or let her listen to it herself.
I guess it was sorta my fault too because I keep on giving her false hope, but what the Stranger did, manipulating her mind because she was naive was way worse >:0
Seems like it was obvious that the parents were dead from the answering machine's messages? How did people tell? I didn't even hear any commotion in the background, only that the call was cut off which I assumed was because the line or electricity was cut off.
I thought the crying from the mother was because she knew of the situation of their hometown and was worried sick about Clementine.
But on hindsight, her cracking up was also because she knew the end was coming and she was wishing against all hope that her daughter could still be or would be alive... I guess I'm too dense to make that out...
I don't know about you, but I heard a shit load of zombie moaning in the background of her last call.
"Ed had accident with some guy at the motel" - or something like that, that's reason why were they at hospital.
In the first message, the mother tells the babysitter they are delayed because the father got attacked by a crazy guy, which suggest that a walker got him during the early days of the outbreak.
In the third message, you hear heavy automatic gunfire in background as the mother desperately tells Clem to call the police for help. The gunfire in the background suggests that where her mother was, the walkers were about to overrun the military or police guarding it (similar to the WABE "sign off").
And you could hear very distinct walker groans as she was telling Clem that they love her. The call was obviously an attempt to say goodbye because they assumed they weren't going to make it.
Yeah, I wish I could have told her about it at some point, rather than just saying "they're dead. Move on." like an ass. Give her proof and she might have actually listened and knew the stranger was up to something.
I probably would have told her about the message too, if given the chance. I think the closest you can get to it is a line beginning with "I think i heard them die..." but I've never heard it, and aren't sure what you need to do to get it.
False. The stranger's car is shown in Atlanta in the beginning of the game, thus he could have been in Macon when talking to her(likely since he drives his car to Savannah in the end).
The walkie talkie started working when they were going near Savannah right? Even then they barely get a signal and you can barely understand what he was saying o .o
It started working at the end of ep 2 when Carley/Doug gives Clem batteries(which was the reason it stopped working). What the stranger says at the end of ep 3(nearing Savannah) implies that he's already talked to her and tried to convince her to find him as well.
Oh yeah, I remember start of episode 3 she was holding it and it looks like she was talking to someone
I mean she knew they were dead then he restored her belief