Lee's WIFE as the PC?

This idea's been mentioned here before by someone else, and I thought I might as well post a thread about it.

The only particular problem with this scenario (as I see it) would be having Clementine somehow meet up with Lee's wife. Out of all the loose ends left over from season 1, Clem's story is the one most players want to see continued, and it would be a stretch for the two characters to run into each other, especially in the midst of a zombie apocalypse.

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  • edited March 2013
    I hate that idea, seems to contrived. Would rather be someone with absolutely no ties to known characters.
  • edited March 2013
    Lee's cheating wife as PC? What an awful idea! :D
  • edited March 2013
    Everything inside me says I should hate this idea.....


    ....yet I find it strangely... intriguing.
  • edited March 2013
    Didn't Dave Fennoy say that Lee killed his wife?

    I don't know, it would be a cool idea.
  • edited March 2013
    Zeruis wrote: »
    Didn't Dave Fennoy say that Lee killed his wife?

    I don't know, it would be a cool idea.

    Indeed he did. But I'm not sure if it was confirmed by TTG or not.
  • edited March 2013
    Zeruis wrote: »
    Didn't Dave Fennoy say that Lee killed his wife?

    I don't know, it would be a cool idea.

    I think he just misinterpreted it somewhat. Out of all the people I've seen, it is very common for them to think Lee killed his wife and not a senator when they first hear of it from Carley.
  • edited March 2013
    Well, THAT'S gotta be an awkward conversation between Clem and Lee's Wife. Gotta be awkward when Clem starts asking her why Lee killed the "Bad Man" and what he did.
  • edited March 2013
    If Lee's wife is alive then I think it would be an interesting direction (even if she arrives as a supporting character) and would expand a bit more on Lee's past, and it can be done without needlessly demonising him.

    My only worry is that it would be too hard to like her or cheer for her because of what she did, how she'd be compared to Lori, and how she'll never live it down as much as Lee did with his murder of the senator.
  • edited March 2013
    RichWalk23 wrote: »
    If Lee's wife is alive then I think it would be an interesting direction (even if she arrives as a supporting character) and would expand a bit more on Lee's past, and it can be done without needlessly demonising him.

    My only worry is that it would be too hard to like her or cheer for her because of what she did, how she'd be compared to Lori, and how she'll never live it down as much as Lee did with his murder of the senator.

    Really? People have an easier time forgiving murder than adultery? Actually, don't answer that, the truth would probably just depress me.

    If they were to use Lee's wife as the protagonist they could actually keep that fact a secret into late in the game. We know almost nothing about her from season one other than she was married to Lee, cheated on him, and traveled for work. Her name, race, appearance, demeanor, occupation are all pretty much blank. You can play her all game and somewhere towards the end it comes out she used to Mrs. Everett.
  • edited March 2013
    If they were to use Lee's wife as the protagonist they could actually keep that fact a secret into late in the game. We know almost nothing about her from season one other than she was married to Lee, cheated on him, and traveled for work. Her name, race, appearance, demeanor, occupation are all pretty much blank. You can play her all game and somewhere towards the end it comes out she used to Mrs. Everett.

    That would be the only way that they could make it work. It would be especially surprising if she were an "unusual" race. Black and white interracial is fairly common, I think black and hispanic is a little less common, and black and asian is pretty rare (at least where I live). So if we see a really cut throat asian chick, she might be someone we would expect the least to have been Mrs. Everett.
    Also, like you said, leaving it 'til the end would make it much more of a surprise. It would also allow us to get to like or hate her on our own without the bias of knowing that she was the woman who caused Lee to 'ruin' his life so to speak. :P

    But there still is the problem of having her and Clem meet up. I doubt Clem'll be traveling through several states on her own, and if she were with another group, I imagine she would be a little more guarded against new friends.
    Too, didn't Lee mention that his wife didn't want kids? What would change during the ZA that would make her want to care for a little kid?
  • edited March 2013
    If she is still alive, maybe not as a PC, maybe just as one of the survivors.
  • edited March 2013
    Really? People have an easier time forgiving murder than adultery? Actually, don't answer that, the truth would probably just depress me.

    If they were to use Lee's wife as the protagonist they could actually keep that fact a secret into late in the game. We know almost nothing about her from season one other than she was married to Lee, cheated on him, and traveled for work. Her name, race, appearance, demeanor, occupation are all pretty much blank. You can play her all game and somewhere towards the end it comes out she used to Mrs. Everett.

    I think he mean't that she would have trouble living with herself. If she married him, she must have loved him, or at the least he loved her to kill the senator. The fact is, her cheating on him caused the death of that senator, and the loss of her husband. It also caused Lee to go to prison, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE of a zombie apocalypse. I don't know if I'd live with myself over that, not that I'd do any of that. I definitely hold that as worse than Lee murdering the senator. However, that is just my opinion.
  • edited March 2013
    Nah, she's better off dead.. because of her, Lee had to kill a man =.=
  • edited March 2013
    No no, Lee killed the senator for SLEEPING with his wife but he he didn't touch his wife at all.
  • edited March 2013
    The way Lee talked to the stranger didn't seem to indicate him killing anyone but the senator, and I'm still fairly sure that Carley or Larry would have brought it up if he had killed his wife.

    That said, I don't imagine that we'll see her as a survivor.
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited April 2013
    Web Head wrote: »
    No no, Lee killed the senator for SLEEPING with his wife but he he didn't touch his wife at all.

    Correct. I have no idea the state of Lee's wife as of the end of the season, but she was alive when Lee last saw her, pre-zombie-outbreak.
  • edited April 2013
    Well... If Lee's wife is anything like Lee's wife in http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8726510/1/A-Second-Chance, then I'd have to say NO. She is terrible in that fanfiction :P. Still, if she turns out to be a semi-decent person, I wouldn't mind.
  • edited April 2013
    Really? People have an easier time forgiving murder than adultery? Actually, don't answer that, the truth would probably just depress me.

    If they were to use Lee's wife as the protagonist they could actually keep that fact a secret into late in the game. We know almost nothing about her from season one other than she was married to Lee, cheated on him, and traveled for work. Her name, race, appearance, demeanor, occupation are all pretty much blank. You can play her all game and somewhere towards the end it comes out she used to Mrs. Everett.

    This could be interesting, and something i would enjoy. It doesn't have to be the major focus of the game or anything, but still a subtle nod to Lee in ways.
  • edited April 2013
    This idea's been mentioned here before by someone else, and I thought I might as well post a thread about it.
    Hm.
    CarScar wrote: »
    It'd be interesting to have Lee's ex wife as the protagonist.
    I take full credit for the idea!

    :p
  • edited April 2013
    Wait a second, PC stands for Political Correctness?

    PC kinda bugs me when someone has brown skin and is claimed to be black instead or whatever, I don't exactly understand but it's probably the PC-ness.
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