I don't want the Lee/Clem Story Arc to continue in Season 2...
I kinda wish Telltale hadn't shown us that after-credits scene...
I feel like Episode 5 wrapped up Season 1 rather well, and would prefer to play as a new survivor in another group in a different area (like Kentucky or Washington DC in the Comics). Hell - I'm so pumped for 400 Days because of this (despite it still being set in Georgia).
Anyone else feel this way?
I feel like a continuation would be a re-hash...
I feel like Episode 5 wrapped up Season 1 rather well, and would prefer to play as a new survivor in another group in a different area (like Kentucky or Washington DC in the Comics). Hell - I'm so pumped for 400 Days because of this (despite it still being set in Georgia).
Anyone else feel this way?
I feel like a continuation would be a re-hash...
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Well Lee is dead, so I doubt they'd continue with him.. but, yeah, I'd like too see other areas ... maybe.. a different country? .. I'm kinda sick of zombie media /always/ focusing on america. I'd rather see how other countries are faring, like the UK or Russia.
I hear you. I don't think that an American studio could capture our vibe or culture, though - maybe its best if they just stick with what they know...
Would prefer a brand new group that runs into the Season 1 survivors.
I always see that arguement, but it doesnt hold water, it's set in a alternative reality/universe, so they could really do anything they wanted, plus I'm pretty sure it's not that hard to take a quick trip to said country and learn about it for a few weeks or something, or learn from some people who live there, but eeeeeeh.
It would not appeal to Americans.
Wallace and Gromit is family-friendly with stereotypical characters (Eccentric Inventor, Bobby on the Beat, Indian Corner-shop Worker, Lady of the manor, etc.).
A Zombie Apocalypse story is a completely different area...
is you have common sense, lee was a father to clem, so she will use the lesson lee gave her like the gun lessons and other to because a power girl. Thats how we will see lee
Anyone else feel this way?
Ps. Gary Whitta, Sean Vanaman and the Telltale Team has beaten Robert Kirkman at his own game, in my opinion...
If Lee was alive I'd be far more interested in continuing his and Clem's story until some kind of conclusion. Since it concluded, and all the other decent characters are dead, it's an opportunity to move on.
This.
Just because Lee died that doesn't mean Clementine's story is finished because we have to see if our decisions affected her and what kind of person will she become like is she is going to end up as a nice person who saves people or a monster who kills people and steals their food and supplies ?
And who knows maybe in 400 days if she is going to appear , her fate will be resolved along with Omid , Christa , Kenny , Lilly , the cancer patients and Vernon and possibly Molly and then in season 2 we are going to start fresh with new characters .
It would be great to see some of these characters again, I really hope we do.
The issue with The Walking Dead as a franchise is that the only real resolution to someone's story is their death. As it stands now Clem made it out of an infested city thanks to everything Lee taught her, and she made it to a far quieter place with a much higher likelihood of finding food and a lot less danger. Leaving her there is the best resolution we could possibly hope for.
There's a 99% chance she's dead within a couple of months, but there's a shot she finds some good people and lives a long happy life somewhere.
I would have been happy with leaving her story as-is without the epilogue. That extra scene just adds too much to abandon the characters and jump to new ones, the fade to black after the final scene with Lee should have been the end if they didn't want to continue.
Besides, one of the major complaints about the game was that your choices didn't impact anything. If Telltale throws everything in Season 1 in the trash and starts anew, that certainly won't help their image, though i suppose they don't need to care in that regard.
Personally I'm getting sick of the "YOU decide what happens!" endings in media, but i doubt they're going anywhere soon.
Yes, The Walking Dead COMIC is meant to be a continuing story of survival horror. Not the GAME, though - as long as they stick to Kirkman's zombie rules Telltale are free to do whatever they want if it doesn't affect Rick and his group.
I think that Telltale should keep telling fresh stories each season in order to not end up as stagnant as the Comic is now with its recycled plotlines.
And by the way, Kirkman said that Rick's story will end with his death. I guess the same "principles" should apply to Lee then, huh?
Just because the comic has always followed Rick doesn't mean a single-character focus is a defining component of the series. The very fact that Rick doesn't show up at all in the game proves that it isn't. The Walking Dead isn't about Rick. It's also not really about Lee or Clementine either. It's about how people survive and those people can be anyone.
I love Clementine as much as the next player, but I agree that it would be a shame to sully the perfect ending of Season 1 by giving us another story about her. I don't want Lee's death to end up being one chapter in the Tale of Clementine. I want Lee's death to be the end of a great standalone story.
In any case, we might see Clementine, but the Lee side of her life is pretty much done as a major plotline even she comes back.
Even if you started anew, you'd still have loose ends to tie up like "what happened to clementine?" or "what happened to Omid and Christa?" or "did Kenny really make it?" Also, you have to consider the 400 days bridge between season 1 and season 2. So it would be really hard to start off with new characters without completely disregarding the survivors of season 1 AND the survivors from 400 days. Even if you did start over, you'd still have those nagging questions about what happened to those survivors. Finally, jumping around to different locations could be confusing and annoying to some; I know I'd be annoyed by the constant switching of the setting.
Yes that's what I'm saying Omid/Christa/Clem reunite then meet up with someone or a couple of people from 400 days as they move through a ZA looking for a safe place
Then again, all three sounded like a death sentence.
Comic: Rick
TV: Rick
Game: Clementine?
Without the after-credits scene, it is safe to assume that Clementine met up with Omid & Christa at the rendezvous point you chose and began travelling to wherever you thought was a safer place.
Gavin Hammon (Kenny's Voice Actor) said that he originally recorded screams of pain for the Christa/Ben Rescue Scene but Telltale cut them out - either to spare Kenny's fans or because they didn't know whether to kill him off or not. It is safe to assume that Kenny is dead - for now...
400 Days - a bridge? Who knows? Maybe its cast could be a new group entirely. Maybe Season 2 will show this group together before they split with Tavia at the end of 400 Days...
I'm not saying "Disregard all past characters!" - I'm just saying tell more stories from different perspectives with new people...
Some questions are better left unanswered...
I'm not talking about constantly "jumping" from location-to-location - I'm talking about telling stories in states other than Georgia. Like Florida or California where your beloved characters are from.
If you can't handle new places in fiction, then you need to get out more in real life...
I seem to have struck a nerve...
There's a few reasons for this. We Americans love;
1. Our guns.
2. Zombies.
Guns and zombies go great together, plus the modern zombie has kind of been integrated into our culture thanks to the social commentary on our history. Also, you guys should play ZombiU and watch Shaun of the Dead for a zombie story taking place in the UK.
Shaun of the Dead is just a great comedy with heart, while ZombiU is one of the few actual survival horrors featuring zombies to come out in a longtime.
Now that's just straight up bull, considering we're pretty multicultural due to our history, or at the very least used to seeing different races and cultures clash everyday. Yeah, there are some crazy bible thumping weirdos out here, but there are a few normal folk here who aren't represented well in media, or politics for that matter, who like to visit and or learn of other cultures. I mean check this out....
私は桃が好きです。
Ok, it's a pretty simple sentence, and I'm still learning, but man do I love some peaches.
Although, seeing as how there are still some major things from Season 1 that didn't get answered, I'm content with staying down south until those things get cleared up.
So i think its safe to assume that Clementine will be in Season 2
We Americans love our guns...
We British like guns, too - we just have a licensing system...
You can have Rifes, Shotguns, and Rimfire Carbines in the UK*. You can conceal-carry Handguns in NI.
We just don't piss away bullets on Water Bottles and Beer Cans - We hunt instead...
You guys should play ZombiU and watch Shaun of the Dead...
I'm not gonna piss away money on a Kiddie WiiU.
I've seen Shaun of the Dead - It was alright...
Not going to appeal to Americans? - Bull!
Your nation stereotypes us as Aristocrats and Thugs - both toothless...
Could you handle what we're really like?
Maybe it would appeal to some - but America exports more media than it imports. Let's see how the Moral Guardians / God-Squad react to hearing words like Cunt a lot - you guys banned a version of Little Red Riding Hood** for having wine in it and censor Breaking Bad for Christ's sake...
*http://www.guntrader.co.uk/Guns-For-Sale/Barratt_Rifle_98-B_For-Sale_130709163053002
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**http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19900519&slug=1072598