How do you think it would be different if Carley lived?
If she hadn't died to Lilly, do you think she would have died later, or lived through to whole game? What about Lee? Do you think they would get married? What if Ben got shot instead? How different do you think the story would be?
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Ben gets whoever is left killed.
One of many possibilities, but it will always end with Ben gets whoever is left killed
Infinite possibilities really.
There's only one constant, Ben screws up.
And after that... hell, her death could've been possible just about anywhere, probably the highest risk being in Crawford. If not lost directly to zombies, she could have fallen victim to a similar enviromental accident that costs us Kenny and Ben. I don't see her making it to the very end though, the very final scenes with the Stranger and Lee's death to me would have felt not quite so personal if there was someone else in the room. I reckon if she'd survived until then, she would have got seperated from Lee at the same time Omid and Christa did and her fate would have been left unexplored. She would have been a good candidate to trust with Clementine, I know I would have picked her when given the option.
Yeah, I clearly have been thinking about this much, maybe too much
I also think that Carley (and Doug) would have always gone with Lee at the end of Episode 4 under all circumstances UNLESS Lee says he wants to go alone (I think that is an option), in which they argue but Lee persuades them to stay at the mansion. They are pretty much loyal to Lee no matter what so I think they would have gone with him. Realistically thinking also, wouldn't this mean one of the group gets seperated from the others when they jump from the balcony in Episode 5? If three adults can get across it okay, then the fourth makes it less stable, and the fifth falls down into the alley. That would mean the sixth would be stuck in the bedroom where that couple killed themselves. But I'm sure if they were written into Episode 4 and 5 then Lee, Omid, Christa, Kenny and Carley would have gotten across fine and Ben would have still been the one to fall for story purposes.
Same here.
To be fair, apart from one or two cases, heroic deaths weren't exactly our group's forte.
So let it be written.
Hm, I would probably disagree with that. The reason Carley's death hit me on an emotional level way more than any other video game character ever did, was because it seemed so random, unnecessary and easily avoidable. For me, when characters in any form of media are killed, what I feel depends on how much that characters was developed and whether or not they served their purpose/exhausted their potential.
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For instance, when Dale, one of my favorite characters, died in the TV series, I felt like his character had served his purpose and my feeling was confirmed while I was watching season 3, I found myself thinking "Dale wouldn't have a place here, can't imagine him in these scenes".
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Unlike Carley, whose life was cut short just as she was receiving character development and becoming an important part in Lee's story. Her dying in the Episode 5 wouldn't have been as devastating, since we would probably be happy with the amount of time we got to know her. For me, Kenny's case was similar. I loved the character, but I didn't feel nearly as sad when he died towards the end, since the game was coming towards its conclusion anyway. Plus, his death had meaning, while Carley's... well, you know.
You don't want to know, you really don't want to know.
I guess that was a shameless self promotion