Nick and Luke
Well we all knew Nick was a goner as soon as his fate was determinable back in Episode 2 but I'm not here to beat that dead 'muh decisions' topic some more. There's plenty of threads on that.
My gripe here is how Luke just sort of... doesn't really care? We seem to get one line of "Oh yeah, damn it's a shame" (not exact words) when we're trying to save Sarah and then it never really gets brought up again. When Pete died, we spent a fair chunk of time discussing it with him even if we went with Pete and not him.
To say that Luke and Nick knew each other for a long time, went in business together, survived the apocalypse together, there sure was a lack of reaction to it. Sure, sure, it might have taken some time to process, but between lounging at the memorial and the Ruskies showing up we don't hear a peep out of Luke about it. Not even a "Hey Luke, I'm sorry about Nick" *"Oh, thanks Clem... but I gotta stay focused on the people left, you know? They come first.* Just... nothing, as if Luke never even gave a shit.
I think this is my big gripe about determinate deaths; it's not that they die eventually, it's that there is no weight to their demise. We might get a second of "No! [Character Name]!" in a scene, but nothing else, people just carrying on moments later as if the death never happened in that scene.
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My point was that he never brings it up even AFTER they're safe. There's plenty of down time between getting back to the memorial or on the observation deck.
Funny thing that. He takes Jane leaving worse than Nick dying.
Indeed, and if Nick actually gets killed in episode 2, Luke says nothing about his absence in ep 3. (Don't know if there's something for this scenario in ep 4).
Reactions around Nick's death (and pretty much the whole treatment Nick got after ep.2) was poorly handled. Especially after it has been stated multiple times what great friends he and Luke are. Certainly doesn't seem that great of a friendship from Luke's part. Freaking Jane leaving got a stronger reaction from him, and like you said, it's weird that we can't even mention Nick to him, to say we are sorry, anything. It *could * be a deliberate choice to make their friendship mostly one-sided but I think we should still be able to bring it up. Especially since my Clem was in good terms with Nick (and Luke too). I'd expect her to want to say something about it to Luke but instead she may only say one line to Nick before chopping his brain open and then be done with him.
Feels... empty and meaningless. Poor Nick.
It's probably just bad writing, or if this is really how Luke feels, then Its just... Eh really weird.
Luke has selective memory?
I found Luke's "will remember that" to be very random at times.
Because Jane actually has something to offer to the group (and him included). Jane saved him (with Sarah) while all Nick does most of the time is putting everyone in danger constantly.
The saddest Luke has ever been so far is when Clem picked to sit with Kenny over him at the ski resort.
There's actually kind of people that didn't care about others but themself. Luke could be one of it or he just bad written.
Most likely badly written on this part I mean he did follow the froufrou for days without food or sleep that should count for something