Is it bad writing?
Myusha
Banned
Given the Gunfight and how we near the final episode, it's very likely there will be death.
But all I've seen from people are petitions for Bonnie and Mike to make it, and that they're probably going to end up arguing with Luke and Kenny to the end.
And there's logic behind this reasoning. Kenny's a returned character from Season 1, and ever since Episode 2 Luke and Ken have been butting heads back and forth. Many decisions have been reduced to choosing a side. Sitting by them at a table, choosing to stay at the Cabin or leave in the morning, whose plan to go with between the Herd and the Radio, to leave Kenny behind, to wait a few days or go immediately after the baby.
They've been hyping this Kenny and Luke rivalry since they've met and it's been escalating. But is making everyone else expendable as a result good? I'd bet Kenny and Luke don't die at all, and you're conflicted between either losing them both, or trying to save one of them. I don't see them working together if they can help it.
And up until now, they've always been the least likely to die. Determinant Characters always took precedence, then everyone else compared to Ken and Luke. Is 'plot armor' bad writing, or simply a way to reach more satisfying conclusion?
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Satisfying Conclusion
It's either bad writing because the constant heads butting seems unlikely to happen in a real life scenario or maybe Luke was written to be a little bitch whenever people pay attention to someone else other than himself(see Bonnie talking about Luke and Carver)
Well, this season was all about Kenny, Luke and Clementine... I'm not surprised if it ends up only the three surviving..
It doesn't seem unlikely to me. They have different approaches to the same conflicts, much like people in our society. It's unrealistic to assume that when tensions are high any group will work perfectly together one hundred percent of the time.
Maybe it's not exactly bad writing, but when almost everyone thinks that some characters are more expendable and that they are likely to die, those characters' deaths won't have much of an impact unless they are really well handled. Same for the Kenny/Luke conflict. Predictability generally weakens the story and makes the audience less attached to the characters.