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Now that there is different endings, do you think Clementine will be the season 3 protagonist?
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Now that there is different endings, do you think Clementine will be the season 3 protagonist?
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I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, I would like to see Clem again as I felt her story didn't quite have the same finality of Lee's story (no, I'm not suggesting she should have died). The various different endings would make it difficult, however. I see why TellTale did this, as one of the most persistent complaints fans have is that "choices don't really matter". With the multiple endings, they do. So, in order to bring Clem back, TT would have to nullify your choices to bring Clem to a "common neutral state", so all returning players (as well as new players) can have the same starting point at the beginning of season three. Could it be done with different beginnings depending on your choices? Perhaps, but it likely wouldn't be very practical or efficient from either a programming or storytelling perspective.
On the other hand, TT could start fresh with a completely new protagonist. The problem I see with this is that then your choices from the last two seasons really wouldn't matter then. At best, they would be cameos or minor details that wouldn't effect the new story very much at all, perhaps to the point of making the seasons one and two irrelevant. A happy medium could be to use one of the supporting cast that have gone MIA and are not determinant. However, this solution has the combined effect of what I stated above (just not as bad), as well as that all of the possible replacements from the supporting cast just don't seem to have enough character to become a full-blown main protagonist. Maybe they any one of them could carry a DLC, but not a whole season.
I think the main problem is the simple fact that TellTale's The Walking Dead has been so centered around Clementine that not having her play a major role in the story would seem very odd. She is very much the heart the game. In the first season, she is the key to Lee's redemption and, in the second season, we see her come of age in a broken world. I could see a third season with Clem taking on Lee's role as guardian and teacher for AJ, thus coming full narrative circle. But since TT has seemingly painted itself into a narrative corner, I'm really not sure they will do this. As a matter of fact, I'm 99% positive they will not. For me, that is a shame.
But who knows? Perhaps in the coming months, TT will hint at what they are planning for season 3. Regardless of what those plans are, I will still be interested in what is to come.
She won't. New character.
Do you have a confirmation on that from TTG? So far, I haven't seen anything yet.
I feel like this kind of branching ending means they'll go with a new protagonist for season 3. It'd be really hard to make it work otherwise, unless they lead all the branches towards the same "season 3 starting point" in some DLC or something. But yeah, way too complicated in my opinion.
New protagonist! That's my guess.
The logical thing to do if Clem isn't the protagonist is to have her as a secondary character, like in Season One again. Maybe even one or two years older would be the best thing to do, and depending on the ending you got (and even the choices you made) Clem would respond to that.
I don't think that they need to nullify your choices in order for Clem to be the protagonist of season 3. No matter what ending Clem was in I can see a very easy way to tie everything together rather neatly. No matter where Clem is (alone, at wellington, with kenny, or at howe's with Jane) all she has to do is to leave to another location. I'll explain a bit more below.
Wherever your Clem is, imagine that she runs into a group of people. If she's at wellington or howe's they could be new arrivals or if she's alone or with Kenny then they would be nomads whom they might happen to share a meal with one night. Anyway, during dinner around a campfire these people can mention how they ran into a group in the next town over; and much to Clem's surprise they will not only mention a familiar name but describe the person exactly like someone she used to know. That person could be Christa, Lee's wife, or someone else that Clem might deem worthy enough to go after. Because of this, Clem would decide to leave her current location. North or south, it wouldn't matter at that point where Clem was because she'd move on to a new location (that gets rid of the problem of the story having multiple locations). There could be a couple of flashbacks or even a few scenes at whatever location she is in but ultimately she would decide to leave within a few minutes of gameplay.
Next would be the matter with Kenny and Jane, since one or the other dies at the end of season 2. The way that this can be solved is that they either die somewhere along the way to this new location or maybe Clem decides to split off from them; although it also wouldn't be too difficult for Jane and Kenny to accompany her. It would be the same as choosing to save Doug or Carley in season 1. Those characters stuck around for a couple episodes and the same could be done for Jane or Kenny.
Anyway, I think it's highly likely that Clem will be the season 3 protagonist.
I hope that Clem is the protagonist. I think (this is guess work) that if Clem is the protagonist in the third season it will start off a bumper episode. It'll take place maybe another year after season 2 (at most she'll be 13) and will have a number of beginning scenarios based on her chosen sanctuary, and whomever she's travelling/living with. By the end of episode 1 things will have gone completely AoT, and she will forced on the run. This flight will lead to Place X; a geographical oddity in that it's a couple of days from where ever you were. At this point the plot will pick up and truly begin.
The other alternative is that something like the above might be released in the style of 400 days which will explain her getting from point A to B in time to start the third season.