Starved For Help - If this is a "filler" episode, then it is the best filler I've seen.
Long Road Ahead - This taught me to expect the unexpected, that no one is safe, and to keep my hair short.
No Time Left - The finale that justly completed TWDG's rise to prominence and made this user cry.
A House Divided - Damn good episode, all things considered.
A New Day - Damn good and heartfelt, if very clunky, premiere.
In Harm's Way - This combines the good, the bad and the ugly of season 2. Good episode, but halfway through the season, the weaknesses start to show. I consider it the *Around Every Corner* of Season 2 so far.
Around Every Corner - Crawford... damn Crawford. A mixed bag that puts our protagonist, and our journey to perspective.
400 Days - Interesting episode, does the best it can with the time given for each character. Arguably the most varied episode to date, but like they say: Jack of all trades...
All That Remains - I will never forgive you. The highlight of this episode is Clementine; plain and simple. We know she can now take care of herself, and it is an interesting 3/4ths of the episode to watch her simply dealing with bad stuff as it comes, but the second half (or what I thought was going to be the second half) in which our cast is introduced is weak, and the season is still recovering from the lack of a solid foundation a solid premiere should provide, IMO.
There is no episode that I dislike, at least not in its entirety. There is always a saving grace, or something I thought was well done.
I stopped and sat down to think about this. I recently went through the all the episodes, and I think it would go like this:
Best: 202>105>102>203>103>101>201>400 days>104
I stopped and sat down to think about this. I recently went through the all the episodes, and I think it would go like this:
Best: 202>105>102>203>103>101>201>400 days>104
1 - A House Divided
2 - Starved For Help
3 - No Time Left
4 - In Harm's Way
5 - 400 Days
6 - Around Every Corner
7 - A New Day
8 - Long Road Ahead
9 - All That Remains
Best Season 2: Episode 3 (Honestly one of the most intense episodes for me.)
"Worst" Season 2: Episode 2 (Just because I don't like Kenny and the whole Nick thing was incredibly stupid)
Best Season 1: Episode 2
"Worst" Season 1: Episode 4
Best: Season 1 Episode 2, Episode 4 "Except for the ending", Season 2 Episode 2 and 3.
Great: Season 1 Episode 1, Season 2 Episode 1.
Bad: Season 1 Episode 3, Episode 5.
Just personal preference. In a way I found the train puzzle in 103 and the walking-back-and-forwards Crawford Tape puzzle in 104 tedious and kind of dull.
400 Days is kind of an anomaly. I just don't know where else to put it, so I put it midway because it has stuff I like, and stuff I don't. I liked the idea that the characters going with Tavia depended on your decisions, but I didn't really like how fast the episode moved by.
I never quite got why everyone hates 201 so much. It was the most immersive episode for me, as it was the first time I ever truly felt like I was playing the character, and not just me.
1. In Harms Way -Best
2. Starved for help
3.No Time Left
4. A House divided
5. 400 Days
6. Long Road Ahead
7. A New Day
8. All That Remains
9. Around Every Corner - Worst
I was unimpressed by it because the plot depended on everyone in the cabin group acting like idiots.
It was also a rather poor introduction to our new group, since by the end I mostly just wanted to get away from these people and find Christa again.
I didn't hate it, but it was far enough below the standards I had come to expect to make me start worrying TWD season 2 was going to be its shark jumping moment.
I never quite got why everyone hates 201 so much. It was the most immersive episode for me, as it was the first time I ever truly felt like I was playing the character, and not just me.
I hesitated in choosing between 102 and 103 because the St. Johns Farm plot was just so much fun. Yet 103 was where the shit really hit the fan, after which you were never allowed to feel anyone was safe ever again.
EDIT: The more I think about it, the more I feel 202 and 203 deserve to have their positions swapped on the list
I found it immersive, too. Many reviews cite, and I can agree with that, that halfway through the episode they felt like if they were Clementine. I quickly accepted her as my new avatar. It fails for me because of it's last part, when you were supposed to meet the cast, your new group. We got so relatively little from the new people just as not to call them one-dimensional and then the episode ended.
I thought that maybe the following episode would compensate, and it did... for two people and then we got to see Kenny again. The amount of character interaction is defended as an "immersive design choice" (like feeling captured and with less free time to do stuff in 203) and I can see that, because you are a stranger to the group, but I still think that it left the group as a whole standing on a weak foundation.
If trust was such an important theme this season, then I expected to earn their trust and have the acknowledge them that I had or had not. I guess that it is taken for granted as of last episode, but it somewhat contradictory to the way your relationships could determinately begin with at least three of the members of the new group: Carlos, Rebecca and Alvin, hell, even Sarah.
I never quite got why everyone hates 201 so much. It was the most immersive episode for me, as it was the first time I ever truly felt like I was playing the character, and not just me.
Comments
202 < 102 < 105 < 203 < 201 < 104 < 101 < 103
EDIT: I meant 201 :p
Best: Season 1 episode 2.
Worst: Season 2 episode 1
203>102>105...
Ahh who am i kiddin' i love all the episodes D:
2 - Starved For Help
3 - No Time Left
4 - In Harm's Way
5 - 400 Days
6 - Around Every Corner
7 - A New Day
8 - Long Road Ahead
9 - All That Remains
Worst Season Two: 201.
Best Season One: 103.
Worst Season One: 101.
Best 400 Days: Wyatt.
Worst 400 Days: Shel.
Best Season One: 102
Best 400 Days:Russel
Worst 400 Days: Shel.
Season 2 Episode 2
Episode 3
Season 2 Episode 3
Episode 5
Episode 4
400 Days
Season 2 Episode 1
Episode 1
Long Road Ahead - This taught me to expect the unexpected, that no one is safe, and to keep my hair short.
No Time Left - The finale that justly completed TWDG's rise to prominence and made this user cry.
A House Divided - Damn good episode, all things considered.
A New Day - Damn good and heartfelt, if very clunky, premiere.
In Harm's Way - This combines the good, the bad and the ugly of season 2. Good episode, but halfway through the season, the weaknesses start to show. I consider it the *Around Every Corner* of Season 2 so far.
Around Every Corner - Crawford... damn Crawford. A mixed bag that puts our protagonist, and our journey to perspective.
400 Days - Interesting episode, does the best it can with the time given for each character. Arguably the most varied episode to date, but like they say: Jack of all trades...
All That Remains - I will never forgive you. The highlight of this episode is Clementine; plain and simple. We know she can now take care of herself, and it is an interesting 3/4ths of the episode to watch her simply dealing with bad stuff as it comes, but the second half (or what I thought was going to be the second half) in which our cast is introduced is weak, and the season is still recovering from the lack of a solid foundation a solid premiere should provide, IMO.
There is no episode that I dislike, at least not in its entirety. There is always a saving grace, or something I thought was well done.
Russell > Wyatt > Vince > Shel > Bonnie
Best: 202>105>102>203>103>101>201>400 days>104
I didn't like the backtracking, but Ben's scene was beautiful.
I enjoyed In Harm's Way, but to a lesser extent than the others.
105
102
201
103
202
104
101
400 Days
203
(Worst)
Best Season 2: Episode 3 (Honestly one of the most intense episodes for me.)
"Worst" Season 2: Episode 2 (Just because I don't like Kenny and the whole Nick thing was incredibly stupid)
Best Season 1: Episode 2
"Worst" Season 1: Episode 4
201 > 202 > 104 > 103 > 101 > 203 > 105 > 102
And yes, I know my one is weird. But it's true. I loved All That Remains.
Not to crazy about season 2
or maybe
101 < 201
i can't decide which is better; the storyline and choices of 101 were a lot better, but the graphics and overall atmosphere were better in 201
obviously my opinion is quite different from other people's though
Great: Season 1 Episode 1, Season 2 Episode 1.
Bad: Season 1 Episode 3, Episode 5.
400 Days is kind of an anomaly. I just don't know where else to put it, so I put it midway because it has stuff I like, and stuff I don't. I liked the idea that the characters going with Tavia depended on your decisions, but I didn't really like how fast the episode moved by.
2. Starved for help
3.No Time Left
4. A House divided
5. 400 Days
6. Long Road Ahead
7. A New Day
8. All That Remains
9. Around Every Corner - Worst
It was also a rather poor introduction to our new group, since by the end I mostly just wanted to get away from these people and find Christa again.
I didn't hate it, but it was far enough below the standards I had come to expect to make me start worrying TWD season 2 was going to be its shark jumping moment.
I hesitated in choosing between 102 and 103 because the St. Johns Farm plot was just so much fun. Yet 103 was where the shit really hit the fan, after which you were never allowed to feel anyone was safe ever again.
EDIT: The more I think about it, the more I feel 202 and 203 deserve to have their positions swapped on the list
I found it immersive, too. Many reviews cite, and I can agree with that, that halfway through the episode they felt like if they were Clementine. I quickly accepted her as my new avatar. It fails for me because of it's last part, when you were supposed to meet the cast, your new group. We got so relatively little from the new people just as not to call them one-dimensional and then the episode ended.
I thought that maybe the following episode would compensate, and it did... for two people and then we got to see Kenny again. The amount of character interaction is defended as an "immersive design choice" (like feeling captured and with less free time to do stuff in 203) and I can see that, because you are a stranger to the group, but I still think that it left the group as a whole standing on a weak foundation.
If trust was such an important theme this season, then I expected to earn their trust and have the acknowledge them that I had or had not. I guess that it is taken for granted as of last episode, but it somewhat contradictory to the way your relationships could determinately begin with at least three of the members of the new group: Carlos, Rebecca and Alvin, hell, even Sarah.