There should have been a third choice.
I think, instead of being able to choose whether to watch Kenny kill Carver or to leave, we should have had a third option.
To shoot Carver in the face.
Throughout the episode Carver tells us we are like him, and we see that Kenny essentially becomes like him in that he kills as cruelly as he can, he doesn't just do it quick and painlessly.
My Clem wouldn't want to watch that happen, nor would she want to let Kenny do that to him. She wanted to shoot him in the face to show that actually she was BETTER than Carver. She was the bigger person.
I'm a bit sad that we didn't have this option, but at least we don't have to watch it. My has Kenny changed.
To shoot Carver in the face.
Throughout the episode Carver tells us we are like him, and we see that Kenny essentially becomes like him in that he kills as cruelly as he can, he doesn't just do it quick and painlessly.
My Clem wouldn't want to watch that happen, nor would she want to let Kenny do that to him. She wanted to shoot him in the face to show that actually she was BETTER than Carver. She was the bigger person.
I'm a bit sad that we didn't have this option, but at least we don't have to watch it. My has Kenny changed.
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But I do see where you're coming from. I think I would have liked a third option, too.
I'm generally turned off to all the 'humanity' talk in this forum. As even current world events (for instance Syria), people are plenty capable of being cruel and 'inhumane' to one another, and it's a false dichotomy to distance ourselves from things we find repulsive, even those in the same situation we may very well do the same thing. It's a psychological defense mechanism.
They did mentioned the meatlocker before this episode came out (a scene that was highly discussed) and Sarita said something like 'That is not the Kenny I know, I thought that I could save him'.
(I am just guessing though)
Kenny killing Larry was shocking because the player had a choice of killing a comatose and defenceless man in front of his daughter begging you to help her, along with an innocent little girl who may or may not see the killing blow.
Kenny killing Carver wasn't shocking, because while Larry was a well intentioned jerkass, Carver was pure scum. No one would cry for his brutal death at the hands of those he tortured.
I think part of it might be that the writers feel it's too early to make Clementine a murderer, as if she kills the stranger it's more of an impulsive thing than something she thinks about and decides to do and the death of Lee was a mercy-killing. If so, I just hope she does get the chance to do the deed herself to somebody else who needs to die later on.
The situations are not much alike.
I don't see Kenny as anything less, even though a bullet would have been enough.
It just seems that Telltale wanted to make Kenny look like he would lose it (with what Sarita said and all that) but the 'audience'
actually sympathized with Kenny, and therefore interpreted the scene as anything but Kenny losing it.
Man, the irony.
'THIS IS NOT HOW THE WORLD WORKS NOW'-- Lee after not killing Danny St John.
This sums up how I feel about this. I did NOT want Carver to die knowing I was like him. I wanted a third option of tie him up and throw him to the walkers for a distraction. Maybe Carlos would have lived..