One Writer Per Season!!!
Season 2 has been a solid season although it has felt a little uneven at times. I believe this is due to the fact that there have been different writers for every episode. I hope we get another season and that it is written by one guy.
Who else feels having a new writer every episode hurts the series?
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There were different writers in the previous season.
Although, episode 4 of S1 was the dumbest of the bunch (suck my dick, Whitta, you Mary-Sue writing hack), whereas Episode 2 was the greatest of the bunch.
I know season 1 was the same. I loved Season 1 and I think this season has been good too and I really enjoyed episode 4. I just don't see why they have multiple writers. I feel the series may benefit more from having just one writer.
The problem isn't multiple writers, so much as it is a lack of focus and forethought. Season 1 felt planned, like they had an idea where they were going, had all of their resources in order and had done the job right.
Season 2 is directionless (unless you count completely miserable a direction) and it plays like a first draft. There is no theme, there is no real plot and if it was handled by one writer, or several, it still probably wouldn't have worked.
TTG is just spread too thin with working on 3 games (previously 4) at once and it really shows.
I agree with you completely. This season hasn't been bad by a long stretch, but there was so much potential for better season. I hope the finale does some justice and we get a satisfying conclusion to this season.
Nicks death in episode 4 really pissed me off.
A better idea would have been that if you convinced Walter to saved him in episode 2 then he could have died saving Sarah toward the end. He would have had a meaningful death and Sarah could have made it to episode 5. Albeit determinently.
Multiple writers isn't the issue. I think the more important thing would be to have a solid storyline to follow. Episode 2 set Carver up perfectly to be the main obstacle, and then that whole thing ends in the very next episode, so now we're just wandering around without any direction.
I very much doubt one episode will be able to salvage the spaghetti junction of writing that is Season 2. At best it'll be sloppy and swift, at worst they'll end on a cliffhanger to be resolved in the next season, where they won't resolve it, instead have a timeskip another 16 months ahead when Clem is a teenager. And if that happens Telltale can eat my shit, because that's what a hack writes.
And this didn't seem to occur to Telltale, but then again, doing work on 3 games is tasking. But it's a task they stupidly undertook of their own free will.
To be a smart ass, their direction is North to Wellington :P
To be serious though, I agree with you. Throwing in mobster Russians (actually their accents were terrible and their names aren't even Russian) seems like such a cliche thing to do. The writers wrote themselves into a corner and decided to throw out some Russians in a poor attempt to provide some kind of obstacle.