The real reason you should be furious with Luke.
Don't get me wrong. Leaving the group and a woman in labor just to take care of "your needs" is pretty damn sorry. But letting your best friend who took a bullet in the shoulder be the one to go for help while you hang back is the ultimate dick move. Sorry Luke bur bullet the shoulder is by far > than bruised ribs. Btw those ribs were good enough to have fun with Jane shortly after. That is after Clem and Jane saved his ass. No way in hell I'd trust Clem with this guy.
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To be fair, it wasn't said who's idea it was. Nick very well could have volunteered after seeing that they were getting nowhere with Sarah. All Luke said was that he made a break for it to find help from the group.
Fair point, and nick may have just taken off, or kept saying "i'm fine." We dont know how it went down.
If Luke was really a good guy its hard for me to imagine him not telling Nick, "hey I got this. You've got a hole in your chest. "
They were both injured. We also know how much it bothers Nick to be considered dead weight or a screw up, so he could have convinced Luke to let him go and be what he considered useful. We don't really know much of their interactions with Sarah at the cabin, but Nick could have thought that Luke would fare at least a little better with her than him.
The real reason why I'M furious with Luke is because he was more annoyed about Jane leaving the group than Nick's death.
When Jane leaves? -"OHSHITNOMYFUCKBUDDYISGONEWHATDOIDO?"
When you tell him Nick's dead? -"oh too bad i guess"
Exactly so how can we judge him for that
Fair point. But it requires alot of speculation on your behalf. What we do know is crap hit the fan Nick, the one seriously wounded, took action while Luke did not. As for them both being of like I said earlier, gun shot in torso by far> bruised ribs that were good enough to have sex a few hours later.
Both being hurt
Yeah, it's strange that Luke didn't seem to care at all about Nick when they were close, long time friends. I thought there would be a scene where he'd be sobbing and Clementine would talk to him about losing Nick.
That guy's a flake.
Agree. You'd think a best friend who just gave their life trying to help him would mean a little something to him.
Damn, I didn't even think about this. Luke is really showing his cowardice more and more.
Telltale is making it very difficult to like him after this episode.
...You really want him to leave Nick as the one trying to convince Sarah to get a hold of herself? The last time Nick was held up in a place with a little girl and zombies trying to bust through the door, he got drunk, started smashing stuff up, and turned suicidal.
"Sarah, cheer up. What happened to your dad...that's gonna happen to all of us."
Yep, so much this. I can imagine Luke trying to get Nick to stay, but Nick refusing and wanting to go for help.
rip in peace, one of my favorite characters of Season 2.
I think Nick might've volunteered because he knows Luke is smarter than him like he mentions in Episode 3, and that he'd might've had a better chance to get through to Sarah than Nick ever would who really went downhill after losing Pete. That and I think it could've been Nick wanted to prove himself and not be a screw up by helping his friends T_T
As opposed to letting him go out on his own to die soon after he was shot? Yes. Sarah's fragile mind set be damned. Nick was in no shape to be the one to go after help.
Remember what happened the last time Luke told Nick he was in no shape to do something? If we've learned anything from their past interactions it's that Nick will do stuff on his own, regardless of whether anybody "lets" him.
Even if he did care for Nick, Nick had no real purpose to the storyline.
I knew he was dying, it would have been nice if he died with a real purpose though.
And Luke was? I mean, he had stuff going on with his ribs. I doubt he'd be able to do much if he was in a really bad situation.
As another user has said in another thread,
His ribs weren't hurting bad enough to stop him from banging Jane shortly after.
True, I guess. They're stoopid.
Well, Jane seems to be the type to do most of the work in that regard.
Certainly agree with that.
Before anyone here lays into Luke, have any of you had broken ribs? I have....on 3 different occasions (joys of horses for the last 28 years - Ive broken wrists collar bones, legs, coccyx, not to mention ripped and torn stuff) and whilst I've never been shot (thank god!) so I can't compare on that score, I do have to point out that ribs are an utterly debilitating injury. Luke was doing more than well to be on his feet, let alone sprint after Sarah.
Broken ribs are agony, and I believe 100% that Nick would have seen Lukes injury as the more serious one. Too much strenuous activity could lead to punctured lungs, and inevitable death in the ZA. So whilst I'm PO'd about the way the handled Nicks death, I know why he volunteered to go.
I also believe given all that, Luke could still have sex, adrenaline is the best pain killer there is, which also explains why he was able to sprint full tilt after Sarah as the herd was attacking. So between the adrenaline and the endorphines of the make out session, he was probably feeling better than he was before...though he'd be feeling it after!
So no, not angry with Luke. Not one bit...and he did grieve for Nick. As much as he could when they were 5 seconds from certain death!
I've liked both Kenny and Luke alot but after this episode im starting to like Luke more
Sorry I just don't buy broke ribs being more debilitating than a bullet ripping through your torso.
Like I said. I've never been shot. But I'd imagine that's more localised pain. Besides it wasn't the torso. It was under the collar bone. A flesh wound.
And like I said. Luke was at more risk. If he punctures his lung. He's dead. Nick was at less risk.
Both injured, and in a crappy situation. They'd have done better leaving her.
Seriously now, how the hell did Luke disarm carver and help Rebecca hop down from the store if his ribs were injured the whole time? I don't have any images here, but you can see him holding Rebecca with both his hands so she could climb down, right after Kenny kills Carver.
I still think his ribs were broken by Ep4's writters, not Carver. Sadly, I believe it's just another way to worsen Luke's character even more.
Also, seriously you guys just love to assume the worst for Luke in these situations in which we don't know the full context, huh?
First, people blame him for 'ditching' the group at the end of ep 2, while in truth he was chasing a truck with no food or sleep in order to rescue his friends.
And now, we are going to assume Luke forced/suggested an injured Nick to run off seeking help, never worrying about his friend's safety? Wow, ok then.
Maybe it was him dressed as Snape that killed Dumbledore as well
Easy....adrenaline! There is no time to sit and nurse injuries in this world. You do what you have to when you have to, until your body says 'no more'
I'm 31 years old and spent 15 years as a horse breaker and trainer, as well as a riding instructor and professional groom. I once watched a man have a fall from his horse. Pick.himself up, lead the horse back to the barn. Untack it. Feed it, and then announce he thought he needed to go to hospital. Turns out he'd broken his neck. He spent the next 9.months with metal work bolted to his head and upper body.
I myself have broken bones, and left them days before hospital visits.
The body is capable of amazing things when you are focusing on something else. It's when you slow down, and stop, and the adrenaline wears off that the pain kicks in.
Which would be why when Luck was in a place of relative safety in the mobile home, the pain got worse. Then when he needed to get out. He could push it to the back of his mind to climb on the roof and pull the girls up. Perfectly believable, and very realistic.