Why didn't they let Arvo go?
I don't understand what use it would have been to hold him hostage.The whole episode he basically lead them to a shit shack they would have found on their own if they persisted north. I think they should've let him go and avoid the place entirely. If you think about it the truck was just a plot device of a repeated character arc that if you think about it did more harm than Carver, The Russians and the cold ever did combined. How did kidnapping Arvo have any benefits?
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Arvo was a huge part of destroying the group and quite a big part of the episode.
The characters never act 100% rationally, though he apparently had food so they went with him to get it, which is better than following some theory that the nearby town has supplies somewhere
I wouldn't say it provided the group with any benefits to keep him around really (though don't forget that there was food and some shelter Arvo led them to.) If they let him go though, they'd basically be sentencing Arvo to death, especially as he's a scrawny dude with a leg brace with no weapon, out in the freezing winter cold. He could barely run, for goodness's sake. How long do you expect him to survive on his own?
Because, fuck Arvo.
Kidnapping? I think it was more on the nice side.
If they left him, he would dead very fast.
Why they didn't kill him is the better question.
So you'd rather a slower death by being beaten to death by Kenny? A small chance of survival is better than one at all. Plus thinking like a group (the group is probably the biggest fuck up of a group in TWD) bring him along which puts a drain or resources. Plus kidnapping him ended with Clementine being shot, the truck being found and having the group be split in half (all terrible things)
I think Arvo would've had a slower death if we let him go and he had starved to death or if he had frozen to death. Or hell a walker probably could've gotten a hold of him.
However, none of that would be relevant because if it were up to me, I wouldn't let Kenny lay a finger on Arvo...or rather, I wouldn't let Kenny come anywhere near Arvo at all, considering Kenny wanted to kill him immediately after the shootout. Idk whose great idea it was to let Kenny be the one in charge of watching him, but that's what led to Kenny beating the stuffing out of a bound-Arvo every chance that he got.
No, Kenny's behavior led to Clementine being shot and the group splitting in half. If Arvo hadn't been abused, Mike and Bonnie would see no need to leave Kenny, and a gun would never have ended up in Arvo's hands. The truck being found was a stroke of fortune. What went wrong with the truck was the arguing around where to go with it, which everyone took a part in.
The best solution imo would've been to keep Arvo as a bound prisoner, but treated as a human being, even counting the "drain on resources" he would be. And for fuck's sake, I wanted Clem to explain to Arvo that his sister had already died and turned when Clem shot Maude; I kept waiting for that dialogue option to come up. The whole reason Arvo shot Clem in the first place was because he was absolutely 100% convinced Clem had murdered his still-alive sister.
I think that with time, if Arvo had been treated well and things explained to him, that he wouldn't cause trouble for the group and indeed he would try to help them, like he did help them when he brought them to his food and shelter. In time he could've been an ally they could trust. Or at the very least with time, if you still didn't trust him, they could've figured out something else to do with him, rather than leaving him for dead or outright shooting him.
Another problem with leaving Arvo like you suggest--who's to say he wouldn't follow your group? I mean there's snow on the ground, and footprints are easy to follow. And even if he didn't follow your group, if you meet him again in the future, he wouldn't be happy to see you, at the very least.
I'm pretty sure Bonnie wanted to leave ever since Luke's death and Mike likely would have followed. Plus whether Kenny abused him or not it wouldn't have made any difference between Arvo being out for Clementine's blood and it being evident by the death glares he gave her through the entire episode.
Yeah real jackpot there... part of the reason she gets shot and supplies is stolen and after fixing it what do they have to show for it? Nothing. They get stranded in afar worse state they would have been if they never touched it.
Why would he? I just slaughtered his close friends and sister I think he'd want to get away from me as soon as possible much less form any alliance. I wouldn't have treated him like an animal and beat him like some sort of savage. Letting him leave would be a mercy
Because the town they found was completely written out of the story and the group needed to find food and Arvo led them to it.
Kenny needed a punching bag.
Yup that's about as well written or intelligence any character's motives had through out the later half of the second season
Because he woulda die outside, also when he got free he fucked things up. But gosh, thank TTG for letting Kenny torture that little comie piece of shit.
For once I have to agree on this. Kenny literally had his ass beat by Lee, Larry, and even Molly. I bet even Mike would kick his ass.
Youre not trying to paint Kenny as a poor abuse victim, are you?
Crippled Punching Bag? Sometimes its fun to beat up someone smaller than you, ask Kenny.
He's more of a bully in some cases. Arvo couldn't defend himself.
Thats how I see it and why I was so disgusted by it. He's physically bullying this kid and a lot of people cheer him on for it. SMH.
If anything, there should have been an option to kill Arvo and go to the town which was never seen again. What was the point of the town anyway? Writers were like: Nah, let that town go. The group should go to Arvo's place cause we have to kill Luke.
Kenny forced Mike on the wall.
He didn't fight back
Because Telltale wanted to build the plot into Arvo shooting Clem.
Trying to make sense out of S2... It has more plot holes than excel saga.
Because the town they were going to magically disappeared and was wiped from memory and Arvo said he had food.
Why did that happen? She was perfectly fine afterward so what was the point? I hope we see some effects from that in the next season.
Maybe the point was so Clem could meet Lee again in the dream. And for dramatic storytelling.
I loved seeing Lee again, but she could have dreamed about him without being shot. Maybe taken a fever from that fall in the lake. Im just not fond of that whole development.
Keying him leave would be.a bad idea . He can easilyjust create a walker herd towords clems location. A lot of walking dead villians love to do this .
Me too. I just wanted Clem to untie Arvo at the cabin so he could leave.