An animated TWD series by Telltale. (Spoilers)
What do you guys think about the idea of an animated TV or web series by Telltale?
It would be a different group of survivors to Rick's or Lee/Clem's, and set in the comic/game universe, not the character annihilating TV-Universe. Also, Not on AMC, because fuck those guys.
What do you guys think? What if they were all short stories briefly showing the lives of the characters of the games prior to and after their involvement. Lets say they do 5 concurrent stories, so an hour episode you get 20 minutes of each character and their story, then after a few weeks some of their stories conclude just before they reach TWD game's story, and the show uses that individual 20m chunk of time to explore a different character.
Some ideas: (Please contribute your own ideas, Non-determinate entries only, so Vince and the guy he chose to not shoot would be a No No as in invalidates the choice made by the player.):
Nate and his friend in the days before Eddie shot him. I think Nate was unbalanced before, but what pushed him over the edge was the death of his friend, this would be great to explore.
The girl who shot Omid. I would actually like to see an outline of the events that led her up to that point for some reason. I'm not really sure why, I just want to know more about Omid's killer for some reason.
Omid and Christa before Lee's group.
Ben and his friends, the fate of his class, etc.
Mark and his time before and in the airforce base.
A 20m mini episode showing how Doug saved Carley before episode 1 of the game.
A deeper exploration of Molly and her sister in Crawford, and perhaps afterward.
Lee's Family. I don't want it to show up in the game, as I like the feeling of Lee never knowing (and we all feel a little bit like Lee when we are playing the game), but I would like to see the tragic fate of his family explored in
And perhaps some season 2 characters as well: Sam/his human family, Luke, Carlos and Sarah, Nick and Pete, Alvin and Rebecca.
OH Crowning Idea: an animated hour long arc (3 20m chunks, 1 each week) gradually showing the 16 months the Mystery character (I thought you were dead!) spent searching for Clementine.
Any good (non-determinant) Ideas? What do you guys think about the Idea of a Telltale TWD animated series (Not on AMC) (Set in the comic and game universe)(Not about Rick or Clem/Lee)?
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Now this, I'd like to see. I wanna see how Doug saved Carley and how he manhandled those walkers.
2 upvotes in two minutes, I feel pretty good, thanks guys!
But please give me your ideas.
My crowning Idea of ALL FEELS!
A 3 part (3 20m chunks, 1 20m chunk per week) episode about the fates of two people very special to Clem. Ed and Diana.
My feels were not ready when I typed that sentence.
Yeah, this would also be interesting. Like how'd they end up being walkers? Who got them? Couldn't they have just got home when the whole apocalypse went down?
Remember that they did survive being trapped inside the quarantine of Savannah for a few days.
Oh wow. What about this: Once per episode, Diana makes one of the recordings that Lee hears in Episode 1.
The last episode frantically makes her final call to Clementine, just as walker Ed breaks the door down, the 'camera' cuts to Lee checking their voice mail in the animated series style, then Clem contacts Lee, tells him her name, and then the screen goes black. End credits. Have Clementine's theme 'alive inside' from the game play in the final credits for the final episode of that arc.
A 20 minute episode of Carley trying to figure out how to put the battery in her phone.
Telltale should see this
A 20 Minute Episode on the St. Johns! I'd really like to see what they were like before the ZA and what pushed them into cannibalism.
That made me chuckle, Doug literally saves her with batteries somehow. They need to have battery references in a Carley episode.
The Idea has potential, I'm not sure how to write it though. Maybe it just shows their start of darkness, maybe, somehow they were decent people before the apocalypse. I doubt it though.
Who knows? They were probably in position where they where starving as hell, which led them to being cannibals
I would look out for what Eddie shot the guy
Thanks.
I listed that-Nate and his buddy.
Villains edition:
Winston and his group of 3. (I'm assuming they won't be explored in season 2, I'm pretty sure they all got killed by Carver in EP1 or Clementine/Walkers) How they went from being normal people to becoming ruthless bandits.
The St Johns Start of darkness (thanks Clvr)
A 20m short story about the downfall of The stranger, from his perspective.
The motor-inn/dairy bandits and Jolene/her kid. Not sure if too dark or just dark enough for the walking dead. I'm pretty sure Telltale implied that the bandits gave the kid to the St Johns.
Crawford arc: I think Crawford Oberson's story should run parallel to Molly's, doctor Logans, and Molly's sister and also Anna. In 3 20m chunks:
Act one would show Crawford Oberson designing and starting Crawford, him growing suspicous of Vernon's groups potential threat (cancer patients), Molly and her sister joining, Molly starting her deal with Dr. Logan, then the episode ends with some of Vernon's group being executed and the rest escaping without a trace, Molly realizes just how bad the place is. Also, drama with Anna.
Act/episode 2 would start from Oberson's perspective, with him trying to purge further weakness from his camp, it would be all about Molly's sister, Molly, and Logan trying to conceal Anna's baby and Molly's sisters diabetes. By the end of the episode, Crawford nearly finds out about Anna but narrowly fails. Logan tells Molly about breaking the deal, after which Crawford manages to find out about Molly's sister anyway, resulting in her death at the hands of a Crawford execution squad.
The episode ends with Anna stabbing the doctor and about to try to shoot her way out of Crawford, and Molly fleeing Crawford after failing to rescue her sister in time.
Act/episode 3: Molly witnesses the mental breakdown and massacre of Anna towards many other Crawfordians before they can put her down, and Molly uses the chaos caused by the reanimating Crawfordians to only barely escape Crawford. Oberson desperately tries to save his society, but as his men fall one by one to the walkers, he retreats to the top of the bell tower. As Molly looks back at Crawford from a distance, she hears the gunshots lowering in number, and hears/see's Crawfords bell tolling in the distance, then the episode ends.
The Idea is to have original characters and their stories mixed in with expansions of the characters from Telltale's game and their stories, that way there is a constant varied mix of expanded content from Telltale game's and purely original content written by Telltale for the animated series (elements of which might show up in TWD game later on).
Nice idea, but realistically speaking: If TT were to ever do something like this, it would end up never getting released because of delays. And we would also never see episode 3. TT would basically evolve into the company that is Valve. Heck, they are already operating in valve time anyway.
I've got the intro already(Not mine):
Anna Correa was the one who was pregnant, not Molly's sister. They were two different characters with two different problems. Molly's sister was diabetic, Anna was pregnant. Just thought I'd clear that up.
Stories I'd like to see:
Anna Correa escaping from Crawford, trying to survive, and later on, keeping the baby alive.
Kenny and his family's journey through Atlanta.
How Vernon's and Roman's group joined up.
What happened to Vernon?
What happened to Roman's group?
lazar pointer.
Nuff said.
He's dead. In 400 Days, Joyce says: "We lost Brie and Vernon because we trusted the strangers!"(I'm not sure this is exactly what she said). Note that she mentions Brie and Vernon were "lost", and we all know Brie's fate. I'm assuming Vernon is dead not just because this is his likely fate, it's also because I hate his hairy wrinkly ass.
Bet Doug was all like:
I know now that I mistook the two as the same character.
Just Edited the mistakes out of my post. Many, many mistakes. Thanks for pointing that out.
And I bet Doug would've said this:
That's cool, but I don't think it fits the idea of dozens of different short animated stories.
Classic Doug right there. Basically all he would needed to have done was shout 'HEY GENIUSES, IF YOU KILL ME, WHO's GONNA FIX YOUR INTERNET!?'
If 'I thought you were dead' turns out to be Vernon... Clem would tell him to go step on a lego.
that would be interesting,also a story about those save lots employees until they become bandits,the tension in the gang,explain the stuff they did to jolene and their deal with the st johns family
I thought that Anna got shot down after killing like 5 or 10 guards. Remember that like everyone in Crawford was armed, and most of them were ruthless.
I just assumed everyone thought that.
What the bandits did to Jolene was pretty fucked up.
It would be a very adult cartoon, with deaths, gore and hopelessnes. I doubt it will attract mainstream audience.
Because the themes of the Walking dead aren't popular right now?
Also, who said you have to attract the mainstream audience to be successful? Peter Ricitiello did, the man behind the homogenising of all of the projects he could get his greedy hands on, resulting in the sinking of a lot of EA properties.
This idea that you need to attract the mainstream audience to be successful is a very poor one.
Just look at the walking dead game. It wasn't call of duty. Meanwhile survival instinct got its ass handed to it because IT TRIED TO CATER TO THE MAINSTREAM AUDIENCE.
Face it, we are not the mainstream audience, we are The Walking Dead audience.
No, thanks. It's better as a videogame.
The setting is also (primarily) used in a comic, to great success, in case you were unaware.
So yeah obviously I have to disagree with you there, the themes and ideas of The Walking Dead can work well in a variety of media, not just video games.
At least when ass hats like AMC don't fuck it all up.
Also, making an animated series does not preclude them making a game at the same time, it's not like Telltale is shy about hiring new staff to generate multiple stories at once (EG TWAU).
Very fucked up.
extremely fucked up.
Hmm....
Close...
I know, I posted it just because it exists.
I think she MAY have had a chance of escaping, and if she did, well, I'm interested in her character, as she was the one who basically brought Crawford down, indirectly, but still.
I always assumed that something happened with the boat, and either he left them, or the others left him. I never thought that they meant he was dead.
But still, I'd like to see how he died if indeed that was the case.