Christa : Wasted or Fulfilled?
As a whole I think Christa's character was wasted from the very beginning of her appearance. Plus at the beginning of Season 2 and the 16 Months Later timeskip.
There is a lot of questions asked about Christa:
What happened to her baby?
What happened in the 16 Months Later timeskip?
What happened to Christa?
Will Christa ever return?
Did Christa put Omid down before reanimating?
So many questions about Christa! Would like to know your thoughts and opinions about Christa, and do you think she will return for Season 3?
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Definitely wasted, considering how little we know about her and how we never see how the time skip have affected both Christa and her relationship with Clementine. After her disappearance, she's rarely brought up again by Clementine.
And considering that the developers intend to have missing people stay missing, Christa is very unlikely to return for Season 3.
Personally, I wasn't really a fan of Christa, so I'm not keen on seeing her again. Having said that, though, the writers should've explored her relationship with Clementine a hell of a lot more, considering she and Omid were with her longer than any of Clem's other guardians. So, yeah, I'd say she was wasted, at least in season 2. Like, they could've easily replaced Rebecca with Christa, and if it had been that way, more players would have a reason to be effected by said character's child and eventual death.
Now, with season 1, on the other hand, I think she fulfilled her purpose.
Same with onewaynoway, i was never a fan of her but looking back at her character, her and Omid were more so not used properly.
When they arrive at the end of episode 3, they have missed 3 whole episodes. They have 2 episodes left and most of the story is done. Lee is Clementines protector, Kenny has lost his family, Ben has been making the deal with the bandits and is indirectly the cause of Kenny's family dying. The only things left were Lee getting bit, the stranger taking Clementine, and Kenny finding out the truth. Christa and Omid were put in the middle of that and had no chance to develop. The only thing they had was that they could be parents for Clementine but that was in episode 5. Episode 4 Omid was barely in it and Christa came off as nagging and very clearly pregnant.
Wasted, so wasted.
As someone who was kinda eh on Christa, wasted. With that said, I initially assumed Christa was killed that night, but later fun facts presented evidence that she probably got away to just be out there somewhere without Clementine and I honestly prefer it that way. Not really much of a fan of that whole "this character has fulfilled their purpose and so they must die" train of thought. It worked with Lee because his story was about having ruined his life before the apocalypse began and finding new purpose in taking care of Clementine as long as he could, which Chuck and Christa made clear couldn't be forever. His death is what pulled the group together one last time to give Kenny and Ben their closure, had the bad choices he's made handed back to him, and helped to give Clementine the final push she needed to survive without him. While I'm honestly half and half on Nick and Rebecca's variation of this, the point is that its fine for a character to fulfill their purpose without dying immediately afterwards, as Hershel, Vernon, Nate, presumably Molly, and Arvo demonstrate. Though with that said, Season 2 clearly had an issue with killing off characters for the hell of it, so a character that dies should definitely fulfill their purpose first(most likely Michelle, Walter, sorta Rebecca) or at least have a purpose for dying(Matthew, Carlos, Natasha) cause we sure don't need another Sarah situation, which we shouldn't have had in the first place.
She presumably miscarriaged or at least had it taken by walkers or bandits. But who knows? Maybe she gave it away. Or back...
She and Clementine lost the baby and had a rift torn between them because of what happened in the bathroom. They still worked together and Christa taught her things, but that scar is still there.
Most likely ran off into the woods with a pissed of Victor trying to go after her and failing. Otherwise, Ralph actually succeeded in doing what he wanted with her.
Maybe; maybe not....
Personally, I believe Clementine had to put down him and Michelle, since Christa was clearly to torn up over what happened to be able to do it and either one could attack them at any moment, what with Christa having dropped her rifle and being right next to Omid's face, respectively. This would also explain Clementine's dour air after the 16 months, along with her determinate(?) belief that she gets people killed.
Wasted.
Baby might have been still born, bitten or died somehow. Obviously didn't make it though.
A lot could have happened in the time skip. They could probably even make another game showing what happened. I don't think Christa and Clementine got on that much. Even before Omid died, Clementine looks bored, depressed and only gets involved in the conversation when talked to.
The bandits might have killed Christa. It's more likely when you think about it but I like to think that she got away injured but alive.
Nah I can't see her returning. It would be too unrealistic for her to meet Clementine by coincidence anyway.
I should think so. Letting him come back as a walker would be pretty disrespectful to him.
Actually, forgotten. She's now somewhere in writer's limbo, floating, waiting for season 3.
Undoubtedly wasted and probably the biggest offender of wasted Telltale characters. Her and Omid could have been used pretty easily in Rebecca and Alvin's place (though I understand some writing would need to change). I'll never understand why the writers were so anxious to get rid of them in the worst ways possible
Omid to set the tone, Christa to isolate Clementine for a while.
Wasted. I know i may be playing the wrong video game series if i feel this way, but i always hate it when a character just vanishes without any physical ending.
It's the apocalypse. Not everyone gets a graceful end or a fleshed-out story arc. Some die too early and are forgotten.
Omid because the writers wanted to set the tone: Omid is Persian for hope. Omid is dead = Hope is dead.
Christa I guess because they wanted to have Rebecca and the whole "Who's the father?" drama in there and it wouldn't have worked with Christa around.
Really? I doubt that was the exact reason, since it's not Christa's baby being debated here. Otherwise it sounds like the "rivalry" between Sarah and Jane.
Completely wasted. Omid's death was quite powerful and well done. Christa's disappearance was just bad IMO. I hope she turns up in ANF, but I'm not holding my breath.
Definitely wasted.
I understand that. I do understand the writers needed him to die for the orchestration of the story however having him be killed by Carver at the lodge would have been a much better use of this. It would give on the same message and be something similar to how Negan killed Glenn in the comics
That plot line went no where and both men were dead way too early. It could have worked with Carver being interested in Christa and feeling morally obligated to raise the child as his own due to being a "stronger survivor"
Maybe, though you could also use Carver to give Christa and Omid some backstory by knowing Carver in the earlier months of the outbreak, thereby giving her Rebecca's setup.