The sudden tumultuous relationship between Kenny and Jane
Maybe I'm missing some scene or something because in Season 2 I didn't know Jane and Kenny were out for each other until near the end scene when they were arguing in that truck. I know Jane was warning Clem of Kenny's increasingly dangerous mind but that's it. Shouldn't there have been some argument and issues between each other in previous scenes to make more sense of how it all blew up in the end?
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To be fair, there are some subtle hints peppered throughout episode 5 that they don't trust each other, or that there's some animosity brewing between them.
Kenny blaming Jane for the ambush ("You're the reason these fuckers came after us in the first place!")
Jane warning Clementine about Kenny's instability after the shoot-out.
During the campfire scene, Bonnie says "I don't think that boy's a bad person. I just think good people do bad things sometimes" in reference to Arvo. As Bonnie is saying this, Jane looks at Kenny.
If you didn't invite Kenny by the fire, and got the scene of him beating down Arvo, Jane looks at Clementine with an "I told you so" kind of expression afterwards.
Jane losing it over Kenny beating up Arvo in the unfinished house.
When Kenny asks Clem to come help him with the truck, Jane volunteers to watch AJ. Kenny shoots a distrustful/angry glance before he leaves.
In the same scene, before Clem goes out to help Kenny, Jane tells her to be careful.
Kenny mentioning that he doesn't trust Jane while they're working on the truck.
Jane comparing Kenny to Carver.
Jane's story about her old group-- four people died in an attempt to save someone else, who turned out to be bit. They later reanimated and killed a fifth person in the group. The point Jane was trying to make with this story is that some people are simply lost causes, and that it's better to know when to cut your losses. If Jane's people simply left that guy instead of trying, five people would still be alive (the four people that died trying to save him, and the old lady he killed after he turned). Likewise, Jane's starting to think that it's a similar situation with Kenny, and that more people are going to end up dying in vain trying to 'save' him.
And of course, last but not least, the final big argument the two of them have in the truck.
It felt Kenny was just the way he always was. I thought there would of been a bigger rivalry between Luke and Kenny
It was Jane that was pointing out how they should stop the pissing contest that it's such a "male" thing... yet she does it herself in the end.
Actually, that was Bonnie.
To be fair, that's more or less pointing out the obvious facts.
All of S2 felt like a disconnected collection of short stories with Clem hopping from group to group. The ending felt forced, with both Kenny and Jane acting like extreme caricatures of their former personalities. Unlike S1, there was no logical end to S2 because there was no plot arch that had been building throughout all the episodes. S1 was about Lee and Clem despite it all. S2 spent no time preparing you for the conclusion, it was just the end of another episode.
I felt the same way with Kenny and Carver, the end of ep 3 makes it seem like these two have known each other longer than a couple days. The way Carver calls him "Kenneth" and all that
Yeah, while I actually like that scene, that's another extension of how overplayed Kenny is in that episode. I get that its probably a mythology gag, but objectively speaking, Kenny shouldn't have had so much importance there over Luke, Carlos, or Rebecca.