[Spoilers] For Telltale: This is my idea to save S3
I was a big fan of the S1, and I have a hole in my heart reserved for S2, my favorite, of which I keep beautiful memories.
That's why when I started playing season 3 and I started to see that it was not progressing well as the rest I was very disappointed. But I think you can still do something to save the season and raise it.
I have compiled four points that I think humbly that could help improve the season.
Before it excuse my english, I'm spanish.
· Convert S2 flashbacks into a lie.
Clem was traumatized by the loss of AJ and she has long been alone, in a extreme situation of survival and paranoia. Things wouldn't have to be as she remembers and Kenny or Jane might be alive in their respective games. The appearance of these characters with Jesus (who has promised to not forget Javi and his group) explaining what happened really would be a great impact, fix the main complaint of the season and would break the wall that has created Clementine to protect themself from the rest.
For the people who was alone at the ending of S2 you can return Christa, who can also return later in the other games in some other way or with Kenny/Jane.
· Make Joan not as bad.
Ok, I have to confess I loved Joan. In our first meeting with her she looked nice and gentil: she gave us the feeling to be in a safe place. I loved the moment she showed us the cake. And when they revealed she was the responsable of almost all the bad things of the season, her character gave a 180º turn. But now she looks pretty black to us. Nobody is going to save her if we have that option.
I wish Joan was not just a bad selfish woman and had a good reason for what she does. I would like she do the things to really help the community. Or at least, I would like she thought that.
Connecting Eleanor with Joan might contribute to this. Eleanor could be a kind of spy that facilitated the siege of Prescott for Joan, who could be a relative of his. In addition, Eleanor could reveal something of the past of Joan that made us see with better eyes. Another narrative twist might be that Eleanor regret this and has now to decide between Tripp (the person she loves) and Joan (his family).
· Get Kate to kill David.
Kate doesn't want to return with her husband, something that we have been able to see throughout the episode 3 and has been developing in the first episodes. She wants to be a close and strong family with Javi and Gabe. David is an obstacle to it.
When David goes to see her to the hospital to take her (perhaps because a zombie attack), Kate should shoot him. This would boost the development of Gabe's character, change Javi's vision of Kate and bring the same tension that brought other delicate moments in previous seasons to the series.
· Bring Lily back with AJ.
In episode 3 David said that Paul knew where AJ was. That means he had to leave him with someone loyal who could protect him, and who better than Lily? Lily has a personality similar to The New Frontier and could fit in directing the settlement where AJ is. In addition, it would be a shocking moment and would bring a nice nostalgia to the season.
I share these ideas because I love the series and I would like it to rise again. Maybe this ideas aren't so good to you, so I invite you to expose yours below if do you want and comment on how to improve the rest of the season.
Comments
I wrote it wrong, sorry
Tripp (the person she loves) and Joan (his family).
She or His
Kate killing David is an idea I had as well but I would do it a little differently. For me she would be trying to kill Javier though after rejecting her again and David sacrifices himself and takes the bullet to save him. It wouldn't just be a bit of tension brought to the group either. This would cement Kate's position as the main villain of the story. I just can't see the other ideas saving it. Bringing back Kenny, Jane, Lilly or anyone just wouldn't work. Joan being not that bad wouldn't work. Unfortunately the damage is already done.
I agree in points 2 and 3, but points 1 and 4 seem kinda forced
Her family, sorry again >-<
Points 2 and 3 are good, but 1 and 4 are a no-go.
At this point in the season, there is no way that Kenny/Jane would be revealed to be alive. We saw in the flashback already that they died and that it was clear all of that truly happened. Bringing them back now would just create too much for Telltale to deal with (because we have the New Frontier war starting soon, I imagine.
In terms of Lily returning with AJ, again, not now, it's too late for that.
Basically, it's evident that at this point this Season is geared towards newcomers. Introducing new characters from previous seasons into the mix would complicate things. TTG would need to explain their backstory, but that wouldn't really fit with the current situation of Javi and David being locked up in the next episode. Kenny and Jane's return would be insulting, because it would just feel incredibly disjointed and purely to calm fans down. TTG has made it clear with their deaths that they don't want to deal with the enumaerable choices from previous seasons and focus on what they want for the season. (-- for Episodes 1+2)
BUT, Episode 3 has had a good balance of self-contained Choice/consequence and well paced plot. If they stick with that for the next few episodes, that'll be good.
I'm on board with Kate killing David, making Joan not a terrible person should be the obvious thing to do or you have a boring 1 dimensional villain so its not really an idea since you're basically just saying "Write a good character" as for the other 2 ideas, nah
Eleanor can't be a spy.
Otherwise Lingard and David would have recognised her.
She might be related to Joan, and when this all come out she would have a loyalty issues to friends or mother.
Joan being not that bad as we are thinking is a good idea.
I hope they don't give her a cheap predictable death like Norma, but something similar to comics characters Rick and Negan, giving Joan a second chance or put her in jail.
I really don't want Christa back. I rather remember her as Clem's caretaker. They better make a miniseries about Clem's life with Christa.
Kate killing David? Perhaps.
Or Gabe killing David to protect his uncle Javi, after David got messed up when the romance of Kate and Javi got revealed.
Bringing Lily back would be great in the next season.
How I wish this would be possible. I'm still hoping for a fever dream.
lol no