This narrative doesn't feel like it has many meanigful stakes.
Okay, so the major conflict we're dealing with is essiently some conspiracy plot about a corrupt settlement leader robbing and killing other settlements as well as the hunt for "miracle" AJ and it's all building up to a civil war.
There's nothing inherently wrong with this premise and it would actually be fairly interesting and meaningful...
If any of the characters in this story had any real depth.
You don't do a conspiracy plot where you're trying to "liberate" New Richmond when you barely spend any time in New Richmond or any of the settlements that were robbed and destroyed by the New Frontier like Prescott and it doesn't help that most of the main cast are really just being dragged around by the plot.
It's just completely boring. It's like if S1E2 was one hour long, there were zero options to explore the Motor Inn and talk to people as well as having zero options to explore the St.John Diary and talk to Andy and Brenda or any other character and then the twist happens and you don't really care because none of the characters have really even been characters and then the "big emotional" climax is just dumb shallow spectacle with no real weight to it because you barely even know anyone and the environment itself.
I guess David getting the axe matters a tiny but he's just two diemenionl jerky big brother at this point so I don't really care.
So yeah, no real stakes in my opinion.
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I wouldn't say that David is a two dimension jerk, but other than that I agree.
That, and for the majority of players to give a crap about muh-babi-we-known-for-one-episode AJ...
I guess he's not too bad but he's just going to end up dead in either of the episodes and I won't really have much incentive to care.
The majority of the season has been quite lackluster and lacking any depth with bland one dimensional characters. To me this AJ storyline is being unnecessarily dragged out to keep clementine somewhat relevant to the current plot. Fortunately episode 3 was a good step up from the train wreck known as EP1.