To be honest, I would've way preferred if AJ was Carver's. But with that big round, basket ball of a head he has, there's not a doubt that AJ's Alvin's spawn.
I'm talking about at the end of Season 2. I wanted to just drop in him a trash can and leave him behind. Clem was much too young to realistically care for a baby that would realistically cry all the time. It'd put her in much more danger having to scavenge looking for formula for him while a normal baby would be screaming because it was hungry, acting as a zombie dinner bell. Now that he's at that ranch, yes I want to just leave him there.
Since Kenny wanted Clem to take care of him, I think it would be more humane to just leave him at Javier's or with whoever is at the McCarroll Ranch (assuming they are good people). Leaving him for dead is a bit much...
I think they might pull a Judith from the comics with AJ: Clem will spend a majority of the next season looking for him. She'll reunite with him but then he dies in the finale, leaving Clem alone once again but her story unfinished. Much like when there was a storyline with Lori's pregnancy in the comics. Many sacrificed their lives for Judith to be born but she ends up dying in the last issue of the storyline.
We have Clem. That's all we need. TWD has evolved into the story of a young girl growing up in the zombie apocalypse. Season 1 focused on her protector looking out for her and sacrificing himself to save her because she was too young, too weak, and too naive to look out for herself. Season 2 is about her learning to survive and be independent. Season 3 was about her being a capable survivor, finding friends, and blossoming into a young woman.
No it would hurt Clementine too much. Like with Lee all over again. AJ needs someone, just as Clementine did before Lee stepped up to be responsible to care for her. Clementine doesn't have to be the only one to watch over AJ but if she wishes she can and should. She could be attached to the goofball. Cringe worthy nickname though.
I don't hate him but I'm over playing a parental figure (Lee and Javier). Hopefully Clementine will find him well at the ranch and decide to leave him be. She has only moral obligation to his survival to hold her. If AJ is thriving somewhere else with actual adults she has the right to put herself first again.
I don't hate him but I'm over playing a parental figure (Lee and Javier). Hopefully Clementine will find him well at the ranch and decide to… more leave him be. She has only moral obligation to his survival to hold her. If AJ is thriving somewhere else with actual adults she has the right to put herself first again.
I wanted AJ to go away back in season 2, but season 3 did make me care for the kid due to some brief moments with Kenny again. Also yearning for that familiarity of a past character.
While I know this is fictional, I still find it interesting that people use a word like "hate" toward a toddler and that they want him to disappear. And a lot of the reasoning behind is extremely hypocritical. Like him being a burden on Clementine, when Clementine herself have gotten people who looked out for her killed through out 3 seasons. Yet she gets a free pass because she was the cute little girl. Another reason I keep seeing pop up about hating Aj is that he was completely irrelevant to season 2's plot or people just didn't like his role in that season. And yet again, Clementine is shoehorned into season 3 where she has no place being besides pleasing the Clementine fans.
While I know some of you are going to think I'm just trying to spew Clem hate, but I'm not. All I'm trying to do is draw comparisons to two characters that had the same role at some point in the game. (i.e. the child that needs protection) And how asinine it is to hate one character for the same reasons you love another character, especially considering the reason their similar is because they both had the innocent child role.
It also makes make think people hate him because people can draw comparisons to Clem&Aj and Lee&Clem. And subconsciously, think she's going to get the Lee treatment eventually and that's why they want Aj to disappear.
I personally I look forward to see how Aj progresses if they don't kill him off and they continue the story. (hopefully the writing improves) Considering he was born and raised during the apocalypse, by someone like Clem and potentially Javier if they decide to go back to Richmond. Aj will probably have the most potential out of all the survivors we've seen saw far.
To your first point about him being a burdon, there's a huge difference between grown adults caring for a young girl who can walk and talk and understand to be quiet and not scream and cry and draw walkers and a preteen having to care for an infant who cannot do anything for itself and will force her to put herself in extra danger just to look for formula because it won't stop crying and drawing zombies otherwise.
While I know this is fictional, I still find it interesting that people use a word like "hate" toward a toddler and that they want him to di… moresappear. And a lot of the reasoning behind is extremely hypocritical. Like him being a burden on Clementine, when Clementine herself have gotten people who looked out for her killed through out 3 seasons. Yet she gets a free pass because she was the cute little girl. Another reason I keep seeing pop up about hating Aj is that he was completely irrelevant to season 2's plot or people just didn't like his role in that season. And yet again, Clementine is shoehorned into season 3 where she has no place being besides pleasing the Clementine fans.
While I know some of you are going to think I'm just trying to spew Clem hate, but I'm not. All I'm trying to do is draw comparisons to two characters that had the same role at some point in the game. (i.e. the child that needs protection) And how asinine it is to… [view original content]
As opposed to, a eight year old child that would sneak off while you're sleep, because a stranger promised he'd help find her parents. Causing you to go into a panic in attempts to find her and ultimately lowering your guard and getting bitten and killed. Or a nine year old leaving her gun out after you told her to keep up with her things a few minutes prior, which would inevitably end up getting you shot and killed.
I'd prefer to be a teen looking after a toddler with limited mobility and limited speech that occasionally cried, especially a teen as capable as Clementine. Than a adult that has to look after a unpredictable child that is mobile enough to get away from me and naive enough to put me or my group in danger.
Honestly, we can go back and forth with this but at the end of the day both of these characters were burden at some point. All that matters is the people who looked after them choose to look after them and weren't forced to. And if we truly love these characters that sacrifice everything to look after another, we should respect that, not wish the child disappeared.
Like Clementine said she felt like SHE was Aj's mother, and I know at the end of the day Lee and Kenny felt as if they were her father. And that's not a feeling that can just be forced on somebody and it's certainly not a burden in their eyes.
To your first point about him being a burdon, there's a huge difference between grown adults caring for a young girl who can walk and talk a… morend understand to be quiet and not scream and cry and draw walkers and a preteen having to care for an infant who cannot do anything for itself and will force her to put herself in extra danger just to look for formula because it won't stop crying and drawing zombies otherwise.
I don't know...it's a mixed bag for me. I don't want to see a baby die again like Judith in TWD. Yet I don't really care much about AJ because I only see him as a plot device for Clem and her appearance in New Frontier. Let's just see what they do to him in S4 or the DLC.
I'm concerned how people don't feel "connected" to AJ, making them dislike him. Guys, he's only a baby who doesn't speak yet. What's there to connect with him?
I don't know...it's a mixed bag for me. I don't want to see a baby die again like Judith in TWD. Yet I don't really care much about AJ becau… morese I only see him as a plot device for Clem and her appearance in New Frontier. Let's just see what they do to him in S4 or the DLC.
I'm concerned how people don't feel "connected" to AJ, making them dislike him. Guys, he's only a baby who doesn't speak yet. What's there to connect with him?
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I disagree, his mother has a weird head too
I'm talking about at the end of Season 2. I wanted to just drop in him a trash can and leave him behind. Clem was much too young to realistically care for a baby that would realistically cry all the time. It'd put her in much more danger having to scavenge looking for formula for him while a normal baby would be screaming because it was hungry, acting as a zombie dinner bell. Now that he's at that ranch, yes I want to just leave him there.
I think they might pull a Judith from the comics with AJ: Clem will spend a majority of the next season looking for him. She'll reunite with him but then he dies in the finale, leaving Clem alone once again but her story unfinished. Much like when there was a storyline with Lori's pregnancy in the comics. Many sacrificed their lives for Judith to be born but she ends up dying in the last issue of the storyline.
We have Clem. That's all we need. TWD has evolved into the story of a young girl growing up in the zombie apocalypse. Season 1 focused on her protector looking out for her and sacrificing himself to save her because she was too young, too weak, and too naive to look out for herself. Season 2 is about her learning to survive and be independent. Season 3 was about her being a capable survivor, finding friends, and blossoming into a young woman.
No it would hurt Clementine too much. Like with Lee all over again. AJ needs someone, just as Clementine did before Lee stepped up to be responsible to care for her. Clementine doesn't have to be the only one to watch over AJ but if she wishes she can and should. She could be attached to the goofball. Cringe worthy nickname though.
I don't hate him but I'm over playing a parental figure (Lee and Javier). Hopefully Clementine will find him well at the ranch and decide to leave him be. She has only moral obligation to his survival to hold her. If AJ is thriving somewhere else with actual adults she has the right to put herself first again.
It is probably exactly like that it will happen , at the end of season 4
Like that they could launch a season 5 with a free Clem
I wanted AJ to go away back in season 2, but season 3 did make me care for the kid due to some brief moments with Kenny again. Also yearning for that familiarity of a past character.
Yes. I feel no connection to him and disliked his mother.
"Anyone else want AJ to just disappear?"
Damn, even Lee wants him to disappear!
God damn seeing that makes me miss the old graphics...
No. But I want ANF to disappear.
While I know this is fictional, I still find it interesting that people use a word like "hate" toward a toddler and that they want him to disappear. And a lot of the reasoning behind is extremely hypocritical. Like him being a burden on Clementine, when Clementine herself have gotten people who looked out for her killed through out 3 seasons. Yet she gets a free pass because she was the cute little girl. Another reason I keep seeing pop up about hating Aj is that he was completely irrelevant to season 2's plot or people just didn't like his role in that season. And yet again, Clementine is shoehorned into season 3 where she has no place being besides pleasing the Clementine fans.
While I know some of you are going to think I'm just trying to spew Clem hate, but I'm not. All I'm trying to do is draw comparisons to two characters that had the same role at some point in the game. (i.e. the child that needs protection) And how asinine it is to hate one character for the same reasons you love another character, especially considering the reason their similar is because they both had the innocent child role.
It also makes make think people hate him because people can draw comparisons to Clem&Aj and Lee&Clem. And subconsciously, think she's going to get the Lee treatment eventually and that's why they want Aj to disappear.
I personally I look forward to see how Aj progresses if they don't kill him off and they continue the story. (hopefully the writing improves) Considering he was born and raised during the apocalypse, by someone like Clem and potentially Javier if they decide to go back to Richmond. Aj will probably have the most potential out of all the survivors we've seen saw far.
To your first point about him being a burdon, there's a huge difference between grown adults caring for a young girl who can walk and talk and understand to be quiet and not scream and cry and draw walkers and a preteen having to care for an infant who cannot do anything for itself and will force her to put herself in extra danger just to look for formula because it won't stop crying and drawing zombies otherwise.
As opposed to, a eight year old child that would sneak off while you're sleep, because a stranger promised he'd help find her parents. Causing you to go into a panic in attempts to find her and ultimately lowering your guard and getting bitten and killed. Or a nine year old leaving her gun out after you told her to keep up with her things a few minutes prior, which would inevitably end up getting you shot and killed.
I'd prefer to be a teen looking after a toddler with limited mobility and limited speech that occasionally cried, especially a teen as capable as Clementine. Than a adult that has to look after a unpredictable child that is mobile enough to get away from me and naive enough to put me or my group in danger.
Honestly, we can go back and forth with this but at the end of the day both of these characters were burden at some point. All that matters is the people who looked after them choose to look after them and weren't forced to. And if we truly love these characters that sacrifice everything to look after another, we should respect that, not wish the child disappeared.
Like Clementine said she felt like SHE was Aj's mother, and I know at the end of the day Lee and Kenny felt as if they were her father. And that's not a feeling that can just be forced on somebody and it's certainly not a burden in their eyes.
I don't know...it's a mixed bag for me. I don't want to see a baby die again like Judith in TWD. Yet I don't really care much about AJ because I only see him as a plot device for Clem and her appearance in New Frontier. Let's just see what they do to him in S4 or the DLC.
I'm concerned how people don't feel "connected" to AJ, making them dislike him. Guys, he's only a baby who doesn't speak yet. What's there to connect with him?
"Not everyone wants to take care of a baby" -Javi