It's not the same... (Spoilers)
I just finished 305, and despite the supposed return to status-quo, I still feel that it's not the same, that's not OUR max, it's just a replacement, the real max, the one we've loved for 3 seasons, is dead... which leaves a tiny hole in my soul...
Anyone else feel this way? or are you all just glad there's a replacement max so the series will go one as if our max was still alive?
Anyone else feel this way? or are you all just glad there's a replacement max so the series will go one as if our max was still alive?
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I'm imagining their personal hell is some kind of brutal fight to the death.
You are mistaken, this is the Max from season 1 and the start of season 2.
It's still Max. Better a different max than no Max.
I would have rather had that model of Max at the end of 304, I'm sure you know which one and not Demon Max or Psychicly Amped up Max.
Ummm......half-demon Max? When he's got the colour scheme of Maxzilla but his normal size?
He looked kinda like Stitch then. He was so cute I wanted to cuddle him! For reals.
I think you missed the point here... Thou on that note, I think your confusing (monster) S+M's heaven and their hell
So basically Max just forgot about Season 3... (at least OUR season 3, his seemed kinda... similar-but-different... would be a fun extra if TTG showed us a glimpse of his S3...) I find that explanation a little more comforting, but it doesn't negate the fact that our max was blown to hell by Superball (But at least he took Stinky and Skun'ka'pe with him! what a noble little guy, I'm as shocked as the narrator was, happy, but shocked)
Being a different max doesn't mean we (I) wont learn to love him just as much as the original or stop buying the series... (though I think TTG could have pulled it off a little better by giving sam a *hint* that max was alive and S4 could have been spent saving him...)
No max would have meant the end of the S+M franchise (and until the last moment I actually was worried it was going to end like that) I was a little suspicious TTG would end it with just sam and make 401 "Sam [strike] and Max[/strike]" only revealing at the end that Max was somehow alive. ...Of course I dont think TTG is that cruel and heartless...
I actually kinda expected that to happen and the last half of 305 to be trying to return him to his pure-rabbit form...
Maybe; By the way:p. If TTG decides to take this route I'm fine as long a it gets explained/fleshed out. It does simplify things. But what about Sam....?
Nothing could have saved Max.
However, like I have said, Original Max didn't really remember a lot of things anyway. When they're trying to get Grampa Stinky to give them their demon broth, Sam states he needs to do constant recaps for Max. "AARGH talking dog!"
Plus you sorta need to remind Original Max of the things with the clones (for the astral projector thing), for example, meaning he doesn't even remember events from the PAST week.
I'm not really sad because I think Max would be in a funk over losing his psychic powers, and also because THIS Max probably doesn't have a deadly tumor inside his head
Yep that's the one. Wouldn't it be awesome, having that model of Max running around the streets with Sam solving crimes with his awesome evil teeth?
I like Chuck's explanation very much - not because it explains anything (it doesn't), but because it provides a different way to observe Sam & Max that is much more apt to their universe than seeking logical connections from one act to another. Some of you guys are trying way too hard to rationalize events in a universe that wasn't meant to be rational in the first place.
And this, too. I'd be surprised (even disappointed) if too much explanation was attached. I'd love to see (control? ooooooooooh!) Huge Electromagnetic Sam, though - not to piece together unknown events, but for the fun of it.
I guess I'm wondering as to why it would need to be fleshed out. Much like the whole deal with Max's death in Bad Day on the Moon, it follows very classic Sam and Max comedic timing. ie: drama gets amped up, things do not look good, then in the next panel it switches to a completely different scene where everything got fine and dandy again, with little to no explanation, and it's never referred to again. It's supposed to be underplayed. That's the point.
In that comic it was ok because it was clear what had just happened. This 305 end scenario just felt a little ambiguous....
We've been playing a straight line so far and there have even been moments of nostalgia even though continuity was not the focus. I'm not one to judge anyone's style of storytelling, but Max's death and return hasn't occurred enough to be the comedic standard in the series. Or rather, the manner in which it happened this time
I thought it was a bold move to delve into a more dramatic side of Sam&Max which I found fun and intriguing. Sam's and Max's characters seem a lot more complex than we've previously known. However, the ending made it seem as though this Max is different and will take the story in an obscure direction. But, since Chuck mentioned that Max is a hive mind, I'm not sure what to think now.
Actually, that'd be kind of funny if Telltale did that. Especially if they kept making fun of that in the future Sam and Max seasons.
Or... we could end up with two Maxes. Which the world really, REALLY does not need. One causes enough destruction already!