Lee can also choose to tell Clem, "I... killed a man." However, he changes what he says to "I k... had a fight and it turned bad." (or something very similar)
I wouldnt do it, but personally i dont see the problem.
In this situation if someone told me he killed someone who slept with his wife. That wouldnt take my good night sleep away at all.
Now if he told me he had raped and murdered a young girl or something, that would be different.
But sleeping with his wife? He had it coming. :P
Adultery might be a very bad thing, but in no no no way justifies murder. Yes, I'd have a SERIOUS problem if someone told me he killed the man his wife has chosen to sleep with for whatever reason. That's a kill just to regain one's honor, and we don't do that in civilized countries.
Well,"we" do,its just that society and mainstream go to great lengths to point out its not acceptable behavior in the more civilized regions.
As for Lee,he's guilty.The game seems set on telling the players "he's really not a bad man though,he just made a mistake".Which is whats misleading so many.The sad thing is,the game is doing the same thing that "honor" killing does,its making undefendable excuses for the killing.
I wouldnt do it, but personally i dont see the problem.
In this situation if someone told me he killed someone who slept with his wife. That wouldnt take my good night sleep away at all.
People cheat all the time, and while I don't condone it, I certainly don't want to live in a place where it is somehow socially and legally acceptable to bump off the other man (or woman) involved.
In this situation the hypothetical guy's wife was complicit in the act, and arguably more morally culpable because she's the one who made a marriage vow. The other dude hasn't promised anyone anything - in fact, he might not even have known she was married. Would you find it just as acceptable if someone told you they killed their wife because she slept with someone else?
Keep in mind that Lee calls the Senator a bad man. I don't think Lee meant to kill him. It was a fight that ended in a horible, tragic, and fatal way. I don't think manslaughter is going to cut it when a a Senator's death is involved though. The lawyers and press will make sure he gets the death penalty.
I think that we'll get details soon enough. Opposed to Gman, I still think that the player can't change Lee's past with his dialog options, but are rather only meant to decide what Lee wants to disclose to his new acquaintances. In fact, I thought that these dialog options were an interesting small peephole into Lee's past.
The game never comes right out and says you actually did it. Maybe it was a frame job. Perhaps it was in self defense. There are lots of possible solutions. I am playing it like it was self defense.
Also, if you just came out and said what happened, it would ruin all the possible drama that may occur later :P and the walking dead sure loves its drama!
Honestly though, the tv series drama is just silly how far they take it. Its like they got the biggest drama queens on the planet and somehow they survived the zombie apocalypse and somehow met up and formed a group together. Speaking from experience, no small group of people who have to rely on each other for survival has That much drama!
By the end of season 2 it feels like the writers of the show are just making stuff up randomly to keep the inter-group conflicts going. To me the idiocy feels contrived and petty. The show would do just fine if it were only man-vs-environment. I.e. the group fighting to survive against zombie hordes and other roaming gangs of survivors.
The game never comes right out and says you actually did it. Maybe it was a frame job. Perhaps it was in self defense. There are lots of possible solutions. I am playing it like it was self defense.
Also, if you just came out and said what happened, it would ruin all the possible drama that may occur later :P and the walking dead sure loves its drama!
Honestly though, the tv series drama is just silly how far they take it. Its like they got the biggest drama queens on the planet and somehow they survived the zombie apocalypse and somehow met up and formed a group together. Speaking from experience, no small group of people who have to rely on each other for survival has That much drama!
By the end of season 2 it feels like the writers of the show are just making stuff up randomly to keep the inter-group conflicts going. To me the idiocy feels contrived and petty. The show would do just fine if it were only man-vs-environment. I.e. the group fighting to survive against zombie hordes and other roaming gangs of survivors.
In the game, even more drama would come of Lee revealing his past. Kenny, despite being helped and saved by Lee, may get paranoid or suspicious of having a convicted man near his family, and Larry already hates your guts so Lilly might join in. Carly already knows, Clementine doesn't seem to know the entire truth or story, so she may be a bit distrustful, and Glenn is gone for the camp, so..
In the game, even more drama would come of Lee revealing his past. Kenny, despite being helped and saved by Lee, may get paranoid or suspicious of having a convicted man near his family, and Larry already hates your guts so Lilly might join in. Carly already knows, Clementine doesn't seem to know the entire truth or story, so she may be a bit distrustful, and Glenn is gone for the camp, so..
Are we not still at the point in the storyline were nobody is really sure whats going on, and not 100% sure about the walkers? So wouldnt every walker killed be considered a murder at this point?
Like toothiersnow, I also think that the characters in the game cannot know if there is a cure or not. But I am pretty sure that no court would call them guilty if they "kill" in self defense. On the other hand, all the things that happened at the motel were deliberate, but maybe they could say they wanted to save the girl.
But back to topic:
Has nobody thought about the possibility that the State senator and Lees wife both have been killed.
That would be what Lee's voice actor has recently suggested in an interview.
One of Lee's possible answers was that his ex-wife now lived somewhere else (maybe he even said where?), and I assume he was being genuine there. After all - Carley seemed not to know about a double murder, only about the killed Senator.
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In this situation if someone told me he killed someone who slept with his wife. That wouldnt take my good night sleep away at all.
Now if he told me he had raped and murdered a young girl or something, that would be different.
But sleeping with his wife? He had it coming. :P
Am i weird?
As for Lee,he's guilty.The game seems set on telling the players "he's really not a bad man though,he just made a mistake".Which is whats misleading so many.The sad thing is,the game is doing the same thing that "honor" killing does,its making undefendable excuses for the killing.
Which is also un-civilized.
People cheat all the time, and while I don't condone it, I certainly don't want to live in a place where it is somehow socially and legally acceptable to bump off the other man (or woman) involved.
In this situation the hypothetical guy's wife was complicit in the act, and arguably more morally culpable because she's the one who made a marriage vow. The other dude hasn't promised anyone anything - in fact, he might not even have known she was married. Would you find it just as acceptable if someone told you they killed their wife because she slept with someone else?
Also, if you just came out and said what happened, it would ruin all the possible drama that may occur later :P and the walking dead sure loves its drama!
Honestly though, the tv series drama is just silly how far they take it. Its like they got the biggest drama queens on the planet and somehow they survived the zombie apocalypse and somehow met up and formed a group together. Speaking from experience, no small group of people who have to rely on each other for survival has That much drama!
By the end of season 2 it feels like the writers of the show are just making stuff up randomly to keep the inter-group conflicts going. To me the idiocy feels contrived and petty. The show would do just fine if it were only man-vs-environment. I.e. the group fighting to survive against zombie hordes and other roaming gangs of survivors.
In the game, even more drama would come of Lee revealing his past. Kenny, despite being helped and saved by Lee, may get paranoid or suspicious of having a convicted man near his family, and Larry already hates your guts so Lilly might join in. Carly already knows, Clementine doesn't seem to know the entire truth or story, so she may be a bit distrustful, and Glenn is gone for the camp, so..
Are we not still at the point in the storyline were nobody is really sure whats going on, and not 100% sure about the walkers? So wouldnt every walker killed be considered a murder at this point?
But back to topic:
Has nobody thought about the possibility that the State senator and Lees wife both have been killed.
One of Lee's possible answers was that his ex-wife now lived somewhere else (maybe he even said where?), and I assume he was being genuine there. After all - Carley seemed not to know about a double murder, only about the killed Senator.