The end and the beginning
This text contain spoilers, but I really hade that hidden text thingie. Read on your own risk, ok.
So, I've played through the final episode, and frankly, I did it with a certain amount of dread. Not because I was afraid Clem would die, but because I thought the entire season had been a major clusterfuck of faults, errors, sloppy writing and plot holes big enough to push a zombie through. Why should the final be any different, hm?
But I have to concede that the final was good. Not excellent, but good, and certainly best of the season. Just sucha thing as two adults went to check the transformator station and left the child Clem behind? Awesome, I actually applauded that, because its the fucking right thing to do. Adults first, children later. That wasn't so hard, was it TTG?
Jane coming back was kind of contrived but I could forgive that, since a lot of the drama came with her. The character development both she and Kenny got was... kind of good as well, but why couldn't she stop pushing Kenny's buttons? As he said at the end, she wanted that fight. And earlier, during their fight, who went all Carver on Kenny? Jane. You go girl, try to convince me its Kenny who is crazy. (This is just an observation, not critizism by the way).
Some of the drama was contrived yes, but one thing I really appreciated was that I got a chance to take longer talks with people - for the first time, it felt like I acftually got to know Kenny.
Oh, and Kudos for that dream sequence. It didn't make any sense, but it was a nice touch to include it.
There was also a very nice touch of logic included: "Why do they move?" "It mustn't be cold enough for that." Friggin' finally some recognition that zombies are bags of meat that freeze. Now, I thought it looked cold enough, but what do I know? I onluy live in a country with winter five months a year...
So. Clem made it (in my game at least), so we got her out of the way. If there is going to be a third season, I think TTG needs to take a serious look at how this season turned out and why so many people, myself included critizised it to pieces. Overall, it was not good. It didn't make sense, characters were treated like crap, there was no development, no continuity.... Until the last effin' episode. I know they swithced writers before season 2, but could you at LEAST force the new guys to read your own wiki on the subject they are supposed to write about?
So yeah. That was a major letdown saved at last. I can't fully forgive TTG for season 2, but I'm not as pissed as I was before. I still won't buy a third season until I see some reviews from players that its any good though.