Was killing **** a bad move on Telltale's part?
To be honest, I never felt as much of a connection with Luke as I did with most of the characters with season one, but his death did seem a ltitle too abrupt, especially considering how Telltale seemed to be building a confrontation between Luke and Kenny. Did they decide to switch Luke with Jane at the last moment, just for the sake of being unpredictable?
Maybe the baby had something to do with it. Jane can be deceitful and manipulative in ways that a nice guy like Luke couldn't, and Telltale might have agreed. Luke hiding AJ away in a car just to "prove a point" to Clem, endangering her life and AJ's in the process? I can't imagine the same scenario playing out with Luke in Jane's role, at least how it was written in episode 5.
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not for me,i thought it was a beautifully written episode and death,i never cared much for Luke but just sitting there joking in front of the fire and him teling a little history about himself,it was just brilliant,and Kenny seemed to come round accepting Luke and vice versa,it was a good move switching if they did that,Jane was always the loner who was only out for herself.
To a Luke fan (like myself) it would seem like a bad move, I really liked him he was a good guy, he kept the group going but telltale killed him so the group would fall apart and so that there could be a Kenny or Jane decision (I would have loved to have Luke live on and I really wished it was Luke instead of Jane) but I can't see Luke fighting back with Kenny as much as Jane did
Yes, it was. I can't even really get over his character death because 1) the multiple ways they could've avoided it and 2) the complete lack of closure with him and Kenny and the Cabin saga in general.
It was a death for the sole purpose of having a death which is the trope I hate more than anything. There's a reason I'm crying when Lee in season 1 or Kenny (possibly) in season 2 dies, but I just feel anger and confusion when Luke or Nick dies even though I loved their characters. The first two are tragedies as a result of their characters actions, spiraling to inevitable conclusion but with neatly wrapped plotlines. The other two are avoidable deaths trying to create fake drama or sadness with characters with still open plot threads.
It's so weird to me that they know how to write a proper tragedy, but then they screw it up massively with other characters.