This whole loss thing is getting old... Law of Diminishing Returns
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(First off, it may be of interest to you that I've never really watched past the first 4 or 5 episodes of the TV Series and I'm unfamiliar with the comics. That said I'm pretty sure what I am arguing here is arguable in those sub-franchises too.)
So this whole paradigm where Clementine or Lee (basically the protagonist) has members added to their group, but then they lose them, is kind of running it's course. Look at Season One; it ended with all of your friends either dying (or appearing to die) or disappearing from you (sole exception being next season's protagonist, Clementine). With Season Two (btw 204 over-accentuated this little pet peeve of mind) Clementine is forced to either separate, leave to turn undead or have die every member of her group (with, DETERMINANT, one possible exception in 205).
Now of course, some death scenes, like Luke's most notably (where Clementine, unless you take the asshole route and just let Bonnie drown to death, IIRC, whispered "Luuu...." as she was pulled out of the river) are done well in spite of this. I felt so much losing Luke, your friend throughout the whole season, and the feels were amplified when she (IIRC) utterred "Luu...." as she was removed from the river. And btw, I found Luke's death to be the most emotionally feeling part of the episode for me (but perhaps that is because I didn't have any trouble not shooting Kenny over Jane).
But anyway, my point is, I don't think these death scenes are retaining all their emotional value. I'm looking at you, 204. I don't think that this series needs to overuse the whole "Killed off for Real" trope where EVERY EPISODE AT LEAST ONE GROUP MEMBER DIES or gets separated. This clearly is feeling a law of diminishing returns -- that is, as something is repeated and repeated, it loses effect/value etc.. You're gonna need to make the loss of a group member more scarce in order to preserve effect. Or better yet, why not have it so that most group members are retained?
Cuz' yeah, I think this is getting a bit over-cliched. Anyone agree or disagree with me here?
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It's a zombie apocalypse. Death is normal. It's possible we (and the writers) are getting a little too comfortable with it which minimises the impact. I felt that both Rebecca's and especially Luke's could have been milked for even more effect. Luke going was a huge deal and I think I could have done with that getting more weight but most people spent ep5 talking about themselves.
But generally this is going to be the way it works. People find each other. People die.
Got to admit (and I know it's not a popular view) I loved that we got separated and went back only to find Nick already dead and turned. People die, it just happens.
They should retain a few people, Nick could have easily stayed in the background and been with clem and whoever at the end. That said seeing as Bonnie dosnt have to die and many people are simply leaving rather than being killed is a nice step. Still they need to start writing multi seasonal characters though if they do dont force the player to interact with them a certain way.
I partially agree...
If every season we start at ep1 meet some new folks and come ep5 everyone is dead, its gona get old... we need some characters to last a season or 2 so when there times come its a little bigger than just throwing that seasons characters into the meat grinder, and determinant surviving characters don't count..