Walking Dead: Season 3 Possible Plot (Yes, looks very realistic to me)
Ok, this is my theory on about what Season 3 is going to be about.
From the first episode and onwards, AJ will be the main character, who has grown to the age of 6-7, and his caretaker is 19-20 year old Clementine, as they scavenge around the North American continent trying to survive, like all other seasons of the game.
Clementine will be more mature, and will adapt to the undead world, thinking it as a new home, and has problems controlling her temper and has violent tantrums and rambles a lot with others. She is almost like Kenny in a way the last time we saw him.
AJ, like I said before, will have grown up to a child, and does not remeber his mother, and thinks of Clementine as a mother figure. He has never seen the world as normal, and is fully trained and very mature for his age. He is also very empathetic for other survivors, unlike Clementine in this theory, who has grown into a dangerous, rude killing machine, which causes AJ and Clementine to get into quite a lot of fights.
Now, here is what a bit of you have probably been thinking while reading this.
What about all the other endings in Season 2 Episode 5?
Well, it's quite simple. AJ will have no idea about what happened to the people that Clementine hung out with during the early stages of the apocalypse, and gradually, will ask Clementine questions about her past. Depending on what ending you chose, for example, you chose to not kill Kenny and stay with him instead of going to Wellington, she will tell you what happened after that and explain how she got there in the first place blah blah blah. It's kinda like the same with the other endings, like she could say that Wellington fell to the walkers, or that she survived by herself with AJ after leaving Jane, whatever ending you chose.
And maybe there might be a link to the other characters that might be still alive, like Christa or Arvo in future episodes, but honestly, I think Christa will be dead, but Arvo might show up and not know who AJ is ( if there is like a scenario where Clementine goes missing and AJ has to find her) and befriend him, and it might get quite personal if Clementine remembers that he is the one who shot her for the first time in her life, and might cause his downfall.
There are a lot of possibilities in this scenario of what might happen in Season 3. Please, tell me what you think.
Comments
Not possible, the game is restricted by the comic storyline (as they take place in the same universe) and, therefore, the game cannot go past where they currently are in the comics. The furthest the game writers could skip to would be another 2-3 years, so AJ would only be 2-3 years old and Clem would only be 13-14.
The dumb Time Skip Universe Rule prevents the walking dead game from going past the time range in the comics. Sucks, i know.
It's an interesting idea, I like it but I prefer something else.
It's a good idea, but it can't skip past the comic book universe. The most it can skip is 2 years. But I think it would be better if Clem were the main character here too. I liked playing her as a kid, but her making decisions for the group never really made any sense. It would if she was 19-20
No matter what happens everybody is gonna go bananas if Clem is the protagonist-and she will be-because even if you get a first act or even the whole of episode one dedicated to your picks at the end of season two, they have to get rid of Kenny and Jane period to set a new story in motion.
Has this been confirmed?
Then I'm not buying it. I'm more interested in seeing him in a dumpster than in any part of this story.
What do you mean with "everyone is gonna go bananas"? I personally would love playing as Clem more. After two Seasons, she just grew on me, and not playing as her would be strange. Especially seeing how they would have to either kill her off, or have her disappear. She can't be a secondary non-playable character, because each person's Clem would be different, personality-wise.
No, but I'd bet the farm on it and I'm not a gambling man.
I meant everyone is gonna go bananas because "my choice didn't matter!" There's simply no way to have a coherent narrative other than ditching Kenny or Jane because of the no one choice.
It'd be super cool don't get me wrong, but fans get super unrealistic in wanting multiple completely separate stories to play out. Which triple A titles have never been able to pull off, let alone twenty dollar games you can play on your phone. The simple fact is you have to choose between narrative freedom and a tight, well-written story, there's no way around that, and I'm pretty sure we play TT games for the story and characters.
^What he said
Now, for a lot of you who have commented about the comic storyline, I forgot to cover on that. The comic isn't EXACTLY the same as the game, like Hershel has a completely different personality and behaviour from the comics, and many areas from the comics and story have been changed in the TV series. I mean, in all but Episode 1 of Season 1 has the games related to the comics.
So, it might not interfere with the comics at all, so try and take that into account.
Also, the timeline doesn't need to interfere with the game either.
Forgot to put that in xD
I would laugh so hard if they made AJ the main protagonist.
The only difference in Herschel is that he's possibly less of an asshole in the game.
Herschel is different because it's before his son died, and it was a while before he met Rick.
What does this have to do with the game?
What if Kirkman had the ZA somehow end in 5 years from the their current place in the comics and the game jumped 7 years in season 3? Wouldn't work.
Good idea, but you can't skip that far ahead in the TWD universe. I also didn't really like the whole "Clementine growing up to be an emotionless killing machine" because I think that's way out of character. But I like the other ideas though.
I think it doesn't matter, really.
After all, it's only a videogame, and quite frankly, I think that in many respects it's been blown up way out of portion.
The fate of the game, is in fact, in the hands of the writers.
Now I'm not saying that it's wrong to post ideas of maybe what players would like to see in Season 3.
But in the long-run, it doesn't really matter.
But I'll play along.
I think that the game should pick up right where the player leaves off in Season 2, no matter what ending they choose.
Since I left with Kenny, I'd like to see the trio meet up with another group, perhaps the one that showed up in the "Jane ending."
And see them work together to try and survive.
As far as a PC character, I'd like to see a new PC character.
And I'd like it to be a man.
Why?
Well simply put, when I played as Lee, I felt more connected with the character.
Being a man, I was able to relate to where he was coming from.
i think that kind of time skip is highly unlikely, and the idea of playing the game as an even younger child (than clementine) sounds horrible
I personally would want to play Clementine in season 3. I think if to "make my choice matter" I think they would be 4/5 different versions for the first episode then the creators would have to try and merge the ending of episode one to make everyone who is playing be on the same sort of storyline by episode two, I'm not surprised that they are taking so long to make the game. Also another thing I thought of is they could do a 6 month time lapse as by then AJ would be eating more solids instead of needing formula all time but also be abit more mobile which might cause a problem or an unfortunate incident? I think it be interesting to see an "old face" such as Bonnie,Mike & Arvo or Lily or Christa.
About the PC thing. of course as a man you can relate to a male character more, I too am male, but what about female player? There are a lot of women who play TWD, quite a few who haven't played a game before, or only a few before. So I don't like that argument. Doesn't make sense when looking at the whole.
And I don't think they go that route. They could only if they either killed Clem, or have her disapear, both of which I am pretty sure won't happen, since she's practically the face of Telltalles TWD. They couldn't have her appear as a secondary character, because you can play Clem in so many different ways, Sassy, Cruel, Compassionate, naive, cold, in any combination. So having her have a set personality that doesn't fit with one's own Clem would piss of a lot of people.
There is sooo much of the story that we don't know, that I really think it would be detrimental to do a time-skip and just have clem explain what happens... It's kinda lazy.
I can play with Clem again, but hopefully we get 2 other PCs so that we could give her a damn break and let someone else help the group. I'm still sticking with molly and Vernon coming back (maybe lily and christa too) and finding Clem.
We just have too much things that weren't developed yet to skip now. Can't just skip past wellington, or Howes.
I hope we get to play as multiple characters, such as lily,clementine,aj, and two other protagonists. Lily should come back. She is not the same as lily from the comics and she is a character who should have more development.
I think Clementine could go back to being a deutragonist, as she was in Season 1.
And her personality could be "fixed", based on the choices of the player in S2.
Robert Kirkman would bust a fuse if they just skipped 7 years. The Walkers are going to be nothing but bone.
[removed]
We will not be AJ. If we are AJ i won't play this game. Clementine is the main character. Also in season 3 AJ will be 3, clementine will be 14. Thus we can't be AJ.
I predict that almost everyone is going to die by the end
We could have both.
What we really need is more variatey with the character types. I wanna use someone plus-size, or someone handicapped maybe (either by a walker or before the apocalypse). We need something different!
As I said, she can't go back to being a deutragonist, especially not as she was in Season 1 since there she had a fixed personality.
And having her personality fixed is still, in my mind, a horrible decision, even if it has a fixed number of different personalities. Firstly, she would act against how you would have her acted at some point, and secondly, either there would only be a slight difference between the different personalities, or Clem would appear for only a very, very small time. That's because you can't have her around and having her have several different personalities. You know how much worked that would be for Telltale for every scene that Clem would appear in? They would have to write almost every of her scenes a dozen times.
Nah, they either have her never appear, or only a little time, or have her die or being dead, all of which is very unlikely since Clem is the face of Telltales TWD, and would piss of many fans, including me, or they have her as a protagonist again. There is no middle in this, at least none which wouldn't piss off the majority.
Well, most likely if Clem is going to be the protgaonist in S3, S3 is going to be S2 2.0, which isn't very good, at least to the majority.
What personality did she have in s2? I thought she was just a playable character, no personality, no emotions really. Just a spectator to me.
Lol exactly they gotta deteriorate
I wouldnt want to play as Lily because she shot Carley.
What do you mean "What personality did she have in s2?" and "no personality" ? You as the player form her personality.
You can play a kind, thoughtful and hopeful Clem, who hasn't changed that much and still sees the good in every one.
Or a emotionally hardened, but still hopeful sassy Clem, who can be very sarcastic. But who is still helpful and compassionate, and will help those that can be helped.
Or even a complete Jerk Clem, who does everything she can do ensure her own survival, including Blackmailing, Killing and letting die people that are a burden. And in general, being a very mean person.
Also, what to you mean with " no emotions really. Just a spectator"? Crying, screaming, being angry and/or scared are no emotions? And she is, or can be played, as much mire than a spectator. In fact, one of the most often criticized aspect of Season 2 is how much and how often the adults let Clem do dangerous things even though she is just a child.
And one other thing, I don't think you can speak for the majority. I and many other people would love to have Clem as a protagonist in Season 3. Sure there are people like you who wouldn't like it, but you are certainly not the majority.
Except Clementine, she can take a bullet and walk it off, next season a atomic bomb is dropped, and she gets a mild sun burn.
The wailing of "this isn't my Clem!" would be loud enough for passing airplanes to hear it.
Kenny took a rifle shot to the gut at point blank range in Season 1 and the only effect seems to be that it made it impossible for him to pull anyone up for the rest of the game.
Mike took a shot in the arm in they never mentioned again too, now that I think about it.
Yeah, the shoulder gunshot wound is a Hollywood cliche, it's actually one of the worst places to get shot, but if we're gonna talk cliches even the first season is full of them.
Isn't Vernon dead? They don't outright say it but it's made pretty clear in 400 Days that things didn't end well for Vernon.
I took what they said about vernon as him abandoning them more than him dying off. If anything I was more curious of Vernon after they brought his name up.
But I'm also crossing my fingers lol
I bet the writers will make Clementine somehow survive multiple walker bites without amputation next season.