What If You Wrote Season 2?
If you were the lead writer of Season 2. What would you change? What would you keep?
Me, personally, I'd make Carver survive until at least Amid the Ruins, I'd add more character development, and I'd have the 400 Days characters play more of a role.
Me, personally, I'd make Carver survive until at least Amid the Ruins, I'd add more character development, and I'd have the 400 Days characters play more of a role.
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I'd probably ruin it. :P
i'd get tomatoes thrown at me. And death notes. And i'd take off clementine hat. She looks so cute and small without it.
Clementine talks to Sarah about her past etc.
Carlos gets amputated.
Rebecca dies just to save the baby, just like Lori Grimes.
Alvin isn't dead.
Carver is still alive.
Kenny hasn't lost his eyes.
Bonnie gets shot.
Walter commit suicide.
Luke get's caught.
Clementine get's hurted m.m.
More emotions, more feels.
No 90 limits.
More darker.
THE END!
"The ladies are fucking swooning".
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- Clem as protagonist was a ballsy move and one I approved of right off the bat. It has also proven to be an inspired move and I've loved playing Clem. Keep it.
- The time jump is disliked by some, but to me seems absolutely necessary. You need enough distance from the Clementine we knew to explain some of her 'un-Clementine' like behavior, if you choose to go that route. Throw in two years of starving in the wilderness and scraping to survive and you've got more than enough justification to make season 1's beacon of morality and idealism rather harder around the edges now. Keep it.
- I would have greatly softened Clem's introduction to the cabin group, either by changing how she is first introduced to them or by making them apologetic and conciliatory afterward. As it was, I ended episode 1 despising Rebecca, thinking Carlos was either a stunningly inept doctor or was purposefully trying to kill me, resentful of Carlos' complete lack of apology for locking me in a shed after it was determined I wasn't bitten by a walker, annoyed at Luke and Nick apparently having so little understanding of how walker bites work, and a bit bitter at how the more reasonable members of the group didn't stand up for me when I needed them.
Result? I still have a much lower opinion of the cabin group than I did of my season 1 group. It didn't help that the next episode's approach towards making me trust the cabin group more amounted to 'pretend all that mistrust and poor treatment of Clementine in the first episode didn't happen.'
- Heavier emphasis on character development. I've noticed a discrepancy in watching Let's Plays of season 1 vs. season 2: while many people are shocked by sudden deaths in Season 2, there seems to me to be a lot less actual sadness or outrage. And is it any surprise? We haven't gotten enough chances to interact with season 2 characters in a meaningful way.
I knew Carley as a reporter from WABE Atlanta who came down to Macon to cover a festival, then saw her boss eaten right in front of her before Doug saved her. She didn't like her boss, but it was still traumatic. She was hopelessly clueless in regards to technical things, unable to even figure out how to put in batteries, but an absolute crack shot with a pistol. She felt survivors' guilt over living when Doug didn't and had a crush on him she didn't want to acknowledge because he was a big ol' nerd. She knows Lees' past but keeps it a secret from everyone else. She thinks Lee should step up as leader, instead of Kenny or Lilly. By episode 3, she was developing feelings for Lee, and believed he should tell everyone what happened.
I know Carlos as that hispanic doctor guy who is ultra-protective of his daughter. I know Sarita as that indian woman Kenny is using as a replacement love interest for Katjaa. Beyond that, I don't know much. Is it a shock that I felt so very little when Carlos died? Is it a shock that I'll feel very little if Sarita dies?
Anyway, those are random things.
First thing is i would forget about Wellington.
I would have a lot of Lee Flashbacks/Dream Sequences
I would Keep Omid alive longer than 3 minutes.
I wouldn't of fast forwarded 16 months. There is a lot of time there that in my opinion shouldn't be passed over.
I would of done something with Christa's baby.
Kenny coming back to life seems Deus Ex Machina
Carver was just so over the top evil, you would think he would be a Charismatic Leader, but no.
Alvin needed more character development, why not teach Clem/Sarah how to play that board game.
No happy times, why not a few days of just happiness, getting to know the Cabin folk.
400 days characters having one line of dialogue.
- Wellington is actually a great idea. It provides something to hope for, a goal to strive for. Whatever it ends up being, it provides the season with an overarching goal beyond mere survival.
- Too many Lee flashbacks/dreams cripples Clementine's ability to develop into an independent character and would have made me feel they didn't have any original ideas, but were simply recycling the appeal of season 1. Lee shouldn't be forgotten, and should always hang as a presence over the feel of season 2 and Clementine's development, but he works best as just that: a presence, not a character with a voice actor and lines.
- Already mentioned why I think the time skip was needed.
Otherwise, though, I generally agree.