Wellington...
Is it REALLY the safe haven we all know it to be?
Aparntley in one of the endings, Kenny if you spared him, selflessly get you and Alvin Jr two places in the community.
The woman there tells Kenny to "check back in a few months" That... comment seems haunting to me. Why only a few months? if this is really a safe haven and community, why a few months? people surely wouldn't want to leave such a safe place in a terrible world,and unless it's full of old people or "hospital" I don't see why a few months would make a difference.
Is this a new carver's camp? is it a dictatorship in there, or a "tourist trap" ?
I really really don't like the ending of that particular choice. I choose to start my own community, with Jane.
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I think it might of once been a save place, but not now. If you go with Jane at the end and speak to the family you meet, they say they've just come from up there.
I thought they just come from north? but yeah.. that makes sense... Glad I didn't go to Wellington...
I think they were implying they were turned away from Wellington, not that they left it.
I think they couldnt get into wellington due to it being over capacity
What if Nate was there or the group from 400 days they might recognize Clem. Kenny who never trusts anyone just leaves them with strangers just seems out of character. I wouldn't trust a group who turn away a kid and a baby
Edith initially tried to turn them away because those were the rules, but then she managed to get places for Clementine and AJ, if they wanted them. And Kenny just wanted Clementine to be safe, nothing else. Looking at those walls, and how orderly everything seemed, do you really think it'd be dangerous?
Maybe they....build more shelter? takes months to build more shelter with walls like that
There's something about Wellington that makes you so cynical about it , I mean it's a good community how the fuck were they able to build it and maintain it for so long.Being this GOOD at maintaining it , is creepy , makes you wonder.
We all know when the hero steps in a place (usually in pop culture) everything starts to change.
obviously the walking dead is cynical about safe stable environments, but in reality the chances are that there would be plenty of safe and stable communities in an apocalypse, because afterall it is in everybody's best interest to make it that way, of course there could be problems with over expansion and limited supplies, but that fact that they turn people away and give them supplies is a good sign, if they wanted to eat people or steal from them they would let everybody in.
It's anarchy and in anarchies there are always a lot of people that want power. I disagree that there would be plenty of safe and stable communities, vice versa there would be a small amount of them. Even people that'd never think of being possessive, they could become that in the apocalypse if they saw the chance. And for an example, most of actually kindhearted people are the first ones to die because they trusted someone they shouldn't have.
Trust me, you don't get the real picture about people even in the real life we live in unless you try to really look into it.
well how did we get where we are today? life used to be much harsher than it is now, even harsher that a zombie apocalypse in modern times, and yet stable safe communities is what happened and still happens in poverty stricken areas, obviously i'm not talking about the kind of safety you get in a modern day rich gated communities, but relative safety and stability to the apocalypse outside the fence
I think Wellington was a good place, but after Crawford and Howe's I have my doubts that large communities are safer in the long run.
Walls seem to beomce a fence once a outbreak happens.
Think about how long it took to build our modern civilisation and how many crumbled in the process e.g. the Roman Empire. Until 19th century most countries were ruled by few powerful persons and when these persons died or failed their civiliazation turned to anachry e.g. the French Revolution.And those people werent even opposed to a threat like an ZAP, which will never end because everyone is infected. Keeping many people together is the greatest challenge of all, because some of them will always want to take over the control it, some through force ,some through manipulation.
After Howe's I saw Wellington and was like NOOOOOOPE.
Also, family that shows up in the Jane ending say they've been up north... WHY are they not staying up there? My guess is they ran from the community.
I had the same thoughts.. Is this a camp like Carver's? They could let 2 people in but not 3? Come on... It just doesn't feel right.
The fact that the only view of Wellington we got was of the guard-post and fences just gives the whole place a sense of ambiguity. It could be a safe,functioning haven or another Crawford, that's just left to Season 3 to explore. If it is left as that ending, then I'll be slightly annoyed, because it's too ambiguous to be a good ending, and it really lacks closure.
Also, the idea that they could only let two kids in is reasonable. Children require less food than adults, and it is a massive guilt-trip to the guard. You could hear the guilt in her voice (by the way, great voice-work by the woman who played the guard and Gavin Hammon at the end). They definitely aren't cannibals, otherwise they would be eager to accept any and all who come by. And I doubt they would let in kids unless there were sympathetic, good-natured people running the place. But, it did seem quiet from the outside, and there was only one large fire, so it's unclear how many people there are.
My guess is that they're a community like Howe's Hardware on a much larger scale.
who cares about the dangers of politics when there is a zombie apocalypse, sure there may be corrupt people trying to get power in a community, but it's better than starving and being in near death situations all the time
It's a safe place, but if we continue with Clem there, we all know it won't last.
The most noble thing I've ever seen Kenny done. Especially considering the state he's in. That was the best ending to me. I literally almost cried(and I barely cry) that moment. Goddamn feels man! ;~;