Season Two Review and Reflections *SPOILERSSSSS*
If I leave anything out please point it out!
I finished the finale a day ago so I still have a lot of feels over the whole thing so imma put it here cause you guys get me.
Everything felt so random before. This season seemed like a bad cohesive unit and then came the bae of a finale that changed my mind.
This season, was phenomenal. It was more cinematic that season one, and felt more polished overall. You can watch it again and again in order and it feels Hollywood. Yes, we have lost hub areas and thus character development. Despite this, I feel a link to every single character. It was never harrowing and emotional like Katjaa and Duck's deaths, but it hit me similar to how it hit Clementine, the 'I've seen this before' attitude. The very fact that they transferred that feeling to us is phenomenal.
This season was about Trust, and the theme was vaguely there the whole way through but accumulated in the end.
As the season progressed, it made less sense to me. Episode one, we lose Christa and we run into random cabin folks. They didn't trust me, but learned to. They talk all crazy about a Carver. Episode Two, my second favorite episode this season. We bond with the group, and we run into good ol Kenny and we see change in the old man, a fire, but not a good one. We see people being killed by accident. Carver shows up and removes any trace of love for him from our hearts. We're all skeptical of each other, Matthew, Kenny, Cabin group and Bonnie. The scene has been firmly set and laid for the rest of the season. Sides were being chosen. X was right and Y was wrong. We were sure about who's side we took.
Episode Three. My least favourite, but the most important this season, in hindsight. Clem sees the horrors of a good survivor. We can't deny that, Carver was a good survivor. Yet we didn't want to be like that. Reggie's death seemed so trivial and a waste of a good character. 'Killing one in order to save many is part of survival.' And we respond: 'I'm not like you.' Episode four, we can let Sarah die. We can steal drugs off a random Russian kid. Some of us pull the trigger on Kenny in the end. Some of us let Kenny kill Jane. Some of us let Jane die and then kill Kenny.
Carver, we are all a little like you. We denied it and fought against it, but we are. It's the only way to be a true survivor.
Episode four taught me something. If someone doesn't want to walk Amid The Ruins, don't make them. People can't be trusted. Which is why a lot of us let Kenny go for good in episode 5. Arvo, regardless of choice, comes after you anyway. Kindness means nothing no more.
Episode five tied it all up. Our story, our journey, it all made sense. I spent the entire episode, at last, turning against and doubting my group. Except the birthday boy.
Luke, I said I'd come back for you. You said you'd come back for me too. Little did I know episode five was all going to come back for itself. Luke died saving me. Died coming back for me.
There was no happy endings here. You can't trust your friends, my gang of Bonnie and Mike bailed on me, Jane tricked us to prove a point, and Kenny? He's on a highway to insanity, and for some reason, my Clementine is still with him.
This season did what season one couldn't do. It made me question humanity. It made me question every single choice I made even though I know the alternatives. I'd like to think that leaving Wellington with Kenny ensures my Clementine is still wide eyed. Because as Lee said, there is no right answers. If being a true survivor is being like Carver, I'd rather be alone.
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</3- Jane
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Good review. Looking back puts things into perspective. We have certainly come a long way this season.
I looked back further to season 1 and saw Kenny and thought "My God, how you have changed." And remember the characters from season 1 and how Clem lost nearly all of them. Sighs. What a ride its been.
Great review. And I like how you looked at things. I can even imagine this was Telltale's intent going into this season. Especially with how much humanity has degraded to what it is now.
Really surprises me that this is the second lowest rated episode on Metacritic. Critics have grown way too high of expectations from Telltale now.
I was pissed at Mike, Bonnie, and Arvo!
I was fine if they wanted to leave but seeing how they were going to leave Clementine and the baby without ANY supplies fuck them!
Oh and fuck Arvo too for shooting Clem.
Well Mike was forced to leave after Clem was shot because he knew Kenny would be on his ass like butter on bread! But yeah the whole thing kinda made me angry. But hey, if you saved Bonnie, Team Bike will live on!
Thanks! I'm comforted by the fact the entire season at last makes sense. I was worried it was going no where, but look, they did it again!
It's scary, in all honesty. Because the change is so natural and so real. It's like watching your crazy Uncle go from friendly to mentally insane. I think Clem and Kenny are the only ones to have made it out. Hey, it's more than the cabin group, where they're all dead bar AJ.
And thanks for checking my ramblings out! That's what a ZA will do to people I guess, have humans at each other's throats over absoulety nothing. What's worse is that it feels natural.
Wait, what? Second lowest this season?! What do they want, man? As a dedicated fan before the start of season two, I am more than satisfied with what they gave us. And you know, the fan reaction is the most important!
HI FIVE BROTHER.
If they left empty handed or with some supplies I'd had let them go. But to leave us with 0 chance of survival? FUCK YOU TOO GUYS.
Well, it was Arvo's supplies in the first place!