What was the point of Telltale making Christa pregnant?!
We did not even see what happened to the baby, wether he/she survived or not.
Even when Rebecca was giving birth, Clem did not even mention Christa once, I am very eiger to hear your thoughts on about this. Plus I am disappointed that it did not get mentioned after the 16 Months Later time skip.
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In Season 1, it was the key to her very subtle character arc.
In Season 2,....Idk.
Christa's pregnancy is something I'll always be disappointed in that Telltale underutilized.
Ideally, I would have liked to see a story where AJ is essentially replaced with OJ (Omid Junior... hehe) and that already gives us a stronger emotional connection with him because he was basically introduced in Season 1 as Christa's subtle hints of pregnancy. I think it also would have given more emotional weight to Omid's sacrifice and Christa;s separation as Clem is left to care for OJ. Missed opportunity, in my opinion.
Realistically, if they were still going the AJ plot, they still could have used Christa's pregnancy as some major contributor to Clementine's character. Maybe Christa's labor and birthing was traumatic for Clem and she doesn't want to live through that again with Rebecca. Maybe Christa taught her some of the things she needed to do, and Clem could help Rebecca with the knowledge Christa taught her. Maybe AJ appearing stillborn at first would trigger some bad memory of Christa's baby... so many possibilities but nothing was used.
So they have an excuse to get rid of Omid and Christa.
I thought Omid made Christa pregnant.
…but actually, Christa made Omid pregnant.
Yeeeah, that was definitely a serious overarching problem with Season 2: Clementine herself doesn't really matter much to a certain degree. Pretty much everything she should have a personal investment in feels like it was either downplayed, cut short, or simply moved in favor of the likes of Kenny and, to a slightly lesser extent, Jane.
Your observation is such a brillaint example of this. Then again, I don't think we needed a birthing minigame, either.
i think her being pregnant was supposed to be like "wow theres still hope and something to fight for" but now that the baby was loss it symbolizes that loss of hope. i think the whole thing is a metaphor
I guess it was a boy then.
There wasn't one.
I mean, Drama and sub plots, it makes things more dramatic if shes pregnant in the zombie apocalypses.
Also, Clem kinda mentions Christa's baby in episode 5, when Kenny runs out of the rest stop and they think Aj is dead, she says "Not again" which I assume would mean that Christa's baby did die.
Why do people feel that everything has to be weighed down with unimportant plot-points and irrelevancies that hold no real bearing toward anything actually credible toward the plot?
She fucked Omid, got pregnant, and lost it due to circumstances we as an audience can only infer upon.
What was AJ's point is a much more tangible question.
Whoa, slow down there.
I'd like to think they had something planned for it but was failed in execution
Hi, execution!
Stupid autocorrect is stupid
In S1, it was used an excuse for Omid to convince Christa to give our group a chance and join. Plus add a little more character to Christa.
S2, to increase the feeling of dread. Seems to be a pattern in TWD, have something nice and hopeful, if only to take it away and remind us all that life sucks in TWD. And no matter how shitty your situation is, it can always get worse muhahaha.
True fact....Christa was that good.
Lol...yeah...reminds me of this video...a guy is contemplating suicide after he found out his girlfriend was cheating on him....10 minutes of internal arguments in his head...he decides he can go on and that there is much in life to explore. He gets a letter from his former girlfriend that tells him, they have aids. That is the walking dead in a nutshell.
She also made Dixon Kent III pregnant.
Shit dude, don't just out and say that. The forums aren't ready for this revelation!
Or just abandoned altogether
It's not the destination, it's the journey. How were they supposed to know that Christa losing her baby would be a good road to go down, when they first started writing her?
You could argue this point with anything. E.g. what was the point of writing a completely awesome character like Uncle Pete, just to kill him off?(rip) I don't know, all I know is, Pete's rad.
It's just part of the story, not everything needs a conclusion or reason. She's pregnant because her and Omid were banging, it's really that simple.
Telltale has never seen a stroyline they weren't ready to happily drop like lead balloon
I don't know. I know some people are saying 'she was pregnant, it doesn't have to mean anything' ---- but yes, it does. If you're going to work that storyline in, you should at least make it worth our time. Things should be in a story for a reason. I was excited to see her actually be pregnant, to see our theories as being true, but then 5 minutes later the baby is gone and it's never mentioned again. Maybe we'll find out what happened in Season 3? Not getting my hopes up, though.
But, hey, maybe the point of the baby being gone was to quickly establish the tone of Season 2.. which, cool, I guess... but I feel it could've been executed far better, because it left far more questions than answers. I remember a lot of people around here didn't even believe the baby was dead.
Season 2 was about change. Clementine was growing up while witnessing the affects loss and trauma had on the others. Kenny who was once strong fell apart, Carver manipulated the situation to become a figure of power, Sarah becomes crippled by fear, Jane resolves to be alone, and so on. Christa's baby dying fits with that. She changed notably afterward too.
Yeah does it even matter....bad things happen in the apocalypse. And really do you even want to know? All we needed to know was that it was gone.
I'm sure something happened between herself, Omid and Vernon when he was "checking" on Omid in that room of the mansion LOL...ok that's messed up sorry hahaha
......They did not need her pregnant for that. Remove the pregnancy and its the same.
Everyone who keeps wondering how or why Christa lost the baby there is a scene in episode 5 of season 1 where Kenny finds a wine bottle and passes it to Lee and Christa. Christa proceeds to chug the wine in order to kill the baby to try to perform a sort of self abortion. Kenny notices this and that's why he makes oh shit face. Which also is why he sacrifices him self to save Christa if the walkie talkie falls in the hole on on the roof. Kenny cares about saving children and keeping groups together no matter what he has to endure.
Believe me, I wasn't advocating for one!
In Season 1, her being pregnant was a nice touch. It expanded on her character slightly, and increased the emotional impact of Kenny's determinant Season 1 sacrifice. I also felt her pregnancy, in a way, helped illustrate the point of Omid and Christa becoming the "perfect parents" after Lee's passing.
While I agree that the baby's off-screen death effectively set-up a dark tone, I just wish that it would've been explored more. Keeping it a mystery isn't that bad by itself, but I just generally disliked the way in which Omid, Christa, and the baby were pushed aside so suddenly. Playing through originally, I wasn't bothered much. After completing the episode and left to ponder things, I realized that them not exploring these different paths held the episode back slightly. I wanted to see how being pregnant affected Christa, especially after Omid's demise. Surely the baby's death destroyed almost all of the semblance of childlike innocence that inhabited Clem. Could we have seen that in the works?
A lot of the times, I dislike when everything is spelled out, or plot points are tied up neatly in a little bow. Here, however, some clarity would have been nice. More focus on Omid, Clem, and Christa's stories would've been nice in general. Clementine developed much during these times, and we were left to only witness the aftermath. Christa had to have meant a lot to Clem, but just like Clem's parents, she was mainly pushed under the rug for Lee references. Don't get me wrong, every reference to Lee made me feel very emotional. However, it's very argueable that Christa, and to a lesser degree, Omid, were more integral parts to Clem's life. Of course Lee would remain special to her, but Christa was there for her more than anyone! The references pandered more to the fans than Clementine herself.
I don't even see it as necessary to forgo the baby's death and forgo AJ's existance. While most players would have more attatchment to OJ by default, if we learned about Clem's experience while dealing with AJ, or could draw many parallels between the two baby scenerios, it could have been very impactful, in my opinion. Sorry for getting a little off-topic here during certain points.
One of my issues with Kenny (and a few other things) in a nutshell.