Which Walking Dead penultimate had you most stoked for the finale?
Around Every Corner? [9/10]
Amid The Ruins? [6/10]
Thicker Than Water? [8/10]
I know it was possibly one of the weakest reviewed episodes, but Amid The Ruins cliffhanger had me thinking daily trying to figure out who got shot in that group shootout. Then no real trailer for No Going Back was broadcasted only adding more to the suspense.
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Despite it being my least favorite episode in all of TWD series, I would have to say Around Every Corner. Lee gets bit, Clem is gone, some mysterious guy on a radio has her, it served as a perfect set up for No Time Left. I remember when the episode ended and thinking to myself "NO! Quick, start the next episode!"
Most definitely Around Every Corner. So much had happened at the end of the episode and with it ending with a cliffhanger I had to know what happened next.
Around every Corner for sure.
I suppose Season 1 by default, given that it had clear stakes going into the next episode, plus I thought the Crawford arc was a pretty neat detour that worked in the character's favor development-wise.
Amid the Ruins just...made me take a fair little hiatus and I eventually went into the finale 3+ days later with a few very vague spoilers and an attitude of "let's just get this over with."
Thicker than Water is unfortunately the worst in regard to the topic, despite the episode itself being pretty good for the most part. I think they just got a little too crazy with the determinate choices and now we're going into a finale that doesn't really feel like a finale with stakes that are shaky at best. The episode just sorta stopping doesn't really help either.
The obvious answer is Around the Corner. Lee getting Bit? Clem gone missing? It's pretty hard to top that, no matter how hard you might try with a Deus-Ex Machina shoot-out with Russians out of the blue (that gets very abruptly swept aside in Ep 205 with no notable deaths or consequences), or crap hitting the fan with David and Javi versus the New Frontier.
Easily Around Every Corner. Lee is bitten, Clementine is missing, and the walkers are starting to infest Savannah. I don't think the stakes could be any higher. It's everything a cliffhanger should be.
Season 2's had me excited at first....but than nobody died
ANF's has me stoked as hell!! Please don't screw this up
But S1...man. Clementine is kidnapped and Lee is bitten. What a cliffhanger!
May I ask why it's your least favorite episode?
Ya season 1 pretty handily wins just cuz of Lee getting bit, can't really top that
I was actually interested with the cliffhanger for season 2 despite the episode itself being the single worst non Minecraft Telltale episode but then nobody died in that shootout somehow.
ANF's episode was pretty good but the "is Kate dead" cliffhanger was ehh, I actually do like Kate but I highly doubt she's dead so it did nothing for me. Conrad continued to be the best though.
Definitely Around Every Corner. That was one hell of a cliffhanger!
Thicker Than Water. It's the only one where I didn't already know what was going to happen in the last episode.
Around Every Corner.
It's 150 minutes of filler, everything between the group arriving in Savannah and Lee getting bit holds little to no importance. You get a cool character like Molly, but the plot of the episode was not interesting enough and, on subsequent replays, it's extremely tedious to get through. Crawford turned out to be such a huge disappointment, characters like Molly and Vernon built and hyped it up, and then it turns out to just be infested with walkers. How cool would it have been to have to go in there with people actually alive, needing to sneak around and try to be stealthy, it adds a whole new threat and challenge.
Around Every Corner, cause why not? Even if it's such a slow episode, nothing can beat its writting.
I actually thought it was more interesting with the walkers.
It was a nice twist in my opinion and I liked the mysterious feel it had.
Around every corner was probably my fav episode incidentally and i liked that it was a very long episode and didn't feel it was filler at all. It had a lot of gameplay areas compared to other episodes and i enjoyed the whole mission of going to Crawford and general desperation of finding a boat etc
Why isn't Give No Shelter on the list?
Is that Michonne? Cause I was wondering if that could be included myself.
Amid the Ruins. Idk I thought it was a decent episode despite a few hiccoughs....the impending fire fight def had higher stakes than Clem disappearing since our whole group might bite the dust. And I found Around Every Corner to be too slow and Lee getting bit in that way dumb. It would have been more dramatic to have him get bit at the marsh house rescuing Clem.
Not unless you had binge played the first game because you rented the CD copy from red box like me lol. So for me Around Every Corner was great but since I had immediate access to the finale episode.. I guess that on edge of your seat yearning for the next episode was lost on me. Everyone's different.
While Lee getting bit and Clem kidnapped was a spectacular buildup, I pretty much had a good indication of how things would end for Lee and I knew Clem would likely be alive atleast due to her being alone on the No Time Left photo. With the season 2 shootout I didn't know if Clem got hit the baby, Kenny or Luke. Could of been anyone until you got to play the last episode to find out like a month later.And it was the unknown status for each character there that got me pumped most to find out in the next episode.
In a nutshell while the season 1 finale was far superior plot-wise..it was slightly more predictable than season 2 finale. Unpredictablilty builds up more anxiousness for what's coming. Like how ppl felt with the season 6 finale of the TV show.
Exactly! We might not have agreed in the past but I think unpredictablilty builds up more anxiousness and excitement. Season 1 was great but what else can happen after getting bit unless you chop off your limb in time. I knew Lee was a dead man walking and Clem would likely survive alone. Great writing to be sure not knocking that, but you could see it coming a block away nearly.
Eh well I figured It had more to do with the comic than anything with the events from the Telltale games main series. But since it's walking dead related I suppose you could advocate that one as well. Michonne mini-series also isn't mentioned much here especially after it concluded.
Hey right on! My sentiments exactly. Anyone or nearly all could of not made it out that firefight. Even if it ended in unbelievable disappointment. The fact that you go weeks on end and on edge wondering if your favorite characters made it or not until No Going Back was released to play. I knew Lee was a goner after getting bit in the most anti-Clem tic way. The guy killed dozens of zombies then a hobo hiding ninja zombie is what gets him? That is a "bit," dumb.. no pun intended. & I knew even though Clem was kidnapped she'd still be alive I wasn't sure at all with No Going Back.
while i did love around every corner with the introduction of my favorite Character: Molly
and several great scenes i liked Thicker than water better because of the unpredictability of the episode, Conrad s continued actions thoughout the episode despite being determinant, the unexpected twist in the Tripp or Ava choice and the death of Kate happening at a moment s notice while at the same time David , Ava and Gabe are going after Joan it made me extremely excited for the next episode to known How Javier , Conrad and Clem are gonna reunite with the rest of the group and kill Joan and also escape the Herd that just entered Richmond.
EDIT: Also i had been spoiled of a couple of things when i first played season 1 because my uncle had been at episode 3 when i first started playing the game on the xbox when the full CD version came out so he spoiled Lee s bite and i did not get as surprised as most people did which is why i hold Thicker than water higher in my penultimate episode list.
Yeah, but my problem was that the Season 2 Episode 4 Cliffhanger was (in my opinion) thrown in for arbitrary suspense. It didn't amount to anything in Episode 205, and it felt included mostly for shallow shock value.
Which makes what they did with Sarah even MORE dumber.
Yes, dumber.
I think I'd have to give it to Around Every Corner, with Thicker Than Water in very close second. Around Every Corner's abrupt ending just before Lee speaks is pretty much iconic for me. It's an ending that I just can't forget. Beyond that, it definitely set the stakes going into the finale, and that final choice of what to say felt like it had some serious weight, since you had no idea who was on the other side of that radio, or what they were willing to do. Thicker Than Water also sets some high stakes, but unlike No Time Left, it really leaves the direction the finale's going in up in the air. Richmond's leadership council destabilized, herd invading the streets, Kate's ambiguous fate, 5+ determinant characters still running around... there's a lot of ways this could play out. For better or worse, with Lee and his bite, I think everyone knew deep down where the story was going to end. Thicker Than Water is much more of a wildcard in that respect, but Around Every Corner still narrowly beats it out for me.
However, my favorite cliffhanger ending of any episode-- not just penultimate episodes- would have to be In Harm's Way. The abrupt cut to black after the Sarita choice, and then the loudspeaker music playing faintly and ominously in the background? Shit man, no other cliffhanger/ending to date gave me the same feeling that one did. That was the most chilling, jaw-dropping, "what the fuck have I done" ending they have made, if you ask me.
Same