It’ll be a waste if Mike doesn’t return
It would suck if Mike doesn’t return this season. Obviously Telltale had more plans for him when they took out the option to shoot him in the Season 2 Finale. Maybe he could be part of the raiders with Lilly this season? We could also learn what happened to Arvo and determinately Bonnie.
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i rly don't see how any of these old chars can be returning since the distance between them is so far.
Why stop at Mike, Bonnie and Arvo? Why not bring back every character with an unknown or determinant status from past seasons? It’d be a waste not to, right?
Forget about new characters and new stories....Let’s recycle and reuse the old ones!
The suspension of disbelief is going to be very, very stretched if somehow every "missing" character from every season all happen to cross roads with Clementine.
I like that characters such as Arvo and Mike get to essentially live on without any closure or consequence. it's realistic.
It's hard enough to suspend disbelief for Lily. Clem already randomly ran into Kenny near 2 years later and hundreds of miles away from the last place she saw him. The odds of her finding yet another person she used to know, even farther away and after nearly 9 years, it really pushes the bounds of possibilities. For even more characters she's known over the years to show up, all around the same time, it'd be completely ludicrous, almost as ludicrous as Clem growing wings and laser beam eyes and flying around eye beaming all the zombies to death. It's just so far outside the realm of probability that it becomes impossibility.
Don’t interject reason or logic into this...get with the program! We have characters still alive out there who need to return! It would be a shameful waste if they didn’t!
I was just about to mention Lily too. Even if she's the ONLY character to return it still stretches; but her coming back isn't SO terrible that you couldn't make it somewhat plausible so I wouldn't be too mad. (although i feel Christa is still more plausible than her due to her spending the longest time with Clem more than anyone).
The time skips make it worse too.
Four years in the apocalypse is a LONG time to essentially lose distance with any character. Even one year is.
And I think we forget that S1 and S2 don't occur over any large amount of length.
S1 takes place roughly over three months. and S2 actually occurs for only TWO WEEKS. Season 3 is hard to place, but it felt like everything happened less than a month easily.
3 months, 2 weeks... these are very miniscule (despite being impactful) timeframes in Clementine's life.
And then imagine the gaps inbetween when we don't see her. Imagine the people Clem comes across the times where we don't play as her or interact with.
Four years on the run, Clem probably doesn't even remember a person's face after only talking to them two minutes before.
It'd be a waste of Eleanors character if she didn't come back in TFS
Mike I get, but I want Arvo to return so I can brutally murder him. I'll suspend disbelief for him because I've been waiting so long to get my revenge. You're right about how if every other unknown character returned wouldn't be likely at all (even Arvo returning wouldn't make sense but I made that point clear).
You either didn't read my post, or you just didn't factor any logic into your response. I specifically said that Mike should possibly return since Telltale removed the option to kill him, giving the idea that they had future plans for him at some point. I also never said that Bonnie and Arvo should return as well.
I mean you obviously didn't interject reading comprehension into your response so...
Oh and it looks like you didn't read my post either. Bravo.
Yeah you would really have to suspend your disbelief, but I mean it already happened with Kenny and now Lilly so it seems more and more likely. It probably won't happen anyway, but it just leaves a weird empty feeling since they removed the choice to shoot him.
I don't think they removed shooting Mike because they had plans for him. But rather to make Clems first human kill with a gun in the finale (If you shoot Kenny) more impactful
I guess that could also be a reason but back in the Season 1 Finale Clem can kill The Stranger to save Lee by shooting him with a gun. Not to mention that she can also kill Lee by shooting him to stop him from turning. Unless you mean her first human kill in that specific episode, which is a different story.
I wouldn't like to assume anything at this point.
Kenny was brought back from pretty much certain death mostly as a fan service, although I will argue that there are certain parts of the story that wouldn't have progressed in the same way without him.
His return wasn't exactly necessary, and as much as I liked Kenny, it was kinda stupid.
I honestly can't see what we would get out of Mike in another season.
True but in a video named: We don't talk about Kenny, the guy said some pretty interesting points. In the beginning of s2 Omid dies by a woman who was threatening Clem and Clem doesn't have any control of the situation and she can't save the people she care about. In the finale, Clem actually has the power to stop the threat by shooting Kenny. Its an interesting connection and I think thats why Telltale wanted to remove the option to shoot people (who were a threat) until the finale
Finally I see someone mention that video!
Yes I've seen that video and it does have some good points, however how was Mike a threat? He puts down what he was carrying and he was just approaching with his hands up real slow to get the gun from Clem. It was more like Arvo was a threat, as he was pointing a rifle at her.
I wouldn't say actually threat, but he took all the suplies and wanted to leave with Bonnie and Arvo, leaving Clem Kenny and Jane helpless with no car and no food.
Honestly I'm surprised so many people have disbelief in regards to running into familiar faces.. in real life with billions of people all over the globe, I've bumped into old faces several times each year, and these are people I haven't seen for years, never contacted and lived in other countries.
In the apocalypse there are fewer people to meet and even fewer places to go, it seems more likely to me for people constantly travelling around the same country to eventually run into each other.
Not sure why people still think it's out of the realm of possibility to find old acquaintances.
There's 7+ billion people yet people run into friends they knew 20 years ago in other countries and states. Granted it's not in a post apocalyptic society.
To the point of Mike, I'd assume they'd have something plan for him since they scrapped Kenny's death at the last moment to bring him back in S2.
Considering most of the newer characters have not been the most well written or developed characters with most serving as kill fodder, I don't see why not.
I think we only are going to have one returning character and Its going to be lilly and If we have lucky maybe we see christa
Mike, Arvo and determinantly Bonnie were planning to go to Texas, and while I HOPE that Mike/Bonnie abandoned Arvo after what he did, you'd still have to assume that's where they are, VERY far away from Clem
I really couldn't care less about seeing him again. i can't remember a single one of his lines. He's about as 1 dimensional as Joan.
Not even the best line of the season?
It would be pretty interesting if he returns but if Telltale wants to be more realistic, having 2 characters Clem has met in the past, both appear at the same time and are in the same group, seems really really unlikely.
I wouldnt really complain though, but I doubt he will come back.
Kenny returning kinda made some sense because both Clementine and Kenny went for Wellington after they heard of this place.
What did Kenny do to Arvo after he shot Glen? I can't remember.
Mike was one of the most forgettable characters ever. Don't see why it would be a waste if we didn't bring him back considering his entire character was essentially a waste.
Yeah I mean his character can basically be summed up in two statements: "I just want to contribute to the group" and "don't hurt Arvo!"...why would we need more of that?
He was going to leave Clem and AJ to die in the winter by stealing all their supplies before leaving, I wouldn't mind if he came back. He's got a brain surgery appointment with doctor AJ.
I read it just fine...part of your reasoning for why Mike should return is so we can find out what happened to Arvo and Bonnie. Which to me is utterly ridiculous. Who cares? What would it add to the story? People pass in and out of our lives, we don't always find out where they end up. This is true in life and even more so in a chaotic zombie apocalypse.
I know it was good for marketing, but I regret Telltale's decision to hint at the return of old characters. It's opened the speculation floodgates, and not in a good way. We already had our returning character with Kenny. That should have been enough...focus on the new!
No, bringing anyone else back will purely be fan service. Kenny was already a stretch given how unlikely it was, Lilly shouldn't really come back but it is the last season and compared to Mike or anyone else that are "Unknown" statuses, i would say she's the most important. But i still would rather no characters returned. Telltale's biggest mistake even since Season 1 was killing off too many characters. I think there should have been more characters that survived into Season 2 and even Season 3. Omid and Christa are examples of complete waste by Telltale. They should never have written them out as early as they did.
Except that transport is hard to come by, familiar faces most likely dying and never realistically seeing them again instead of a normal world. I bet the people you bumped into happened to be in the same town, maybe a city nearby but i doubt you would have bumped into them hundreds of miles away. Maybe one by extreme luck, a concert or some big event which would have been a bit more likely to see someone given the interest of what it is but thats it. For me it is as unrealistic as zombies walking the Earth. Just is.
They decided not to kill Kenny off long before Season 2 was made. I think Sean Vanaman always planned to bring him back. They had a recording session of Gavin Hammon recording lines of Kenny screaming in pain but then they decided to cut all that out.
Mike's better than Joan. Jeez i think most characters are better than her
Clem you mean not Glen? Arvo, Mike and determinant Bonnie ran off. It's confirmed that they took off according to Jane i think.
I forgot decapatated zombie heads that are still alive is realistic
The thing about Mike though is that, moreso than, say, Eleanor, his original purpose/relevance as a character ended up not coming into play in the Season he was introduced in.
Rather than one of the three North Carolina Scavengers who attacked Christa--bearing the scars of that very encounter on the side of his face--and possibly the sole survivor of Roman's amassed group after leaving Gil's Pitstop, he was just a guy who was being held prisoner by Carver who had a relatively strong sense of camaraderie to go with his muscle.
While there's technically nothing stopping the story from working this original concept back in somehow, it's rather late for such a significant reveal to come into play. And even if Christa were to somehow show up and/or be relevant in TFS at some point, Mike wouldn't really be necessary for that.