Dave of Canada wrote...
I don't think he was being competent, just... grew a bit of a backbone.
It's both. He was proving himself capable at dealing with Walkers -- even if it was only a couple -- and didn't jeopardize the group's safety through his own actions.
At the same time, he had grown fed up with Kenny constantly berating him for something he apologized for numerous times, telling Kenny that he at least had something that Ben never got in this new world.
Maria Caliban wrote...
Episode 3 should be titled Women in Refrigerators.
No.
Lilly needed to leave the group, as she was part of Woodbury in the comics. That's vital to her story arc, where she regains her badassery. The fact that they tied it to her father's death -- the only person she had left in this world -- was a plus for me. Losing family members tends to make people emotional. The fact that Kenny (and Lee) are still in the group proves a constant reminder to her of her father's death, and she's going to have a tough time moving past it every time she sees them.
Deaths of family members in stressful situations make people emotional and unreasonable, not logical and reasonable.
Never mind the significance of the traitor in the group situation they were in, which prompted conflict to arise.
Katjaa's death was a part of the whole family aspect that Kenny was trying to preserve. Her death was a great piece of writing, and she even said herself that she loved her son more then life itself. It really causes Kenny to develop even more as a character and is great... pathos, I believe is the term.
The only death in episode 3 that I felt was uncalled for was Carley, simply because of how it seemed forced to happen. It wasn't a natural thing. I can understand the literary reasons for Carley's death -- Lee having a growing relationship with her cut short -- but I don't think it should've happened in Episode 3, if at all. Were it to have happened later on in some other method -- obviously without Lilly -- then I might have been fine with it.
Or had the Ep. 3 death been better handled. It seemed to be done for less the literary reasons and more the game development reasons.
But Doug and Duck die in Episode 3 -- the former if he was saved obviously. Frankly, the group has seen its share of deaths or departures for both genders -- that weren't cameo characters --
equally.
Doug, Duck, Larry, Mark, Katjaa, Carley, Lilly. 4 men, 3 women.
I do not think Women in Refrigerators applies to this, since that's about how the deaths of female supporting characters as plot devices are disproportionate to those of male supporting characters. The Walking Dead has no shortage of great female characters. Subsequent episodes in the game even disprove the idea of WiR.
The game keeps consistent with the themes of the comics:
anyone can die. No one is exempt from it.
Modifié par The Ethereal Writer Redux, 25 novembre 2012 - 03:55 .
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