The Walking Dead
Game
spoilers if you haven't played the game or watched up to season 8 of the tv series, there's overlap of my thoughts between the two franchises :P also trigger warning because I don't censor bad words or the things the characters go through in the apocalypse. This is probably more of a blog? but #whatevs
Ben Paul
I just saw someone try to blame Ben for being such a pussy in TWDG, i don't excuse his actions (leaving clem behind, because that upsets me too!!) but he was a teenager. When you become like 20+ you realize how young 16-18 is compared to the age you are now, and that you definitely aren’t as mature as you think you are. he watched his classmates kill themselves, he's seen his female classmates get brutally raped by the bandits, he tried to help his new group the best way he could against the bandits, he never got to see his family again and they’re all likely dead. this person in some comment section said he was "almost grown he knew better" these are factors that you cannot truly comprehend the horror of and he WASN'T even close to being an adult! why are you using that to try to paint him as more mature when trauma, especially a world where people die and come back to EAT people, would fuck anyone, especially a teenager up? #FOREVER NUANCED BEN GLAZER
Lily
I think she's stupid for acting as if she knew Lee better than Clementine because she was an
'adult' when she met Lee even though Clementine knew Lee longer because we kicked Lily to the road
for being super trigger happy, LOL. But she's far less annoying than Negan. I also really relate to
her about
the grief of losing a father, and she's a badass military administrative officer!
When you watch the TV series you'll understand but I think if she replaced Negan as the
"reformed
badguy" (even if SHE had +++ wives/husband harem), she'd be way more likable. I do not like Negan at
all. He went from a bum lowlife to a mass serial killing psycho rapist that people ... Like ...?
This wouldn't be as far fetched since TWDTV does whatever the fuck it wants with the lore, so this
could've happened if the staff wanted. PSBTW I hate that the excuse of killing off characters 1:1 to
the comics and such when they HAVENT FOLLOWED THE COMICS SINCE MAYBE SEASON 2, WHY ARE YOU SUDDENLY
DOING IT WHENEVER YOU WANT TO KILL OFF PEOPLE THAT I LIKE!!!!
Kenny
I think the game mechanics made Kenny unlikable, since if you agree with him every single time but choose an option that disagrees with what he wants ONCE, he has the dialogue option to doubt you're even his friend, but Kenny is portrayed as really loyal especially to Clementine. I like Kenny a LOT! And Duck wasn't even annoying Hello? Hershel (game) was way more annoying. I think my dad would've liked Kenny so he's top 5, and the fact he lost an eye, I also like that.
Sarah
Sarah's dad failed her, I thought she was really cute. It hurt a lot that her ending had to be like that.
Carver
I hate him too but like, not that he's badly written but he's what Negan TVSHOW should've been (DEAD)