Fans of The Walking Dead have been lingering on an inexpensive query currently: what sort of ending will The Final Season be for our erstwhile hero Clementine? Specifically, and fittingly, there’s hypothesis about whether or not she’ll survive all of it. A latest weblog submit by season director Chris Rebbert may simply put a few of these fears to relaxation – or maybe it’s all simply to lull us right into a false sense of safety.
Spoilers for the tip of season one and the very opening of The Final Season under the lower!
Both season one and this fourth and remaining season start with their respective protagonists getting right into a automobile crash. Some followers, like Reddit user Excellus have urged that this could be foreshadowing that Clementine will quickly die, like Lee did on the finish of season one.
It’s an inexpensive principle; not least as a result of Clementine has grown up into Lee’s sneakers by turning into the game’s parental determine, with AJ taking the position of the kid who wants safety. If this season continues to comply with within the footsteps of the primary one, it might properly finish with the same tragedy.
Rebbert’s blog post, although, guarantees that the crash lining up so neatly is only a coincidence. “It wasn’t until all of this work was done that we realized Lee’s story started in a very similar way, once upon a time,” he writes.
I’m not fully satisfied, not least as a result of, as I wrote final week, the first episode is so morbid in and of itself. There’s additionally a bunch of different potential foreshadowing within the first episode, which I gained’t element for these avoiding spoilers, however plenty of them are lined in this Reddit thread.
Nonetheless, the weblog submit itself remains to be a very neat rationalization of what the builders had been making an attempt to realize with the tense scene. For instance, impressed by the same scene from 2006 film Children of Men, the sequence makes use of a single “shot” with out cuts.
“Players are only able to focus on one thing at a time, all the while knowing that more threats are gaining momentum in the periphery. This helped build suspense and anxiety,” Rebbert explains. It additionally handily combines a sense of claustrophobia from being trapped within the automobile with a way of connection to Clementine: “Shooting the scene this way also allowed us to feel like we were locked in that car with Clem and AJ, something that was very important early on in the story in order to unify Clem and the player’s perspectives.”
Foreshadowing or not, the scene establishes the perilousness of the setting for brand spanking new gamers and serves as a reminder for previous ones, plus it highlights Clem and AJ’s resourcefulness in surviving it. Reading Rebbert break down its intentions and inspirations is properly value it.
On the opposite hand, wild hypothesis is likely one of the greatest elements of episodic games, so I don’t count on that this may do a lot to quiet these anxious for Clem’s eventual destiny (together with me). Episode two of the season, ‘Suffer The Children,’ will launch, and presumably solely gas these speculations, on September 25.
