SEASON 3 SPOILERS
Before you keep reading, please do not try and rebuttal this post with, "You just don't understand a complex character."
I can understand the complexity of a character, and still dislike them.
During season 3, I became a Shauna Shipman hater and began wishing on her down fall, and it was genuinely infuriating to me watching her fall from my top 3 down to the very bottom. I went into season 3 loving teen Shauna AND adult Shauna (Melanie Lynskey stan btw).
I understood Shauna's anger and resentment towards the group in the beginning of the season. Shauna has arguably been through the most trauma out in the wilderness, with her going through a teen pregnancy, only for it to result in a stillborn (especially after having such vivid dreams of the baby being alive and her nursing him) and losing her bestfriend who she both loved and resented and having to eat her, with their last words shared with one another being an argument.
So when I found out that the others were literally praying to the spirit of her deceased baby (and Jackie), I was gob smacked. I stayed on the Shauna Ship because if that was me, I would've been pissed too. And Akilah trying to give Shauna a "special crown" because she's the mother was so disrespectful. I love Akilah, but I have to side with Shauna on this one. It was messed up, and I do not blame Shauna for moving the burial site without telling anyone.
But then the beef with Mari happened. I do get it, Mari was being a huge bitch, which wasn't really a huge surprise if you've watched the past two seasons. But literally spitting in Mari's food and then lying about it was crazy disrespectful, especially because food is a rarity for them. And then showing literally no care when Mari went missing. Someone pointed out that they think that Mari and Shauna beef originated in season 1 because Jackie used Mari to make Shauna jealous when they first went to the lake, and I believe it.
At this point in the season, I'm like, "Okay, Shauna's really derailing, but I can understand where her anger is coming from."
But then we have the trial of Coach Benjamin Scott. The way that Shauna resorted to intimidation to get the majority to vote to execute Ben was so frustrating. Everyone was conflicted and the vote was 50/50, UNTIL Shauna scared them. Which to be fair, if I was there, I probably would've voted to kill Ben, not because I believe that he was guilty, but because Shauna is literally terrifying. Especially the Achilles heel scene. Vile. Disgusting and disturbing.
Then Shauna gets crowned as leader, and my first thought was, "That is literally the worst choice you could've ever made, Lottie." Shauna is clearly not all their mentally right now and they've all been a first hand witness to her anger. Shauna is a terrible leader because she doesn't give a shit about the others, she hates all of them, which means she doesn't care about their safety and wellbeing, which is what a leader is supposed to do.
Don't even get me fucking started on Melissa being a devil on her shoulder at the start; "You feel that? That's power." Melissa pissed me off in the beginning, because she was literally throwing a whole forest onto the fire brewing inside of Shauna.
At this point in the show, I'm thinking, "Shauna is the worst, and it sucks that no one is saying anything about it."
But at that point, Shauna hasn't really done anything TOO crazy for anyone to be like, "This bitch is fucking crazy, she has to go."
Then the frog researchers show up. The way Shauna laughed and smiled her ass off when she witnessed the guy getting axed by Lottie, was genuinely pissing me off and disturbing. Also, I do not believe Shauna cared about Melissa's wellbeing when she got shot. The way she was so nonchalant about it did not seem genuine. Keeping Hannah's hair as a little fidget toy was a little weird, but not the weirdest thing they've done, so that gets a little pass.
Shauna choosing to stay infuriated me, but I could understand WHY she didn't want to leave. She's become accustomed to the wilderness. Her whole life revolved around Jackie, so what is her life going to look like without Jackie if she goes back to the real world? I believe her reason to stay was both fear and control. Shauna has all the power now. She's the leader. And she uses that to force the others to stay. And Natalie just letting her take the gun was so frustrating.
But the whole showdown between Shauna and Melissa was actually so fucked. I felt so bad for Melissa, because Shauna verbally berated her in front of everyone, shot at her and then smiled when Melissa wet herself.
At this point, Shauna has become irredeemable. She is thriving on violence and chaos, no matter where it is coming from and who it's directed at. You cannot convince me or tell me anything that could ever excuse that type of behavior, especially towards someone who Shauna is supposed to be in a relationship with (I used the word relationship loosely, btw). It's abuse.
At this point, I'm waiting for someone to humble her ass. Slap her back to reality or something.
And then, the finale happens. Mari gets the Queen, and Shauna shows no remorse or sadness. Mocking her by saying, "Tough break, Mar." and then laughing when Lottie starts counting. And if you notice, Shauna is literally the only person hunting Mari (which I made a whole separate post about). Watching the realisation on Shauna's face that 'Natalie' was actually Hannah, was so satisfying. It's almost as if the iron grip of control Shauna currently holds on the group begins to weaken before her eyes, especially when she turns and sees the others staring at her, fully aware of what has happened.
I loved Shauna Shipman in season 1 and 2, but she become a dictator in season 3. I could see where her anger and resentment towards the group originated from and even supported some of the actions she made BECAUSE of that resentment, but there are a lot of her actions that I cannot see reason to, other than doing malicious things without any real motive behind her actions, besides to enjoy watching people suffer.
(I am also aware of the racial discussion of cutting Mari's hair after her death. Not just that, but also how the show treats their POC characters in general. I've seen a lot of debates about this (Mari) and I do believe that there were some racist implications with choosing to use the hair of an indigenous person. I do think there is a difference between intent and how something is perceived. Just because the writers didn't intend for the scene to be offensive or racist, doesn't mean that it doesn't come off that way to their audience.)
Because the Truman Show had products and brands wanting to collaborate, do you think there have been some brands that failed? Like what if a big brand went through all the effort to get the product onto the Truman Show, just for Truman to hate it?
That had to be some type of gamble for the brand, right?
Like yeah you can get the brand advertised by the actors and across the town of SeaHaven, but there's also a risk that Truman will express disgust or hate towards it.
Happy International Women’s Day from the ladies of TWDG!
My conputers dead right now and currently in the shop getting fixed, so I’ve been spending the past two days writing and planning a story about Ben Paul being the main protagonist.
I’m hoping to give more back story to characters who had very little dialogue or little to not screen time throughout the game. Like Irene from season 1, for example; the only things we really got to know about her from her dialogue was that she was possibly Christian and that she had a boyfriend but thats it. We didn’t even get to know her name, we found out through the credits.
I want to give her a backstory like she and her boyfriend were in the middle of a roadtrip to see the world before Irene could continue her education, but their car broke down and needed to be repaired and that’s why they were at the motel.
Stuff like that. I also want to change certain characters fates, especially those who you are given the option to save and then die later or in the same episode.
*COUGH* Sarah.
But obviously, I’m stuck on some characters, especially those in season 1. So if anyone has any ideas of traits or back stories of characters they like from the walking dead game, I’d be happy to hear them and discuss ideas.
(Title is still a work in progress!)
:)
I’ve made some posts about Duck lives AU’s in the past, but this is different. I’m currently in the middle of writing The Walking Dead Season 1 (no title yet), an AU where Ben is the main protagonist and lives, along with Duck. In the story, I’m currently up to The St John. Dairy.
~Below are more detail about the ideas I have~
I’ve been playing with some ideas for future seasons and episodes, like whose fates remain the same, canon determinant or canon alive characters dying and how they’re character or death affects the storyline.
An idea I would love to use is the Stranger taking both Clementine AND Duck. It’d make sense for the Stranger to try and take both a young girl and a young boy, to replace the son and daughter he lost. Obviously, there are a few nuts and bolts I have to look for before it completely makes sense.
Like Duck’s motive for going with the Stranger. Clementine’s motive is that she believes the Stranger is with her parents. Duck’s motive could be that he wants to play the ‘hero’ in the situation and that he could protect Clementine from any danger if he goes along too. BUT, this means their has to be some sort of change in characters fates for this to work. I’ve decided to make Katjaa get bitten during the raid, but Kenny’s fate I’m still deciding on whether I should kill him off early.
Don’t get me wrong, Kenny is a brilliant, well written and iconic character, but it wouldn’t make any sense to willingly leave the group, knowing that his son is alive. Alternatively, Kenny can take the most selfish route, and leave his son, after the death of his wife being too much for him to handle. This could give Kenny and Duck’s relationship more tension when reuniting in S2, especially with Sarita being in the picture. Duck would originally hate Sarita, believing that she is trying to take his mother’s place, but could reconcile after Sarita helps him with something (like an injury, idk).
Kenny being alive in S2 gave me the idea the fight between Jane and Kenny ending differently, with Jane not being in the fight completely. Ben could be the cause of Sarita’s death, making Kenny hate Ben (since I’ve made Ben having no involvement in the bandits deal). During the fight, Kenny has Ben pinned and tries to stab in him in the throat with a blade. Clementine could originally have the gun, going into a panic attack or freezing in fear, so Duck takes the gun and shoots Kenny himself. This would harden Duck’s childish personality, making him create a brick wall around himself when it comes to strangers or people that try to become close to him.
Also. S4. Lilly captures Duck. She taunts him about Kenny and how he probably died saving Duck, just they (Ben, Clem, Duck) would when it came to protecting AJ. And then Duck just goes,
“I killed him”
*chef kiss*
People have been commenting about the Squid Game glass panels game, saying stuff like;
“Why don’t they just jump on the beam?”
“If I was there, I’d use the beam”
Yes, I can see how people can think landing on the beam would be a solution, but theres a few things I don’t think people take into consideration. The bridge was made like this:
l⬜️| |⬜️|
With two beams supporting each side of the bridge, giving a rather medium gap in the middle. I was watching Matpats theory (which alot of it did not make any sense btw) and he said something about landing on the beams of both panels with your feet split. Like this;
/\ <- legs
|⬜️| |⬜️|
Its a pretty shitty way to explain but stick with me here. Now it’s not the size of the bars that we need to consider here, it’s the size of the jump you need to make it to the next two panels. The gap is big, bigger then the distance of the bars. Now jumping that distance, landing with your bare feet on the edge without leaning to heavily on one side when you land is highly unlikely.
Throwing yourself at that distance and landing in a position that will make you lose your off balance is mostly likely going to throw you off your feet, between the glass panels infront of you and to your demise. It’s like jumping on stepping stones in high heels, there’s no way your going to land steadily. There’s also the fact you can’t wear your shoes, which will put pressure on your feet, considering you have to be careful of the weight you put on each side. That will mean you have to land with your feet in the exact same position when you jump the gap.
Which again, highly unlikely. Edit: Also, shuffling is most likely not going to work either. The glass panels are ontop of the beam, meaning you would have to land on the first two glass panels, shuffle across and then crawl your feet back onto the second ones. But you would have to have amazing balancing skills and feet made of steel to do that.
I'm 1000% convinced they made Jim the one who gave the answer to Tabitha and Jade just so they could make him more likeable.
I was reading some peoples opinions on reddit about certain characters. Like some people were talking about hating Eleanor, rightfully so and then I found some people hating on Kate.
I absolutely hated the relationship between Kate and Javier and how TellTale attempted to force them together every chance they got. During my playthrough, I avoided any romance between them, because; 1) Kate is David’s wife, bro code, yknow? and 2) I always go the platonic route in games.
Also, I don’t know if I’m remembering this correctly because it’s been like a year since I’ve played season 3, but during the garage scene, Kate will either kiss Javi (if you accept her confession) or go, “Tell him, Javi” (if you reject her). Like, WHAT! Tell him what? That I rejected you because I only see you as a friend?
Honestly, Kate is a great character, but I find her kind of annoying with all the forced romance shit, like even during her confession she talks about all these ‘moments’ we had. What moments are you talking about? The one where I I didn’t kiss you? Or the one where I pulled my hand away when you deliberately pulled my hand back when your hot headed husband was literally walking into the room?
Kate doesn’t deserve a lot of hate she gets, her character’s written fairly well, it’s just how she’s written in game. Her character outside all the forced bs is good.
Idk :)
Me realising I wrote 213,000 words and 45 chapters in my twd WIP just to get to the idea that started my entire story. (I'm no where near finished)