What was your favorite and least favorite episodes of twdg s2 and why?

I gotta say that out of all the episodes, A House Divided was the best one out of the lot despite having faults of its own. I liked the whole scene between Clementine and Sarah in the cabin, and how she’s the only one to notice this child looks depressed all the time. The gun scene was really good too, especially paralleling what Clem herself learned back in Season One, and I enjoyed the little bit where what you told Clem as Lee when teaching her is taught to Sarah, but in Clem’s own way because she doesn’t understand a lot of the things that Lee did.

Even if the episode was spoiled for me with Kenny’s return, I appreciated that he does comfort Clementine if she says that Lee dying was his fault, and I liked the other people in the lodge with him, especially Sarita. Hell, even though I constantly bash his character in the next episode, Carver was a pretty interesting villain who actually raised some good points. Why should I trust the Cabin Group after everything they did to me, and the way they treated this 11 year old girl because they just assume Carver’s stupid enough to send her rather than one of the capable adults. He already knew they’d be wary of strangers so why not just use his sheer size to corral them home like he did at the end of the episode? But anyway, I did agree with his idea on trust, and that’s why I didn’t trust him either. He was shady af when we first met.

Now, the choices for me weren’t all that great. Some were, especially since Clementine isn’t gonna be able to change the story with her actions, so she’d have to use her words, and the episode did great with that for one choice. Convincing Walter that Nick is a good man even though he shot his boyfriend before. I saved Nick every time, but I have to say it’s heartbreaking watching Nick be eaten by that walker while he’s calling for help, and then Walter just brushes off his death by lying to Carlos right after. Now, others aren’t so great. There’s nothing if you take the picture or not with Sarah, or if you take the blame for it or not, besides a few people talking about it, and your friendship with Sarah differs. That doesn’t really affect me much because she just unceremoniously dies anyway without much impact. Saying no when Luke asks you to come with him across the bridge didn’t have much affect either, and the dinner table scene just seems petty with me. So what if Clementine wanted to sit with another person, just accept it and move on rather than give her sad eyes or a disappointed look depending on the person that was wronged.

Now, it’s no surprise that I utterly loathe Amid The Ruins. I hated a lot of the characters in this episode; Jane’s recycled lone wolf character and immediate dismissal of Sarah’s problems because her sister, who she won’t shut up about, went through months of being depressed and then got abandoned. Kenny’s character got all the spotlight in this episode where I’m meant to feel sorry for the guy who blamed an 11 year old orphan for not being able to save his girlfriend in the middle of a horde, and then gets pissy when Clementine finally had enough of his abusive ass and tells him that he’s not the only one who’s gone through shit. Luke is a goddamn moron who thought sending an injured man to go and find help after being shot through the shoulder was a good idea, forgoes any of his responsibilities just to have a tumble with Jane because obviously he’s the one suffering and needs a break, rather than Rebecca who’s about to give birth and just lost her husband and most of her friends in the span of like three days, or even Sarah who just watched her father get eaten alive in front of her and someone telling her friends to abandon her to the walkers right in front of her. What gets me is that he has the nerve to be angry when people call him out on his bullshit behaviour, when the game actually lets us do that to any of these characters.

The choices don’t mean jack-shit. Literally none of them. Did you chop Sarita’s arm off or kill the walker at the end of the last episode? Didn’t matter, she dies either way and Kenny yells at you for it. Did you try to save Sarah in the trailer because you don’t fucking leave teenage girls to die? Nope, doesn’t matter, she dies not twenty minutes later in the same episode without anyone even trying to save her besides Jane, and that’s if Clementine pushes her to. Did you steal from Arvo or did you let him leave with the medicine that your group needs? Well doesn’t matter what you did, because Arvo McDickhead will come back and say you stole from him regardless, when the one person who threatened him is already clearly gone. Telltale really messed up on this episode, and it shows so bad. All the characters that I wanted to survive ended up dying, while all the shit characters lived and got more sympathetic treatment in this season.