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Details that people might forget, don't notice or just don't know about The Walking Dead

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So as you know a lot of content in TWD can be completely missed, overlooked or just forgotten.

Here are a two examples:

Something you might not know: If you chose to do nothing while Kenny is being beaten is episode 3, Sarita will break free of Carlos' grip and she'll be hit in the face instead of Clementine.

Something you might have forgotten: Ben was the one who gave Clementine stickers for her walkie-talkie.

Do you know any?

***Quick reminder to not post any leaked spoilers in here until an episode is officially released.***
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  • All effort of the episode was put into that easteregg

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    On another note, I also decided to record what happens if you don't shoot walker Kate:

    Not a huge difference, but I figure there's some people curious about it that aren't willing to replay the entire episode to see.

  • Move long people nothin to see here!

  • Might have just been a glitch on my end, but when deciding to trust Jesus or not, I stayed silent and Tripp told Jesus he couldn't take any chances and had to tie him up. But then he didn't and Jesus was "trusted" and it said the same on the stats at the end.

    Maybe just an oversight in editing

  • Throughout the whole season Clementine has put herself in danger to help Javier and his family despite owing them nothing. Sometimes an excuse for her staying was because she hasn't gotten a car yet. In return for her help, Javier was supposed to get her a car so she could find AJ.

    Now it is the end of the season, Javier is safe, Clem helped him and his family. Javier still didn't get her a car.

    Now Clem goes to find AJ and instead of helping her, Javier just kinda "ok good luck bye." No offer to help her find AJ despite her helping him this whole time.

    Also he still hasn't given her a car, which was her main goal this whole season so she could go get AJ. She's gonna go find him on foot now. If she could find him on foot now, why couldn't she have done this before to go find AJ?

    Long story short, this is just more obvious evidence that Clementine was so fucking shoehorned in this entirely dumb love triangle season and clearly took the backseat.

  • This is all scrapped content for A New Frontier according to Alyssa from the AMA thread:

    Max at one point in development died in the Slaughterhouse in episode 1, after Javi found and took care of a turned Mariana.

    There was a flashback of Clem and her babysitter in Episode 1, where she had a phone call with her mom from Atlanta.

    Lingard’s model was originally created to be a guy named Mason, who was the mastermind of the New Frontier group in an early iteration of the story.

    The guy who stabbed Javi in episode 4 (and was eaten by walkers in Ep 5) was originally supposed to be a spanish-speaking engineer that Javi could use his (originally planned) bilingual skills to communicate with.

    He was being guarded by Ava, who was envisioned as a former MMA fighter who had found a role as a prison guard for the New Frontier.

    There was a big hub in Episode 5 where Javi had to solve the problem of how to get off the roof, while also having the opportunity to talk to each character about your relationship and what was on their mind, including Clem trying to cheer up a very sad Gabe after having been knocked back by David in the scene in the apartments.

    Originally Eleanor was meant to be Joan's daughter.

    • after Javi found and took care of a turned Mariana.

      The fuck? Guess that adds to the fact that she was originally supposed to be shot in the throat.

      Lingard’s model was originally created to be a guy named Mason, who was the mastermind of the New Frontier group in an early iteration of the story.

      That makes too much sense considering his design in the trailer.

      The guy who stabbed Javi in episode 4 (and was eaten by walkers in Ep 5) was originally supposed to be a spanish-speaking engineer that Javi could use his (originally planned) bilingual skills to communicate with.

      Interesting. Guess the Specialist deserved his concept art after all.

      There was a big hub in Episode 5 where Javi had to solve the problem of how to get off the roof, while also having the opportunity to talk to each character about your relationship and what was on their mind, including Clem trying to cheer up a very sad Gabe after having been knocked back by David in the scene in the apartments.

      :unamused: Again, that makes too much sense.

    • The guy who stabbed Javi in episode 4 (and was eaten by walkers in Ep 5) was originally supposed to be a spanish-speaking engineer that Javi could use his (originally planned) bilingual skills to communicate with.

      Man that would have been hilarious. Imagine the dialog options being in spanish and all the non spanish speaking fans freaking out with a spanish evil laughter in the background.

      Originally Eleanor was meant to be Joan's daughter.

      WHY WAS THIS SCRAPPED!?!? IT WOULD HAVE MADE SO MUCH SENSE!!

      • Man that would have been hilarious. Imagine the dialog options being in spanish and all the non spanish speaking fans freaking out with a spanish evil laughter in the background.

        Lol that happened to me once when I was playing TWAU. I was on the last episode, and then I went to the pause menu. When I came back to the game all the dialogue options were in spanish, and I freaked the fuck out.

        I was just learning spanish at the time, so it wasn't like I knew all of it, so I took educated guesses based on what was in each dialogue option.

        The reason this was so bad to me, was because it was the scene in Episode 5 where after I killed Bloody Marie, and it was the interrogation scene with The Crooked Man.

        Pretty bad timing.

  • This may be well known here, especially to the artists, but the blood stain that is on Clems hat is from Lee's blood when he got bitten. The blood stain has became a permanent feature on Clementine's hat since S1, even though its more faded away in ANF.
    (I can already see the 'If you don't break the ice, Bonnie dies' comments).

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  • The ama gave us canon backstories for a couple characters:

    • Joan was a divorced single mother, a driven child of immigrants, who worked her way up to COO of her furniture manufacturing company, running the factory as both den mother and disciplinarian. She knew every employee’s name, but also everyone’s weak spots.
    • Pre-apocalypse, Conrad owned a small town restaurant and was an avid baseball fan. His family was all brutally killed in the first months after the fall, but Conrad still managed to keep a group of people safe by leading them to the Prescott airfield, and helping to build it up from nothing.
    • Tripp is a former dock worker, not well educated, but street smart. Post-apocalypse, he’s killed his share of people, and it eats him up inside at night. He’s the most effective defender of the Prescott community, and had taken responsibility for the town’s “perimeter” at the time when Javi met him.
  • Another interesting tidbit from the AMA was the original draft storyline for ANF; it aligns pretty well with the teaser trailer:

    "There was an earlier version of the story where Javi was forced to join the New Frontier group and branded (against his will) in order to prove his trustworthiness/earn his place. He escaped, but still needed to retrieve his family (David, Gabe, and Mari) from their NF captors, which aligned his goals with Clementine’s search for AJ."

    • sounds similar to what dabigRG and I talked about, but I heard apparently Mariana was always fated to die in episode 1? That sucks.

      • I asked about Mariana, if she was always planned to die and Alyssa(the Creative Director) told me that Mari died in different ways over the rewrites but was never going to survive the story.
        In an earlier version we were going to find her as a walker upon returning to the junkyard. We also had to decide whether Javi or an other character should put her down. :(

    • Yeah, me and Lelouche had a discussion about that once, but apparently Mariana was always gonna die eventually. It may or may not have been a product of the direction change though.

  • Okay, so apparently, Eleanor is specifically Thai American, but her exact backstory is no longer relevant due to numerous changes to the story. But yes, she really was supposed to be Joan's daughter originally.

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