Forum Overview :: The Walking Dead :: they really did fuck the story

[quote name="fabio"]with the SUPER time travel power. Once you start using time travel to undo time travel, you're fucked. Not a single story has pulled this off. Other undeveloped or dropped stuff: -Max's nosebleeds. Never any consequences for pushing too far. They had a theme going where she wasted it on dumb games in the diner then was too exhausted to automatically save Kate. Would you go on to ration it or suffer consequences from pushing it? Nope! More on consequences: they also had something going where saving Chloe's dad meant that David was now a miserable and alone bus driver. Why not go with that for conflict? Everything Max does to enrich her and Chloe's lives means someone else's life gets measurably shittier? The best outcome for everyone else would be Chloe coming to terms with her current life as it is. -The butterfly, the doe. What were they? Rachel's spirit? That comes back to enable Max to save Chloe? Except that actually using the powers to save Chloe results in everything being destroyed? Including the man that Rachel cared more about than Chloe? -The tornado. Saving Chloe was the <b>one</b> thing that caused it? What about saving Kate or bringing down the Dragon Tattoo rape gang? The tornado is cool with those being changed? It would have done wonders if Max had been drawn into the tornado and have it be the manifestation of meddling guilt, causing the nightmare rather than Max's subconscious. You arrive at the good/bad ending depending on how you used the power, feeding or dissipating the storm. Everything prior to super time travel bullshit was pointing towards the tornado being like the slime from Ghostbusters 2, coming to a head at the paragon of interpersonal shittiness, The Vortex Club, sponsored by king shit Nathan's father. -Chloe. They seriously couldn't commit to the idea that Chloe was a burden due to her sociopath personality? Instead going with her magically getting fucked over or killed in every reality? That dumped every notion of character and causality and turned the whole thing into a Tumblr rewrite of <i>Final Destination</i>. All that potential flushed at the end. The entire time I was thinking how much better this was than Telltale's drek, only to end with an arbitrary Sophie's Choice worthy of The Walking Dead.[/quote]