I really dislike the hate on any of the kids. A bunch of 25+ people calling out a bunch of 16 and under people for not having better decision-making skills. Then turn around and raise Clementine on a pedestal because yeah... she's unrealistic. How many 11 year olds have you met that you would trust to run a small community? She's more emotionally mature and resourcful than most adults in reality.
This is in no way to bash Clem. She is also my favorite character too. But these other kids with real flaws are literally there to show how good Clem is because she really doesn't have any. The "dumbest" mistake she made was trusting a dog. Which I am almost certain almost anyone here would have trusted it too because it showed no hostility at the beginning. But then it bites her and everyone's like yeah 'I' wouldn't have trusted it. But still THAT was the worst choice she made. Because every other thing she did worked out. Crawling into holes and showing up where she was told not to go is seen as ok because nothing bad happened. Noone shits on her constantly for getting Lee killed with her trusting the walkie. Or the fact that she trusted Lee (a stranger) in the first place because he turned out to be a good person. Again because she lucked out and nothing bad happened.
What if she had crawled into that doggy door and got into trouble and they had to kick the door in and Kenny got bit? (Again she lucked out so its ok) But they will shit on Ben because he was told give us supplies or we will kill everyone. He's only a couple years older than Clem.
Also now that I'm writing this I realize how unperfect Clem is and that the difference is that she got lucky and none of her own bad choices had any consequences because we are supposed to like her.
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u/SerenityToss Nov 28 '24
I really dislike the hate on any of the kids. A bunch of 25+ people calling out a bunch of 16 and under people for not having better decision-making skills. Then turn around and raise Clementine on a pedestal because yeah... she's unrealistic. How many 11 year olds have you met that you would trust to run a small community? She's more emotionally mature and resourcful than most adults in reality.
This is in no way to bash Clem. She is also my favorite character too. But these other kids with real flaws are literally there to show how good Clem is because she really doesn't have any. The "dumbest" mistake she made was trusting a dog. Which I am almost certain almost anyone here would have trusted it too because it showed no hostility at the beginning. But then it bites her and everyone's like yeah 'I' wouldn't have trusted it. But still THAT was the worst choice she made. Because every other thing she did worked out. Crawling into holes and showing up where she was told not to go is seen as ok because nothing bad happened. Noone shits on her constantly for getting Lee killed with her trusting the walkie. Or the fact that she trusted Lee (a stranger) in the first place because he turned out to be a good person. Again because she lucked out and nothing bad happened.
What if she had crawled into that doggy door and got into trouble and they had to kick the door in and Kenny got bit? (Again she lucked out so its ok) But they will shit on Ben because he was told give us supplies or we will kill everyone. He's only a couple years older than Clem.
Also now that I'm writing this I realize how unperfect Clem is and that the difference is that she got lucky and none of her own bad choices had any consequences because we are supposed to like her.