I remember back when the second season of The Walking Dead was first revealed, there was no shortage of Internet-brand grousing about Clementine as the new playable protagonist. Some of that concern was the result of players feeling like the first season's tragic, but ambiguous conclusion was more than satisfying enough a send-off for the character. I get that perspective, but I also think abandoning Clem's story would have been a terrible mistake. To me, the first season of The Walking Dead always felt more like Clementine's story than Lee's. In those first five episodes, we see Clementine slowly grow from a scared little girl, completely reliant on Lee's strength and guidance to survive, to someone strong enough to do whatever is necessary, even if what's necessary is killing the only person on earth you still have a connection to. While I agree that there would have been a certain beauty to ending Clem's story with her, alone and sad, looking off into the horizon and seeing those two distant figures looking back, I also think that would have been a betrayal of all that time spent teaching Clem what it means to be a survivor in this demented new world. With this second season, now we had an opportunity to see how Clementine put those teachings to use, and I couldn't have been more excited to see where that would go.