The Walking Dead: Season 2 - Original Story Theory 

This is a really good video and i'm glad someone else also believes that Arvo was supposed to be Eddie. There's just too much evidence that points to him playing Arvo. The 400 days characters would hunt down the S2 group lead by Tavia but Eddie would be alongside your group. Once Wyatt recognizes him, the S2 and 400 days group don't know what to do (they're angry that the S2 group destroyed their camp but Wyatt recognises his old friend) before Clem/Kenny notices Rebecca has turned and shoots her, causing them to think the shot fired was at them and starts a gunfight between the two groups. I'm also sad about how the town is completely absent despite being hinted at in the EP5 slide.

God it makes me wonder, how dark would season 2 have gotten when episode 4 and 5 were released with the original storyline

Was definitely weird how everyone forgot about the town

I guess episodes 4 and 5 were supposed to be REALLY DARK at a earlier time... In episode 4, there was a kind of "Tribal war" between Clem's group and another (Eddie's group ?), leading to a traumatic/brutal ending which everyone dies, except Clem and AJ... And episode 5 will show us 75% of the time Clem survives with AJ, without encounter any other humans, and at a point, there was a horrible choice where you have the possibility to leave or not AJ behind you... And, a little bit later after that, Clem completely alone (or not if you decided to keep AJ) is now very close to Wellington, it wasn't a lie, the city is really there... The city appears like a lost paradise, like a light of hope in the darkness... And at this point, there was the final choice of the season 2 you get... Enter to Wellington or not ? And man, It's really a tough choice... Enter in a city where you have no ideas actually if it's really safe or not (what if it's a city with bad guys ? Like the Saviors ?), but if you go, maybe there can be good people, living in a peaceful place and where everyone will really try to help you ? Maybe there is still hope for that... And if you refuse to go to Wellington, you choose the "safe" option, not encounter anymore people who can be bad after what you see and endure the whole season 2... So you pick up the "extrem survival way" and stay back in the darkness, refusing the light of hope in front of you... But, don't be afraid so much, after all she endures, Clem isn't a kid anymore at this point, so there is still hope too she can still survives by herself. The choice will even be 10x more hard to do if you have AJ with you at this point... It's really up to you to decide what could be good for both of you, trying to survive by yourself or try your chance to enter in a world which can be very good or very bad... Will you stay in the darkness ? Or try your chance and go to this light in front of you ? ... And Season 2 will ends with your choice, Clem (with AJ or not) walking to Wellington or go away from it... With "In the Water" music playing and screen fades to black, credits playing... I just wish season 2 would ends like this... It would explain so much why Clem is a lot more "dark" and "cold" in season 3 actually, because she just lost every of her innocence forever with a ending like that... =(

The fact that the original final episode is called "better to sleep" and I think that they mentioned that the original ending is that Clementine freezed to death

if this all happened, s2 would be the best of the 3

3:00 just to play devils advocate, her putting the blood on her face could have been alluding to their escape from Carvers where they cover themselves in walker guts

The original Season 2 sounded very dark. Even the music sounded very creepy and eerie.

This acualy makes Sense, this was great, and also creepy tbh (the music)

Look up the walking dead season 2 original story. The story that was supposed to go with the slides and the stuff clementine would go thought was pretty dark and creepy and to be honest, I wish they went with the original story as opposed to the one we got

I think the blood on clems face is linked to when they have to cover themselves in walker guts to escape

These theories are well done! Season 2 ignored several plot points that could've been used. I would've like to see them instead of the story we were given.

Honestly I would have loved to see Sarah’s story continue. Or even better they got split up and years later they see each other at the school and Sarah is a whole new character!

To this day I have the feeling that Sarah, more than anyone (minus Clem), was supposed to survive the season. The developers said long ago that she was supposed to be the next Clementine. They wouldn't have added the gun scene for her if they didn't originally have plans for her. To me her death was the most disappointing in the entire series, especially knowing that it absolutely wasn't supposed to happen in either scenario (as well as the fact that both could have been prevented). I don't care what anybody says. The hate for her was ugly and atrocious and she deserved better.

My theory The Season was lazily written

Also Jane vs kenny had gotta originally be Luke vs kenny right? Like it had been leading up to it for quite a long time and Luke’s death was so sudden without any choices mattering.

If they had used the original script then season 2 would have been so dark it would be considered a horror game

Also fun fact: Arvo has eddie's gun. Plus there was unused animation for arvo with a knife. Plus. Remember jane calling arvo a junkie? And eddie looks like a junkie? Well I'm thinking he was supposed to be added but instead got replaced by arvo?

Season 2 could been darker

I’ve watched this video numerous times, I agree with pretty much everything here, especially the fight between two groups and the missing of the church town. It’s almost as if the church town was gonna have an actual role in episode 5, but for some reason it was cut, almost seemed deliberate it was removed. It made no sense for our group to make a big deal out of it in episode 4 for only in episode 5 to never hear or speak about the town again for the story. The whole point of the argument in episode 4 was because of finding supplies in that church town, only for it to be forgotten and discarded? They completely went back on episode’s 4 point to go with Arvo’s plan to go to his place when they could’ve went to that town instead like they said they would? Multiple important things could’ve had happened in that town but instead we got the whole idiotic lake scene that stupidly killed Luke and potentially Bonnie like in my play through? Hogwash.

Troy was supposed to be the villain originally and carver had like a minor part I think but they liked his voice so much they made carver the villain

To this day i still look back and think how much season 2 could have been. From the luke and kenny Conflict, 400 days characters playing a bigger role. Also not saying this would have been good but how dark the ideas they had like clem letting aj die or kenny as the original villian or troy R@ped clem ( I heard news that was one of the ideas and it's haunting how dark the story was originally gonna be

Carver was suppose to be friends with Clem?!! Awesome I would have loved to see that happen for real I love Carver!!

I really wish this all happened. It would have been so much more interesting and I have a soft spot for tragedy

I know "Better to Sleep" was supposed to end with only AJ and Clem being alive, walking toward the town, and it's freezing so badly that you can opt to leave AJ since he's just too much of a burden (and would be, let's not kid ourselves) in a zombie apocalypse and going at it alone, or staying with him and dying...until some folks come up and find you before the light goes out for good. Eddie was supposed to be a stand-in for Arvo, and we know Eddie was a junkie, so Jane's line would have worked. Also know any major conflict was supposed to also be Luke VS Kenny instead of Jane. Seeing Clem become friends with CARVER would have been especially interesting as far as the story goes, and there is an option when he's talking to you saying you wanna help. Shit, that could have had the story goes in some crazy directions, and if the writing was anything other than binary, it could have resulted in branching stories sorta like what they did at the end of what we got. And yeah, it would have been better to do something with Sarah, as much as I couldn't stand the character. Trying to mold her into a survivor similarly to how Lee did for Clem would have been interesting, especially since it'd be a kid teaching another kid. Could have put a cool spin on things. Ah well. Season 3 was trash, but at least Season 4 was pretty good.

That music is fucking creepy

loved this vid. I'm hype for S3. I'd love for you to make some more videos like this. keep up the good work.

Nice vid! There were some parts I was iffy about, but overall, it gave me a lot to think about. I'm surprised someone else also thought of the Eddie/Arvo thing, I'd brought it up with my sister a week or so ago thinking that's probably what happened.

I can’t believed I missed this video. Better late than never. I hope your doing okay 👍

God this season had soooo much potential to be one of the darkiest in the whole series. So many things were taken out of the original story, so much so that really the only thing that stayed the same was episode 1, all the other episodes were changed. Its my favorite season out of all the seasons because it still is very depressing compared to the others (besides s1 finale) but damn man. I remember the excitement I had for eddie when I saw him in the cover art for episode 4. I remember slowly as the season went on, they changed the cover art for pretty much each episode, which right off the bat led me to believe they were flipping the scripts on us (which they were) and I always could see hints or mentions of things in the game that didn't exactly make sense but showed that there once was another, better, darker story (for ex. Troy's creepy questions to Sarah and clem, troy getting shot in the dick, Luke mentioning how Mike is trying to "prove himself") and then when some players data mined the game and found unused files, it just solidified the fact that i felt all along while playing the game, it was heavily changed. Can you imagine how deeply disturbing this game could've been if kenny played his original role in this season instead of carver, how more people would hate and how much more sense it would make for jane to kill troy that way if he actually did take advantage of clementine, how much sense ep 4 cover art would make if you actually did go to war with another group and have eddie be involved, how luke could've survived. The list goes on and on. Its a damn shame, considering everything we know now. Actually feel sad everytime i come back to the season, knowing how much better it couldve been, couldve easily been the best in the series if Telltale didn't have so much drama going on internally.

Very cool video design, really enjoyed it

Oh man the original select scree music for both for 4 and 5 are so unnerving I wonder what instruments were used to produce the track. Also the rumor that clementine freezes to death in the original script of episode 5 better to sleep is so grim goddamn.

Great vid! Gave a like and sub

Damn, I really missed season 2, I got the collection. But I meant the real season two.

Even if it seems interesting, I’m honestly kind of glad Ep4 and Ep5’s original stories haven’t been pieced together yet. Their original title cards are so freaky and cockamamie that I’m glad we got watered-down, sloppy rewrites. Edit: Ya boy can’t spell.

Miss luke🖤

Okay I was thinking "How would Episode 5 start if Arvo was Eddie?" I was thinking of leading us to the house but maybe instead. I dunno. Something happens and we get to the Church. Maybe the Russian group which instead would be the 400 Days characters taking revenge would survive and we'll run away from em to the church. But still at the end Luke Vs Kenny would happen though. Also I dunno when would Jane come back. Maybe she'll sacrifice herself.

am I the only one who didn't like season 2?? I would have loved this story and taken it over what we got.

I have a feeling that this game has the most cut content ever

I also found out something interesting... i.imgur.com/tF8tnFo.png This is the final version of EP5, it's transparent and has a "shadow city" in it. Resize it to fit the picture in the video i.imgur.com/WoZLX1p.png The "shadow city" fits perfectly with the screenshot, so they actually raised the ground after removing clem(?) to perfectly cover her up, maybe?

Isn't anybody gonna realise the problem with coming *Sooon*

Video ending song what version is that

it would have been weird if Clem and carver had a lee-Clem relationship

Btw can someone tell me what is the name of his outro?

Where did you find the "Better to Sleep" picture?

I fiddled around with the scene where you find Sam. I removed almost everything that obscures objects like this... i.imgur.com/rPiaSAn.png gg telltale

What's the music at 0:55?

6:06

Season 2 was garbage and lazily written, we where give a whole cast of characters in the 1st episode who nearly all of them got replaced by new characters in the coming episodes or where killed to early to actually have some character development, choices in season 2 dont matter as much as they do in season 1 for example you can either choose to help sarah or let her die but it doesn’t matter if u help her because she just dies 25 minutes later and in that time she has no character development and only like 1 line of dialogue, it was fun to play season 2 but it has way to many flaws.

Is dat church town is crawford?

Season 2 is full of disappointments