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Any other fans in this here forum?
I just finished the second season. In many ways these games have been among the best interactive story telling I've ever seen. However, having finished all there is to the games for now...
They're a bit too grimdark for me. In particular, the second season didn't seem to have much of a structured story, just a string of incredibly miserable events. This is a problem with the post apocalyptic zombie genre in general - every story seems hopeless from the get go. Nobody is gonna make it, nobody is building any sort of functional society. You can't stop your story at any point and say "and the rest of their life was peaceful" because it will clearly never be.
I guess the ending had some vestige of hope - it did seem like the cold was stopping the zombies. Still, I would have liked to find up what goes on in Wellington.
My hopes for the third season is that they follow an adult Clementine, essentially making the first two seasons into an origins story, and that it's a bit more hopeful. I want to see the growing pains of a new society, not the death throes of the old one. It worked for a couple of seasons but it's really time to move to the next phase.
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I quite enjoyed the first season. It was a good precisely because Clementine needed caring for, and at the same time represented something to fight for.
The second season started off with a tragic accident - but also with the hope of a baby. Well, that disappeared without a trace or even comment. It just kept on piling trauma after trauma until I decided that Clem had broken under the strain. Embraced the horror and tried to become it.
I finished the final episode alone with the baby, after shooting Kenny. Clementine had internalized that everyone would just leave her anyway. Why risk the hurt.
That really depressing ending was the last thing I wanted for Clem, but the only thing that felt... psychologically appropriate to her.
I ended up in exactly the same place.