Why Lee losing an arm and Clem losing a leg is significant symbolism
Or: im way too obsessed with this game so here's a thing
So, throughout the final season, we hear several times about how similar Clem grew up to be to Lee. Alongside this, we also get multiple parallels between these two (car crash, taking care of a kid, having to who choose to save, etc.) And that can all be overlooked, I mean they put random stuff like that in all the games (the hatchet clem uses in S2, Clem getting a haircut at the end of S3) but there's something different about these ones, and that's all of them aren't EXACT references to S1 like the other ones. Clems story doesn't go the same way Lee's does. Sure, they're similar, but also opposite. Clem lives, AJ is with Clem when she gets bit, Lee wasn't escaping form bad people, stuff like that makes them so different. And I thinks that's why it's so significant. Arms and legs are so similar, but complete opposites. You use arms to hold things. To build a place to stay. You use legs to walk. to RUN. Both things Clem and Lee did or tried to do respectively. While all these things are different, there's use that arms and legs have in common, but are so different in themselves. Attacking. Climbling. Anything you can think of. Both do these things, but they do them so differently, just like Clem and Lee. They both lose something similar, but not the same. Because they could NEVER be the same