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It may surprise you to know that even if I am forever Team Kenny I actually really like Jane.
I really hate what they did to her in those last 30 minutes. It screams rewrites, her character has inherently selfish qualities and she definitely was projecting her sister issues onto Clem, but up until then she had better survival instinct than almost everyone in the cabin group aside (except Luke, fuck Bonnie forever but she's her own post).
Jane all of a sudden being so stubborn in her plan to the point of her own death is fucking character assassination. It's completely believable she may have hid AJ initially but faced with a knife to her chest the Jane we originally met in episode 3 and 4 gives up the plot and admits she was fucking around and doesn't want to find out.
God, Season 2 just really falls apart at the end.
THIS, i really did like jane up until that last 30 minutes. even if i didn’t always agree with her i thought her perspective was interesting, and it was kind of refreshing to get a character who acted selfishly but didn’t necessarily feel like a selfish asshole, if that makes sense? i liked her dynamic with clementine because it felt like she really did care about her, even if i wouldn’t have clem do the things jane wanted.
i was pretty invested in her conflict over aj too. jane was, to some degree, the only character who was being realistic about what having a baby around would do to their situation. she knew how much more complicated aj would make everything, and seeing her clash with the group on that was nice because i found it realistic. and it was nice to see the way that she thought about things could be changed (i.e. her conversation with rebecca before aj is born where i think jane realizes that they aren’t considering the practicality of the situation because of the love rebecca has for this baby, and i do think jane feels for that to some degree)
i really dislike the sudden turn the game makes her take at the end, and i think it directly conflicts what we’re given about her character as well. it doesn’t make sense to me that she acts the way she does in that final confrontation, at all. she’s been shown to be practical and to care most about her own survival the entire time, and now suddenly she’s willing to fight kenny to the death because she wants to prove a point? that just feels wrong. i do think she would take some drastic measure to show clem what she’s getting at, but i don’t think she’d be willing to die over it
i think ultimately what happened is they ignored jane’s characterization because they wanted to have a big, dramatic final episode where you finally choose a side and the other character is gone completely. but there were better ways to execute it, and i’ll die bitter over what they did to jane here
I would say it's not last 30 minutes, it's the whole 5th episode. Her being sad over killing Russian dude when she was willing left Sarah to die and when she shot Troy in a dick and left him to die slowly and painfully eaten alive - and that character suddenly sad about killing a person who, I remind you, almost killed Clem and Luke - people Jane was supposed to care about. So, Russian dude was hardly an innocent person. Less innocent than Sarah. And also contradictions to ehawe here and there throughout an episode - but that would be to long to list here right now.
She got fumbled so hard