This show is so good but so heavy. I'm glad I'm watching an episode a week. Don't know if I could handle much more
The Last of Us HBO series
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******* spoilers man. Some of us didn’t play the game and don’t know what’s coming next.
Also I’m not mad, just disappointed.
If it's what I think he's talking about what he said isn't much for spoilery
I really dont care that much. I expect the gang gets into a bit of trouble with either fungus zombies, fedra, or some other faction.
Maybe they spend the whole episode scrounging for ammo and supplies. That’s a big part of the game, correct?
Dam, we're moving right along. The scene I mentioned was pretty much shot for shot and done well, with a nice little foreshadow in there too.
My only problem with this episode was it felt a bit rushed. Particularly the university sequence. This could have easily been 2 episodes, and probably should have IMO.
Thought it was a great adaptation of the source. Some of that stuff from the mall looked identical. Was a great opportunity for Bella to show her talents as well. Her reaction to getting the bite, trying to wipe it away, the dread, was just perfect.
Probably my least favorite episode, only due to the fact that we kind of knew the big reveal at the end. So you're just kind of waiting for that to happen. There was some new but not new information about Ellie (spoiler below) so this just kind of felt like a bottle episode.
It was still good TV, but the show has been pretty propulsive and this just felt like the breaks really got thrown on here. Plus we already kind of had the episode with Bill and Frank, which in all honesty was just a story that was done better than this one. Also, we already know Ellie got bit so you're just kind of waiting for that to happen. We already know Ellie said everybody she has ever cared about is dead or left, so immediately you know what Riley character is probably toast. Again it was fine, nothing against it, but this season is almost over and this gave us not really much new information.
To me the mall reminded me of Stranger Things a little bit.
The stuff that happens in that episode has a massive effect on Ellie as a character, particularly the survivorship guilt she has, wanting her life to mean something
I thought it was pretty good too, IMO one of the best story moments the game had to offer.
My only complaint so far is I was hoping for so more surprises like episode 3, but since then it’s been pretty faithful to the game.
We would probably have more of those if the episode order was for more than nine episodes. Modern TV with the short episode orders really leaves little time to do much more
I just can't disagree more, but its hard to explain without knowing what is to come.
Maybe that's fair, I haven't played the game and I haven't looked up anything that is to come so this might be important going forward. I'm just saying, a travel narrative is a propulsive narrative and if you're going to take me out of that, I don't want to be shown something that I already know the outcome of. For the first time on Sunday I spent about half the show on my phone. I haven't been tempted to second screen so far during this show at any point, and this time it could hardly keep my attention.
Prior to this episode, if I said there were 3 animating things about Ellie it's that she's been abandoned or lost everyone important in her life, she got bit and didn't turn, and she's got an (understandable) bit of a messiah complex. Maybe we learned something important that is to come, but I don't know what that might be and IMO that's not good storytelling.
It might not be fair because the Bill and Frank episode might be the best episode of TV we've seen in the last few years but we already got taken out of the story once for Bill and Frank. We didn't know what was going to happen with Bill and Frank. Everybody knew exactly what was going to ultimately happen as soon as Ellie went in that mall.
