I thought it was damn entertaining and told a story critical to the character. Showing is much better than telling.
The Last of Us HBO series
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I agree with you. It was the slowest episode of the season but it was still an above average hour of a tv series. IMDB ratings (7.7 compared to 9.1 for the average of the show) would agree. We didn’t learn anything significant that was new and, unlike the Bill and Frank episode, there wasn’t much suspense or wonder about what would happen. But we did get some good Ellie backstory. In a 9 episode season, it felt a bit filler-ish but I still enjoyed it.
Keep in mind that the second lowest rated episode is episode 3, which got review bombed by a certain segment butthurt about gay characters. The same segment appears to be doing the same review bombing for episode 7 with the large number of 1* reviews
Episode 3 was one of the best episodes of television I’ve seen in awhile. No doubt there are some weirdos with agendas influencing these.
Good point and agree. But Episode 7 couldn't hold a candle to Episode 3 and I think everyone would agree. I don't think many would disagree with that.
Thats a pretty high bar though considering episode 3 was probably one of the better episodes of tv period in awhile. If you took the review bombers out of the averages you'd probably see episode 3 as the highest rated episode of the series and this one about in line with the rest of the episodes
I really liked the game but this just didn't work on TV for me. When playing the game I was putting the hours in and flying through it. For a weekly TV series it feels like the story didn't progress for a couple weeks. Curious if I'd feel different if watching all at once.
This show is starting to remind me of the GOT episodes when the Hound was traveling with Ayra Stark.
I'd been looking forward to this chapter for awhile. It was absolutely brutal in the game.
The episode did not disappoint. The actor who played David did a great job of capturing that creepiness that he had. And Bella Ramsey really showed us Ellie's violent side (something people have been concerned whether she could handle in Pt2).
The episode did not disappoint. The actor who played David did a great job of capturing that creepiness that he had. And Bella Ramsey really showed us Ellie's violent side (something people have been concerned whether she could handle in Pt2).
Now this was a great episode. I don’t know anything about the rest of the story but it feels like this is a turning point for Ellie where she goes from an immature smartass to a full blown bad ass that can be the next great leader of the remaining humans.
It's a great episode but it's kind of a bummer they are consistently dropping moments with the infected in favor of adding background for side characters.
If this is the type of episode we're going to get, I'm completely fine with it. This was a great episode of TV.
Great episode. I am both excited for the next episode and upset that it will be the last one of the season.
It's actually pretty amazing how much they've minimized the interaction with the infected in the series. It's so much better than the walking dead's common plot device of "oh we're just out here walking around for reasons, oh ****, zombies are surrounding us, how could we have ever heard them"
There are a lot of comps with Walking Dead which itself is an homage to Dawn of the Dead/Romero stuff.
With that said, the Walking Dead's downfall was this particular Last of Us episode would have been 5-15 episodes once AMC knew it was a hit and tried to milk it. There was a very similar TWD story and I'm pretty sure it was almost an entire season. Worse yet there were 4-6 episode arcs where nothing happened or they intentionally slowed down pace compared to the comics source material.
This show will probably be epic if it is 30ish episodes at the current pace. Unlike Walking Dead where I had read the comics, I've never played this game. It seems they are keeping spirit of the game but changing some small details from what the creators say in the feature after each episode.
