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Feeb wrote:


As someone who played Remastered years ago on PS4 and recently played the PS5 Remake, the story itself isn't long or complicated. It was a 17 hour game give or take and a lot of that is gameplay. Considering the 9-episode first season is planning to cover the whole first game and the DLC and they have added content for the show, they will be just fine. When playing the Remake recently, I was surprised how quickly the game ended when going into Winter and then Spring.

Feeb wrote:

If it takes them 5 seasons to tell the story of part 1, they would definitely lose me - talk about padding and not moving the plot forward. That would one up some Game of Thrones seasons in terms of nothing happening. Considering the game is made of large chunks of gameplay which is time they can instead use to further focus on character/story development, I think using 1 season to tell the story will be perfect. Pacing is everything and they could mess it up, but first episode has me confident so far

They practically more than doubled the length of the prologue. I think the reason the show is not hitting with me yet is because there is not a dearth of action long periods in the game. The amount of great story in that 15-20 hour experience is a part of its brilliance. Hopefully the show picks up and I enjoy it but seeing more stuff about the upcoming episodes it looks like it may get a GoT type multiple character / stories ongoing that interconnect type treatment. This will require lots of backstory and new / supplemental material. annnd- it?s HBO. They have a penchant for creating brilliant TV when given source material but inevitably destroying the best stuff by padding it out too much. True Blood, GoT etc- some of their best shows were cancelled and never got watered down. Like Deadwood, Rome, Carnivale etc.

Here?s hoping they don?t HBO this.

Here are all the cutscenes (5 hours):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H319ys4Tb8

The first hour of cutscenes mirrored what happened in the first episode (of 9 total this first season), leaving 4 hours for the rest of 8 episodes. Some key gameplay portions will get trimmed down into a few action sequences for the show. The rest of the gameplay is filler and won't need to be reflected in the show.

Major story points would be Bill & Frank, Sam & Henry, David, Salt Lake City, and Riley from the Left Behind DLC. Each of those can be covered in a single episode, maybe 1 and a half for some characters.

Maybe it was just me, but Gabriel Luna as Tommy sounded just like the Tommy voice actor. And casting Marlene's voice actor to actually play Marlene in the show was awesome.

There will likely be a ?before the outbreak? episode or at least an after the bombing type episode.

He did sound exactly like Tommy. I was confused as to the casting Tommy VA as another toon and using that dude as the character- he?s pretty great.

Another insight- the prologue took more time partly because the ability of the game to tell the story by exploring the items in the house etc had to be more visual and less intuitive. That?s one of the perks of a video game. Tons of the story- and especially back story- is told through item descriptions/ files / photos, in game dialogue etc. that will all likely be realized through television by longer runtimes.

This is not a huge spoiler and won?t ruin anything for you as it?s speculative- just respect.

It's a bit too similar to the game. But with most game adaptations, they usually stray so far from the source it just sucks as a result.

I haven?t watched it, but just looking at the pics I hate the casting of that girl as Ellie

Broccoli wrote:

You wanted to creep over a 19 year old actress playing a teenager, huh?

I enjoyed the pilot... Since I played the games I already knew about the beginning, but I thought it was pretty good and sets up the show nicely.
Does anyone else picture Pedro Pascal as the Mandalorian during certain scenes and laugh a bit? I'm just waiting for him to say "This is the way" in a scene...

Kommie wrote:

Bella Ramsey is 19. I agree it?s a bad choice. She looks like a sadist during the scene when Joel beats that dude. Too creepy.

Kommie wrote:

Huh? no. I wasn’t thinking about age (or that) at all.


I just think she has almost no likeness (IMO) to Ellie. Even the pics I’ve seen of her from the show, the looks on her face and stuff, doesn’t really make me think she was a good choice.

I’ve watched GoT, she did a fine job in that for the smaller role she had. She has some chops for sure.I don’t dislike the actress.

Now I could watch it and maybe she does a great job and does mannerisms and nuance that youd never be able to tell from still photos of her. I could be blown away by how great she does even if she initially seems like a poor casting choice (a la lots of ppl with Tom Cruise as Lestat in Interview With a Vampire), but she just doesn’t seem to look like a good representation of Ellie I guess, to me. I’m open to being wrong. I’ll give it a shot for sure.

Feeb wrote:

They explain that scene in the post credits as part of the behind the scenes (which was pretty good) to show the difference between Sarah and Ellie.

Yeah I saw that. Like she loves seeing him batter someone for her. Yikes.

Im afraid they’re going to have her manipulate his protective nature more than we’re accustomed to. Seems to be a big thematic goal after seeing the after credits.

Feeb wrote:

We get it, you don’t like the show. Yikes

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Yo, that kid playing Ellie is cosplayin’

Rest of the cast felt like the game

Love it so far. That scene was perfectly done and acted IMO.

People are going to hate the 2nd season...

Watched the first episode last night. I think they did a wonderful job. I don't think Bella is the perfect Ellie but she is acting the part well. It really did capture the feel of the first game.
Honestly after digesting the second game for a bit, I do quite love it too. So the 2nd season should be great.

It’s almost time y’all. I’m optimistic this one is a banger.

sinnie wrote:

If season 2 even is the second game.... I haven't read much but I could expect them to end season 1 after the Colorado part where Joel gets hurt and it transitions to that snow but where you play as Ellie solo for a bit.

The two opening background scenes are my favorite of the series so far.

If you google “cordyceps” there is a mushroom button that pops up. If you push it fungis show up.

Second episode was fine but kinda boring. Other than the whole fungus concept, it seemed to be a very “by the numbers” episode of “zombie” TV, and it was fairly predictable how it was gonna end up.

Show is good and looks great, but doesn’t blow me away like it seems to do for most folks. But tbh that goes for what I’ve played of the game so far too, in my opinion at least.

theJaw wrote:

It really is a pretty rote story. The game was excellent on hard mode a great sense of dread and anxiety. Really unique.

Kommie wrote:

This. I think they should just stick to the game and see what happens. Literally every adaptation is usually just wallpaper that resembles the game that is glue to a pile of crap script. Just do the direct adaptation with minor tweaks.

Kommie wrote:


The little bit I heard/read said Season 1 was going to be part 1, and season 2 would be part 2. With no plans for anything after that. Though Naughty Dog has hinted part 3 is in production.

Ellie is growing me a little bit... But man, that forehead and that weird facial expression she makes. Is she surprised? Is she being sarcastic? Is she smelling poop? I don't know!

That justin roiland cameo was something else

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MrBean wrote:

Saw episode 2 and yeah she's growing on me. But you are right... she's this generations' equivalent of Kristen Stewart with facial expressions. I do think she acts out Ellie's sense of humor very well though.

I'm personally hyped Season 2 was announced. I can't wait to love/hate Abby.

Nicely Done.

Ep3 was good. Solid change from the game.

Settle for what you got. But work your ass off to live. It’s flicted. I agree with the idea that living ain’t life without other people for sure. Other people are our purpose. However this is gonna get bombed.

Damn if that wasn’t one of the best portrayals of what “love” is. Torn up.

Feeb wrote:

I thought the same, that butt-hole general Joe was gonna lose their crap over the episode for the wrong reasons (hello Lightyear), but it really was done quite well and was such an awesome message that almost made ya forget that we were watching Last of Us.

"You were my purpose", powerful stuff.

Man, what an episode. It was like the emotional opening of ‘Up’, devastating, and the music from ‘Arrival’ just made it even more great

Feeb wrote:

SNL last night.. frigging hysterical.

Almost every character being bisexual/gay is pretty spot on