"Different from the game".... ahaha. Half of Joel's performance this episode was literally looking through drawers. I've never seen a show go out of its way this much to nod to the "gamers."
If you agree with their changes more power to you, don't let my opinion dissuade you from your enjoyment. I stand by my opinion and hope episode 4 gets back on the right track.
Breaking Bad had an entire episode dedicated to Walt and Jesse being stuck in a meth lab trying to kill a fly.
Lots of amazing shows out there. In my opinion, just to name a few over the last few years, I really enjoyed the Expanse, Ted Lasso, Abbot Elementary, Doom Patrol, GOT (except the finale), The Mandalorian, Andor, Mythic Quest, Bosch, and many more in a variety of genres. Those are not the only ones and not all necessarily great amazing writing, but I generally enjoyed them. There are lots of great TV and film out there, too much to really call out every single one. and for the record, episodes 1 and 2 of the Last of Us adaptation were great in every aspect I thought. Great question by the way.
the best part was the montage of him thriving in the apocalypse more scenes of them fending off raiders and finding more ingenious ways to survive would have been great but we did not need an hour long story of two dudes (or even a straight couple) falling in love
This right here. The reason not to like the 3rd episode has nothing to do with LGBTQ content and everything to do with garbage storytelling that would put anyone to sleep.
Again, you didn't think that Bill and Frank needed it or needed to show it, but if you do know where Joel's arc is going, why would this relationship that mirrors his personality not add to Joel's arc? From a storytelling perspective, the whole story in season 1 is about Joel failing but still trying to protect while allowing him to care again. Basically him finding his humanity by allowing himself to be a father again. It was very obvious that Bill was serving as a character that would push Joel's arc forward. I just don't see how you fail to see how that served no purpose but for some reason blowing up more zombies or raiders would?? I mean the whole story is about Joel's arc to find humanity again personally and also asks the question "at what cost."... which if you played TLOU1 you know what I'm talking about. I'm just not buying the argument. Especially since you are someone that would probably complain about season 8 of GOT which the primary complaint that Dany's arc wasn't believable. Maybe this is HBO overcorrecting if they continue to draw out Joel's arc, but given that this is really the first trigger moment to change Joel in a meaningful way, I'm sorry... I'm just not buying the complaint as poor storytelling. To me its storytelling 101.
Understood, and I'm glad you are going deep to justify with actual solid points other than claiming bigotry. I happen not to agree and think the episode would have been better the way Commodore explained it but to each his own. You thought it was amazing and deepened the story of the TLOU1, I happen to think of it as a bore of an hour long love episode that would cure insomnia with an even more depressing end to Bill'sTown than the game's original story. To each their own.
Yeah as I said, there's alot of action packed zombie apocalypse stories out there so it'll be confusing to me that bros will come out of the woodwork to blow up the internet with outrage about LTOU when everyone that knows anything about the original IP knows exactly what they are signing up for. Not just gay stuff but slower character arc development stuff that sometimes has gay people in it. I just looked on YouTube and the game has over 5 hours of cutscenes. That's alot of non-action character development.
But most of those non-action character development cutscenes were atually interesting and/or moving main story forward. Look, it's clear we're not going to agree, you think it was a great episode and I think it was hot boring garbage. You were entertained, I was certainly not. I'm good with disagreeing and hope episode 4 gets back to episode1/2 standards.
FWIW, I love TLOU and TLOU2, but because I'm a fake gamer, I just watched playthroughs of those games instead of playing them. I do that for a lot of games to be honest. I don't know if it was just me or due to the way I experienced TLOU, but I barely had any memory of the game's versions of events involving Bill (whereas I could *mostly* remember the other main characters and events fairly well). As I didn't actually play it, that part was actually kinda boring to me (despite all the "action"). I'm curious if that's something they noticed (i.e., it is fun to play, not fun to watch), hence changing it up for the TV show. Of course, the show's version stands out much more to me (I 100x better understand Bill...and of course Frank), and as mentioned, I think there are some themes/foreshadowing going on that they can revisit in future episodes. Yeah, it didn't have a lot of zombies or action, but honestly those are the least interesting aspects of the IP to me. And I'm sure there will be plenty in upcoming episodes.
Didn't mind the story line so much in the 3rd episode. Apparently some people didn't like it. I take the Joel Osteen policy on them, **** em.
anyone, except the vast majority of people who thought episode 3 was the strongest of the season so far. including myself and my friends (all of whom are straight and don't care about the characters' sexuality).
Good for you. Neither do I care about the character's sexuality, yet the episode remains boring garbage.
ok...fixed it. ive always operated under the assumption that episodes that have shown are fair game to discuss without spoilers. and if you havent watched the episode yet then you shouldnt be reading the thread!
