Man, last night was just ok, hopefully they make up for it next week, I think this is a set up episode so we can see the dynamics at work
Oh absolutely. I don't think CG movies have fully nailed it yet, and it is 100x easier to do it there than in a video game cutscene. I'm just pointing out that the tech is improving, and while it isn't perfect, you are able to reproduce complex expressions and whatnot. Not as good as real life of course, but most games don't have a big budget TV show adaptation that allows for comparison. I did check out the first minute or so of the game from both Youtube videos (2013 original on PS3 vs 2022 PS5 version), and I do think the latter does look much better. Beyond better lighting, textures, skin shading, etc., I think it is more expressive (at least in that one sample). I actually haven't bothered to check what all they updated, and I'm a little surprised they bothered to (seemingly?) update some of the animation/performance capture.
Yeah, it was okay. Surprised this series is only 9 episodes and we're getting a measly 40 minute episode where not a whole lot happens. And this after a one-off episode that was only tangentially related to the main storyline. Maybe there's just not a lot of material from the game?
Episode 4 does feel a bit like they just cut one episode into parts, which might partly explain the (relatively) short episode length. Don't think they literally did that necessarily, but feels like this part of the story might have been too big to squeeze into one episode, and this is how they decided to do it. Glancing at upcoming episode titles and whatnot, pretty sure they have enough to finish out the game's story (especially if they go back to 60-90 minute episodes...possibly even longer near the end). The game, without gameplay, isn't very long, so you can cover a lot in a 60+ minute episode. Though yeah they probably can't do too many more one-off episodes with 45 minutes of brand new story or things like that.
This episode had more plot relevance than last week's episode and character growth between the mains. I enjoyed it more than last week's episode.
Quoting myself (how lame is that?), but I'm watching Digital Foundry's analysis of the PS5 remake vs the PS3/PS4 version. I knew they reworked quite a bit, but I didn't really realize how much they improved things (or I forgot). And yeah, they 100% did make the characters much more expressive and less "uncanny valley" (although I'd say it is still there). For anyone who would like to see what I'm talking about, here's the video: *NOTE THIS INCLUDES SEGMENTS FROM THROUGHOUT THE GAME, SO AVOID IF YOU DON'T WANT ANY SPOILERS!* (nothing *super* crazy, but if you haven't played the game and don't want any ideas of what might end up in upcoming episodes, maybe avoid for now)
I felt like the leader Kathleen or whatever her name was in episode 4 gave off a very Walking Dead New Villain Flavor of the Week vibe rather than prestige tv vibe to the detriment of the show. A new character just dropped in to the story that we are supposed to fear that will likely eventually be gone by the end of this story arc, etc. also , LOL at the doubling down of pretending to want Joel’s backstory how he met and fell and love with his daughter’s mother pre apocalypse. The episode 3 story was about pre established characters finding each other and finding a purpose to survive in the new world, fleshed out over an entire episode covering the 20 established years. Bill and Frank were a part of Joel and Tess’ network and were integral to the storyline.
Hahahaha, pre-established characters? Over an hour long episode for what amounts to a stand-alone episode that has nothing to do with main story? Where are these 2 integral characters we spent an entire episode deviating from the main story at? Oh yeah, dead and irrelevant to the show. I literally could skip episode 3 and I would not miss a beat on the show, that's how integral and important their snooze fest love story was to the show. I love how people double down pretending they actually mattered, it's a laughable excuse for people to excuse the garbage episode 3 was.
Good bounce back episode although I was disappointed this episode did not have any romance. I would have liked to see someone's sexual preference and love life a little more than the protagonists journey through a dangerous apocalyptic world to deliver on a promise and potentially save humanity from going extinct. But this is ok too, hopefully they dedicate the next episode to some side character's fetish.
Absolutely hilarious how Salvy and clos4life continue watching this show despite hating it, just to trash it on an anonymous internet board after every episode and whine about how woke the mean world is nowadays. You two need therapy.
Another ignorant poster. Don't be lazy and check my posts. I'm nowhere near hating it. Love episodes 1,2 and 4 so far. My complaints about episode 3 have nothing to do with sexual orientation but pretty much everything else on that episode for reasons unrelated to wokeness. They could change Bill and Frank to Bill and Sally and it would still suck. If you are going to generalize at least get informed.
