The Last of Us Tv Show - Anyone saw this?

Particle Bored said:
They did a good job replicating the truck crash setpiece from the game.
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The fight sucked and it was missing the badass glass throat cut. The violence of the sequence is ridiculously muted.
Oats12345 said:
So how's Pedo (this is not a typo after he mourned the pedo that Rittenhouse killed) Pascal's performance?
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He sucks. He gets the voice right sometimes but like other people said he is small and has a very muted performance. Troy adds a depth and humanity to Joel that lets him span a large range of emotions over the course of the story, from savage brutality to genuine warmth. He is a very 'human' protagonist.

Pedro boils him down to generic stoic guy. He has lots of stern looks and almost never emotes outside of the smallest twinge of sadness. He also completely lacks the violent side of Joel so I don't buy the raider shit at all for Pedro. He looks scared and frightened during every fight.
 
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TheHarbinger said:
Part of it is that this is a video game show. So the real excitement from this story comes from playing the game and killing bad guys and jump puzzles and unlocking new areas for a sense of achievement. You do not really have that on the show where there is excitement in killing new enemies, getting new gear, and leveling up or whatever. So now they have to really pad out the story with fag romances, deaf niggers, flashbacks to society, and so on. The original story was probably written in a way where the gameplay covers up for how derivative (and plagiarist) it is. I never played the actual games.

Most video game stories are rather shallow. But even the best ones still focus more on player choice and gameplay than a pure linear story. Hence why pretty much all, if not all, video game to screen adaptations are horrendous.

The other reason is budget. Killing zombies in a video game does not bloat the budget. But on a television show they need to keep the action sequences short. Hence the constant indoor shots and sets. Quick action pieces. And so on. Yeah you could have a massive CGI dragon battle and huge ice zombies that spans an entire season. Or.....you could film a twenty minute battle in pitch darkness despite being the highest viewed and purchased show of all time.

And finally the writing is just bad. Joel has to escort the girl to another state. He chooses the path into the most hostile FEDRA city he knows of? So a lot of stuff feels like padded story or filler because the characters are so stupid that their actions seem time wasting or illogical. Joel is some ex soldier or marine but behaves like a retard who has no clue. He lets the girl sleep in a room alone and lets a guy who held a gun on them keep his gun when he sleeps. If he was a proper soldier he would have left them alone that night and crept off unawares.
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Agreed. The games story is well acted and presented by video game standards but by the standards of a cable television show it is completely paper thin and relies on environments and moment to moment set pieces to remain interesting. The bad guys in Pittsburgh were just an obstacle for joel and ellie to overcome thieves, bandits and rapists. So the show tries to develop them about with Commander Karen and her revolutionaries. But they only have a couple scenes over two episodes so it comes across as a bit forced and rushed.

Game of thrones is a good example of most of these cable dramas being heavily plotted and having A B and C plots going on. Usually the goal or motivations are different by the end of a season and there are lots of narrative twists and turns. It keeps people engaged with speculation and wondering what will happen week to week. TLOU's problem and the reason it really makes for a kinda mid show is that really the only interesting plot is joel and ellie and their mission to make it to wyoming. They have the same goal at end of episode 5 that they have had at the end of episode 1. I think season 2 is going to have the same problem as it has a very video game goal too (get revenge for Joel) but is even more divisive.

Im honestly surprised that the show didn't use their extra time to flesh out the fireflies. Maybe show more of their motiviations, and have more stuff for marlene to do. Id rather cut back and have a sub plot where her character is developed more as she ends up being the ultimate antagonist to joel at the end.
 
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wholetthegodsout said:
Im honestly surprised that the show didn't use their extra time to flesh out the fireflies. Maybe show more of their motiviations, and have more stuff for marlene to do. Id rather cut back and have a sub plot where her character is developed more as she ends up being the ultimate antagonist to joel at the end.
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The problem is that the current writers (specifically Druckmann) would, and still likely will, paint the firefly's as the "good guys". Even though TLOU 1 gives you far more reasons through subtext and optional dialogue (stuff Druckmann and company clearly didn't get or have forgotten based on how this show has largely lost most of the subtext of the original) to see the firefly's as little better, if not worse, than the feds and raiders.

Really selling the true point of the story that you can't trust any of these greater organizations to not fuck over individuals for their own supposedly "greater" interests. That the only people you can rely on and trust to do what is right are those you have made a strong personal bond with, the last of us if I really have to be so cliché.
 
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So it seems like the fifth episode had plummeted the show's ratings. Not surprising. That Super Bowl move didn't really pay off.
 
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TVBForever said:
So it seems like the fifth episode had plummeted the show's ratings. Not surprising. That Super Bowl move didn't really pay off.
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releasing the episode early probably main reason. i expect it had more views that way tho despite not releasing numbers. 6th episode should be back to normal in ratings
 
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Deadwaste said:
releasing the episode early probably main reason. i expect it had more views that way tho despite not releasing numbers. 6th episode should be back to normal in ratings
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It wouldn't be a surprise. People will flock to it because of the namesake. ...or they'll following something else equally as normie-friendly.
 

"Bella Ramsey said that she wore a chest binder 90% of the time while shooting 'The Last of Us' to focus better on set"

I don't watch the show so idk if it's noticeable but you'd think crushing your rib cage and chest would be a distraction and make it harder to move. So if it ever looks like she's having trouble breathing....
 
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gmax alcremie said:

"Bella Ramsey said that she wore a chest binder 90% of the time while shooting 'The Last of Us' to focus better on set"

I don't watch the show so idk if it's noticeable but you'd think crushing your rib cage and chest would be a distraction and make it harder to move. So if it ever looks like she's having trouble breathing....
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to be fair, that might work fine for a 19 year old playing a 14 year old
 
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I'm sure this freakazoid was having too much trouble with her huge breasts flopping around all over the place. Jesus.
 
CharcoalChkn said:
The thing that annoys me most is whenever someone gets wrecked by a zombie they just stand there fucking slack jawed like they've been lobotomized, run while that thing is distracted, good LORD.
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I was really hoping they were gonna avoid that shit but unsurprisingly most writers are not creative enough to make people not behave like retards.
 
here's weird question but they got rid of spores for these weird tendril things that when disturbed attracts all the zombies right?
wouldn't shit like that be easily exploitable to kill zombies.
just set up a shitload of timed explosives and shit, then disturb the tendril, you basically attract all the zombies to one place and can kill a shitload of em.
 
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JackoVerde said:
here's weird question but they got rid of spores for these weird tendril things that when disturbed attracts all the zombies right?
wouldn't shit like that be easily exploitable to kill zombies.
just set up a shitload of timed explosives and shit, then disturb the tendril, you basically attract all the zombies to one place and can kill a shitload of em.
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You have now put more thought into this than the writers have.
 
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