Television The Last of Us - TV Series HBO | NO GAME REFERENCES OR SPOILERS | Receives 24 Emmy nominations

Without any spoilers, for those who played the game how are the two main characters portrayed in your perspective? Do you feel they got them both spot on in terms of persona?
 
Red Shorts said:
Without any spoilers, for those who played the game how are the two main characters portrayed in your perspective? Do you feel they got them both spot on in terms of persona?
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Yeah. I hit the wrong button. Yes, I think so far they're pretty close. Joel mhermhgh maybe a bit less but my only disappointment is that I know the fecking story.
 
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Red Shorts said:
Without any spoilers, for those who played the game how are the two main characters portrayed in your perspective? Do you feel they got them both spot on in terms of persona?
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Yeah they are both pretty much identical. Joel is a little bit more rough in the game. But it's as close as it can be.
 
Drawfull said:
Yeah. I hit the wrong button. Yes, I think so far they're pretty close. Joel mhermhgh maybe a bit less but my only disappointment is that I know the fecking story.
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Haha, I thought your original post was very "to the point"!

AaronRedDevil said:
Yeah they are both pretty much identical. Joel is a little bit more rough in the game. But it's as close as it can be.
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Redlambs said:
Mostly yes, but more importantly they have got the little interactions down.
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Interesting and good to hear it's been well replicated.
 
Didn't love tonight's episode. Unlike the 3rd episode where it all felt very natural and unhurried, this one felt a bit too self-aware and trying to hard to be poignant. Still love this series.
 
I didnt really click with this episode. How many are left? 1 or 2?
This story arc could have been done really well in just half an episode. I feel like we are missing a certain aspect of the story. Im hoping the final episode or episodes can get the momentum back.
 
Stack said:
I didnt really click with this episode. How many are left? 1 or 2?
This story arc could have been done really well in just half an episode. I feel like we are missing a certain aspect of the story. Im hoping the final episode or episodes can get the momentum back.
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Yeah I've enjoyed it a lot up until now, particularly episode 3 and 5 but with tonight's episode I think the show has a slight pacing problem. There was a point in episode 4 when Melanie lynskey's character was introduced that I was rewinding cos I felt like I must have missed something, then theyve had two episodes that take a detour from the main narrative when they only have 9 episodes, one was fine (and a brilliant episode), a second doesn't work for me.

I think it feels paced like a video game, I never played the game, but it feels like when you'd take side quests on video games, or just get dropped into the middle of things and I think that might be the slight issue, that they're trying to stay too faithful to how the game played and felt for people, and it's slightly detracting from the show.

Not massively I'd still give the show a solid 8/10 but the last two episodes really need to be great
 
Haven't fast forwarded an episode as much as this one. Incredibly dull and drawn out.

But like other posters have said, solid show overall.

Stack said:
I didnt really click with this episode. How many are left? 1 or 2?
This story arc could have been done really well in just half an episode. I feel like we are missing a certain aspect of the story. Im hoping the final episode or episodes can get the momentum back.
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2 left.
 
Episode 7 was beautifully shot. Bit dull but still a decent episode. Just not on the same level like other episode but that’s incredibly difficult considering how high the bar has been set.

2 more to go.
 
Thought it was a very good filler episode to give some background on Ellie and explained her situation etc.
 
AlPistacho said:
Thought it was a very good filler episode to give some background on Ellie and explained her situation etc.
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I think when we already had one filler episode that strayed from the main narrative and was a lot better than this one, a second within a 9 episode run really isn't great for pacing of the show. We could have had the whole flashback shortened to 20 mins and started towards the next episode instead of dragging a cliffhanger out for 45 minutes
 
jm99 said:
I think when we already had one filler episode that strayed from the main narrative and was a lot better than this one, a second within a 9 episode run really isn't great for pacing of the show. We could have had the whole flashback shortened to 20 mins and started towards the next episode instead of dragging a cliffhanger out for 45 minutes
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While Bill and Frank was the better all round episode, I think if any needed shorting for pacing it should have been that only because neither are main characters.

For me yesterday’s episode was great because it was another one like Bill & Frank where I had to sleep on it. It’s only afterwards that’s I appreciated certain aspects, how 2023 kids were still socialising like kids in the early 00s or 90s due to the world stopping. How the loss of someone she cared deeply about shaped Ellie, her general indifference to either the fire flys or Feds she neither loved nor hates either, which I always found strange considering how we first see her and her whole purpose plus her character is rebellious in nature. Yet other characters all have a black or white opinion.

The Bill and Frank episode was great because it showed loneliness. A man living what he thought was his dream life, basically the equivalent of a billionaire, yet what he was missing was someone to share it with. And all it took was to trust a stranger in a dangerous world..

I bet many people, including myself, at each stage during their early meeting and relationships thought first Frank was bad and working with raiders, then Frank was using him, then Frank’s wishes for this and that would get him killed, then finally we realised it was a real thing. So in a way it played on the viewers own lack of trust in strangers.
 
OverratedOpinion said:
Without giving any spoilers I think the next episode is going to be the most intense episode yet.
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Yeah HBO usually have the formula of the penultimate episode being the best in terms of action/thrills and the finale wrapping everything up. So assuming they stick to that it’ll probably be the best episode of the series
 
I loved this episode. This direction the showrunners have taken to focus on the human side of the equation is brilliant in my opinion. Also, Bella was just so good in this and so much of it was non verbal. It was the glancing looks, the insecurity, the joy, etc. Just so good. For me this was such an important episode to do, and to do well. We know what drives Joel, we saw it play out over the first 40 minutes of the season, but Ellie was a mystery.

ps: As an aside, I never played the Left Behind DLC, so I went into this episode with zero knowledge of what was going to happen and it was amazing. All I can say is that I am intensely jealous of people who have never played the game and have no idea what is coming.
 
WI_Red said:
I loved this episode. This direction the showrunners have taken to focus on the human side of the equation is brilliant in my opinion. Also, Bella was just so good in this and so much of it was non verbal. It was the glancing looks, the insecurity, the joy, etc. Just so good. For me this was such an important episode to do, and to do well. We know what drives Joel, we saw it play out over the first 40 minutes of the season, but Ellie was a mystery.

ps: As an aside, I never played the Left Behind DLC, so I went into this episode with zero knowledge of what was going to happen and it was amazing. All I can say is that I am intensely jealous of people who have never played the game and have no idea what is coming.
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Same, except I knew the main beats. But it was all the more interesting for me as well because of the lack of foreknowledge.
 
WI_Red said:
I loved this episode. This direction the showrunners have taken to focus on the human side of the equation is brilliant in my opinion. Also, Bella was just so good in this and so much of it was non verbal. It was the glancing looks, the insecurity, the joy, etc. Just so good. For me this was such an important episode to do, and to do well. We know what drives Joel, we saw it play out over the first 40 minutes of the season, but Ellie was a mystery.

ps: As an aside, I never played the Left Behind DLC, so I went into this episode with zero knowledge of what was going to happen and it was amazing. All I can say is that I am intensely jealous of people who have never played the game and have no idea what is coming.
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I mostly agree but I just found it a bit tiring to sit through these extended vignettes of Ellie discovering the wonder of escalators, store fronts, video games, etc. I felt it was striving a bit too hard for poignancy. I thought it was a very good touch though to flash quickly to the infected waking up, and then having to wait another 10-15 minutes for it to attack - imbued those final scenes with a nice sense of impending dread.
 
Not a bad episode, but another one like this in a 9 episode season is too many.

And yes I get it, Elly doesnt know non apocalypse world stuff. I dont need 40 minutes of scenes showing this.
 
jem said:
I mostly agree but I just found it a bit tiring to sit through these extended vignettes of Ellie discovering the wonder of escalators, store fronts, video games, etc. I felt it was striving a bit too hard for poignancy. I thought it was a very good touch though to flash quickly to the infected waking up, and then having to wait another 10-15 minutes for it to attack - imbued those final scenes with a nice sense of impending dread.
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No spoilers?
 
The Cat said:
No spoilers?
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Oh shit! I thought that was only for upcoming episodes! Many apologies - will delete

Edit: After further review, apology retracted. I went back and checked the spoiler policy - copy/pasted below:

You can only discuss what has actually happened in episodes that have been already broadcast.

  • No game talk whatsoever. None at all. Especially no comparisons between the game and TV show. It might seem harmless to you but even something like discussing a character in part 2 of the game means they lived and that spoils the tv series for non-gamers.
  • No reviews or trailers should be posted as they often contain spoilers except in labelled spoiler tags (not at all is better).
  • And no discussion of the TV show in the game thread either as the TV show may push people to the game - spoilers again.

Importantly:
  • Any and all comment related to future developments must be placed in spoiler tags.
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  • Only speculation that is both your own guess work AND only based on episodes that have already aired can be posted with or without spolier tags.
 
KirkDuyt said:
Not a bad episode, but another one like this in a 9 episode season is too many.

And yes I get it, Elly doesnt know non apocalypse world stuff. I dont need 40 minutes of scenes showing this.
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My thoughts exactly.
 
KirkDuyt said:
Not a bad episode, but another one like this in a 9 episode season is too many.

And yes I get it, Elly doesnt know non apocalypse world stuff. I dont need 40 minutes of scenes showing this.
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Was more than that thou. Gave a glimpse into her fears & sexuality, the reason why she hates neither the Feds nor the Fire Flys, her hatred/morbid fascination with the infected. In a way why she bonds with a male father figure like Joel or at least why she trusted him quite easily for a girl who is skeptical of most people.
 
Tough crowds as always

thought it was superb. Every episode so far has been amazing.

loved the carousel scene and Just Like Heaven in the background was lovely
 
DJ Jeff said:
I really find it shite and wanted to like it. What makes this any better than the first seasons of The Walking Dead? I think it's worse to be honest and it's not like TWD was one of the greatest shows ever either.
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The two shows are totally different. I quite liked some early TWD seasons but I don’t see any reason to compare it to TLOU.
 
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