Squinty wrote:I just seen that Ron strawberry floating Swanson is in this.
And he was spectacular
Saw the third episode last night, Incredible - this is my show now! I can't remember the last time I cried over a show. Nice they humanised a
dooms day prepper and likely would have been Q'Anon guy.
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Frank were more fleshed out and empathetic as characters in one episode than characters in other aspirational shows in several seasons.
There's only like a handful of shows I've got
rea-alllly into, Better Call Saul ending left a massive gulf.
Honestly the best individual episode of any show in years.
Victor Mildew wrote:Moggy wrote:I hope they change everything massively so that all the game splits strawberry float off and just let people enjoy TV without constant comparisons.
Game splits
It looks like broad strokes, like they are following the main beats of the game. But you're magic happens when they deviate from the game story (the
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Frankstory was amazing - but was some what disposable to Joel and Ellie's story).
For me this is a good thing. I quite like that I basically know how the story is going to go from playing the game (but I'm not some super fan of the games - so I'm not making comparisons). This means that I can actually enjoy the show including the stuff that isn't crucial to the overall story and not worry about cliff hangers or mystery or the main plots being pushed forward.
Like, I enjoyed watching Better Call Saul last season on rewatch more than first time round after I knew what happens. The best episodes were the slower ones, but first time round I was slightly frustrated that the main story arcs wasn't get pushed forward enough because I loved the characters but was also desperate to know what was going to happen.
In TLOU, the fact we know what's going to happen, kind of pushes the show to be compelling ways other than cliff hangers or teasing what's going to happen later. They seem to make a lot of media these days to be 'page-turners' or binge-able, which I don't really like (similarly with the credit scenes in the Marvel films, they almost don't give you a chance to process what you just watched-they just want you pumped and speculating for the next films in their ever expanding universe for perpetuity). The last of us isn't this - this is a good thing! Each episode is like a movie and I feel saturated with one episode, happy to process it, breathe and wait for the next one.
Anyway, I hope they follow the format in the third episode, i.e. occasionally let the Joel/Ellie story simmer and tell smaller
self contained stories in flash-back. There's a lot of story to tell in the 20 years between now and the outbreak
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