The Last of Us HBO series
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I thought he was an incredible actor in both and didn’t even connect same guy until this thread. Maybe the beard.
Hope they nail the truck crashing scene. They used the Hank Williams song from the game in one of the trailers for the show, so hopefully they use it again for the scene.
Executed a lot well.
Interesting they're humanizing the pittsburgh (now KC) enemies more than the game did and making them more sympathetic.
My only worry is that with this part of the story not wrapping up until episode 5, that only leaves 4 episodes to wrap up everything after pittsburgh including Left Behind.
Interesting they're humanizing the pittsburgh (now KC) enemies more than the game did and making them more sympathetic.
My only worry is that with this part of the story not wrapping up until episode 5, that only leaves 4 episodes to wrap up everything after pittsburgh including Left Behind.
I could see left behind being in next weeks episode, simultaneously with the “current” story. Thematically it could work. After that gets wrapped up you have two episodes for the next big story beat in the winter, and then a couple for the ending.
I think that covers all the big beats. Right?
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In the game there's a quick line like "i knew I should have gone around". With limited gas he may have gambled on the shorter route.
Particularly in the game though (where the enemy didn't have many redeeming elements, they just were essentially raiders stealing food\supplies from 'tourists') its possible that the roads were blocked in such a way to funnel tourists onto routes they could be more easily ambushed.
David and James (Troy Baker), Ashley Johnson who is playing Ellie's mom and the actress who is playing Riley are credited in Episode 8. So it looks like that episode will be the winter/Left Behind episode.
I think what's left:
Sam and Henry
Meeting Tommy\Maria at the dam
The university in Colorado and joel getting injured
Ellie fending for herself and trying to help Joel survive(where left behind tied those flashbacks in)\running into david and his band of cannibals
Arriving in salt lake city\Giraffes\Hospital
Driving away and lying to Ellie
Meeting Tommy\Maria at the dam
The university in Colorado and joel getting injured
Ellie fending for herself and trying to help Joel survive(where left behind tied those flashbacks in)\running into david and his band of cannibals
Arriving in salt lake city\Giraffes\Hospital
Driving away and lying to Ellie
Good show. Never played the game. But I can’t stand that Ellie gives me such a Carl vibe. Hope they grow her up soon. But love seeing Lady Mormont again. I bet she loves this role and getting to drop F bombs.
Minor points, but really bugged me that Bill had a whole arsenal, but didn’t take an AR-15 out to waste the raiders. Just stood in the street like an idiot with a dead bolt.
And being from KC, so dumb they could not figure out an easy route around the blocked truck. Just go back , take the exit and get right back on after the blockage.
Minor points, but really bugged me that Bill had a whole arsenal, but didn’t take an AR-15 out to waste the raiders. Just stood in the street like an idiot with a dead bolt.
And being from KC, so dumb they could not figure out an easy route around the blocked truck. Just go back , take the exit and get right back on after the blockage.
The whole drive right through the middle of KC seems a little far fetched and done only to create the conflict. Joel, having been in this world for 20 years, would know there is much more risk in trying to go through large population centers then navigating around.
People are accustomed to video games funneling them where they should go, it seems more out of place in a dramatic series, but there are plenty of those that do it too, just to move a plot along. I never played the game, but there are points in the series that seem like they are a deliberate choice to remind viewers they are doing an adaptation of a video game.
Maybe just me, but I low key appreciate the zombie show that isn't just 43 minutes of throwing zombies at the protagonists every week. That's the least interesting part of the world they are in.
Same. Never finished TWD because of this. Just got zombie fatigue.
I think you had to do more zombies in TWD because of it's relationship in time to the outbreak, as opposed to TLoU being 20 years later.
I quit watching TWD after season 7 or 8 but my wife kept watching. I know by the time I stopped watching the TWD it was trying to do more human interaction/relationship content and less zombies. But TWD never was really good at that type of story-telling without the zombies to help push plot points, and TLoU has shown to be good at the human storytelling.
100% on this. I cannot re-live another good series being drug down by a whiny, bratty kid/early teen. And I get that they are playing up that personality trait to create friction/drama and show her immaturity, but come on. We don't need it playing out in every scene where someone isn't trying to kill them.
Bookmark this post. He will be this year's 'Sexiest Man Alive'. He is so endearing, and talented, and funny, and yes incredibly attractive and is having himself quite a year.
