The Last of Us TV Show

Sexpom said:
It’s a really good watch especially if you haven’t played the games I feel, the games are so much better which tells you just how good they are. I still feel Ellie has been cast incorrectly, if they do a depiction of the second game I don’t think it will work IMO.
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She'll be growing up fast, I reckon it won't be next year anyway if they do make a season 2 as it's only just been greenlit but even if it is, she is 19 and they've purposefully made her look younger than she is through camera work, makeup, her acting and she was even apparently wearing a chest binder
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
She'll be growing up fast, I reckon it won't be next year anyway if they do make a season 2 as it's only just been greenlit but even if it is, she is 19 and they've purposefully made her look younger than she is through camera work, makeup, her acting and she was even apparently wearing a chest binder
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It’s probably just because of how much I love the games but even the 14 year old version doesn’t work in my view.
 
I think she's be excellent, even if she doesn't match the appearance of the character in the game.

I do worry that she's struggle in a time jump though, she's still very young looking even in interviews.
 
I'm into this now, episode 6 was good (watched it on the tram this morning). I will, with hindsight, assert that I think the slow episodes 3 and 4 could have been rolled into one episode, and they could still have won plaudits for their approach to gay romance on screen (which I think was probably in their thinking in terms of getting the show good publicity), but I won't lose sleep over that. Onwards and upwards now.
 
atypical_boro said:
I'm into this now, episode 6 was good (watched it on the tram this morning). I will, with hindsight, assert that I think the slow episodes 3 and 4 could have been rolled into one episode, and they could still have won plaudits for their approach to gay romance on screen (which I think was probably in their thinking in terms of getting the show good publicity), but I won't lose sleep over that. Onwards and upwards now.
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After last week's episode, I was hoping for some more good zombie action. However after last week, you were on your toes, expecting something at any moment, so maybe that was the idea.
 
MVBoro said:
After last week's episode, I was hoping for some more good zombie action. However after last week, you were on your toes, expecting something at any moment, so maybe that was the idea.
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I'm confident there'll be some more good zombie stuff in the last 3. I'm bought into the main characters now too, episodes 3 and 4 did nothing on that front for me, so this week's was still enjoyable and it doesn't always have to be about zombies from this point forward for me.

At the end of episode 4 I was just thinking there was no point having the 'infected' in it! Might as well just say everyone's dead. And I wouldn't have cared if Ellie had died at that point either, knew nowt about her.
 
atypical_boro said:
I'm confident there'll be some more good zombie stuff in the last 3. I'm bought into the main characters now too, episodes 3 and 4 did nothing on that front for me, so this week's was still enjoyable and it doesn't always have to be about zombies from this point forward for me.

At the end of episode 4 I was just thinking there was no point having the 'infected' in it! Might as well just say everyone's dead. And I wouldn't have cared if Ellie had died at that point either, knew nowt about her.
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From seeing the preview, looks like next week's episode is all about her!
 
Another really good episode, this has been my favourite TV programme in ages.
It's so good.

I do always wonder about the feasibility of target practice when you have extremely limited ammunition.

Ellie's wasting bullets everywhere she goes, even with the practice.

Episode 7 looks very interesting, I'd never played the DLC as my only experience with the game was one play through on my mate's PS4 whilst I was at uni.
Even most of what I did play is just vague memories from 9 years ago now.
 
TeaCider said:
Another really good episode, this has been my favourite TV programme in ages.
It's so good.

I do always wonder about the feasibility of target practice when you have extremely limited ammunition.

Ellie's wasting bullets everywhere she goes, even with the practice.

Episode 7 looks very interesting, I'd never played the DLC as my only experience with the game was one play through on my mate's PS4 whilst I was at uni.
Even most of what I did play is just vague memories from 9 years ago now.
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The dlc was very short but very well done
 
Good place I guess to insert the DLC as in the game she is keeping Joel alive and out hunting by herself.
She gets caught at this point as well and an uncomfortable sequence were she's on the point of being raped before she massacres the man trying
How she leads up to the backflash I`m not sure as she doesn`t open up about it until the very end of the game to Joel
Surprised at the lack of infected but not to the point were it has spoilt the story.
Just wonder if they`ll introduce them again in the underpass/tunnel before they arrive at Salt Lake
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
can't believe we have circled back to episode 3 again, are you for real lol, they did it for some publicity? Jesus.
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I think they did it to get some good press, yes. TV works like that you know, especially new big budget series. It worked well as well. They had to increase the profile of the show beyond computer game lovers, so I can see why, but that part of the story and (in my view) the next episode didn’t need to be so long and my attention (as you know) almost waned due to neglect of the main characters and lack of their development. This is my opinion, I do apologise for having one.

TBH I am gonna stop posting on this thread cos even when I praise the show you aren’t happy! It’s as if you wrote the thing yourself. You won’t even hear a bad word about sections of individual episodes!
 
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atypical_boro said:
I think they did it to get some good press, yes. TV works like that you know, especially new big budget series. It worked well as well. They had to increase the profile of the show beyond computer game lovers, so I can see why, but that part of the story and (in my view) the next episode didn’t need to be so long and my attention (as you know) almost waned due to neglect of the main characters and lack of their development. This is my opinion, I do apologise for having one.

TBH I am gonna stop posting on this thread cos even when I praise the show you aren’t happy! It’s as if you wrote the thing yourself. You won’t even hear a bad word about sections of individual episodes!
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They 100% didn't do it to get some good press.

Naughty dog are a very lgbt friendly company so the idea they used that episode to get them good press is absolute nonsense of the highest order.

They had an Existing good story and made it better. You'd better batten down the hatches because there's going to be sexualities revealed and gender identities explored, both of which got the games review bombed just like that episode.

They didn't have to increase the profile of the show, it was already one of the most anticipated tv shows for years without anyone knowing what or how they would tell the story and if they did need to increase the profile of the show, writing an episode about 2 gay men 3 episodes in would probably be the wrong way to go about it, given how much heat they copped for decisions in the game. It's HBO - home of sopranos, the wire, game of thrones, house of dragon, curb your enthusiasm, Chernobyl, west world, band of brothers, deadwood etc - they know how to produce good TV content and the suggestion that a gay storyline is an attempt at publicity is frankly insulting to not only the show runners / writers but also the lgbt community as a whole.
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
They 100% didn't do it to get some good press.

Naughty dog are a very lgbt friendly company so the idea they used that episode to get them good press is absolute nonsense of the highest order.

They had an Existing good story and made it better. You'd better batten down the hatches because there's going to be sexualities revealed and gender identities explored, both of which got the games review bombed just like that episode.

They didn't have to increase the profile of the show, it was already one of the most anticipated tv shows for years without anyone knowing what or how they would tell the story and if they did need to increase the profile of the show, writing an episode about 2 gay men 3 episodes in would probably be the wrong way to go about it, given how much heat they copped for decisions in the game. It's HBO - home of sopranos, the wire, game of thrones, house of dragon, curb your enthusiasm, Chernobyl, west world, band of brothers, deadwood etc - they know how to produce good TV content and the suggestion that a gay storyline is an attempt at publicity is frankly insulting to not only the show runners / writers but also the lgbt community as a whole.
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Ok dude. Well done for making this political. All TV production companies want to receive good press, get their shows talked about/grow their profiles and will use whatever vehicles they can to do so. Sometimes it will feel slightly contrived, as it did in this case, in my opinion, and they could have shortened that part of the storyline. This show is big budget and wants to create big waves in the industry.

Episode 4 they could have pretty much done away with altogether in my view too, hopefully the LGBT community won’t feel insulted at me saying this too much though since you speak on behalf of them. There is a gay lad in my team at work who actually said this before I did about episode 3 and he gave up after episode 4 despite me telling him episode 5 was a big improvement, but you know best.

Enjoy the rest of the series. I’m out.
 
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atypical_boro said:
Ok dude. Well done for making this political. All TV production companies want to receive good press, get their shows talked about/grow their profiles and will use whatever vehicles they can to do so. Sometimes it will feel slightly contrived, as it did in this case, in my opinion, and they could have shortened that part of the storyline.

Episode 4 they could have pretty much done away with altogether in my view too, hopefully the LGBT community won’t feel insulted at me saying this too much though since you speak on behalf of them. There is a gay lad in my team at work who actually said this before I did about episode 3, but you know best.

Enjoy the rest of the series. I’m out.
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How have I made that political?

Instead of just enjoying the storyline (or not) you've implied so far that the reviewers are biased because it's a gay storyline, the reviewers doing good reviews all played the game, the reviewers doing good reviews only did so because it's HBO and now they did a gay storyline because it would raise the profile of the show, despite not advertising the storyline or leaking it in advance and it just being a retelling of an existing storyline in the games. Instead you have to cheapen it by implying they did it for views. Sorry but that's gross imo.

Gay lad on your team 😂 is your best mate black? Classic. Aye Righto, I'm sure he did.

See ya! 👋👋👋👋
 
Gay relationship is explored and expanded from
The game, just for the good press rather tell a pure story…..

Not sure if…….
 
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