More eps definitely would have helped. Its a lot of tell not show going on atm
Dina is basically Ellie in this somehow
It works for the story they want to tell with the 7 episodes they got to tell it (I hope Zaslav becomes a spore factory).
People would have been bytching big time if she got left at the theater the whole time. Why not just split Bog Ellie’s duties in half. That way she doesn’t have to talk to herself out loud to explain lore, or read through a bunch of notes and diaries like we did.
The game, though we had all the time in the world to explore, felt like a race to the big singularity at times (the theater “meeting”). The tension came from the unknown. Even though we knew we wouldn’t miss out on Abby. The story, atmosphere, and distractions did a good job of giving us that feeling in the back of our mind. People may have been frustrated if they did it game style with an hour episode. The show condenses it all but still kind of slows shyt down by filling the empty space with Dinah-Ellie dialogue.
I thought they handled the Seraphites encounter perfectly.