Last of Us Season 2 Thread (Spoilers)

[Trav]

Bump for bytchin' purposes

You game niccas pls come cry in here.

Please.....I beg

 

[Jmare007]

I wonder how many tv-only viewers will pick up on the "Ellie is a liar" bit and connect it with her saying the last time she spoke to Joel was the NYE "fight".

Craig Mazin out here making me feel bad about these deviant Seraphites I wonder how long they are going to take to make people realize there are no "good sides" in TLOU world (wel,, except Jackson I guess). When people see them cruficing and gutting people for ther Prophet...

For a second there I wondered if they were going to throw away the Dina pregnancy story, but they are certainly going with it. I hope they are able to execute it well enough.

I'm really curious as to when they place the season finale. From the trailers we know Ellie gets to Nora, maybe it ends with a post-torture, trembling Ellie saying she knows were Abby is?

 

[904]

I wonder how many tv-only viewers will pick up on the "Ellie is a liar" bit and connect it with her saying the last time she spoke to Joel was the NYE "fight".

Craig Mazin out here making me feel bad about these deviant Seraphites I wonder how long they are going to take to make people realize there are no "good sides" in TLOU world (wel,, except Jackson I guess). When people see them cruficing and gutting people for ther Prophet...

For a second there I wondered if they were going to throw away the Dina pregnancy story, but they are certainly going with it. I hope they are able to execute it well enough.

I'm really curious as to when they place the season finale. From the trailers we know Ellie gets to Nora, maybe it ends with a post-torture, trembling Ellie saying she knows were Abby is?

I still say they get to Abby in the theatre..

Trailers often only touch like half a season in the beginning

 

[Jmare007]

I still say they get to Abby in the theatre..

Trailers often only touch like half a season in the beginning

Thing is, if they get to Abby at the theater, do we even get Abby's POV for season 3? I don't think most TV watchers will give a fukk about her journey by that point. Having to wait another 2 years and spending half the season with Abby's struggle after she shot up Tommy and left Ellie and Dina all fukked up would get more backlash than the game

 

[Jmare007]

Right at the end of the post-episode podcast, Mazin teases that it seems like things are a pretty simple "good guys vs bad guys" in Seatlle "but you know...let's see".

So he basically wants to play around with the idea that the Seraphites are "good" and then he'll unveil their fukked up ways. I wonder how long he'll take though

 

[threattonature]

Did I miss something. Did they show Tommy go out to seek his own revenge too? In playing the game one of the scenes that showed how Ellie was lost in bloodlust was when she has to make a choice between going with Jesse to save Tommy or to continue pursuing Abby. That's one of my only complaints if they deviate from the game and remove that choice.

 

[Jmare007]

Did I miss something. Did they show Tommy go out to seek his own revenge too? In playing the game one of the scenes that showed how Ellie was lost in bloodlust was when she has to make a choice between going with Jesse to save Tommy or to continue pursuing Abby. That's one of my only complaints if they deviate from the game and remove that choice.

Yeah, it seems Mazin decided to leave Tommy out of the revenge vortex of the story (he doesn't hint that it's a swerve in the podcast either). Which is a pretty big decision, though I kinda appreciate it because I did not need Tommy to end up the bitter, miserable old man he became .

The again, we could see a situation were Jesse and Tommy gather a couple of people to go rescue Ellie and Dina, instead of going for revenge on his own

 

[Lord Beasley]

I'm afraid they blew their load on episode 2. And they gonna scretch this shyt two more seasonz?

 

[Jmare007]

It kinda feels like they following the game's narrative and timeline jumping and I gotta say, I don't think the TV audience is gonna feel satisfied to watch Abby's POV in the 3rd season if the two things they saw her do this season was kill Joel savagely and then show up in the theater and fukk Ellie and Dina up (and maybe kill Jesse if he shows up in the last 2 eps)

Mazin got his work cut out for him on that one, they better cast the most lovable Lev in the world to make Abby redeemable

Remind me breh, what was Joel's first flashback in the game and what triggered it? do we get it next ep or on ep.6? @Gizmo_Duck

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

It kinda feels like they following the game's narrative and timeline jumping and I gotta say, I don't think the TV audience is gonna feel satisfied to watch Abby's POV in the 3rd season if the two things they saw her do this season was kill Joel savagely and then show up in the theater and fukk Ellie and Dina up (and maybe kill Jesse if he shows up in the last 2 eps)

Mazin got his work cut out for him on that one, they better cast the most lovable Lev in the world to make Abby redeemable

Remind me breh, what was Joel's first flashback in the game and what triggered it? do we get it next ep or on ep.6? @Gizmo_Duck

It happens after they first get to the theater and ellie finds the guitar there. Its the dinosaur/space museum, but previews for next episodes ddidn’t show it so maybe the episode after ellie kills Nora

miht be worth it to take a little revenge break after she savagely kills someone.

 

[904]

I wonder if Jesse is going to actually catch up with them..

The way they handled the pregnancy thing means Dina isn't getting left behind like in the game

 

[threattonature]

I wonder if Jesse is going to actually catch up with them..

The way they handled the pregnancy thing means Dina isn't getting left behind like in the game

Yeah I thought they needed a few scenes of them mid-combat showing the pregnancy slowing them down or putting them in harm's way so that it makes sense that Ellie leaves her behind for a while. I hope they don't remove the Jessie influence on the story. As much as I love the show I hate that the Tommy factor hasn't been introduced yet where Ellie is thinking of going home but at minimum wants to have Tommy's back and save him. Add in Tommy being the one convincing her to leave back the final time to seek revenge for him.

 

[Jmare007]

Yeah I thought they needed a few scenes of them mid-combat showing the pregnancy slowing them down or putting them in harm's way so that it makes sense that Ellie leaves her behind for a while. I hope they don't remove the Jessie influence on the story. As much as I love the show I hate that the Tommy factor hasn't been introduced yet where Ellie is thinking of going home but at minimum wants to have Tommy's back and save him. Add in Tommy being the one convincing her to leave back the final time to seek revenge for him.

Yeah, this last episode the lack of Tommy felt huge to me because the motivation for Ellie to go through a gang war of Wolves vs Scars just to exact revenge doesn't really feel earned yet. If Tommy was in the middle of it all it would make much more sense for Ellie to stay in Seattle and keep going through this quest. Right now, as a TV watcher, I feel like she should go back to Jackson with Dina fukk this demonic war that's going on in that city .

I'm still in favor of Tommy not becoming consumed by revenge and ending up a miserable old man, but so far the TV show has not shown a good alternative to what the game did in that regard.

 

[Deafheaven]

Yeah they fukked up the tommy portion because yeah you want to get revenge but ol girl is pregnant, you 4'11 and a demonic city wide war is going on. take ur ass home

at least if tommy went first you could rationalize you have to save him. as it stands now it just looks like two little ladies on a dummy mission.

 

[Jmare007]

So they went with the Tommy has to go rescue them angle instead of getting ahead of Ellie. Even though it makes sense in terms of the TV show, I still think it's weaker than the game because having to come up with Dina being as demonic as Ellie ain't as strong of reason to stay than finding Tommy and following his revenge path.



We getting the Museum flashbacks next episode, Druckmann directed it so he better knock it out of the park. That shyt had me in legit tears when I played it .