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Show gives the vibe that the show runner doesn't want to spend a significant portion of his life adapting a video game series.

Which is fair, but I wish these show wouldn't rush the game. I get it, tho.

Even, The 1st game could of been broken up for over two seasons too if they wanted to flesh out, but they didn't want too.
I understood with season 1 in that you want to get viewers hooked. My thought is though that once you have them hooked, slow it down and focus on telling the story. There's plenty of story elements they can expand on to slow things down. They could take advantage of the TV medium to show what life is like inside of WLF or Scars camps. They could show the immediate aftermath of Joel's killing spree

They took the time last season to use a whole episode for the two guys living together and it was well received so I would have liked them to start laying the breadcrumbs to set up eventual encounters. They could've built a whole world showing some of the stories told through notes in the game of people abandoning their families to join one of the factions or trying to hold down their forts.

I mean on some real shyt they really could've stretched things out and ended this season with Joel's death. I say all that because it feels like these encounters with these other factions lack the emotional weight they could because they haven't been established in regards to just how vicious these other groups are so the Ellie and Dina battles with them don't have the necessary fear factor.
 

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I understood with season 1 in that you want to get viewers hooked. My thought is though that once you have them hooked, slow it down and focus on telling the story. There's plenty of story elements they can expand on to slow things down. They could take advantage of the TV medium to show what life is like inside of WLF or Scars camps. They could show the immediate aftermath of Joel's killing spree

They took the time last season to use a whole episode for the two guys living together and it was well received so I would have liked them to start laying the breadcrumbs to set up eventual encounters. They could've built a whole world showing some of the stories told through notes in the game of people abandoning their families to join one of the factions or trying to hold down their forts.

I mean on some real shyt they really could've stretched things out and ended this season with Joel's death. I say all that because it feels like these encounters with these other factions lack the emotional weight they could because they haven't been established in regards to just how vicious these other groups are so the Ellie and Dina battles with them don't have the necessary fear factor.

Exactly. They spent a whole episode in S1 giving Bill a backstory, but they're speed running through a lot of the events of Part 2.
 

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I understood with season 1 in that you want to get viewers hooked. My thought is though that once you have them hooked, slow it down and focus on telling the story. There's plenty of story elements they can expand on to slow things down. They could take advantage of the TV medium to show what life is like inside of WLF or Scars camps. They could show the immediate aftermath of Joel's killing spree

They took the time last season to use a whole episode for the two guys living together and it was well received so I would have liked them to start laying the breadcrumbs to set up eventual encounters. They could've built a whole world showing some of the stories told through notes in the game of people abandoning their families to join one of the factions or trying to hold down their forts.

I mean on some real shyt they really could've stretched things out and ended this season with Joel's death. I say all that because it feels like these encounters with these other factions lack the emotional weight they could because they haven't been established in regards to just how vicious these other groups are so the Ellie and Dina battles with them don't have the necessary fear factor.
I feel you and agree for the most part. Ending with Joel’s death however would have been OD. It needed to happen early because it’s the catalyst for everything. Kinda like Joel meeting Ellie and taking her to capital buildimg started everything in part 1.

But after that they could have slowed things down. 2-3 more episodes focusing on Jackson, Scars, WLF right after Joel died would have gone a long way to setting up Seattle.
 

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I have a feeling Ellie in the show isn't going to be torn on torturing Nora like she was in the game. She didn't have the mini hesitation of working herself up to do it.
The actress that plays Ellie couldn’t give performance with that range of emotion Ellie had with Nora so they just removed it and tried to make her as cold as possible so it’s easier to perform. This is an example that some use to point out that ole girl is just a decent actor, she not killing this role. And they make small changes like that to compensate.
 

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"I didnt get bit bro, trust me big dawg" :troll:
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They fangbanged the shyt outta ellie. Aint no way Jessie didnt see that shyt. Hell he saw 2 on her. :dead:
She pose to be covered in blood, the one in the mall had her in less time and left bitemarks/drew blood. I hope they dont try to say they didnt bite through her clothes. At some point Dina has to say "Being immune doesnt stop you from bloodloss or being ripped apart".

That was risky as hell for Jessie not to check her. fukk what Dina says, she compromised and she obviously didnt see shyt since she was scared for her life anyway.
 

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The tension/action in this episode was great, they been cooking in that aspect all season

Ellie finally got on demon time so that was good to see

the way they're pacing the show vs. the game, looks like they gonna end the season w/ Abby DM'ing a bullet thru Jesse's dome in the finale
 

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No worse than the walking dead complaints about mowed lawns at the prison

Then again, they had a good point. Them lawns didnt mow themself :yeshrug:

:what:


criticizing mowed lawns is nitpicking …
so are you seriously gonna compare that to a pregnancy test or any thing related that expires?
to taking any type of local pharmacy off the counter product from a quarter of a century there after



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