'The Last of Us' - Season 2 Thread (NO GAME SPOILERS!) | HBO | Neil Druckmann stepping away from creative involvement

[Jmare007]

They had to make her frail cuz Ellie and Dina little as shyt in this jawn. She got the look face wise but she is scrawny as shyt.


I love how some of the scenes are 1:1 recreations. That opening scene of the party gave me deja vu.

I would have preferred her to be brolic as well but it makes sense with her counterpart being THIS ellie that she probably isn’t.

Honestly, she only had to be brolic in the game because she's

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the "Joel" of the 2nd game and she had to be the muscle for her side of the story with Lev.

I'm actually interested in how they adapt that part because there's no way the do the Abby/Lev's portion 1 to 1 now.

Plus, the show is not about fending off infected. Every interaction with them in the TV show is basically death unless you have Ellie involved in it so having a female Brock Lesnar probably wasn't seen as a necessity. And human to human interaction can be solved with guns + the Black Widow gimmick they showed with Ellie in the first scene

 

[Deafheaven]

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you talking about abby or ellie?

I may have got which one of them broads actually fought that nikka its been years

 

[BlackXCL]

Yessssss. solid start.

love how they brought the end of game stuff, right into episode 1.

Love how they made the stalkers a big deal in court.

this is gonna be good

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Had to scale her down to physically match up with Bella Ramsey

We've already proven that to be a non factor as the beginning training session showed.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Honestly, she only had to be brolic in the game because she's

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the "Joel" of the 2nd game and she had to be the muscle for her side of the story with Lev.

I'm actually interested in how they adapt that part because there's no way the do the Abby/Lev's portion 1 to 1 now.

Plus, the show is not about fending off infected. Every interaction with them in the TV show is basically death unless you have Ellie involved in it so having a female Brock Lesnar probably wasn't seen as a necessity. And human to human interaction can be solved with guns + the Black Widow gimmick they showed with Ellie in the first scene

Agreed

 

[OJ Simpsom]

Episode was mid. Bella Ugly AF.

 

[Jmare007]

Ellie was fukking up a 6ft 4 oaf in the beginning of the episode. Abby should not be a skinny ass bytch you see working at the orange Julius in the mall.

The whole point of that scene was showing that Ellie might think she's John Wick but the big fella let her win. They made it a point to tell the audience she would've been knocked the fukk out more than once if Jesse doesn't tell dude to go easy on Ellie.

 

[FAH1223]

They are stretching this to maybe 4 seasons since Druckman said he won't go the GoT route and use any non game story content. No way

Abby and them are already there

 

[Black Magisterialness]

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Trying to avoid the backlash the game got for not being clear about Joel’s torture/death. i have a feeling the show is going to over-correct for how much the game trusted the viewers to understand the nuance behind it

Nah, it's because they didn't want to basically reset the story midway through the season. Remember in the game...

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Abby kills Joel and then you spend half the game looking for her. Midway through it shows Abby's perspective after the encounter at the Theatre. There's no way they would have us have one whole season of Ellie then one whole season of Abby. Makes for a good game, but bad TV.

Now there's tension on what will happen for unknown viewers. Also, you gotta remember that the average viewer is also fukking dumb and we're still gonna get flashbacks.

 

[jay211]

I never played the game. And read the WIKI for it. Why the hell are people obsessed with the game? The plotline sounds like soap opera savagery

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

The whole point of that scene was showing that Ellie might think she's John Wick but the big fella let her win. They made it a point to tell the audience she would've been knocked the fukk out more than once if Jesse doesn't tell dude to go easy on Ellie.

He was trying pretty hard regardless. In the game Ellie was a bad ass. Not because they wanted her to think she was. So I don't buy that excuse.

 

[Volt]

Abby straight up reminding me of S1's Kathleen

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Good luck making her likeable

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Abby kills Joel and then you spend half the game looking for her. Midway through it shows Abby's perspective after the encounter at the Theatre. There's no way they would have us have one whole season of Ellie then one whole season of Abby. Makes for a good game, but bad TV.

Now there's tension on what will happen for unknown viewers. Also, you gotta remember that the average viewer is also fukking dumb and we're still gonna get flashbacks.

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They didn't even front, Abby was upfront about killing Joel slowly. You know they'll really do that ridiculous subversion and give Abby the reins in S3.

 

[Diunx]

I would have preferred her to be brolic as well but it makes sense with her counterpart being THIS ellie that she probably isn’t.

Nah, shyt always looked silly, women don't get that big without roids, shyt was just weird, I get what they were going for but went way overboard wit it.

 

[Black Magisterialness]

He was trying pretty hard regardless. In the game Ellie was a bad ass. Not because they wanted her to think she was. So I don't buy that excuse.

It's to show that she can get overpowered. And to show that she's hard headed and THINKS she's more bad ass than she is.

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

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Didn't see the point in Ellie being bit again