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

[WTFisWallace?]

Was the cordyceyp in the town's main line being cut gonna active all those Walkers anyways?

Or did Abby single-handedly cause all that shyt? Took out probably 100+ people and butchered a leader of the only existing civilized / functioning town that we know of if it was done intently I could respect her gangster......18 of mine, a hundred of yours.



But I couldn't even tell what she was trying to do on that snow hill......cut em off by slowly climbing down?

 

[WTFisWallace?]

Also, aren't they loosely aware of why getting Ellie to that operation table was Marlene's main objective? Surely Abby's dad filled her in.
Seek revenge for your dead daddy, but don't follow thru on what he died for brehs





fukk a cure for humanity as long as you got your lick back

 

[HollywoodP]

I aint played the game or read the books but this was some good television.

 

[Sterling Archer]

I dunno how they gonna pull off that alpha energy Abby has in the game with her being so tiny.

Spoiler

I wonder if they gonna drop the whole thing about Abby being one of the best soldiers in WLF. I just don’t see it with this girl.

Exactly. They can’t sell that. She has no commanding presence or her team like Abby does in the game. They should remove that aspect completely.

 

[Sterling Archer]

Neil popped a lot of shyt about how “yall mad? Stay mad. I’m not changing shyt because it’s perfect” originally….to a huge point of contention regarding character writing being changed because they DID in fact see how ridiculous it was for Joel to give out all that info in the game.

I said a long time ago that I BET they change it if they do Part 2 in the show so I dunno why they were acting so indignant in the first place. They couldn’t handle any criticism back then.

 

[detroitwalt]

Also, aren't they loosely aware of why getting Ellie to that operation table was Marlene's main objective? Surely Abby's dad filled her in.
Seek revenge for your dead daddy, but don't follow thru on what he died for brehs





fukk a cure for humanity as long as you got your lick back

In episode 1 someone (can’t remember who said what) in Abby’s crew was about to mention someone being immune but they got cut off by someone else on some ‘it’s not possible”. So I think the entire team has at least heard rumor of it but may not know the specifics

 

[Hersh]

never played the game thought it was dope..

watched the clip of game thought it was cool too... Abby didn't look as Brolic as y'all are making her out to be..

the spit on Joel was heh.. wasn't necessary in either the game or show

 

[HiiiPower]

Jackson was WAY more prepared compared to those morons at Alexandria in TWD lol

Who said that was more PG? That shyt was more graphic than the game

 

[Gloxina]

They ran an ad, live after the episode because they knew that this was going be a "Ned stark is killed" caliber of episode

I was still in shock when this aired.


HBGoat indeed

 

[Gloxina]

Don’t know why I watched that shyt again at 4am

 

[Jazzy B.]

I don’t get the negan/glen comparisons. The main backlash from negan/glen was because they handled Glenn dying the worst way possible. You know negan is beating someone to death, you hear screams from the rest of the gang reacting and see the blood running down someone’s face, but you don’t know who is being killed and the season ends. Then you don’t find out who is killed til the next season.

Here is a reminder of how the season ended and why they got the backlash



The only way the Joel Abby scene would be comparable is if they ended the season with Abby in a room with Joel Ellie Dina Tommy and we hear her beating someone to death and we don’t find out who til season 3.

Abby killed Joel, ain’t no redemption for her to the viewers who watched for Joel. All the shyt AMC did above played a major role in ppl turning on the show, that is on top of them pumpfaking Glenn getting killed earlier in the season with the dumpster scene.

The backlash with Glen and Negan happened in the episode Negan killed Glen in. What are you talking about?


It was the most watched episode of the show up to that point.

The brutality, hopelessness and darkness of Glen’s death, a fan favorite turned viewers OFF. There had been NOTHING like it in the show. Even the actors said they went way too far with it.

They had to tone it down with this show because the show will clearly still follow Abby. The Walking Dead did that with Negan and the ratings kept dropping.

 

[duck]

Also, aren't they loosely aware of why getting Ellie to that operation table was Marlene's main objective? Surely Abby's dad filled her in.
Seek revenge for your dead daddy, but don't follow thru on what he died for brehs





fukk a cure for humanity as long as you got your lick back

what good is ellie's blood/brain if there are no scientists left to utilize it?

 

[levitate]

It was Ellie's decision to make

They didn’t give her that option…


So for that reason alone. Joel was justified.

 

[levitate]

Only thing they missed was the SPIT on his body after the mexican guy calls him Pendejo

Wanted to show that the group wasn’t as committed to killing him as Abby was.

Ultimately trying to build up our sympathy for when Ellie goes mode on em.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]