Gotta find something to complain about.
https://www.businessinsider.com/hbo-recurring-actors-and-actresses-on-shows-2015-6
Once you have a relationship it is easy to go with someone you know and what you are getting then to find talent else where. People like the familiar. I mean Disney also uses the same people over and over too especially for their TV stuff.https://www.businessinsider.com/hbo-recurring-actors-and-actresses-on-shows-2015-6
I still don't have a great explanation for why they do this, whether its financial or just convenience. It's in literally everything. Watched Chernobyl and it had like 4 people I spotted from GOT. The House of the Dragon king was also in some Stephen King show I watched on HBO.
They're usually good, but they seem to almost limit their casting choices to people they've already worked with. I don't know if they have them on some kind of longer contract or what. Definitely seems to affect their casting somewhat.
I bet they got them for cheap. Want to be on GOT? Sign a multi-show deal. Pascal was mostly unknown prior to that role. Same with Tom Holland and Spider Man. They are cashing in, whether they fit the role or not. I can't blame them, smart business. But the casting sticks out more than usual when they're playing an existing character and don't resemble them that much. In most HBO stuff you wouldn't really notice as they're original characters. Same reason Holland stuck out so much in Uncharted.
Is the agenda in the room with you right now?It's turned out to be a vehicle for agenda driven nonsense
First episode was good, second was okay, from there on, agenda nonsense.
Even from those screen shots I put in my post above (The one where Toons quoted me thinking i want.. 13 year old kids to show breasts, somehow. Utterly missing the point..) is showing more agendas telling kids it's 'okay' to wear 'binders', oh and p.s, GAY is great..
Just agenda trash.
The whole things a piss take wrapped in 2023 nonsense.
No, I watch good shows
Or you know, react normally. I don't think anyone is bawling watching the show in real life.
It doesn't have to be a 1:1 copy but it has to be better - otherwise what's the point?
No, it is a bit boring. I always said that without the gameplay TLoU's story is very simple - too simple for a show.
Are you kidding, its only this thread that i see people acting like it brings out no emotions.
I don't think the show is that emotionally interesting. I played the game so I know what will happen, nothing is new. Joel and Tess were the only interesting characters. (i did like the two brothers) Tommy was good too, but he was only in briefly. Ellie is unlikable. In the game I think she showed a lot of growth through the course of the game. In this show every interaction shows very little growth. The only thing we have seen is Joel trusting he more because she can have a gun now.
Well to be fair, they have just as much of a right to trash the show as we do to praise it
Yeah, as long as people are able to explain their opinions in detail and seem honest, I'm fine with literally any opinion. I don't know why people even want to get on a forum to just hear what they already think. Every thread would consist of an OP, and then 1 post after it that agreed and said "yep."
Yeah. That last scene in the episode I felt nothing from her side. Yet, Pedro line gave me the chills. Why not Sadie Sink or Millie Bobby Brown for Ellie? Too expensive?
You have a right, but its pretty pathetic to continue wasting an hour a week on something you don't like just to say outlandish crap.
Could never be better tho, for example just compare EP4 vs the game, the budget isn't there and that's why we didn't get a bus smashing the pick up in the ambush at Kansas City and the whole confrontation was so tiny in comparison
You don't want to turn the show into The Walking Dead with all the human drama either. It would have been more realistic if they hot attacked by infected like in the game. How many shot in the air did they shoot with how clickers can hear sound in an open area or all the noise.
And this show is neither, it's more like Alie, because in that version of Alien, we would be following the other characters around, instead of giving Ripley the screen-time she needs, then kill off said characters off screen/in uneventful ways; also the alien would only be on screen for 2 minutes halfway through the movie and then it would just fuck off forever, leaving ripley to sleep in peace. The end.
Is the show really that much different from the game with spending time with side characters then moving on? You start off with Tess, she dies and you move on. Spend time with Bill, you move on and never see him again. Spend time with Henry and they die and you move on. Spend time with David and his people, you slaughter them then move on. The only real difference is Joel had one scene with Bill in episode 3 instead of having a whole zombie funhouse episode, and what we got was infinitely more interesting and compelling than trying to 1:1 adapt that chapter from the game.
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Yes it's quite a bit different, because joel/ellie are always center stage, in the show the focus has shifted away from them at almost every opportunity; the bill episode is the worst one because it was 70 minutes of fucking nothing, there was zero time spent with bill, zero chance to get some character development and bonding for joel/ellie, just a story about a couple living in a fucking paradise (relatively) for 20 years while there's a zombie apocalypse ravaging the world (of which we see nothing). They could've still told that story in 30 minutes tops and then spent the rest on giving joel/ellie the screen time they need/deserve; or better yet use the rest of the time for other episodes where all the action/conflict was cut, I mean they cut all of the conflict/struggle in the university and replaced it with some dumb surprise teleporting hobo stab.
The analogy is complete booty because the Alien is on screen for 4 expertly crafted minutes out of 117, paired with a masterful build up.
Yeah, I'm pretty certain we've only had zombie action in 3 out of the 8 episodes so far for maybe a combined 15 minutes and it has been relatively mild. As to Joel dismantling dudes, there's been even less. Even the interrogation scene in this week's episode felt relatively neutered.
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Episode 8 was amazing but yeah, as a whole, a sprinkle of more infected would be nice. The violence really matched the game here though. Loved the Joel interrogation scene and holy shit the David boss fight!! Also the face this creepy fuck makes when he's dying is 11/10.
Probably a case between budgets allocated to cgi vs real sets. I dunno which one is better since I haven't watched Mandalorian but seeing it's SW, I highly suspect large amounts of CG use.
Because endless amount of infected does not work well in a TV-series, it becomes old pretty fast to the point of becoming boring and the impact of encounters are diminished.
So the the next best solution is to have almost no infected? I don't think anyone is asking for nonstop infected, but the series could do with a tad more action. It doesn't have to be one extreme or the other. There has to be a middle ground somewhere.
This is the only weird argument these people have, it's almost religious in that sense.
