DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
You make fair points, but I stand by the time jump sucking a lot of the emotion out of it. In the game they talk much sooner than in the show and it's such a simple but powerful scene.Going to disagree with a lot of your points here.
TV is a different medium than a game, but I think you're misremembering how long they sit on Jackson after the events. I also think you're discounting scenes here that happen like Ellie waking up in the hospital or her obvious drive to get out of the hospital as quickly as possible. As well as the scene between Ellie and Tommy before they take things to a vote.
They retooled the scene, but it's still in this episode and almost word for word... So again, think you're misremembering. The town hall scene is actually way more realistic. Why would these two girls try to leave on their own rather than get help. In fact they try to get help in the game too, but Maria says no. Here instead of putting that all on Maria, it's the majority of the council. It'll be interesting if they show that Jesse and Tommy were 2 of the 3 that said yes, but Maria almost certainly was a no.
As soon as they gave Tommy a kid, you knew him leaving was going to be different. I don't think it makes much of a difference whether he leaves first or second. Him leaving second actually makes more sense because he has to weigh both Ellie and taking care of his own kid here. The dust up between him and Maria is probably going to be heavier here.
This is a misnomer. The trip to Seattle in the game also takes no time. You open on Seattle Day 1....
I think you're misremembering the game a bit and getting upset about changes being bigger than they are.
Just watch it and tell me the show even came close to capturing that emotion in the same conversation.
You see how despondent Ellie is and how dead set on revenge she is. Logically it would make more sense for her to try to get a party to go, she's so driven by pain and rage she doesn't care. She's willing to go by herself. It's what I loved about that scene. Her brashness and foolishness is indicative of her pain and suffering. And we see how hurt Tommy is in that scene too. I think he moved on far too quickly in the show. The show had the opportunity to really flesh it out more and show us more of the town and how Joel's death impacted them and we didn't get it. I was disappointed in that.
I will be less upset about the Tommy not leaving thing as long as he does. But I still think it was done better in the game because in the game he didn't just leave to get revenge. He left because Ellie's words impacted him. They really hit him where it hurts and he left not just out of anger but also out of guilt and shame. It made his character more nuanced. If he leaves in the show I have a feeling it will just be "He's worried about Ellie so he's going after her" which feels a lot more typical and less conflicted.
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