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Ramsey looking like Woll Smoth in the background lol
Yeah huge Last of Us fan here, love TLOU2 game, the TV show is a bit shit! There's also so little action regarding the infected that you forget why they are even in a post apocalyptic world in the first place. It's not much different to any old TV drama. They definitely fucked it up... It feels rushed because they could have done so much more.I thought Bella was fine in the first season, but she completely missed the mark on the character change Ellie has in part 2. The writing all around was a noticeable tier down from season 1, and I'm a fan of both games. Not sure what the hell happened.
This. Agreed that in s1 BR was poor. In S2, slicked back hair and anger... She actually fits the character better than in s1. Don't let the truth get in way thou.Another thread to confirm some biases despite the fact that globally S2 is consistently more successful and viewership numbers are higher than S1.
American initial viewership is irrelevant due to Memorial Day and people touching grass instead of watching season finale.
I do have my problems with S2 (and I love the second game), but on the other hand I hate creative stats spinning for the sake of an empty sensationalism.
But nice nitpicking. I guess.
I feel bad for Bella Ramsey, but I'm glad Mando is off to new movies. He's too good for this…
Though I think they should have just done a different thing for TV. Everyone would have been happy, Last of Us 2 deniers, normies. Even diehards probably would have perversely enjoyed it.
HER tranny backstory.I'm confident that viewers are going to enjoy it much more in the show honestly. Bella Ramsay is a horrible, fucking horrible Ellie.
Put they're going to water the action down again with tranny Lev, his tranny backstory and then try to pull the Joel and Ellie bonding but with Abby and Lev
lol. I'm currently half way through season 2 and it is so far pretty shite. I could just about manage watching season 1.![]()
Ramsey looking like Woll Smoth in the background lol
Ngl the 180 degree turn into abby focus might be a better thing for the show, considering the actress playing abby seems to at least be better than ellie.The show hasn't even hit the part gamers hated the most - where the story suddenly does a 180 and turns the villain into the protagonist and tries to make you feel sympathy for a totally unsympathetic character. This show is in trouble.
It's quite satisfying to see regular audiences get turned off too, and to see all those gamers who enjoyed the violent gameplay and tried to convince themselves this shit was Shakespeare or something look silly.
The main actor's character was killed off. The girls acting couldnt carry the show. The end.
That was after a year and a half. The gap is much closer now.45 to 50% dropout for TLOU2 seems about right ... its what I think the game also got
He'll have a few more flashback scenes next season but the work load will be easy. It's one of the most watched shows so from a career point of view he's probably happy to be apart.Pedro Pascal was told the story when he accepted the role. Joel dying was probably a big reason why he decided to do it. I don't think he wanted to commit to many seasons.
Yeah Pascal is a great actor and the show needed to change the story from the game to keep this show going, unfortunately they didn't, RIP.Pretty much. Pedro carried that show. If they actually had an interesting Ellie, people might have stuck around.
I know it's hard to grasp for some people, but they simply don't care for "more of the same" type content, which would have been the easy, crowd-pleasing choice. On the podcast they discuss looking at that option and how they decided that there's just nothing substantial to tell before that event. Joel's death has always been the catalyst for the story they wanted to tell. They were not interested in a "More Adventures of Joel and Ellie" type show.I have yet to start season 2. But something I don't get (as I have heard part 2 will be told over seasons 2 and 3?) Is that why didn't they just have that famous death scene end season 2?
They knew the previous gaming fan base wasn't happy with that choice. So why follow the same for the show?
I know it's hard to grasp for some people, but they simply don't care for "more of the same" type content, which would have been the easy, crowd-pleasing choice. On the podcast they discuss looking at that option and how they decided that there's just nothing substantial to tell before that event. Joel's death has always been the catalyst for the story they wanted to tell. They were not interested in a "More Adventures of Joel and Ellie" type show.
Would a Netflix show with every episode and season written around maximizing audience retention have been different? Almost certainly. But there's a good chance it would have resulted in rather soulless "content" aimed at stretching a show to the max while keeping all options for further story development open. In other words, the kind of slop that gives streaming shows a bad name.
Doesn't mean they pulled everything off perfectly. I don't think they did. But I will say that this is really not the point where a major change would have resulted in a better result.
I'm not trying to hate on this girl, we all have our pecularities, but how does someone with this face become a famous actress in this huge starring roleMy wife isn't a gamer, she has seen me play a lot of both TLOU games and watched the show with me. The first time she saw Bella, she was like, what the fuck is wrong with her face, does she have down syndrome IRL? LOL
Literally every episode my wife commented about how retarded this girl looks and how she can't stand to look at her face!
Personally, I don't care how good of an actress Bella is, she is not the right fit for playing Ellie, especially season 2.. She still looks like a child and makes the show look more unrealistic than Abby's muscles in the game.
I'm sure you already know the answerbut how does someone with this face become a famous actress in this huge starring role
I know it's hard to grasp for some people, but they simply don't care for "more of the same" type content, which would have been the easy, crowd-pleasing choice. On the podcast they discuss looking at that option and how they decided that there's just nothing substantial to tell before that event. Joel's death has always been the catalyst for the story they wanted to tell.
Why does she looks like Jedi Nick Mullen ?Still a better casting than the show
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That's pretty dishonest. >A revenge story of "someone killed my beloved X"< barely covers a fraction of the game's actual plot. It doesn't cover the prelude leading up to Joel's death, it doesn't cover any of the flashback content, and it doesn't cover any part of Abby's story (which is about half the game in itself).The problem is that this is very poor. A revenge story of "someone killed my beloved X" is the simplest story someone can write. That speaks volumes about Neil Druckmann's creativity. He's a great game director, but as a storyteller he sucks big time.