Ar¢tos
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Then keep the spores and save yourself the trouble of changing if realism isn't important.
Seems like a pointless change to make.
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HBO Original | The Last of Us | Part 1 OT | Endure & Survive
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Seems like a pointless change to make.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Your average person watching would question the air and not masking up 24/7 especially after COVID more than this change.
FukuDaruma
Member
Again, limiting the spores areas (or their concentration amount needed to get infected) would still be vastly more realistic than tendrils moving in realtime like an octopus or a spider... this is an adult show for adult audiences. HBO is supposed to make shows for an audiencie with a certain level of intelligence. They didn't have to represent radiation as red smoke in 'Chernobyl' because "average Joe wouldn't understand an invisible thing that kills you".
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Games of Today
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I gotta go look that's hilarious.
BackBackPunch
Member
My biggest complaint so far is that the clickers are supposed to be terrifying, and they weren't even a little bit scary. I think the problem is that they didn't do anything to effectively sell them as being dangerous. They showed a dead guy on the floor who was cut up, but....so what? When you're playing the game, the first encounter with a clicker (and many others) leads to insta-death, with an animation showing the brutal death-in-process. You immediately feel a visceral fear from them because of the consequences. In this show, it's just a dude with a mushroom on his head walking around like Michael Jackson in the Thriller video. You have to imagine what they're capable of, which is hard to do when they're just a dude with a mushroom on their head.
What they really needed was to show a clicker attacking some redshirt who wandered in off the street, in real-time.
What they really needed was to show a clicker attacking some redshirt who wandered in off the street, in real-time.
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Kyo
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ThatStupidLion
Member
enjoyed eps 2 way more than 1.
liked the flashback showing the origins of the myco
not really sure i like the connected mycelium, but i think its necessary for the show to simulate certain scenarios. where as the game youll just get a wave due to a triggered event etc. theyll use the connected myco to trigger key moments
liked the flashback showing the origins of the myco
not really sure i like the connected mycelium, but i think its necessary for the show to simulate certain scenarios. where as the game youll just get a wave due to a triggered event etc. theyll use the connected myco to trigger key moments
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BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
I think this works better as a TV show than it did as a game
Vick
Member
I sort of agree.
However being super familiar with them from the games, hearing them off screen for the first time got me real good.
That's absolutely, 100% not Druckmann.I'm pretty sure this is him:
Punished Miku
Gold Member
It's his brother, Freddy Druckmann.
MMaRsu
Banned
Lockdown for what? Theres no cure/vaccinBomb. Bomb the city and everyone in it.
Bruh... how about a lockdown first.
Ulysses 31
Member
To try to stop/slow the spread?
MMaRsu
Banned
Yup its hilarious seeing people pretend that Tess wasnt the boss of the two, even though they were clearly partners in the game, she does most of the talking/wheeling and dealing during the part before her death.
MMaRsu
Banned
Not sure how thats gonna work when its already infecting people, and Jakarta is one of the most populated cities, not sure how youd wanna manage that. Slow the spread isnt gonna stop it, if your lucky and firebomb the city you might stop it if it hasnt passed past the city borders.
MMaRsu
Banned
What. That wasnt at all what that was
Ulysses 31
Member
Might not be enough to stop it but not doing anything and letting the infection run rampart seems like the lesser option to take.
MMaRsu
Banned
Clown opinionThe fact that they thought they had to dumb down an adult show made for HBO based on a Playstation game is baffling.
Those moving tendrils making the fungus behave like a realtime moving animal are totally infantile and lame. There wasn’t any problem for the audience to understand radiation in Mazin’s ‘Chernobyl’ but now they thought their audience was too dumb to understand spores infection? really?
Not to mention they made Tess a lot less badass than her character in the original videogame at every turn.
Like a hard ass like Tess would call a 14 yo kid she’s smuggling as cargo “sister”. Yeah, right. This kind of cringe dialogue, that isn’t present in the original story at all, reeks of desperation to pander to what they think politically correct feminist ‘modern audiences’ would find ‘cool’.
MMaRsu
Banned
The doctor is smart and understands that theres no escaping this, better to firebomb the city.
But Joel kills a infected grandma, tells Tommy to run people over and kills the guard at the end of ep1 with his bare fists.
Ulysses 31
Member
The granda ma was in self defence or defence of another, the guard one was PTSD kicking in. Robert was on the ground, unarmed with a broken arm and not an immediate threat and was executed in cold blood.
The Tommy one could be excused as they were fleeing a life threatening situation but I think it's not as bad as killing someone who's been incapacitated.
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MMaRsu
Banned
Lol muh feminism
MMaRsu
Banned
Yeah, by Tess.
Ulysses 31
Member
And she's a protagonist too and I suspect someone at HBO was worried it might turn people off seeing a protagonist execute someone like that in the beginning of the series. Tess shoots first (and kills?) too when a couple of Robert's thugs tells them to go back in the game.
It's just speculation on my part and maybe it's just a coincidence that the changes in the show removed all Tess' killings in episode 1.
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Mibu no ookami
Member
You don't watch HBO
taizuke
Member
Been thinking about this too. At first I didn't think much of it in the first episode with the guy saying "if this happens we loose". After all, it was just one episode and it let's the audience know how serious the infection would be.
But, in the 2nd episode a professor of Mycology's first response to the infection is "bomb everything"... I have to assume she considered all possibilities, even a cure and she is still saying there's no hope. I get that they may be trying to make the situation more "scary" but two experts without a shadow of a doubt saying it's over should this happen and that there's no cure and no vaccine that instead she rather spend her last moments with her family...
I get the feeling this is in place to make Joel's decision at the end easier to swallow (to those that haven't played the game) because anyone who says he
doomed humanity by saving Ellie can now refer to these two episodes and say it was always doomed from the start.
If ends up like this then I too think it will take away from the original ending but I'm optimistic there's a good reason for it so we'll see.
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Reizo Ryuu
Gold Member
Boring episode tbh, hope it picks up soon.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Ulysses 31
Member
To be fair, TLOU2 discredits it too with the human on human violence overall being the bigger threat there than the infected.
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Yeah thats definitely NOT neil in that pic lol
Stooky
Member
Since when has HBO been afraid to show violence?
MidGenRefresh
*Refreshes biennially
Second episode was good.
The best part was Joel aiming an armed rifle at Ellie's chest while telling her to be quiet.
The best part was Joel aiming an armed rifle at Ellie's chest while telling her to be quiet.
El Pistolero
Banned
The only things that have been proven are your abysmal taste, as well as your insistence on breaking everybody's balls by sharing it publicly...and repeatedly.
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DForce
NaughtyDog Defense Force
It really seems like they're giving more weight to both sides of the argument.
Throughout episode 2, Joel was waiting for Ellie to turn.
- He had a gun pointed at her as soon as she woke up.
- He didn't want Tess to talk about Ellie like she had a life in front of her.
- He was worried about Ellie turning again after she was bitten for a second time.
- Joel stares at her bite mark all the way to the Capitol building.
- Joel was ready to shoot Tess when he found out she was infected.
Joel never showed this fear toward Ellie in the game. He's obviously going to become convinced in later episodes, which they expanded on compared to the game.
In the game, Ellie and Joel are in the subway station and Joel watches Ellie breathe in spores for the first time.
Joel - "How the hell are you breathin' in this stuff?"
Ellie - "I wasn't lying to you."
This is likely when Joel believed Ellie was immune and the cure was possible because he talked about this exact moment to Tommy.
Joel - "She's immune."
Tommy - "Immune to what? Oh, c'mon."
Joel - "See, I know. I've seen her breathe enough spores to take down a dozen men and nothing. I wouldn't have believed it neither, but I can show you."
This is to show us that Joel becomes convinced that this IS the cure.
The important part here is what Tess told Joel before she died.
Tess was convinced that this is the cure and she wanted him to do right for "all the shit we did."
Tess - "This is your chance. You get her there, you keep her alive, and you set everything right. All the shit we did."
However, this leans towards Joel's decision to take Ellie.
Tess - "Save who you can save."
If Joel believed humanity was already doomed, then he wouldn't risk his life to bring Ellie to the Fireflies. That would be a plothole. Joel's decision always came down to protecting Ellie, and he knew she would go back if he told her the truth.
Throughout episode 2, Joel was waiting for Ellie to turn.
- He had a gun pointed at her as soon as she woke up.
- He didn't want Tess to talk about Ellie like she had a life in front of her.
- He was worried about Ellie turning again after she was bitten for a second time.
- Joel stares at her bite mark all the way to the Capitol building.
- Joel was ready to shoot Tess when he found out she was infected.
Joel never showed this fear toward Ellie in the game. He's obviously going to become convinced in later episodes, which they expanded on compared to the game.
In the game, Ellie and Joel are in the subway station and Joel watches Ellie breathe in spores for the first time.
Joel - "How the hell are you breathin' in this stuff?"
Ellie - "I wasn't lying to you."
This is likely when Joel believed Ellie was immune and the cure was possible because he talked about this exact moment to Tommy.
Joel - "She's immune."
Tommy - "Immune to what? Oh, c'mon."
Joel - "See, I know. I've seen her breathe enough spores to take down a dozen men and nothing. I wouldn't have believed it neither, but I can show you."
This is to show us that Joel becomes convinced that this IS the cure.
The important part here is what Tess told Joel before she died.
Tess was convinced that this is the cure and she wanted him to do right for "all the shit we did."
Tess - "This is your chance. You get her there, you keep her alive, and you set everything right. All the shit we did."
However, this leans towards Joel's decision to take Ellie.
Tess - "Save who you can save."
If Joel believed humanity was already doomed, then he wouldn't risk his life to bring Ellie to the Fireflies. That would be a plothole. Joel's decision always came down to protecting Ellie, and he knew she would go back if he told her the truth.
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Bella Ramsey. who even knows if the story will be the same as the game. it might go a different route.
Make up, effects, CG can do wonders. it will be fine
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legit you have some of the stupidest posts ive seen on this forum in this thread lol
no shade, carry on
Insane Metal
Member
Second episode was much better than episode one, very good so far.
Raonak
Banned
Great episode 2. Clickers were well done, and I loved how they stuck to the same key locations as in the games.
I'm still shocked how good the series is at sticking to the game. Probably one of the more "accurate" adaptions i've seen so far.
The costumes and sets are perfect, the dialog and characters are so inline with the games in terms of acting.
They do add and remove parts, but overall it feels like TLOU.
The connected infected is new, but I kinda like the change, makes them more interesting than standard zombies.
I'm still shocked how good the series is at sticking to the game. Probably one of the more "accurate" adaptions i've seen so far.
The costumes and sets are perfect, the dialog and characters are so inline with the games in terms of acting.
They do add and remove parts, but overall it feels like TLOU.
The connected infected is new, but I kinda like the change, makes them more interesting than standard zombies.
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itsjustJEFF
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As someone who enjoyed both games, I am thoroughly enjoying the HBO series. I went in like I do with any book-to-movie or game-to-movie adaptation... enjoying it for what it is. I've done this with Doom, Uncharted, Ender's Game, Ready Player One, Dune etc. Are they note for note like the book/game? Of course not, how can you expect it to be? It's a different format with different ppl creating it. Ppl who make TV/Movies now their medium the same way ppl who make video games know their medium.
Enjoy the series for what it is, it's own spin on a damn good video game. Leave your expectations and your prejudice at the door and I guarantee you'll enjoy it! The show does such a great job of building suspense, love all the back story they've built so far. It's been a great complement to the video games, so far.
Enjoy the series for what it is, it's own spin on a damn good video game. Leave your expectations and your prejudice at the door and I guarantee you'll enjoy it! The show does such a great job of building suspense, love all the back story they've built so far. It's been a great complement to the video games, so far.
itsjustJEFF
Member
I love how based in reality that bit about some of them being connected is... that's so terrifying LOL
Ulysses 31
Member
Strawman, I speculated about seeing a protagonist killing someone who wasn't a threat anymore in cold blood early in the series might be off putting to viewers, not that the TV show is afraid to show violence.
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SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Does Tess even kill anyone in the show?
She was killing people left and right in the game. Even Ellie was like i thought we were just going to handcuff the people who found them crossing the QZ.
Both Joel and Tess are portrayed as essentially ruthless murderers in the game. Its a bizarre choice to not show that.
Stooky
Member
They should a chick with her ear blown off, a guy mauled to death, and guy with a back of his head blown off. We’re only 2 episodes in. What the fuck are you talking about? You mad because they didn’t spend more time with a character that basically a tutorial mission in the game?
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Ulysses 31
Member
Haven't watched ep 2 yet, just read about it but I think the only killing she does so far is at the end of ep2. Maybe we'll also see some in flashbacks.
Maybe some HBO suits think viewers not as hardened as gamers and thought it was too early to see Tess/Joel do something that "cold". That's what I suspect anyway.
You don't seem to grasp my point that TV shows generally depend on interesting protagonists (and good writing)to keep viewers engaged, so if some HBO suit thinks that having protagonists doing cold blooded killings during the first ep of the show when viewers are less likely to be invested enough in the characters, might turn viewers off that they'll drop the show and with such an expensive show they didn't want to risk that.
I believe streaming services can see where a viewer quits an episode or which segments are being rewatched.
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TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
Yeah.
I haven't done much supplemental research, but it does seem to go on a time table. In so far as, if you tolerate the symbiosis and don't expire up to a point, then you'll "evolve," to the next stage. I *think* it's stated in one of the two games that when an infected feels it's host body is nearing the end of it's ability to move and function, it will hunker down in a dark spot and grow into the wall/floor of that area.
So I guess it's most likely by that information that most of the Clickers who survive to Joel and Ellie's journey time frame would probably be younger and more physically fit, whilst an older person or someone who had an impairment probably wouldn't tolerate the cordyceps as well and would be relegated to becoming a stationary fixture in a building or something, versus one of the active spreaders.