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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Dec 3, 2022 21:44:50 GMT
Looks like Troy is playing one of David's henchmen. So an older James? He’s got the winter cap and everything. Unless it’s somebody new
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Dec 3, 2022 21:46:26 GMT
best use of "Take On Me" ever.
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Post by Archie on Dec 3, 2022 21:46:36 GMT
Also, anyone else hoping we get some fucking Ish in this adaptation? This is definitely Ish's hideout at 0:58
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Dec 3, 2022 21:48:01 GMT
Also, anyone else hoping we get some fucking Ish in this adaptation? Obviously, but that whole section of the game is dark as hell. I wonder if they even touch it because it’s so grim.
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Post by stephen on Dec 3, 2022 21:49:13 GMT
Also, anyone else hoping we get some fucking Ish in this adaptation? This is definitely Ish's hideout at 0:58 For sure, but I want to actually see the man, the myth, the legend.
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Post by Archie on Dec 3, 2022 21:52:05 GMT
Man, that Sam and Henry hug got me real good.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Dec 3, 2022 21:57:10 GMT
One final rambling, I like the idea of someone lesser known and clean shaven as David, but I just have one last reservation. Because David’s not an easy character to pin down. He is a monstrous, sick, vile fuck, but he’s also very soft-spoken, persuasive in a twisty way. He’s soothing enough, yet forceful enough that you can understand why people look to him as a leader, and ironically, he never lies to Ellie (he’s also the only major character that doesn’t swear). So you take this too far in either direction, he can fall apart fast. I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt though, because I haven’t seen anything to suggest this won’t be a hit.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Dec 5, 2022 14:31:23 GMT
Since I’ve never played the game I’m curious how I’ll respond to the series vs the existing fans. Usually for these adaptations I find it’s preferable to not have the history, even though you lose some otherwise enjoyment.
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Post by stephen on Dec 5, 2022 14:52:48 GMT
Since I’ve never played the game I’m curious how I’ll respond to the series vs the existing fans. Usually for these adaptations I find it’s preferable to not have the history, even though you lose some otherwise enjoyment. I would say watch the adaptation first, then play the first and second games (because they are both phenomenal).
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Dec 9, 2022 6:41:16 GMT
Since I’ve never played the game I’m curious how I’ll respond to the series vs the existing fans. Usually for these adaptations I find it’s preferable to not have the history, even though you lose some otherwise enjoyment. Seconding watch the show first. Admittedly, it looks as if there’s gonna be a lot of additions to the show (which makes sense, because there is a lot of tutorial sections in the games), and a lot of things that are probably going to be fleshed out to fit the new medium, so you can take them both as separate entities.
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Post by wilcinema on Jan 10, 2023 9:43:03 GMT
Reviews are out, and they're great.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Jan 11, 2023 0:07:03 GMT
Reviews are out, and they're great. Oh my god! Yes, YES, YES, YES!!!
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Jan 11, 2023 17:29:53 GMT
I'm still bummed that my Melanie Lynskey-as-"David" theory doesn't seem to be panning out, You weren’t far off. She’s apparently the leader of the hunters (The ones in Pittsburgh in the game)
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jan 11, 2023 19:55:42 GMT
Never played the game, but I'm looking forward to this.
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Post by stephen on Jan 11, 2023 20:56:09 GMT
Never played the game, but I'm looking forward to this. YOU NEVER PLAYED ALIEN ISOLATION EITHER.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Jan 11, 2023 22:39:03 GMT
Never played the game, but I'm looking forward to this. At least you can consume some culture now
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Post by mhynson27 on Jan 11, 2023 22:51:55 GMT
Never played the game, but I'm looking forward to this. At least you can consume some culture now Nah, he'd prefer to just continue watching 20 shitty horror movies every week.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jan 11, 2023 23:10:23 GMT
At least you can consume some culture now Nah, he'd prefer to just continue watching 20 shitty horror movies every week. Don't kink shame me!
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Jan 11, 2023 23:36:52 GMT
Nah, he'd prefer to just continue watching 20 shitty horror movies every week. Don't kink shame me! Ok, but I have friends who legitimately fetishize killers from horror movies/games I have no room to kink shame
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jan 12, 2023 0:01:48 GMT
Ok, but I have friends who legitimately fetishize killers from horror movies/games I have no room to kink shame Ugh. I definitely don't go that route. Also I just saw Terrifier, which I don't get the hype over. A killer that can basically teleport is lame.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Jan 16, 2023 0:12:16 GMT
Endure and survive!
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Jan 16, 2023 4:02:20 GMT
I just finished the first episode, “When You’re Lost in the Darkness.” In one epic episode, this show is already well on its way to being * the* greatest game adaptation ever made. Which isn’t a high bar, but this is a genuinely strong episode. Full thoughts in the spoiler tags. If I had one minor issue, I think its opening scene is a necessary evil. It’s basically catering to those unfamiliar with the game’s science, and serves as an exposition dump, and justification for the infection. I just feel it’s the odd duck in an otherwise great episode.
That said, things immediately pick up with the expanded Ground Zero section, and the bond between Joel and Sara before the outbreak. With the day being expanded out to a full day in the life of Sara, not only does it make her loss in the initial outbreak that more devastating, but ratchets the suspense so high as the militaristic response builds up in enigmatic fashion, as well as the state of the people inflicted by the disease.
Jumping ahead 20 years, the production design is its own star. This is the most perfect realization of the dilapidated, crumbling world of the game, the quarantine zone a decaying minefield under martial law, whose repressed color pallet emphasizes the hopelessness and nihilism of the days they’re set in. Gustavo Santaolalla, returning to the composer’s podium, further emphasizing this cold and detached, if aching and haunted mood of its central characters.
That’s before even getting to the characters, specifically Pedro Pascal himself. He may not be the exact physical match for Joel, but damned if he doesn’t flawlessly embody the spirit of the character; his need for disassociation and detachment, his natural everyman spirit, his penchant for few moral lines, and his embittered scorn for the world surrounding him. You care deeply about Pascal’s rendition, and he feels suitably in tune with Joel’s blend of tragic father figure, and deadly killing machine.
But Bella Ramsay is no slouch as this new rendition of Ellie. I’ll be honest, I was always going to be a little biased, because Ashley Johnson is just irreplaceable to me. But Ramsay quickly shushes naysayers, instantly nailing Ellie’s exuberant childlike innocence and naïveté, while also sticking true to her razor-sharp sarcasm and acidic vulgarity. One fear I had from the beginning was that, because Ellie is only 14 in the game, they’d try to age her up, and so she would lose some of her character’s natural charm. But no. The spirit has transitioned smoothly, and thankfully so, because it’s refreshing to see, in a world as bleak as this, that desperately needed levity to lighten the mood. The Last of Us promises phenomenal things to come, and before anyone unfamiliar with the source material asks… yes. Even if you haven’t played the game, I would still recommend this. It faithfully recaptured what made the game tick without a hitch, but it would just as easily stand on its own distanced away from it. So even in its early stages, it’s the best video game adaptation ever made, and exactly what you hope for out of one of them: Familiar to its inspiration, but not strictly beholden to its roots.
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Post by DeepArcher on Jan 16, 2023 4:29:35 GMT
No looting, boosting, or bottle-throwing. 0/10 adaptation that fundamentally misunderstands the source material.
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Post by thelistenercanon on Jan 16, 2023 5:05:18 GMT
No looting, boosting, or bottle-throwing. 0/10 adaptation that fundamentally misunderstands the source material. Bullshit. Everyone knows bricks are better.
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Post by stephen on Jan 17, 2023 2:09:18 GMT
Troy and Ashley who? Pedro and Bella are fucking pitch-perfect already -- and I can already tell they're going to shatter my heart like bits of broken bottle against a wall. Also gotta say, Anna Torv fucking owned this episode and I really wish we were getting a lot more Tess. She could anchor a whole spinoff show.
I really liked the creative opening with John Hannah and Bighead talking about cordyceps as a concept, and how they tied it into the global warming aspect of things. Felt eerily prescient in the way Chernobyl was.
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