I can't understand the audience reaction to this show. You look on IMDb and it's all 9/10, 10/10, best show evaaaaaaarr.
Whether you enjoyed the game or not, this is one decidedly average TV show.
Also, I can almost tolerate El Spico as Joel (almost) but they couldn't have picked even just a normal looking human female to play Ellie? They really had to go with whatever the fuck Bella (a very ironic name, considering) Ramsey is?
Not to be nasty, but the game had you want to protect Ellie, not drown her in a river to put her out of everyone's misery.
Rose tinted glasses. I got that from Star Wars(not anymore though). Something mediocre came out? Amazing... Having been whipped already makes anything look good. Same is probably for TLOU fans who got a kick in the groin from part 2.
That makes sense from the gamer's perspective, but there's a significant number of reviews from people who claim to have never played either game.
Is this the only show they've ever watched and it's amazing to them? Do they just think everything's amazing? Does Pedro Pascal have that big a fanbase?
Plenty of other recent shows got positive review bombed (fake reviews). It's become quite common. Its one of the reasons why I stopped using Amazon to do research on stuff, because it curates search results to prioritize Chinesium shit, and lots of the reviews are clearly fake. Companies stand to win or lose lots of money by manipulating reviews. With how corrupt everything has become, why wouldnt they lie about that?
In general the bar has been lowered so much that a mediocre show at best gets great reviews. I wouldn't know any other answer except what ApexVeritas has said. I still believe it's partially because of the lowered bar. I know people who like it and those people are far less critical than I am.
This is the end of my watching this show. I thought ep 1 and 2 were fucking boring but they were 'building'. Now they've wasted an entire episode to showcase bearded man on man love rather than what should've been something interesting happening on the way to the compound and Joel or Ellie just finding the note.
We don't need an emotional connection to characters that have no impact on the story, haven't appeared before this episode and clearly won't appear again, just so they can be stunning and brave. There was no service to the overall plot except for their truck.
the game had you want to protect Ellie, not drown her in a river to put her out of everyone's misery
I don't know about that. Granted I only watched videos of the game, but she always acted like an insufferable little bitch. It's why I never bothered to play it. If they gave you an option to drown her in a river maybe I would have. In real life I'd have told her to watch her language and smacked her in the face if she gave me any lip.
Still doesn't ring a bell. Hell, I think I only remember about six named characters other than Joel and Ellie: Tess, Firefly girl, black guy and his kid brother, Tommy, and Cannibal Drake.
Well, season 2 will be the second game, so anyone hate watching this should stop now. I can think of many things to do that aren't the waste of time that watching this show would be.
Bill worked, plot-wise, as a mysterious side-character. The less you knew about him, the better he was. Some crazed survivalist that lived in the middle of clicker territory and somehow was just fine. Why? It was intriguing, and anything you learned removed some of the interest, some of the mystery.
As an aside-note, I wonder if they're going to make the black single dad's kid white in this one?
Another thing that makes me think it's not AIDS is that he said there was no cure for what he has before the apocalypse. While it is true that there is no cure for AIDS, it can be treated. He didn't say something like "Oh I would have survived if only we still had medicine"
That's when there's a ton gay guys around to get AIDs from. Unless there was a brothel in a nearby town Frank from the Last Of Us was exclusive to bottom Ron Swanson.
I can't understand the audience reaction to this show. You look on IMDb and it's all 9/10, 10/10, best show evaaaaaaarr.
Whether you enjoyed the game or not, this is one decidedly average TV show.
Also, I can almost tolerate El Spico as Joel (almost) but they couldn't have picked even just a normal looking human female to play Ellie? They really had to go with whatever the fuck Bella (a very ironic name, considering) Ramsey is?
Not to be nasty, but the game had you want to protect Ellie, not drown her in a river to put her out of everyone's misery.
Rose tinted glasses. I got that from Star Wars(not anymore though). Something mediocre came out? Amazing... Having been whipped already makes anything look good. Same is probably for TLOU fans who got a kick in the groin from part 2.
That makes sense from the gamer's perspective, but there's a significant number of reviews from people who claim to have never played either game.
Is this the only show they've ever watched and it's amazing to them? Do they just think everything's amazing? Does Pedro Pascal have that big a fanbase?
Plenty of other recent shows got positive review bombed (fake reviews). It's become quite common. Its one of the reasons why I stopped using Amazon to do research on stuff, because it curates search results to prioritize Chinesium shit, and lots of the reviews are clearly fake. Companies stand to win or lose lots of money by manipulating reviews. With how corrupt everything has become, why wouldnt they lie about that?
In general the bar has been lowered so much that a mediocre show at best gets great reviews. I wouldn't know any other answer except what ApexVeritas has said. I still believe it's partially because of the lowered bar. I know people who like it and those people are far less critical than I am.
This is the end of my watching this show. I thought ep 1 and 2 were fucking boring but they were 'building'. Now they've wasted an entire episode to showcase bearded man on man love rather than what should've been something interesting happening on the way to the compound and Joel or Ellie just finding the note.
We don't need an emotional connection to characters that have no impact on the story, haven't appeared before this episode and clearly won't appear again, just so they can be stunning and brave. There was no service to the overall plot except for their truck.
Its all so tiresome.
I don't know about that. Granted I only watched videos of the game, but she always acted like an insufferable little bitch. It's why I never bothered to play it. If they gave you an option to drown her in a river maybe I would have. In real life I'd have told her to watch her language and smacked her in the face if she gave me any lip.
At least vidya Ellie wasn't ugly though.
Yeah. Her face looks like a chewed caramel.
Tough to look at and take seriously.
Look at what else has been released. When everything new is shit, and along comes this relatively average one it looks like a diamond in comparison
I can't understand why people are under some illusion that this isn't some woke feminist crap?
I've even heard conservative radio talkshow people slobbering on this show. It's weird.
What even
How even
I don't even know what hardware or software you would need to watch such a thing.
This is how I am and this is what you should aspire to be.
Who was Bill again?
That one guy you need to help fix your car. Of course it couldn't be that simple, and he had to be gay and his gay lover hanged himself.
Still doesn't ring a bell. Hell, I think I only remember about six named characters other than Joel and Ellie: Tess, Firefly girl, black guy and his kid brother, Tommy, and Cannibal Drake.
Is it sad or smart that I instantly wrote this show off without knowing anything about it besides what they did to TLOU 2?
Well, season 2 will be the second game, so anyone hate watching this should stop now. I can think of many things to do that aren't the waste of time that watching this show would be.
Bill worked, plot-wise, as a mysterious side-character. The less you knew about him, the better he was. Some crazed survivalist that lived in the middle of clicker territory and somehow was just fine. Why? It was intriguing, and anything you learned removed some of the interest, some of the mystery.
As an aside-note, I wonder if they're going to make the black single dad's kid white in this one?
The game wiki said he lived in a town with an unusual number of infected, but the show had none in his town
HFS that episode pissed me off
I don't think it was AIDS, though.
I guess you could be in a wheelchair from AIDS, but I assumed it was MS or something like that.
Another thing that makes me think it's not AIDS is that he said there was no cure for what he has before the apocalypse. While it is true that there is no cure for AIDS, it can be treated. He didn't say something like "Oh I would have survived if only we still had medicine"
That's when there's a ton gay guys around to get AIDs from. Unless there was a brothel in a nearby town Frank from the Last Of Us was exclusive to bottom Ron Swanson.
It started out ok like survivalist enjoying the end of the world. I liked that. I would like that.