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visitorzeta t1_j6o9hnr wrote

Reply to What's with the impatience that leads many to ask if a show "gets better" after just the first few episodes? by TheShowLover

I do ask this from time to time, I just wanna see if it's worth my time continuing. For example, I watched the first 6 episodes of Mad Men. They weren't bad, but I asked someone when does it pick up? He said, "you've watched 6 episodes, it's already there, if you're not into it, then it's not for you."

I appreciated his response and didn't continue. Some things just don't hook you right away, it's nice to know from viewers if things do pick up at a certain point or even if you get to episode X and you still aren't invested quit. It's all about not wasting my time so I can move on to a show that will hook me.

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teddytwelvetoes t1_j6o9b6e wrote

Reply to The Empty Sentiment of The Last of Us by BuckedMallard

always funny to see the inevitable "actually, that thing that was incredibly well made and beloved by virtually everybody sucks" article, and I'm a cynical motherfucker. for three weeks in a row Craig Mazin has looked a horde of nerds directly in the eyes and said "fuck your source material" and it's so good that everybody is happily rolling with it lol not a peep from the insincere Lore Respecters who always pop up, and this episode had lifelong Republicans weeping in the family chat over a gay love story. (Jared Harris in Chernobyl voice) madness

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ffxivthrowaway03 t1_j6o8zxv wrote

Reply to comment by AFatz in I don't get the love for The Last of Us episode 3 by [deleted]

I would argue that if you need an hour long segue that completely departs from the source material to prop up why the letter is important, then the letter wasn't important in the first place.

They could have done the same thing in half the time, and put better framing around the letter in the current timeline to make it just as important without watching Bill and Frank eat strawberries in the garden or have awkward sex.

We knew Joel respected Bill from literally two minutes of the whole hour long flashback, when they talked to each other directly. That could have easily been done a hundred other ways without the extended flashback.

I think the biggest condemning factor here is that yes, you could argue that the super long flashback did X and Y and Z, but the game also did all of those things for all of those characters without an hour long flashback about Bill & Frank's domestic life. When taking that into account it's hard not to frame the whole thing as "filler."

Was it bad? Aside from a handful of blatant plot holes that really stretch suspension of disbelief, no, it was not bad. The acting was solid and the characters were at least passingly interesting if romance is your thing. But it 100% felt like they just copy/pasted any random Lifetime Original movie into the middle of an episode of The Last Of Us. It was jarringly out of place and would have done better on it's own as a spinoff movie or something.

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Sexpistolz t1_j6o8n5n wrote

Reply to comment by powertrip22 in The Empty Sentiment of The Last of Us by BuckedMallard

They needed to establish why Joel protects Ellie. In the game you aren’t given a choice. She’s a forced escort prop. In the TV show characters have choices. Joel’s motivation was a truck battery. Cool, he got that left from Bill. Now why? This ep. Establishes why.

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2oonhed t1_j6o8jbv wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Which shows do you think needs a "warning" before watching? i.e. Bad first season, skip X, Y is bad etc by alienfreaks04

Low Effort Crap Posts Like this one are the reason it got down voted to BELOW ZERO at 37%. So actually a LOT of people agree with me, they just don't speak out because then toxic turds like yourself pop up and got on their little passive aggressive downvote sprees like it REALLY means something.
You are a pollution, wherever you go.

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