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JohnnyAK907 t1_j6os6lz wrote

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

So far my only real complaint is how F'ing annoying Ellie is. In the game she had her moments, but she wasn't the constant downer TV Ellie is turning out to be. If I were Joel I would have ditched her ass by now. Plus it's just bad storytelling, as Ellie being pretty upbeat despite circumstances is what eventually starts to wear down Joel's defenses and gives the later scenes where she has to face reality and come to grips with just how shitty everything that's happened up till that point really was such weight as she overcomes and pushes through to save Joel. Druckman is already draining the impact of that role reversal and character growth moment.

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RupanIII t1_j6oqiw8 wrote

Reply to La Brea Renewed For Season 3 At NBC by klutzysunshine

I tried. Really I did. Usually a sci-fi drama ish show like this would be right in my wheelhouse. I gave up a couple of episodes in to season 2. It was just so bad. Character motivations didn’t make any sense. It took forever for anything to happen. It was just bad all around.

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DoopSlayer t1_j6oqhmc 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

breaking bad season 1 wasn't slow or boring, and big action or conflict aren't necessarily interesting

people ask because they don't want to gamble their time on whether a show will improve or not. A lot of the time the first episode of a show will serve as a synecdoche for the whole thing, so if it's bad or mediocre it makes me assume that the whole thing is bad or mediocre in a similar manner. Episodic media should still be good on an episode to episode basis.

Good/bad will mean different things to different people, but what they experience is what they will use to make a decision, if theyre asking others then theyre just trying to make a more informed decision influenced by people who have already invested time into a show.

Lately I've felt like mediocre shows are putting the meat of their stories into the beginning and end of seasons, with middle episodes serving as just meandering diversions that don't really serve to forward any thesis/concepts. I would like to avoid these shows in the future so I'll look to reviews I trust

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Irish_Whiskey t1_j6oqb9j wrote

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

> Why is very smart and ultra prepared Bill's plan to stand on the open street and shoot. Like seriously?

Because he's shit with guns.

I noticed the whole time he had terrible trigger discipline, had impractical weapons and gear for responding to the government agents, kept running into the open and swinging his guns around wildly, and kept fumbling and dropping the gun at dinner when he was trying to look intimidating.

He's a prepper. He stockpiled stuff and developed skills to be the king of his own hill and drive off "moochers". The fact that he'd have a million guns and be a decent shot but have terrible tactics and discipline is exactly what I'd expect from a prepper. Unlike Tommy he's not a vet with combat experience, nor is he used to actually using guns against people like Joel.

> No, he's just an idiot for one scene.

If you go back, he's an idiot with his guns in most scenes. This was just the one time people fired back.

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