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morningjrpro

The plot of the Mass Effect series

bottleshark

I can't stop reading Dungeon Crawler Carl

optionalcausality

Princess Donut looks so expressive here! Ahhhh so good

#dungeon crawler carl #my new obsession

the girlies 🌹

how have you been?

Update:

It's about grief. It's about letting go. It's about fighting on. It's about family. It's about the existential horror of mimes.

It's about escapism. It's about surviving despite it all. It's about the wonder of the world even in darkness. It's about mimes beating the shit out of you.

It's about love. It's about heartbreak. It's about who the fuck put all those mimes here

eggsistencial

“You should put that on a t-shirt.”

preacherboyd

MASH | 4x06 The Bus

wonderstruck

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

#The Shadow of the Wind

hometoursandotherstuff

They really did.

melbush

i love finding out what degrees my mutuals have. like what the fuck do you mean you do law? you’re a doctor who blog

#BS in journalism #MA in film studies and part of a film PhD that may or may not ever get finished

thats-ee

had to get this out before we collectively move on from coldplay ceo

thats-ee

had to get this out before we collectively move on from coldplay ceo

space-blue

OP I love you, can you draw Obi-Wan as the really red in the face hyper embarassed woman please pleaseeee!!!

thats-ee

@space-blue you got me, I just gave up last night but this was the plan all along

Spoilers for The Last of Us in general

I preface this as someone who thought The Last of Us Part II was brilliant, but I really did not enjoy this second season of the tv show. I always thought that this would be a hard adaptation because the impact of the game is in its interactivity. It’s a relatively simple story - let’s explore the cycle of vengeance and what it means to break out of it, so it’s really the experience of being forced to play as your perceived antagonist and coming around to the other side that makes that game.

While I know the tv adaptation would need to cut a lot of gameplay mechanics like combat and traversal sequences, post-episode 2 (when *that* event happens) the show slogs into a lot of walking and talking. So much so that I had non-gamer friends asking if the game was just a ton a walking because they were bored to tears. Fundamentally, these seven episodes have major pacing issues, so no wonder non-gamers felt whiplash at the coda of this season’s finale.

I also find the show, while clearly produced at the highest levels with a wonderful cast, just way over-explanatory. Maybe this is exacerbated for me because I was also watching Andor concurrently, and that show definitely works on the edges of subtlety and doesn’t handhold its audience. I think there’s this fear of letting characters and their motivations be murky and having the audience sit in that ambiguity. I understand there’s a concern with having an audience sit with things for two/three years before the next season (that’s another rant on the timeline of “tv” production for another time), but I kind of think that’s better than just point blank feeding them information.

Here’s ultimately the thing: The Last of Us is super cinematic to begin with, it’s lauded because it’s a strong narrative. Season one of the show gave some hope with the Bill and Frank episode that there was room around that narrative to tell other stories within the same world. TLOU2 is all about playing with narrative structure; flashbacks are deployed strategically for impact at specific parts of the game…it doesn’t really work to shuffle around the same pieces in a different order, while also being fastidiously attached to some things being one-to-one recreations. Also, tv Ellie is quite different from game Ellie in ways I don’t think any other character in this adaptation appears different to their game counterpart…to the point where I kind of wonder why the essence of this character seems so misinterpreted or intentionally changed.

Anyways, just some random thoughts. In other news, watch Andor if you haven’t yet. Some of the best stuff I’ve seen in a while.

#the last of us #the last of us spoilers #tldr #my random tv thoughts

Journalism (inside) works 4f with Feel the Magic in his final local work at Santa Anita before heading to Kentucky early next week. Regular jockey Umberto Rispoli was up. All systems go for the Derby favorite.