#tlou thing

[regularbeans]

nOTHING will ever bother me about the hbo tlou as much as joel removing whatever they stabbed him with in the third to last episode. like bro survived twenty years in the zombie apocalypse and doesnt know that you're NOT SUPPOSED TO REMOVE THE STABBY?????

[regularbeans]

okay i gotta say my shit cause im a little tlou freak and nobody around me is This freak about tlou so here i go shouting into the abyss

so this is just my interpretation but i thought that ellie and joel were kind of warming up to each other "too fast" in the show. like sure they had their moments in the game up until they met tommy but it was really there where joel committed to ellie in the game.

so in the show, to me he gets close to her way too fast. and it was weird to me cause i was like, you know, if he ditches ellie the way he ditches her in the game then itd be quite the 180 for joel. like what can possibly happen to make him pull back in that way AND make it believable. and i thought it was gonna be henry and sam and in some way it was but also in other ways it wasnt JUST that.

and thats why im glad they gave joel that monologue cause i can already hear people say it was boring and they did the single tear of manly pain, which, sure. but also it was well supported by everything that happened beforehand AND it made that moment later in the game so goddamn effective.

like joel is way more committed to tommy in the show, like he's already actively looking for him from the start, where in the game they just sumble into him because theyre heading in the general area of where he or his group might be, on tess' hunch.

finding him clearly affects him more here too and it was also supported by the way tommy relied on him so much at the start. so once tommy was gone who was joel anymore. who is he if not a protector? like he needed tommy so he can protect him (when, of course, he doesnt really need protecting anymore)

so he's way more emotionally outward while of course he guards himself and all that but theres more than just one chink in the armour here.

so thats why its good that they did the joel not hearing the guy attack him, henry and sam, freezing when ellie was in danger, being old, tess being the head of the operation, all that stuff because this way joel wants to ditch ellie because yes, he wants to guard himself from getting close to someone else he can lose but he mainly does it to protect ellie because he literally doesnt trust himself to protect ellie in any other way than by leaving her.

in the game saying that she'd be better off with tommy is just a crappy excuse he throws out so he doesnt have to admit that he's scared of getting close to her, but in the show it might actually be true that she'd be safer with tommy. but in the end he lets it be ellie's choice and she of course chooses joel without any hesitation.

in the game ellie commits to joel when henry ditches them before reaching the bridge, then joel commits to ellie at the ranch. here joel is like okay if she chooses me then i choose her. like i choose to let down my guard, i choose to be the protector i didnt think i could be anymore but the protector she so desperately needs.

and of course they choose each other.

its nice

10/10 would cry again

also joel being like im not strong anymore i cant do it i keep failing is just like. yeah it accentuates it more, what he ends up doing later.

[regularbeans]

fuckit

me when i buy tlou

[regularbeans]

tlou spoilers ig idk issssmyopinion cause i cant tell linn about them cause she asked for no spoilers and i already yelled about it to sara and my sister and i dont know any more people.

i dont think there was anything i didnt like tbh. sarah was really gooddddd, the actor nailed that shit on the head. i like how they established more that tommy depends on joel, with the jail thing, and how they shared the job at the start, i think that was really good. there was more set up about the neighbours too, i just think all that was really cool.

none of the direct quotes from the game felt like pandering or fanservice, which i liked, all of them were really welcome for me. (Didnt think i would sob at hearing a teenage girl say "i sell hardcore drugs" as a joke but here we are.)

I liked that it was all from sarah's POV in the beginning. in the game one of the most poignant scenes is trying to escape in the car, how the adults are in the front seat making the calls and everything is happening around you and all you can do is turn the camera and watch. it was nice that you could like, see her interact with the world even if for a short bit. it didnt feel drawn out or unnecessary, it was sufficiently Paced.

none of the direct quotes from the game felt like pandering or fanservice, which i liked, all of them were really welcome for me. (Didnt think i would sob at hearing a teenage girl say "i sell hardcore drugs" as a joke but here we are.)

the worldbuilding was really nice, like im sure it couldve been done more extensively in the game as well, seeing the QZ and how it works and all that, not just through cutscenes but i do get why they wouldnt do it, they did, however, have time for it on the show, which i really liked. the whole circle of trades joel got through to get info on tommy. i love that tommy is more present from the beginning. like in the game we were looking for him when we find him but it comes up as an idea later in the game like "okay what now, ig lets go find tommy" but here he's already established to be. Out There. and something happened between him and joel that we dont know anything about yet.

i am wary of tess a liiiittle bit because annie wersching is just so fucking good. like when they said she walked into the audition As Tess, you just know they mean it. and i only ever saw anna torv as olivia in fringe and shes good in that but a part of her character is that she's a little grey and a little unnoticable and all that so. i was a little afraid. and sure she gives off a different vibe but she has that same gentleness juuust below the surface that game tess did, and i love that joel really is just the muscle, but tess is the brain and the authority in the pair.

so that was good.

marlene is 100%, i really loved her. i dont know why i thought seeing her wear the same simple clothes as game marlene did was such a huge deal that i had to hyperventilate, but you know. like dude, its a tank top, calm down.

anyway. i was fine with all of the changes, i dont think anything they changed took away anything from the characters. maybe i expected them to react to the fungi'd body a little differently. like the spores were already established and seeing a bitch like that should mean its about to start sporing but. maybe its just a detail that theyre. not. supposed to wear a gas mask at that point.

ig thats the one thing that made me go hOL'UP. but nothing else i can recall

the fireflies were alright, like we see the explosion from the game just somewhere else in the game so we see about as much of them in the show as in the game.

obviously, i think ellie's actor has the most to prove which, goddamn, thats gotta be Some pressure eh. but i think she did well. the few lines she had were well written, they got her character through well. but i also loved how once they were outside and in danger following tess and joel, she really was just a scared kid who's really just trying to Appear Big and scary by cursing and yelling and lashing out at new people and being a little brat.

i dont think i have any like, observations about her as of now. i liked her on screen, obviously shes never gonna be the same as ashley johnson ellie but i also dont want her to be? actually there were two lines where i felt like she was imitating game ellie (or it really just came across like that for my ears) and that actually bothered me more than when she was "different". which. she is, obviously x)

so yeah i really like her, to me it all hinges on her chemistry with joel. i think the actor will do a fine job if the dynamic is written well.

joel for now is kind of a blank slate i guess, classic hardened badass that he was in the game as well. so im excited for him to become a real character next to the cast of characters they'll meet along the way and as their relationship with ellie transforms.

for now, the show is really promising, it really got me hyped, i cried, i laughed, i literally screamed out loud when they mentioned riley x') so it had me in my tlou feels, definitely.

but im also wary because of the video game adaptation curse thats been going for centuries x) also for some reason adaptations often love to go tits up right before the ending? like they want to do something else something different and have their own moment. i expect and accept a lot more changes thats not the issue but just dont... steal the heart of the story, okay?

thank.

also i had no idea they kept gustavo for the music so i may have wept when i heard the theme song. i have sooOOO MANY fond memories of playing the game for the first time. it was such a special, special experience with giules in rome, playing a video game for the first time in my life, having so many great experiences just being with her family and all. listening to the OST on the beach together :")

ahh so good.

anyway, feels. yes. good. lets go. i have faith.

[regularbeans]

wait i said i wouldnt get ellie's tattoo if the tlou show turned out to be bad

so ig it has eight more episodes to convince me not to get it!

[regularbeans]

aLSO fuKIn

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IN MARCH?!?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!