Last of Us

[Immortan Jonesy]

[First Blood]

Play the guitar 🎸 please

[Immortan Jonesy]

https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1607531879057473537

[Immortan Jonesy]

https://twitter.com/slashfilm/status/1610703028314685445

[ace3g]

[Darkness]

Reviews are out. They're calling it the best video-game adaptation ever.

https://www.ign.com/articles/the-last-of-us-season-1-review
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/the-last-of-us-hbo-1235292687/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2023/01/10/last-us-review-dystopian-thriller-greatest-video-game-adaptation/

[Ingwar]

Haven't played the game

[Kradan]

Haven't played the game

@Local Trouble was supposed to say that !!! 

[BlueMarsalis79]

So the videogame adaptation curse's officially broken then, good, now can I get a good adaptation of something that didn't already ape cinema so closely in the original form?

The Last of Us already desperately wanted to be a film in most respects, which no doubt makes this transition across mediums much easier than most other adaptations.

[TC]

So the videogame adaptation curse's officially broken then, good, now can I get a good adaptation of something that didn't already ape cinema so closely in the original form?

The Last of Us already desperately wanted to be a film in most respects, which no doubt makes this transition across mediums much easier than most other adaptations.

Although much of the game's premise reminds me of Logan (the Wolverine story). I know I'm not alone in this: when news of the show first broke numerous fanboy commentators were nominating Hugh Jackman for the role of Joel.

Not that the similarity bothers me in the slightest. In fact, Logan reminds me of The Road starring Viggo Mortensen (based on Cormac McCarthy's novel).

All great stories.

TC

[Rankles75]

Never got past the hotel in the original game, and won't touch the sequel with a bargepole, but I'm pretty stoked for this. Just wish they'd gotten someone who looked a bit more like Ellie, not that it's a huge issue. Obviously there will be differences between the game and the show, but there's a few great set pieces that I hope are in there.

[ace3g]

What did everyone think of the first episode?

I never played the game, so I was a little thrown off by Ellie's personality to start off the show.  Did they get that right? 

[[cancerblack]]

What did everyone think of the first episode?

I quite liked it.

I never played the game, so I was a little thrown off by Ellie's personality to start off the show.  Did they get that right? 

Spoiler

Neither, but when it's revealed she's been raised in a military school, being an absolute hostile brat to insurgent kidnappers running potentially deadly experiments on her starts to fit.

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[Rankles75]

Thought it was a very good first episode tbh. Characters seem very close to their game counterparts, even if wrong looking Ellie is still a bit distracting. Glad they kept the opening scene pretty much the same, also liked the way they tied into it later in the episode.

I've seen some criticism of them changing the way the infection is spread, but it's really not a big deal for me and just seems like petty nitpicking.

[ace3g]

I still wonder why they didn't at least part Bella's hair like Ellie's is in the game?