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1 hour ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

Just watched episodes 1 and 2.  My biggest gripe is I feel like I'm just watching a live action version of the game. I was hoping they would make it their own story more.

 

Stuff like this is why "28 Days Later" is arguably the best zombie movie ever.

 

Not trying to remake anything, super simple, and terrifyingly plausible. 

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Just now, Califan007 The Constipated said:

 

What caused people to turn into zombies in 28 Days Later?...I can't remember.

 

Virus that caused uncontrollable rage spread by bodily fluids such as saliva or blood.  They weren't dead or undead,  basically rabies on steroids.  Which meant fast zombies...but even the ending made sense, imo in context to if that really happened.

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13 hours ago, Spaceman Spiff said:

But I find the stakes remarkably low.  I mean, Joel has survived this pandemic for 20 years and somehow made it to Boston from Texas.  So he's transversed practically half the country before, he's battle hardened and knows what to look out for.  He bribed and then took out a FEDRA agent in the first episode and took down zombies with relative ease in the second episode.  He's not a long-shot to make it to where he needs to go.  If I were in a zombie fueled pandemic and I needed to go somewhere, he's the guy I'd pick to be my guide.  And then Ellie is immune to whatever virus the zombies have, so why exactly does she need an escort?  Because Joel needs some battery and he needs Ellie to trade for it but I've already forgotten why he needs it and I really don't care, either.  So where exactly is the danger between the guy who's navigated the pandemic for 20 years and the girl who's immune to the virus?


this is downplaying thing quite a bit. This world is brutal. We don’t know the circumstances of how Joel got to Boston QZ but it could have been well before things got to the current state. And while 1 infected can be handled, even Joel or an armed Fedra agent would lose quite easily to 4-5+ of them or even 1 clicker as we saw how dangerous, strong and armored they are this episode. The tentacle trip wire hive mind that they added to the show also makes things a lot more difficult since you are never really in the clear and one step could have 10+ infected on you in a second. Not to mention getting jumped by the surviving humans that are out there. Sure Joel is very capable but the threat is also real and could be ambushed or die at any moment. As for Ellie, she’s immune to being turned, but not being eaten in an effort to turn and bleeding out from a clicker or infected taking a bite out of her neck. 
 

they were going to get a battery/truck to go find Joel’s brother Tommy who has some connection with the fireflies. Tommy has been out in the wild apparently traveling somewhere and lost contact for a while. The goal is to trade Ellie to the fireflies so they can take her out west to their camp with doctors and work on a vaccine/cure and they will give Joel the truck/supplies to go find Tommy 

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12 minutes ago, Momma There Goes That Man said:


this is downplaying thing quite a bit. This world is brutal. We don’t know the circumstances of how Joel got to Boston QZ but it could have been well before things got to the current state. And while 1 infected can be handled, even Joel or an armed Fedra agent would lose quite easily to 4-5+ of them or even 1 clicker as we saw how dangerous, strong and armored they are this episode. The tentacle trip wire hive mind that they added to the show also makes things a lot more difficult since you are never really in the clear and one step could have 10+ infected on you in a second. Not to mention getting jumped by the surviving humans that are out there. Sure Joel is very capable but the threat is also real and could be ambushed or die at any moment. As for Ellie, she’s immune to being turned, but not being eaten in an effort to turn and bleeding out from a clicker or infected taking a bite out of her neck. 
 

they were going to get a battery/truck to go find Joel’s brother Tommy who has some connection with the fireflies. Tommy has been out in the wild apparently traveling somewhere and lost contact for a while. The goal is to trade Ellie to the fireflies so they can take her out west to their camp with doctors and work on a vaccine/cure and they will give Joel the truck/supplies to go find Tommy 

 

Looks like he's gotta watch his step then, I dunno what else to tell you :ols:

 

You bring up good points but still, while the world may be brutal I've not yet felt that he's been in really dire circumstances as of yet.  Yes, he'd easily lose to 4 or 5 of them or a whole hive of them, but that's probably any zombie movie/show.  

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13 hours ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

Just watched episodes 1 and 2.  My biggest gripe is I feel like I'm just watching a live action version of the game. I was hoping they would make it their own story more.

 

I'm trying very hard to not judge the show based on it's fealty or departure from the game; I'm trying to judge the show on it's own merits.  It's kind of tough as someone who has played the first game at least 7 times (and I've annoyed my wife by saying verbatim lines of dialogue before the character on the show says them), but I also think that Neil Druckmann gets an opportunity to tell the story, and if he wants to change things here and there, that's fine to the extent that the changes work.  

 

I sort of think what happened is Druckmann showed up with his story already told, and Craig Mazin, who was not involved at all in the video games but is an amazing storyteller in his own right, is like "what if we changed this to this" and, so far, his ideas have been good.  I think the story will creep further and further away from the games, just based on them setting up the hive mind/underground detector stuff.  

 

In any event, I thought episode 2 was really good and I guess we get to meet Bill (and Frank?) next week. 

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Read this on another forum and I definitely did not see this connection...

 

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They said it (virus) started in a flour mill in Indonesia. Peeps are talking about how Joel kept parrying flour in the first episode. No pancakes, declined biscuits from the neighbors, forgot to pick up a cake. I wonder if there's a connection.

 

Pretty interesting.  

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1 hour ago, PleaseBlitz said:

 

I'm trying very hard to not judge the show based on it's fealty or departure from the game; I'm trying to judge the show on it's own merits.  It's kind of tough as someone who has played the first game at least 7 times (and I've annoyed my wife by saying verbatim lines of dialogue before the character on the show says them), but I also think that Neil Druckmann gets an opportunity to tell the story, and if he wants to change things here and there, that's fine to the extent that the changes work.  

 

I sort of think what happened is Druckmann showed up with his story already told, and Craig Mazin, who was not involved at all in the video games but is an amazing storyteller in his own right, is like "what if we changed this to this" and, so far, his ideas have been good.  I think the story will creep further and further away from the games, just based on them setting up the hive mind/underground detector stuff.  

 

In any event, I thought episode 2 was really good and I guess we get to meet Bill (and Frank?) next week. 

 

I want some departure (and I think we have started to see a tiny bit of that), otherwise I'd just play the game again.  When the trio was going through the building and after they went through a doorway, rubble crumbled blocking them from going back the way the came.  I laughed and told Buzzette "hey, I remember that save point."  

 

I hadn't realized that the 'step on one spot, it is felt elsewhere' part wasn't in the game.  So hopefully that is a sign of other departures to hold our interest.  And I do like it only dropping one episode a week because it gives us all a chance to talk about it and find out things we missed as we are going.

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3 hours ago, Spaceman Spiff said:

 

Looks like he's gotta watch his step then, I dunno what else to tell you :ols:

 

You bring up good points but still, while the world may be brutal I've not yet felt that he's been in really dire circumstances as of yet.  Yes, he'd easily lose to 4 or 5 of them or a whole hive of them, but that's probably any zombie movie/show.  

In many/most zombie shows, the zombies are never the true danger, other people are..

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34 minutes ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

I want some departure (and I think we have started to see a tiny bit of that), otherwise I'd just play the game again.  When the trio was going through the building and after they went through a doorway, rubble crumbled blocking them from going back the way the came.  I laughed and told Buzzette "hey, I remember that save point."

 

During the scene in the Boston city hall lobby, right before Tess makes her reveal, I looked at Mrs. PB and said, in my best Joel, "show me."  

 

Sometimes she needs to be reminded of how big of a nerd I am. 

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17 hours ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

Just watched episodes 1 and 2.  My biggest gripe is I feel like I'm just watching a live action version of the game. I was hoping they would make it their own story more.

Do you work for Netflix?

You actually WANT the writers to change the story?

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8 hours ago, NickyJ said:

I've played Left for Dead too much, all I could think of in the Boston museum was that there must have been some perfectly good swords there that only need a little sharpening.

 
my family was probably getting annoyed with me cause I kept saying, grab a sword in there. 

I’m so out of the video game world that I didn’t know this game at all. So far it’s a good show. 

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8 hours ago, Renegade7 said:

 

I've noticed a rise in YouTube videos of jus cut scenes from video games that are long enough to be movies themselves.

 

So I can see where you and @TheGreatBuzz are coming from...

Doesn't take much to be as long as a movie.  There's a 19 hour video on youtube that is supposed to be the cutscenes of Xenoblade Chronicles 3.  That's about two seasons of a modern TV series.

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On 1/24/2023 at 11:34 AM, purbeast said:

Read this on another forum and I definitely did not see this connection...

 

 

Pretty interesting.  


yeah Mazin said after episode one there were clues about how the virus spread so quickly and people were guessing the flour. Sarah also didn’t eat the cookies because they were oatmeal raisin.

 

 If Jakarta is the second largest flour mill in the world, that explains how it hit the entire world pretty much all at once and the largest blow was dealt. The cold open in Jakarta took place 2 days before the Austin Tx opening. It spiraled really quickly 

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On 1/17/2023 at 6:15 AM, codeorama said:

I thought it was great. Compared very well to the game and the actors playing Joel and Ellie are top notch IMO.

Cant wait to see the entire season.

 

Hey I've seen you somewhere before. 🤔

 

😉🙂

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