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The Last of Us: When We Are in Need (2023)
I'm speechless
For some reason, I'm speechless, as is the cameo, or Troy Baker's character. I cannot say the exact reason for this. I can't say if it's bc of the performances that were amazing. Bc this series almost faithfully adapted the winter segment, and yeah, I wanted to see the fight against the infected, but we don't get everything we want... or if I just don't know what to say because this ep had such an incredible impact on me.
One thing I can say, this ep became my favorite as well as ep 5. And we have a pattern here, because if we analyze it, these are the most faithful eps compared to the game, whether in the structure of the story, in the personality of the characters, or in the tension and density that turns out to be predominant in these segments.
I just don't quite understand the lack of violence in a story that is basically permeated by it, I know I couldn't have exorbitant body counts with each new ep, but still taking away what is one of the foundations of this story is something strange to get used to.
Now I know what makes me love or dislike certain things about this show. When I feel like I'm watching a 50 min cutscene, it's relatively more enjoyable than something new.
Dude, I feel like I had so much to say but I don't have the right words, I hate this... so in closing, I would like to say just one thing: I love The Last of Us.
The Last of Us: Kin (2023)
Practically the game
For some reason that I still don't know, I end up letting the episodes accumulate so that I can enjoy everything at once. It's nothing different from what I used to do after finishing the game countless times, weeks would pass and I would randomly return to this universe with the feeling that I had never really gone... 1 month later, I returned to this universe, with practically 1 day for this whole story to end. Another time watching this story end. There's not much I can say about this ep that I haven't already said before, but I would like to highlight the character development and the clues to the future plot that will begin in Jackson, yeah, I saw you Dina. It took a long time for me to accept this more sentimental Joel and this more brutish Ellie, sentimentally speaking, and I believe this ep was necessary for me to be able to accept this new approach to these characters even more, and I can say that as someone who loves every atom of these characters that this is an interesting adaptation. In fact, so far, this show is proving to be an interesting adaptation.
The Last of Us: Endure and Survive (2023)
Endure & Survive
When I started watching this series, it was more because of the game than because of the actors, and from the beginning I wanted to feel what I only managed to feel in this episode. EMOTION. I wanted to feel emotion, I wanted to care about what was going on or what was going to happen. I wanted to feel every death, every decision, everything. And it finally happened thanks to one of the best segments in the game, Endure and Survive was EVERYTHING I wanted this show to be at the beginning of everything, but mostly, that it had what I'm now seeing, love for these characters, love for this universe, love for this story. This is The Last of Us, a story where there are no happy endings, it's not Disney, but small moments of happiness.
I thought it was interesting what they did with Sam, making him deaf, completely changing what was established in the game to not be the same thing; providing more density in the relationship with Henry who now needs to verbalize, not just talk. A Henry who, unlike the game, allows Sam to be a kid, is the only thing left for him to be. A Henry who, just like in the game, did, and would do, everything for his brother, including not living in this world without him anymore. I could talk about how good Joel and Ellie were in this ep, the infected, the freaking Bloater, but I just can't, these characters, just like it was almost 10 years ago, impacted me emotionally.
One of the best episodes of this season so far, without a doubt.
The Last of Us: Please Hold to My Hand (2023)
Decent
As much as creative freedom is interesting, because it provides interest by delivering surprises in a story that already exists, a story that people like me know very well what will happen, nothing is more precious than the original scenes transported to an adaptation... man, the scene of Ellie reading the magazine is indescribably good.
Now I can't say if this adaptation has any merit as it only manages to so faithfully remake something that already exists, and considering that Troy and Ashley already made it using mocap, you tell me; or if it's because of the charisma of the actors. Maybe both. As well as the amalgamation between the ambush scene and Ellie "shooting a human for the first time" was incredibly good. Just that.
Obviously creative freedom is not entirely a good thing, the previous ep is the proof of that. Just like this Kathleen so far. This is the problem with working with a game adaptation, when people involved in a production like this try to distance themselves to something more original, or explore what was implied, it ends up being out of tune with the rest and consequently ends up looking like a filler in a story that it manages to hold itself up clearly without the need for fillers. At least this ep didn't get to that extreme. I talk so much about creative freedom because it's obvious that this show would have that, I was expecting that. Many things were cut from the game, many things were modified, whether it be the personality of some characters, mainly Joel, some encounters with other characters, or even quotes at different times with a different situation. It's necessary, this is the work of an adaptation, to know what needs to be kept or cut from the final version. I have no doubt that when Abby arrives, and she will, there will be countless creative freedoms. Whether it be to slightly change what happened to Joel, or even the ending, who knows.
It took a while, but I finally managed to find out what bothered me so much, and it's the personalities of these characters. Joel is more sentimental than usual. And I understand that, it's clearly an attempt to connect with this character, which in my case isn't working so far.
I'm still attached to who he was.
This ep managed to show me that, I honestly don't remember Joel laughing like he ended up laughing throughout the first game, ignoring concept art. This is strange to me, Joel is very closed in himself, he only allows the approach, sentimentally speaking, of Ellie after the whole Jackson segment.
And anyway, I need to get used to it, in the end, it was a decent ep.
The Last of Us: Infected (2023)
"Is it everything you hoped for?Jury's still out"
It took me almost 1 month to return to this show, for reasons I said earlier, many episodes have already been released, and I believe I have returned at the right time; finally I am susceptible to accepting this adaptation as an adaptation, and not as something that needs to faithfully follow what has already been pre-established, or that needs to faithfully respect what has been pre-established.
This episode has what I couldn't see at the beginning of this season, the same feeling I had when playing the game, fascination for the universe and these people; desire to know more about what's going on, what happened, and what will definitely happen. Even if I still don't have what I'm looking for, and even I can't say exactly what it is, I can say that I felt more satisfied.
Maybe the rainy and melancholy night helped.
Dude, the thing I liked the most when it came to creative freedom, was related to the infected. Firstly, a mention of Shamblers, which means that these infected already existed at the beginning of this story and didn't exactly appear out of nowhere like they did in Part 2 just to have more enemy variations. Secondly, I loved the fact that the infected are connected like a hive, because that not only delivers more tension, it definitely delivers more apprehension about what might happen, more opportunities to build tension. Basically this whole episode could be summed up like this, tension! That's what I want, creative freedom needs to have creativity, not just freedom.
And what about the best scene in this episode, the scene that, no doubt like many memorable scenes from the games, will be fully integrated into what people have come to know as The Last of Us; obviously I'm talking about the Clickers scene. From the beginning at the museum door creating tension and anticipation until the climax offsetting the tension previously established. Amazing!
Btw, if we're talking about creative freedom, I think Tess could have a little more time. In the end, I loved this ep.
House of the Dragon: The Heirs of the Dragon (2022)
Hell yeahhhhh
I was never a fan of Game of Thrones, until today I struggle to finish the first season and I can say that it has been a challenge, at least difficult, or boring.
But with House of the Dragon it turned out to be different, because I loved this first episode different from the first 7 episodes of GoT.
I can't say if it's the pacing that's better, the direction, or definitely the script, but I definitely love this prequel more than the original show.
Now I can see more quality in this universe, in these characters; I believe that qualified people in certain projects can do better in something that clearly requires experience...
Pacing is everything to me whether in a movie or especially in a show, pacing is what will dictate whether I will stay focused on what I'm watching; when pacing is not so necessary, as in some cases, A Ghost Story, my pure curiosity is what will dictate whether I will stay focused. And that's my problem with GoT, the pacing, but not ignoring the script and direction, House of the Dragon is everything I wanted Game of Thrones to be, and I hope it continues to be good.
The Last of Us (2023)
Ok.. I liked it, I didn't love it. I just hope that the next episodes make me love it.
I still can't get used to the fact that this masterpiece now becomes a show... at times I thought it was a cutscene and because I was watching it on a ps4 everything intensified even more.
That's not necessarily a good thing for the show to look so much like the game, more specifically in technical terms; directing, script, editing, photography... simply because this exhibition format is not so practical when it comes to a movie and in this case a show.
TLOU is already cinematic, it's a blockbuster transcribed into a game, so an adaptation asks for more context, or background, in the script to fill the lack of immersion that is clearly not going to be the same and that in a game is much easier to achieve. So we have longer scenes, another point of view for the same story, and that's not necessarily, or entirely, creative freedom, although yeah, there is a lot of creative freedom in this first episode. My point is that everything that happened in this episode, more context or truly something new, is all done to bring us closer to this world/characters. But for me, this show ended up not being able to do that, it couldn't bring me as close as I would have liked to this universe, especially these characters.
There's something, I can't say exactly what, that made it impossible for that to happen.
I can't say if it was the strangeness of seeing these people that for almost 11 years I've known so well in an adapted way and so standardized as characters in a post-apocalyptic story, and not exactly something you see in the game, people, not characters. (As I said, many years with these people, it's strange to see them acting as characters.)
I've had a really long journey with The Last of Us, this story, these people, this game has helped me in so many ways; it enabled me to deal better with who I was, and was trying to be. I just wish I had loved it, not just liked it, which is what happened.
In short, it was good, I can see that.
Euphoria: The Trials and Tribulations of Trying to Pee While Depressed (2019)
Daddy issues and depression, I know exactly what that is.
I could easily tell why I love this episode so much, in fact, I could list every single detail that makes me truly consider this episode one of the best of this series, if not the best. But countless people have already done it so I'll say, the direction is brilliant, as well as the photography, the dialogues etc etc...
It's not perfect, although it's close to perfection, but the Rue Detective scene is pure gold.
Euphoria: Made You Look (2019)
I freaking love this show
"I hate everyone else in the world but you."
all episodes are intense, especially the first one, and damn, this one maintains the level of intensity and at certain moments it intensifies.
And I won't even comment on the composition of the scene between Jules and Nate because it's just brilliant.
Supernatural: Bloody Mary (2005)
Jesus...
This episode has definitely brought in some of the worst characters so far, without a doubt, and along with some of the acting, the script and the photography that is extremely dark, this is one of the worst episodes for me.
The only two worthwhile things in this mess are literally Dean and Sam.
(here is the reason for 2 stars.)