TV Series

crublue1 said:
Last of us series 2. I must be missing something, it's the dullest telly I've watched in ages.
Maybe you have to have played the game to appreciate it?
Nothing seems to happen for large chunks, it's a bit boring.
Finding a guitar and tuning it by ear in back to back episodes is just lazy and careless writing.
None of the characters are particularly convincing either.
I keep watching it just in case something else happens other than we stumble across some zombies and kill them.
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It's dreadful, fucking awful in fact
 
Blue Maverick said:
Tbf you are right, these walking dead type shows are boring now, I played the first game nit the second and I enjoyed it and the tension but now one of the main characters is gone it’s just like a teen angst show!
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Was the first episode of season 2 good? Usually in these shows first episodes is good and if ramps up last 1 half episodes! Not seen season 2 yet so don't know which main character is gone
 
Seems like I’m in a minority, enjoying the 2nd series of The Last of Us, more than the first.

I prefer the gentler pace and continuous story lines to the smash, bang, wallop of the first series. Where every episode was telling a different story from start to finish.
 
Stephen230 said:
Seems like I’m in a minority, enjoying the 2nd series of The Last of Us, more than the first.

I prefer the gentler pace and continuous story lines to the smash, bang, wallop of the first series. Where every episode was telling a different story from start to finish.
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Interesting.

I'm finding the dialogue awful. I mean, how do you square the acting like kids, mostly, in a zombie survival genre and then they act like adults at a moment's notice.

It's just jarring and takes me out of the show.
 
Bigga said:
Interesting.

I'm finding the dialogue awful. I mean, how do you square the acting like kids, mostly, in a zombie survival genre and then they act like adults at a moment's notice.

It's just jarring and takes me out of the show.
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Are you talking about the difference between the two series?

I think the main character was 14 in the first series and 19 in the second.

And the actress who played her roughly 18 & then 20.

It must have been very challenging for her to play the same character as a child and then a fully grown adult in such a short space of time, I would have thought.
 
Just watching Lily hammer again.
BcLfz0NCIAATMuo.jpegwondering how the character Balotelli went down with viewers particularly in the USA

Was the name list lost on them or did they know who our Mario was?
 
Stephen230 said:
Are you talking about the difference between the two series?

I think the main character was 14 in the first series and 19 in the second.

And the actress who played her roughly 18 & then 20.

It must have been very challenging for her to play the same character as a child and then a fully grown adult in such a short space of time, I would have thought.
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I know the character age reference in the show to tie in with the gap in the series. I understand the actor playing her role in the show. I was talking about the writing and, therefore, the director's creative decision not to 'age up' the situation as appropriate.

Characters holding hands and skipping wouldn't be unexpected is how I feel!

These are chaotic 'war zone' situations and the writing doesn't reflect that tension, is my point.
 
Bigga said:
I know the character age reference in the show to tie in with the gap in the series. I understand the actor playing her role in the show. I was talking about the writing and, therefore, the director's creative decision not to 'age up' the situation as appropriate.

Characters holding hands and skipping wouldn't be unexpected is how I feel!

These are chaotic 'war zone' situations and the writing doesn't reflect that tension, is my point.
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I get what your saying. But I would say, people very quickly adapt to situations that might have seemed unimaginable just a short time previously.

And you’ve got to remember that the younger characters were born into that world. They’ve never known anything different.

It’s difficult to think of a real life situation you could compare it to. But whatever you could come up with. If you put people in that situation 24 hours a day, every day, for their whole life. They would somehow make the best of it, no matter how fucked up and dangerous it was.
 
Protein Junkie said:
Six episodes in to Mobland. Yes it’s variations on a well played theme but love some of the dialogue.
The undertakers name - Parallel Pete.
Lady Petrol aka alcohol.
Enjoy it for what it is .
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Just watched first two, very good so far, but of humour at the end of the second which was nice. I do wonder if shit like this really goes on to this extreme.
 
Stephen230 said:
I get what your saying. But I would say, people very quickly adapt to situations that might have seemed unimaginable just a short time previously.

And you’ve got to remember that the younger characters were born into that world. They’ve never known anything different.

It’s difficult to think of a real life situation you could compare it to. But whatever you could come up with. If you put people in that situation 24 hours a day, every day, for their whole life. They would somehow make the best of it, no matter how fucked up and dangerous it was.
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I read what you posted a couple of times because I understood it but I also disagreed. Until now, I couldn't give an adequate response.

I think your answer... "It’s difficult to think of a real life situation you could compare it to. But whatever you could come up with. If you put people in that situation 24 hours a day, every day, for their whole life. They would somehow make the best of it, no matter how fucked up and dangerous it was"... is misplaced or misguided. There are current examples of war torn situations where young adults (the main character in 'TLoU' is 19 now, remember) live life on the edge and are not aloof when they don't know what's around the corner.

But I think what's really changed my view on something I might have begrudgingly accepted as 'decent' writing, is the stark difference in using war torn/ siege tension in a story, in 'Andor' with ep 8 at its peak.

In the previous series of 'TLoU' the writers used 'Joel' to balance out the naivety of 'Ellie', but despite 'Ellie' getting older and vastly experienced in seeing and doing the killing, she remains childish, not headstrong, childish.

It's irksome to me and is just badly written within the type of world-building it's aiming for.

So, let's put a pin in the conversation here as I don't want to reveal any plot points or we can put the rest within the spoiler tag if you wish to discuss things further.

Thanks.
 
tregyblue61 said:
Brilliant so far. Helen Mirren is just outstanding in this. Pierce Brosnan too!
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Their cartoon characters really, no shortage of ham in that household, the series itself is okay but it's kind of been done a lot recently. If it's gonna go on and on I may sack it like I did with that laughable gangs of London shite.
 
hilts said:
Their cartoon characters really, no shortage of ham in that household, the series itself is okay but it's kind of been done a lot recently. If it's gonna go on and on I may sack it like I did with that laughable gangs of London shite.
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Agree about Gangs of London!
 
Bigga said:
I read what you posted a couple of times because I understood it but I also disagreed. Until now, I couldn't give an adequate response.

I think your answer... "It’s difficult to think of a real life situation you could compare it to. But whatever you could come up with. If you put people in that situation 24 hours a day, every day, for their whole life. They would somehow make the best of it, no matter how fucked up and dangerous it was"... is misplaced or misguided. There are current examples of war torn situations where young adults (the main character in 'TLoU' is 19 now, remember) live life on the edge and are not aloof when they don't know what's around the corner.

But I think what's really changed my view on something I might have begrudgingly accepted as 'decent' writing, is the stark difference in using war torn/ siege tension in a story, in 'Andor' with ep 8 at its peak.

In the previous series of 'TLoU' the writers used 'Joel' to balance out the naivety of 'Ellie', but despite 'Ellie' getting older and vastly experienced in seeing and doing the killing, she remains childish, not headstrong, childish.

It's irksome to me and is just badly written within the type of world-building it's aiming for.

So, let's put a pin in the conversation here as I don't want to reveal any plot points or we can put the rest within the spoiler tag if you wish to discuss things further.

Thanks.
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No it’s all good. I don’t necessarily disagree with you anyway.

I think I’m a bit stubborn and once I’ve seen enough of a show to decide that I like it, I become a bit possessive and won’t hear anything bad said about it, no matter how shit it might get.

Not that I think The Last of Us, is in any way shit of course.
 
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