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I would be okay with S2 deviating completely from the second game.
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"...[C]onvince her to sacrifice her life for science, let her get bit, then harvest the baby"..............Oh dear, no no noI've been reading about the controversy over Joel's decision. To me, it was a simple choice for several reasons. First, and most importantly, it was all theoretical. There's no proof it would have worked. Second, if the Fireflies were so convinced it would work, then why didn't they take some adult pregnant woman, convince her to sacrifice her life for science, let her get bit, then harvest the baby? Why wait for many months on the slim hope Joel can escort Ellie safely across a wildly dangerous country? Seems ridiculous to have no back up plan in place.
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They already said they aren't doing that, and I honestly don't think they should. It was hugely devisive, but there is a good story to be told there.I would be okay with S2 deviating completely from the second game.
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Fun fact: Laura Bailey, who played Abby in TLOU2, has a cameo as one of the masked nurses in the operating room with Ellie. She played several background characters in the first game, so I don't know if she was 'reprising her role' there, but that's a fun little factoid, given............... well, if you know you know.
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Tif - I fouled up the spoiler tags and quote tags and don't feel like fixing all of them, sorry. But, to your points.
Re: the delay between seasons, I think it's a legit gripe. I'm not saying to have season 2 shot and in the can before season 1 even airs, but the notion that they haven't even started on scripts... It seems not only lazy, but a bad creative choice in a show when you're dealing with young actors. This is less of an issue in TLOU because Bella probably isn't going to change/grow that much, but it has really hurt Stranger Things and forced them to changed the original vision of the show.
Writing a full season on spec might be risky, but if you're trying to run a hit show, I feel like the risk is worthwhile. All imho of course.
Writing a full season on spec might be risky, but if you're trying to run a hit show, I feel like the risk is worthwhile. All imho of course.
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TLOU2 is a much more recent thing, so I'm gonna go ahead and spoiler substantive discussion about that story ITT.
Tl;dr Don't change the sequel story one bit.
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This has become a major gripe of mine. I don't know if it's because of the budgetary commitments for a lot of these shows, but it's ridiculous. At least old school network programming had a release schedule that they stuck to. S4 of Stranger Things took like a decade to release with an aging, young cast and you don't ever start writing S5 until months after S4 is released? S2 of HOTD is at least a year and a half away from now. Even less expensive and less CGI heavy stuff like Severance is looking at two years between seasons. **** off.Re: the delay between seasons, I think it's a legit gripe. I'm not saying to have season 2 shot and in the can before season 1 even airs, but the notion that they haven't even started on scripts... It seems not only lazy, but a bad creative choice in a show when you're dealing with young actors. This is less of an issue in TLOU because Bella probably isn't going to change/grow that much, but it has really hurt Stranger Things and forced them to changed the original vision of the show.
Writing a full season on spec might be risky, but if you're trying to run a hit show, I feel like the risk is worthwhile. All imho of course.
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They aren't making a new season of Falcon Crest, lads. A season of one of these prestige shows is effectively like making 3-4 feature films simultaneously.
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To your points, Tony:
- They mention in the show that Ellie was bitten three weeks prior to when we meet her. It's mentioned in her intro scene w Marlene, when Ellie reveals her infection to Joel and Tess, and again when Tess is bit and she shows how quickly the infection is spreading in her after just an hour post-chomp.
- TLOU2 takes place something like 4+ years after the first game. So Ellie, while still young, is technically an adult. Basically, she's as old as Bella Ramsey is today.
- They mention in the show that Ellie was bitten three weeks prior to when we meet her. It's mentioned in her intro scene w Marlene, when Ellie reveals her infection to Joel and Tess, and again when Tess is bit and she shows how quickly the infection is spreading in her after just an hour post-chomp.
- TLOU2 takes place something like 4+ years after the first game. So Ellie, while still young, is technically an adult. Basically, she's as old as Bella Ramsey is today.
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Doh - I totally missed that. I wasn't quite as invested in the first two eps as much as I was the rest of the season.To your points, Tony:
- They mention in the show that Ellie was bitten three weeks prior to when we meet her. It's mentioned in her intro scene w Marlene, when Ellie reveals her infection to Joel and Tess, and again when Tess is bit and she shows how quickly the infection is spreading in her after just an hour post-chomp.
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I still don't see why the writers can't be doing their writer thing while the present season is filming/airing. I mean, it's just writing. Any schmuck can do it.They aren't making a new season of Falcon Crest, lads. A season of one of these prestige shows is effectively like making 3-4 feature films simultaneously.
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"The writers" are Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann. That's it. Those are the only two credited writers on the show. I am sure they did some development of a TLOU2 story treatment while they were working on Se 1, but the meat of actual writing isn't going to happen unless/until the second season is greenlit and budgeted because no one's getting paid before that. (Outside of a few dollars here and there for, say, one episode as a proof-of-concept)
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Pfft. Give a monkey a keyboard and he could write season 2 in a week.
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Anyone can just write a season..........
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ChatGPT could do it.Pfft. Give a monkey a keyboard and he could write season 2 in a week.
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I'm with you on this. so many of these shows are super short seasons, TLOU was 9 eps. was there more they could've included? I never played the game so I don't know. so you have just over 2 months of episodes and now it'll be probably 16-24 months before we get anything new.
Re: the delay between seasons, I think it's a legit gripe. I'm not saying to have season 2 shot and in the can before season 1 even airs, but the notion that they haven't even started on scripts... It seems not only lazy, but a bad creative choice in a show when you're dealing with young actors. This is less of an issue in TLOU because Bella probably isn't going to change/grow that much, but it has really hurt Stranger Things and forced them to changed the original vision of the show.
Writing a full season on spec might be risky, but if you're trying to run a hit show, I feel like the risk is worthwhile. All imho of course.
maybe my attention span is lacking but by then, I've completely forgotten what happened and sometimes, forgotten that a show existed at all.
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If George Costanza write a sitcom, I could write season 2 of TLOU.
Anyone can just write a season..........
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Do you want it great? Or do you want it fast? Because those are competing principles that rarely appear together.
TLOU was greenlit by HBO around Thanksgiving 2020; it was just over two years from greenlight to first episode. Because this is much more akin to feature film production than "TV" they are probably only shooting maybe 4-5 pages of script per day, likely much less than that. (That's maybe 25% of the pace of a regular TV show) They filmed for over 200 days on location (actual production working days, aside from COVID quarantines) to make around 10 hours of story.
TLOU was greenlit by HBO around Thanksgiving 2020; it was just over two years from greenlight to first episode. Because this is much more akin to feature film production than "TV" they are probably only shooting maybe 4-5 pages of script per day, likely much less than that. (That's maybe 25% of the pace of a regular TV show) They filmed for over 200 days on location (actual production working days, aside from COVID quarantines) to make around 10 hours of story.
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TLOU 2 will comprise multiple TV seasons, fwiw.
Also, Druckman hasn't confirmed that Naughty Dog has TLOU 3 in the pipeline either. Could be a late-series GOT situation going on.
Also, Druckman hasn't confirmed that Naughty Dog has TLOU 3 in the pipeline either. Could be a late-series GOT situation going on.
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They 100% definitely should not do a third TLOU game.
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This times 100000.They 100% definitely should not do a third TLOU game.
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Okay but hear me out: The Last of Us: Year One.
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The Next Of Us doesn't quite hold the same weight, does it
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Okay then spin-offs. Fear the Last of Us.
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