While better than last week episodes, this week episode Last of us The source is uneven due to the writing and rehabilitation of the story relative to the material.
The most brightness this week is how soon the second day in Seattle is. After a brief view, where Dina is triangular to the WLF radio signals on a map in the theater, and after a later walk through the city, the show cuts at night time, ending the second day in advance. I keep trying to separate the game from the show, but when so many changes start and the compounding starts, it becomes difficult to notice these problems.
But abandoning the story and adding the story again is not the only thing that is different about this adaptation. As mentioned, Ellie is very happy and lucky on this small road trip to revenge, so that when she finally catches Nora till the end of the episode, it was difficult to buy in her anger. I understand that this adaptation is portraying Eli as a deepening of her hatred and she is putting on a kind of mask for Dina, but when my tech is that Dina is more inspired than Ellie for this mission, then there is a problem with writing. I have not really felt his pain and pain in this season, until it confronts Nora, which is less impressive than the visual source material.
Similarly, Nora exposes Joel the justification of killing Ellie, and it was a strange step in both Eli and we, the audience, already private for that information, so why is it wasting time to repeat it? Does the authors not trust us to remember the major plot points that they feel the need to feed us? This is a contrast to see season two Internal management and At the same time, for example, in which there is some tight writing that I have seen in some time (don’t worry, this review is coming).
Because some incidents are getting out of order, some payments (or its lack) are landing in the flat. In this case, when Ellie, Dina, and Jessie (who came to rescue), find themselves in a forest at night, only to stumble on the mark. Because the show introduced us to him in the first season, there was zero tension in the scene. We know who the scars are and they are responsible for the development of WLF soldiers, so when it happens again, there is no “Oh I see” a moment. In sports, this is where we first meet the stains and we leave this new danger completely in the dark and the unknown and feeling of fear becomes really clear, especially they communicate through whistle, let us leave us in the dark. , But now that they have already been installed on the show, the secret of that scene is completely absent. I have mentioned that these story changes can cause damage to other scenes below the line, and this scene is evidence for me that some things, no matter how young, are affected by influencing the story from all around, which makes me nervous for the end of the story.
This episode teases us with an optimistic view to the end, Joel returns through a flashback, which will probably be more than the next episode. It leaves an episode that to eliminate the three -day arc of Seattle in this season this season, Ellie put on a sprint towards that conclusion. I am assuming expensive sets and effects that HBOs have been forced to reduce the count of episodes this year, but I think there is a very short time to tell this story properly. It would be good to spend more time with Joel next week, and this week was still an improvement in the previous week, but the writing has continued to run towards the end, leaving no place for interpretation or nuances in the character’s position.
