[mikephoen]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

I was actually thinking

Spoiler!

they should do Left Behind as part of the first couple episodes, in a series of flashbacks that the viewer doesn't immediately know are flashbacks, to introduce Ellie before Joel meets her. Obviously this continues after they meet, to show the climax of Left Behind / Ellie and Riley getting bitten when Joel and Tess find out she's immune.

Either way works. It is a pretty self-contained story that would work well as an episode of TV. But I'm not opposed to doing flashbacks, and I think there will have to be quite a few of them throughout the series for reasons that are probably obvious, so no issue with using them for this in principle, but it's not my first choice.

Dunno. I always sort of assume that any show they launch they're trying to get 5 seasons out of, unless its explicitly stated at the outset to be otherwise (e.g. Watchmen). Most of the actual good stuff is in the first game, so you'd think they'd want to give it all some breathing room.

I could probably map it out more thoughtfully if I wanted to take the time, but say, Ep 1 prologue, Ep 2 finding Robert, Ep 3 Joel meets Ellie and they have a tension-filled trip to meet Tess and Marlene, Ep 4 Joel, Tess and Ellie go to the Capitol culminating with Tess's death, Ep 5 Bill's town, Ep 6 and Ep 7 cover all of Pittsburgh, meeting Henry and Sam and the escape on the bridge (cliffhanger at jump), Ep 8 the sewers and the story of Ish, Ep 9 the town with either Henry / Sam's death as the ending or a cliffhanger with blood dripping down Sam's leg, and either way, Ep 10 has the reunion with Tommy.

I mean that's just one option, but it makes sense and allows for a good re-set for the first couple episodes of season 2, which would probably wrap up the first game. Then season 3 is the "in between time" to lead into season 4 which starts the second game, although as you're aware I would organize that whole story very differently, which re-organization would also apply to the TV show version.

I mean I think it's pretty clear that I should be the showrunner for this.

I'd fully support Corsi as showrunner, haha. I thought your reorganization of the story in the second game was spot on.