This was the first big miss of the season IMO, really sucks that it had to be the finale. They really needed another episode to let Joel and Ellie breath a bit, or at least extend the finale. When I saw the episode was 43 minutes, and 10 minutes of that was a flashback, I knew the final scenes would be way too rushed. In the game that final battle is a slog, and you feel the weight of it with every Firefly you kill. TV Joel just plowed through them all in 5 minutes without taking a scratch, totally killed the emotional weight of it all. My wife, who never even heard of the games, only said "That's it?" at the end. So disappointing
I wonder if it was a budget issue that caused them to rush things so much in the final few episodes. One of the most expensive HBO productions ever, based on video game which historically has never yielded good results. Maybe the suits got nervous and told them to wrap it up quick
|