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Originally Posted by edslunch
This episode almost completely lacked suspense. They were very relaxed walking through the city and buildings, nothing ominous. Maybe that was to show Joel was in a better place mentally, but that’s not how they survived to get to this point.
The hospital shootout was cartoonish. I guess they didn’t want it to overshadow the interpersonal drama, but it also killed any suspense. Season-ending plot armour.
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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
The rampage violence IMO was done that way so you aren't cheering for Joel to survive and worried about him during it. Its just him mowing people down - including people who've dropped their weapons or didn't have weapons. If it was some kind of tense battle - you'd reflexively be on his side.
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Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack
this makes sense I guess, as soon as they started playing the sad theme music over top of the action, you knew that his plot shield was at 100% and nobody was going to touch him.
the one other thing I didn't like was how little shock/anguish/defiance Joel displayed upon learning what the true plan was. it's as if he knew in advance that the next quest was to Rambo the entire hospital, so he almost immediately just pressed 'X' to accept.
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With respect to the "plot armour" and "Rambo-ing the entire hospital": to me, it is essentially what happens in the game. Joel does go in and mow down many, many Fireflies.
I think this is an unfortunate circumstance the writers put themselves into by virtue of adapting a video game. Any adaptation from another medium will demand some changes to be made to suit the new medium, and in order to keep to the game's story narrative they kind of had to concede that Joel will "Rambo the entire hospital". It seems so much more desperate and time-consuming to complete this chapter of the video game because you, the player, as Joel, can die. Repeatedly. Narratively though, within the game's canon, basically that one time wherein you do actually beat the chapter of the game (after repeated deaths) is "the truth" from which the rest of the story continues. From the perspective of the Fireflies
Joel does "Rambo" them all. If you're a good enough player to make it all the way through without dying this section of the game takes maybe 20 minutes to complete.