I feel like I kickstarted the derail a little bit. My apologies. I really was just trying to say that I don't like Druckmann's structure for stories as a personal preference. I was seriously was trying not to truly mention TLOU2 content. Just that I felt like seeing the issues I disliked in TLOU2 being mirrored in TLOU HBO meant that I'd have to live with the way Druckmann and co might try and tell the TLOU2 HBO story.
A typical story structure in order is 1-10 and there's nothing wrong with this. Some other writers and authors like to tinker with that order to decent and good effect. Some stories go 8, 1-7, 9, 10 and do quite well. Other stories tinker with the order and do poorly.
That's what I'm saying about Druckmann and co's delivery of the story structure. IMO, the order was a little off for TLOU HBO which mirrored TLOU2. If I could, I'd love to reorder TLOU HBO or TLOU2 for someone who hasn't watched or played it because I think it would make it more immersive of a story in a revised order. That's it. I really tried not to hint of any TLOU2 content at all.
Order wise for TLOU HBO, I'd say I think it would have been improved if it was something like:
1B, 2B, 1A+2A, 3, 4, 5, 7, 6, (snippet of 7) + 8, 9A reduced + 9B expanded.
As I mentioned in my previous post, it's not a content issue, it's more me quibbling about something most other people probably won't think is an issue at all.
But again, I apologize again. It wasn't my intention, but I guess it was inevitable to snowball from such comments.
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