That’s kind of odd they went all the way to Waterton Lake for a few unique shots. Seems like Kananaskis / Canmore / Banff would have provide a near identical cinematography experience.
Waterton is closed after October 15th(ish). Easier to film apocalypse-type shows when there is no one there.
Unpopular opinion here, but I'm just not really feeling this series at all. I've watched every episode, and while it is good, it doesn't even compare to Game of Thrones and other shows.
I find it rather plodding at times with lots of needless dialogue and scenes that don't really advance the storyline. I don't find much of the dialogue that intriguing or riveting and the overall storyline is rather bland and basic. There are no simultaneous storylines or characters. Contrary to many, the character development other than Joel and Ellie is rather rushed. It seems every episode introduces some new "bad guy" and that bad guy is dispatched or disposed of within the same episode or by the next one for sure. I would have liked a lot more flashbacks to the beginning of the pandemic and how things started to go south.
My main reason for watching is the Calgary connection and looking out for filming locations!
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Unpopular opinion here, but I'm just not really feeling this series at all. I've watched every episode, and while it is good, it doesn't even compare to Game of Thrones and other shows.
I find it rather plodding at times with lots of needless dialogue and scenes that don't really advance the storyline. I don't find much of the dialogue that intriguing or riveting and the overall storyline is rather bland and basic. There are no simultaneous storylines or characters. Contrary to many, the character development other than Joel and Ellie is rather rushed. It seems every episode introduces some new "bad guy" and that bad guy is dispatched or disposed of within the same episode or by the next one for sure. I would have liked a lot more flashbacks to the beginning of the pandemic and how things started to go south.
My main reason for watching is the Calgary connection and looking out for filming locations!
I can agree with all of this. The show is good enough, but I just don't have the emotional engagement I do with some other shows.
I am looking forward to doing a summer rewatch on the series. I never played the game so I've been invested first because of filming locations and then the story. I'm cautiously optomistic that I will enjoy it the second time through without the rose coloured glasses of wanting to see where it was filmed
Unpopular opinion here, but I'm just not really feeling this series at all. I've watched every episode, and while it is good, it doesn't even compare to Game of Thrones and other shows.
I find it rather plodding at times with lots of needless dialogue and scenes that don't really advance the storyline. I don't find much of the dialogue that intriguing or riveting and the overall storyline is rather bland and basic. There are no simultaneous storylines or characters. Contrary to many, the character development other than Joel and Ellie is rather rushed. It seems every episode introduces some new "bad guy" and that bad guy is dispatched or disposed of within the same episode or by the next one for sure. I would have liked a lot more flashbacks to the beginning of the pandemic and how things started to go south.
My main reason for watching is the Calgary connection and looking out for filming locations!
I'm in the same boat, I stopped watching after episode 7. I don't really recognize any of Waterton and I understand the hospital in the next episode is in Olds.
The series pacing has felt off. In the game, you had hours of banter between the characters to grow their connection as you explore the map but that doesn't happen in the TV world.
It feels like this whole story doesn't have enough punch to be completed in only 9 episodes.
Huge opportunity missed. Pedo youth pastor was only partially evil he should have had aborted fetuses hanging next to the adult humans. And a bunch of malnourished pregnant girls locked in a basement somewhere.
I have to agree to an extent this show is kinda lacking. It's still good TV but character development outside of Joel and Ellie is poor.
Huge opportunity missed. Pedo youth pastor was only partially evil he should have had aborted fetuses hanging next to the adult humans. And a bunch of malnourished pregnant girls locked in a basement somewhere.
I have to agree to an extent this show is kinda lacking. It's still good TV but character development outside of Joel and Ellie is poor.
Wow. That is dark.
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Big fan of the series but it's shocking how few infected are in the show. They seem to be barely a threat in the show, which was much different in the game.
Troy (James in the show and voice actor of Joel in the game) on their PWL podcast talking about filming Episode 8. Interesting that they were filming just after the Rust firearm accidental death, the difference of Joel reaching Ellie inside the building during the fire in the game versus the show, behind the scenes stuff, acting with Bella Ramsey, some stuff being cut in editing, why they chose the changes versus the game, and more.
Huge opportunity missed. Pedo youth pastor was only partially evil he should have had aborted fetuses hanging next to the adult humans. And a bunch of malnourished pregnant girls locked in a basement somewhere.
I have to agree to an extent this show is kinda lacking. It's still good TV but character development outside of Joel and Ellie is poor.
Huge opportunity missed. Pedo youth pastor was only partially evil he should have had aborted fetuses hanging next to the adult humans. And a bunch of malnourished pregnant girls locked in a basement somewhere.
I have to agree to an extent this show is kinda lacking. It's still good TV but character development outside of Joel and Ellie is poor.
I like the imagination lol. It would run into a logic problem though.
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To keep the raped pregnant woman and their offspring alive would require more calories to feed them than you could possibly get back to then eat them. You wouldn't have surplus, it would be a deficit. Incidentally this is why its more efficient to eat plants directly than filter them through an animal. The feed conversion ratio for a beef cow is 16 calories in, for only 1 calorie out. #science
1. Not sure why there was some discussion about that being "polarizing". It was the same as the game, just shorter.
2. I wish they'd had a real giraffe if they were going to do that scene. The CGI... wasn't that great.
3. Merle Dandridge was fantastic. Ashley Johnson was fantastic-er. Really great cameo.
4. Again, and I've said this for roughly the entire back half of the season, they just didn't give it enough time to breathe. Joel is basically John Rambo plowing through soldiers in a hospital killing everyone... okay, maybe in a video game, but they needed that whole sequence to be a lot less video gamey, even if they had to do something totally different. Dude was clearly not playing on Grounded.
Scenes from the episode in game form:
Joel and Ellie with the giraffes:
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Joel wakes up in the hospital with Marlene:
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Joel kills Marlene:
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Ending scene:
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... I actually think that last scene was actually probably better in the game.
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In the end Joel didn’t grow at all. He starts off being kinda a ####ty dad who is self interested but obviously loves his daughter and ends up kinda a ####ty person who takes away Ellie’s agency to make her own decisions.
Joel sucks
I like Ellie knowing that Joel lied but wanting to believe it and not wanting to know the truth.
