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01-18-2023, 12:10 AM
Well... I am huge fan of the games and the first day i heard they were doing a show I was against the idea, despite me they made the show anyway (how dare HBO?) and I was extremely apprehensive and almost certain that they would fuck it up. Im here to tell you that they absolutely smashed it and made what will probably be one of the best shows of 2023, maybe of all time by the end of it.
They captured the look and feel of the games perfectly, everything from the brown/green/grey colour scheme of the games to the dilapidated environments and the overall sombre atmosphere. I knew there would be changes and there are plenty but they all make sense and work very well with the unchanged parts of the story. They even done a few shots that were 1 to 1 for scenes in the game like when Joel wakes up after bringing Ellie back to his apartment and she is sitting across from him looking out the window at the rain, gave me goosebumps.
The one problem I have with a change that they made is that they have Joel both dealing and taking drugs in the show, specifically Oxycodone. Joel is a smuggler not a drug dealer and definitely not a drug user. These changes cast the character in a very different light and I really hope they are restricted to this one episode. I just dont understand why they felt the need to include that in the show, in my opinion it only serves to diminish the respect the viewer has for Joel which i think is unnecessary.
Looking forward to seeing the rest of this and even more so for the PC release of the remake in march which will be the best version of the game.
They captured the look and feel of the games perfectly, everything from the brown/green/grey colour scheme of the games to the dilapidated environments and the overall sombre atmosphere. I knew there would be changes and there are plenty but they all make sense and work very well with the unchanged parts of the story. They even done a few shots that were 1 to 1 for scenes in the game like when Joel wakes up after bringing Ellie back to his apartment and she is sitting across from him looking out the window at the rain, gave me goosebumps.
The one problem I have with a change that they made is that they have Joel both dealing and taking drugs in the show, specifically Oxycodone. Joel is a smuggler not a drug dealer and definitely not a drug user. These changes cast the character in a very different light and I really hope they are restricted to this one episode. I just dont understand why they felt the need to include that in the show, in my opinion it only serves to diminish the respect the viewer has for Joel which i think is unnecessary.
Looking forward to seeing the rest of this and even more so for the PC release of the remake in march which will be the best version of the game.
