The Last of Us: The Show!

[LaveDisco]

8 hours ago, GoblinUK said:

I wonder if we might get this in 4K HDR on Sky (like House of the Dragon). 

 

NowTV are broadcasting it with their finest RealPlayer codecs that they found on a 20GB hard drive that had previously been used to encode The Phantom Menace trailer. 

[Thor]

7 minutes ago, LaveDisco said:

 

NowTV are broadcasting it with their finest RealPlayer codecs that they found on a 20GB hard drive that had previously been used to encode The Phantom Menace trailer. 

That got a hearty lol from me.

[Mystacon]

Happy to report that episode 1 is great, they’ve done a really good job. Can’t wait for next week.

[NecroMorrius]

They've done a fantastic job with this. Loads of little directorial touches and flourishes, great performances and an almost instant "ahhh, they've done it" sigh of relief. Can't wait to see more and I'm really happy that people outside of videogames are going to experience what I've always thought is a really great story. And it's nice to experience it again myself without having to do a load of ladder puzzles and watch that Bloater kill animation.

[JPL]

I've got a question. Does this start off the same way as the first game? I always thought that was a really powerful opening and really set the tone for everything that followed. It'd be a shame if they missed that out.

[sammy]

@JPL There’s a short pre-credits scene that’s not in the game, and they spend some time developing the relationship between Joel and Sarah (the actress playing Sarah is amazing), it made that scene hit even harder for me. I cried, again.

 

I thought the whole episode was great, we’re in safe hands it seems!

[Stevie]

This is really promising. First episode was very good. The opening scene with the tv debate was brilliant, and really set the mood for me. I expect we’ll see more of Christopher Heyerdahl later in the show. 
 

This appears to be really, really good. I just wish I could binge it 🥲

[Stevie]

13 minutes ago, sammy said:

 it made that scene hit even harder for me. I cried, again.

 

Me too. When the music started playing I was like bro 😭😰

[Majora]

Is it just me or does this suffer from mumbly dialogue syndrome? Had to stick subtitles on halfway through because I couldn't make out about half of what was being said.

 

A good start though. Thought the pre title screen bit was pretty redundant and unnecessary, the Sarah section was excellent, the FEDRA part started slow but got gripping by the end. The way some of the sequences played out were pretty much shot for shot from the game, it was uncanny.

 

There's not much to say about it really because, well, it's The Last of Us and I imagine nearly everyone here has already played it at least once. But it's as well acted and big budget as you'd expect from a HBO production and it's been fleshed out in meaningful ways while still staying extremely true to the game.

[Benny]

If you're watching on Now TV, that's probably just Now TV. It has worse audio compression than a radio held hundreds of feet under water.

[pledge]

15 minutes ago, Majora said:

Is it just me or does this suffer from mumbly dialogue syndrome? Had to stick subtitles on halfway through because I couldn't make out about half of what was being said.

Just you (or at least the copy I watched had excellent audio mix)

[NecroMorrius]

5 hours ago, sammy said:

@JPL (the actress playing Sarah is amazing)

 

That's Thandiwe Newton's daughter! (Formerly Thandie Newton, from Westworld etc)

[Majora]

Might well be NOW TV then, I barely ever watch anything on it so I'm not used to the audio quality being poor.

[MardiganX]

5 hours ago, Stevie said:

This is really promising. First episode was very good. The opening scene with the tv debate was brilliant, and really set the mood for me. I expect we’ll see more of Christopher Heyerdahl later in the show. 
 

This appears to be really, really good. I just wish I could binge it 🥲

Forget Heyerdahl, I want to see more John ‘Jupiters Cock’ Hannah! If you know

 

Fantastic start and as good as it could have been I think. Hits all the right notes and to be fair only a catastrophic failure of some sort is going to make this show fail. Druckman is an incredible storyteller and the budget is clearly their onscreen for us to enjoy, so I can’t wait to see the wider stuff he and the other writers have been able to develop.

[Stevie]

13 minutes ago, MardiganX said:

Forget Heyerdahl, I want to see more John ‘Jupiters Cock’ Hannah! If you know

 

£5 on one of them being a Firefly executive! 

[Mystacon]

Can’t believe they’ve now released this third remake less than 6 months after the last one came out. Definitely something up with the graphics as well, the clothes don’t look as good as they did in the original.

[SuperCapes]

Man most of it is great but the inconsistent cinematography...

 

A few shots are excellent truly, and then others are a total bummer and feel like something that was slapped together. It really gets my goat as the cinematography in Chernobyl is probably the best we have ever had in a TV show (or entertainment as a whole). 

 

Edit: it is a different DP to Chernobyl so maybe not fair to compare. 

 

Spoiler

Tess also feels really off. The scene with Robert in the chairs was not a great way to introduce her, and the performances from both parties felt so incredibly flat. 

 

Everyone else though was pretty great. Sarah was brilliant, as is Ellie so far, and Marlene is class. 

 

Luna's Tommy is going to be pretty sensational I can tell already.

 

 

[Stig]

1 hour ago, Mystacon said:

Can’t believe they’ve now released this third remake less than 6 months after the last one came out. Definitely something up with the graphics as well, the clothes don’t look as good as they did in the original.

 

I've heard they've taken all the difficulty out of it too. You can complete it with just pressing a few buttons.

[pledge]

22 minutes ago, SuperCapes said:

Edit: it is a different DP to Chernobyl so maybe not fair to compare. 

 

Also the director of Chernobyl also ended up not being involved as was originally announced. "Created and Written by" the same as Chernobyl (with Druckmann of course)

[Danster]

Yeah, very good opener. I'm beginning to wonder how far they'll go in season one though.

 

Are we using spoilers for game spoilers? Or are assuming that  anybody interested in the show, will have played the game through? 

[pledge]

4 minutes ago, Danster said:

Yeah, very good opener. I'm beginning to wonder how far they'll go in season one though.

 

Are we using spoilers for game spoilers? Or are assuming that  anybody interested in the show, will have played the game through? 

 

As in your first paragraph, people might know what will happen but not when. So I'd err on the side of usual rules about air date.

[Dapple]

20 minutes ago, Danster said:

 

Are we using spoilers for game spoilers? Or are assuming that  anybody interested in the show, will have played the game through? 

I've not played the game so I'd rather people didn't spoil anything.

 

I thought the episode was excellent. I liked the slow-burn process by which things unfolded early on. And kudos to whoever chose the song for the closing credits.

[Thor]

Yeah, come on guys, while this is sticking quite rigidly* to the game, many won't have seen it, and there will be changes. 

 

*It's so close I felt like I was watching a long cut scene of the game with added scenes. Whether that's a good thing, I dunno. I kinda feel like I don't need to watch this show. The cast are excellent though. 

[Pete]

I've not played the game, enjoying how this is differing itself from other things of a similar genre. Namely most of the cast are not behaving like idiots straight off the bat, it seems everyone who has survived survived for a reason.

[Stevie]

The only criticism I have is the last few seconds when they go through the broken fence. As the camera pans, you see a fungus zombie standing on the roof, screaming. I watched it on a ultra wide monitor, and it looks really bad. Like, PlayStation 3 bad.

How does it look on a proper tv?

[pledge]

Are you watching it stretched to the wrong aspect ratio? Why would it being an ultra wide make a difference?

[Stevie]

2 minutes ago, pledge said:

Are you watching it stretched to the wrong aspect ratio? Why would it being an ultra wide make a difference?

No, the resolution is correct. I’m just curious if it looked better on a big screen. Also, you’re usually closer to a monitor than a tv. 

[Stevie]

TLOU podcast  

 

Host Troy Baker talks with The Last of Us co-creators– writer/director Craig Mazin (Chernobyl) and the creator of The Last of Us video game Neil Druckmann– about how they brought this new HBO Original series to life.

Edited January 16 by Stevie
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[cassidy]

Twas a good start and pretty close to the start of the game. Including pipes and ladders. 

 

Really missed a trick not showing Joel hastily cobble together a knife or a pipe bomb as you hold down enter on the remote. 

 

Still want more of 2003 and society breaking down at the start of the  outbreak tbh. 

 

No one ever does that bit proper or well or for long enough. 

[spanx]

Loved it, wife did too. Hope they keep it up for the duration. Roll on next week!