this game is beautiful and intense theres no way the show will come close to its brilliance even with Oberyn in it

but i will watch it ofc

Chernobyl was a snoozefest i quit after 1 and a half episode

this is my fave game that ive ever played (narrowly beating out Arkham City) so I was very keen to watch this and so far its absolutely enthralling

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the clicker was fucking perfect. i loved everything abt that scene. i catch myself trying to think back to the game and spot differences in my head which can get a bit distracting but they've done a really good job of staying true to the material whilst not just making a frame for frame redo. appearance wise i think Pedro looks awesome. Ramsey as Ellie sometimes is a bit hard for me to accept but she's delivering her lines perfectly. i really thought they would drag out Tess' part a little more because she seemed to be such a strong screen presence. i was trying to remember how early in the game Tess dies but still thought they'd let her live till ep 3. really cool death scene tho future speculation based on game events + im curious for the introduction of the poachers or whatever they were in the game i.e. the human baddies. i think they alluded to those in ep 1 as slavers or something. theres def a few specific scenes and scenarios that im super looking fwd to like when Joel gives Ellie the sniper and she covers for him in that big battle with human baddies, the elevator shaft falling apart with Joel/Ellie being separated leading into the basement battle with the infected, the cannibal David, the Giraffe scene. HOT DANG i fucking love this game and so far this show as well

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ep 4 + eh! Solid ep though probably the weakest yet. Joel and Ellie relationship building was pretty good, every scene with the Kansas City crew was kinda whatever. I feel like they were trying to flesh them out into more than "bad guys shooting at the protagonists" but can't say I care about any of them. It was cool seeing Tommy's VA show up though, he was the long-haired bearded guy. Sure looked the part! You can definitely tell they had fun writing up that truck fight scene lol, some ambient lines ripped straight from the game and ofc all the popping up from cover. Joel killing that kid at the end was suitably brutal What do we think that lil earthquake was all about? I assume it's gonna be a bloater, but I could also see it being some new weird monstrosity they're introducing. Like the nexus of the local tendril network or something

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agreed with basically all of this. loved how similar the ambush scene was tho i was REALLY hoping Joel would say "oh he aint even hurt" i didn't think it was a quake i just thought it was infected pushing their way up but that is unlikely now that i think abt it. the sequence with "henry" and "sam" was great from what i recall, HUGE action sequence upcoming which im excited for ellie's "diarrheic is hereditary" joke cracked me up. great scene