The Last of Us Ends One Chapter and Stalls the Next

Last week’s tragic episode Our Last It was one of those things that naturally required a major change in the focus of the story. This week’s episode, “The Path,” had a lot of work on the to-do list. It had to serve as both a goodbye to the old story and a greeting to the new story. what’s wrong?

Now, let’s get into that. Although opinions differ, Our Last This week was a mixed bag for me.

I’ll slow it down

As you can imagine, “The Path” was a slow episode, leaving it to deal with the aftermath of Joel’s death as each character decided on their next step. The characters react most of the time and talk about what happened and what happens. It’s clear from the start that Ellie wants revenge from Abby and her crew, and she’s looking for as much help as she can get. This also happens in games. Ellie wants Tommy and wants as much as possible.

Here everything moves slower and the story drags on. I like the idea of ​​turning the question of chasing Abby or not into a townwide discussion, but the execution of the scene felt too heavy. Let’s be real, The final part II The message isn’t subtle, but it does seem like a clever touch compared to having us watched as we give lengthy speeches about forgiveness goodness while gays give his own rant about vengeance goodness. When the story does it on its own, there is no need for a theme that is too shoved into our faces.

Let’s clean the air here. Seth has not been redeemed. He’s not a good person. His side with Ellie is not a fist pump moment that makes Seth look like a better person than we thought. When such a person is by your side, you have to think twice, and when someone who supports her bad idea is supporting her bad idea, that Ellie never thinks again is a sign that she is wrong.

It’s a shame that the story takes a blurry grey mid-ground and makes it so black and white, except that the story shouldn’t be that clear. Everything about the season where you truly achieve things that have not yet been achieved.

Part of the reason Our Last Continuous focus on side characters is very slow while the story continues to stop the main character’s journey. Why is Gale so concentrated? Or Seth? Why do we spend the entire scene on these characters? Yes, we know Ellie lies in her face when she leaves the hospital, we don’t need to spend five minutes with Gale telling Tommy what he and the audience can easily see for us.

If you’re focusing on the side characters, give Maria more screen time rather than staring her from the already sparse time The final part II. In fact, it would be very frustrating if more screen time was spent on Seth’s Redeeming arc rather than a diverse, more interesting storyline with characters that should have a bigger role.

A 3 month skip created some issues that don’t have to exist. Part of the beauty of the big fight in last week’s episode was that they strongly inferred why no one could go to Seattle with Ellie and Dina. They want to change the order of events, so if Tommy follows them instead of leaving her first, the fight was perfect for it. Instead, they completely ruined this by giving Jackson time to help him hunt down Joel’s murderer.

Ultimately, the only thing a story achieves is wasting time.

I took to my review of Season 2 with the idea that I’m trying my best to avoid a rich adaptation story. There is a time and place for comparison, and at least I want to do my best to judge. Our Last By what is presented to me by the story, not so much depending on my experience in the source material.

But really, I know where the story is heading, so when they are on such a nasty, winding, and obviously worse path to those destinations, I can only be disappointed.

Fumble relationship

Perhaps the biggest waste of time and what directly undermines the story right now is that they are will/not that happening in Ellie and Dina. When Ellie and Dina connected on the eve of Joel’s death, we already missed one of the best scenes in the game. Now they’re in Seattle and they’re not even a couple. Worse, they took the rate of the game’s kissing scene and removed all the sweets from that scene.

The tent scene in this episode was disappointing on so many levels. Rather than linking Ellie with Dina, it performed directly on Dina’s perception of Ellie as if she was unintentionally messing around. It already halted the relationship to be affirmed on both sides, humiliated with “You’re gay, I’m not,” and introduced the true possibility of a love triangle with non-existent Jesse The final part II.

Again, I’m wondering why it takes so long for these characters to get where they should already be. Are they going to cram in an already packed event in Seattle with everything that should have already happened between Ellie and Dina?

People are talking about slow burns for this relationship, but they don’t need it. Slow burns are already a year of formative friendship. This show is wasting time getting these characters where they were already at the end of the first episode of the season. All… what? Will Dina become Seattle just to begin a relationship with a murderous psychoelier?

The same can be said for Tommy. There’s no need to waste time taking him where he wants to be revenge on Joel. Why is the story stalling? What is the point? If anything, Tommy has stopped going at all.

In general, I feel that the whole atmosphere of the story is just… wrong. Ellie and Dina are trading wise cracks in Seattle to go on a fun road trip. Tommy acts like he moved out of Joel’s death. Jackson teeth I mainly go ahead. You can see why 3 month skip does that. The problem is that the nature of the story is adapted.

I hate spending so much time talking about everything I didn’t like about “the road.” I don’t want to talk that negatively. I wish I had spent more time talking about good scenes in this episode. The opening with Tommy, who cleaned Joel’s body, was clean. The introduction to Cerapite was something I liked. The end of the march in WLF was a cold reality check for the audience about the difficulties facing Ellie’s quest to get Abby. I like that Dina is very enthusiastic about planning her trips. Ellie was perfect walking around Joel’s house.

Unfortunately, everything I like is hidden in adaptive concerns that are too familiar from the lifetime of seeing creators bring about change for change. It’s very easy to overlook early changes and assume that the story will work. The effect of snowballing is that it gains momentum when the snowman is small and is easy to overlook before it gets bigger. What appears to be small and insignificant changes affects the story of creative teams looking natural changes or having to ignore characters and squeal them in positions that no longer fit them.

Our Last I already have a rather large snowball rolling downhill faster than I had hoped. Part II will be a much more difficult game to adapt than the first game. In this episode, we are worried about the choices they made. It’s not difficult to worry when all the characters are in a very different position from the ones that should be at this point. Also, writing doesn’t help treat audiences, just as they don’t understand the story unless they spell out every story moment for their audience.

I hope I’ll go back here for the rest of the season and eat my words. But more than ever, where am I worried Our Last i am going.

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