I will have the balls to be the first to review a 9.3/10 episode with a 4/10. Don't get me wrong if you look at my other reviews I am considered a fan of the show until now. After this episode I must give a low rating because I simply don't have any desire to continue with the series. I already played the game, I know what happens, I find the show version of nearly everything to be inferior to the game.
Without spoilers; what happens to characters is honestly deserved and the ending of TLOU2 is even more disappointing in the future episode of the show which HBO confirmed is going to take two more years to accomplish.
After this, I do not like Joel at all. He's a psychopath who has daddy issues and wants to manipulate and kill anyone who gets in his way of making Ellie a new daughter for him. Will put humanity at risk to do it. This is the behavior of a freakish character from a Rob Zombie movie not someone I am supposed to care about for possibly up to three seasons.
For some reason I accepted these deeds in the game but in the show it feels evil what Joel does. They added too much ambiguity so I am left with the facts of what Joel did. Just grab a gun and go mass shooting and even kill everyone else including a friend. It looks horrible on screen.
They give you no reason to distrust The Fireflies except that they are amateur and jerks who use flashbang grenades on people. However, the lengths he goes to save his adopted daughter are insane and what he does until the end is all to serve his dark goals of getting closer to Ellie.
I get it this twist ending is in the game and its interesting at least.
So I guess TL;DR I thought this ending was inferior to the games AND I now know besides one gay relationship the show and the game will be the same so why watch worse cutscenes?
Also while I am on a rant, the zombies in this show have to be the most boring and weak ever, if a pregnant woman can stab a zombie with a kitchen knife and win its a little hilarious. Most of the kills in the show are because someone needed to die from being bitten. There wasn't one memorable gore scene in the show.
I would have loved it if they could've given us something to think about like what if Ellie dies and the show changes to something else, what if Ellie lives and the vaccine might work, what if Joel just punches the Doctor out? As it stands this ending just shows that Joel will get what's coming to him, he will deserve it probably a LOT more than he did in the games, the revenge Ellie will try to take will be even less rootable and sadder and the series will just be an inferior more boring version of playing the games. So I must do 4/10.
Without spoilers; what happens to characters is honestly deserved and the ending of TLOU2 is even more disappointing in the future episode of the show which HBO confirmed is going to take two more years to accomplish.
After this, I do not like Joel at all. He's a psychopath who has daddy issues and wants to manipulate and kill anyone who gets in his way of making Ellie a new daughter for him. Will put humanity at risk to do it. This is the behavior of a freakish character from a Rob Zombie movie not someone I am supposed to care about for possibly up to three seasons.
For some reason I accepted these deeds in the game but in the show it feels evil what Joel does. They added too much ambiguity so I am left with the facts of what Joel did. Just grab a gun and go mass shooting and even kill everyone else including a friend. It looks horrible on screen.
They give you no reason to distrust The Fireflies except that they are amateur and jerks who use flashbang grenades on people. However, the lengths he goes to save his adopted daughter are insane and what he does until the end is all to serve his dark goals of getting closer to Ellie.
I get it this twist ending is in the game and its interesting at least.
So I guess TL;DR I thought this ending was inferior to the games AND I now know besides one gay relationship the show and the game will be the same so why watch worse cutscenes?
Also while I am on a rant, the zombies in this show have to be the most boring and weak ever, if a pregnant woman can stab a zombie with a kitchen knife and win its a little hilarious. Most of the kills in the show are because someone needed to die from being bitten. There wasn't one memorable gore scene in the show.
I would have loved it if they could've given us something to think about like what if Ellie dies and the show changes to something else, what if Ellie lives and the vaccine might work, what if Joel just punches the Doctor out? As it stands this ending just shows that Joel will get what's coming to him, he will deserve it probably a LOT more than he did in the games, the revenge Ellie will try to take will be even less rootable and sadder and the series will just be an inferior more boring version of playing the games. So I must do 4/10.
