If I Had A Nickel For Every Time There Was An Honestly Really Good Darkly Comedic Show Starring A Young,

If I had a nickel for every time there was an honestly really good darkly comedic show starring a young, naive woman who learns about the darkness of the world but doesn’t let it change her, her loser boyfriend who’s desperate to feel some control in the world, which also featured a manipulative, chaotic, charming, awesome man with an accent and featured a scene where someone reluctantly cuts a dead guys body part off, that’s really a satire about corporate greed by fucking AMAZON, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

The person I reblogged this from deserves to be happy

I tried to scroll past this. I really did

I never saw any pacing issues with TLOU HBO, like the thought literally never crossed my mind. I talked to other people who’ve watched it without/before playing the video game, no one said anything about pacing issues. In fact basically the only people who complain about pacing issues are the people who played the games.

At first I took this as the rose tinted glasses toward the games like I have for the show, where the thing you experience first you’re probably going to like more, and people were just annoyed that it was different. Then I saw this post that made so much sense to me that it just changed my whole perspective on it.

I’m not sure how to find it now, but it basically said that it made sense people who played the games would feel like the pacing is off or that they were rushing through it, because when they played the game there were these long breaks in between the important scenes for gameplay. In the show there weren’t long breaks for fights or item collecting, so of course it feels rushed for the people who played the games.

For some reason I hadn’t thought of that, and it totally floored me.

This is a brilliant analysis, thanks for making me cry at 4 o’clock on a Saturday

So I hope we're gonna talk about how the choice to NOT have Joel be the one to pull Ellie off of David, to NOT pull her out of the burning restaurant, isn't just a change for no reason. It's A Choice

Joel can't save her. Joel can't protect her. Not forever. And certainly not here. His worst fears for his own inability, his worst fears for Ellie, came true and he wasn't even there for it. Only Ellie could save Ellie and she experienced David alone, ALL alone. She has to drag herself out of that burning building. ALONE. It's sadder and bleaker and it centers her experience even more than ever

Like, I always loved the scene in the game where Joel makes her stop stabbing David, where he hugs her in the middle of a burning building, but I also have to ask myself if that even means anything for either character, especially in the context of the themes that have been built up in the show (Ellie wanting autonomy and independence but facing the realities of violence/conflict, Joel aging and doubting himself and failing to physically protect 2 daughters from the violence of this world despite actually managing to be emotionally available and nurturing).

Ellie hitting her lowest point entirely by herself jives better with what's coming in season 2 and ugh I wish that it was being talked about more beyond people wishing that it was 1:1 with the game

Edit: So it seams like I yes! Alright then, I’ll actually post it tmrw instead of today!

Edit Edit: Okay actually today lol. New chapter out now!

A DUNGEON MASTERS GUIDE TO TRAUMA??? HELLO??? TLOU X DND???

Oh my gosh, thanks so much😭🤣

Yeah, it’s basically a fic where Ellie, Dina, Jesse, and Cat play DnD with cameos from Joel, Maria, and Tommy who get roped into playing with them for a bit. It starts out very fluffy, but… well, it’s me so…

(Also, I have full characters for them lol)