Its Pretty Awesome How TLOU Game Has Some Of The Best VA Performances Of All Time, And TLOU HBO Has Some

It’s pretty awesome how TLOU Game has some of the best VA performances of all time, and TLOU HBO has some of the best Live Action performances of all time. Like, jeez, the casts in both are just out of this world!!

Can I just—

LOOK AT THIS GUY!! LOOK AT HIM!!

I LOVE THIS ZOMBIE SO MUCH!!! He’s like… gorgeous, in this scary way. The cordyceps growing out of him, the way he moves, it’s just amazing.

Not to mention the prosthetics, makeup and effects that went into this. Seriously I cannot express my love for this big guy.

Me:

*chanting* GHOSTS GHOSTS GHOSTS

It’s… well, believe it or not it’s sorta angsty, actually. Basically the synopsis is that back in Jackson, Ellie starts to see hallucinations of the people who she’s killed, directly or indirectly (that she blames herself for).

I, of mostly sound body and spirit, request that if I’m ever to die, someone post a new work on my AO3 that says “sorry, she died, ongoing stories postponed forever” because don’t I want my fanfic buddies to think I ghosted them. Amen or whatever you say in a will.

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)

Something that ticks me off is people comparing TLOU the game with TLOU HBO and saying it didn’t have as much emotional impact as the game, or that it didn’t “recapture the magic”.

Like… yeah of course it didn’t have as much impact for YOU. You played the game first, and saw it for the first time in the game. With TLOU HBO you saw it again, of course it’s gonna have less of an emotional impact on you when you don’t already know the scene.

Some people went into TLOU HBO expecting to feel exactly what they felt when they played the game, but that’s impossible. The show will never be able to “recapture the magic” for you, because you know the scene and what they’ll say. You already know the emotional beats and the plot.

That’s why ep 3 hit people who played the games and people who didn’t so hard, not just because it was an amazing story, but because you didn’t know what would happen. You didn’t already know the scenes or what they’d say, because of course it “doesn’t have the magic” when you already know exactly what comes next unlike when you played the games.

I watched TLOU HBO first, and all of the emotional beats struck their mark perfectly and hit me like a damn semi-truck.

“You’e not my daughter, and I sure as hell ain’t your dad”, “I swear”, “I got you baby girl”, they all wrecked me like they wrecked you when you played the game.

Of course the scene is gonna hit harder when you’re experiencing it for the first time, rather than the scenes being “worse” in the show.