This episode should have been at least an hour and a half to flesh out the story between Ellie and David and to really show how creepy he is.
It even could have been told in 2 episodes if they told the story in its entirety.
Aside from Bill/Frank, characters being introduced in 1 episode and being killed right at the end of it just feels too quick in my opinion.
For comparison, Bill's episode was almost 1 hour 20 minutes. I loved what they did with him and Frank because they spent so much time letting us get to know and develop feelings for the characters.
A whole episode was used to show us Ellie and Riley playing around in a mall in the last episode. Do we just forget about her now?
What happened to Riley? Did Ellie kill her? Did she kill herself? Did Ellie just run away and leave her? Why bother spending so much time showing her. I was hoping they would show what happened or at least explore it since the game just says that Riley became infected and nothing else.
They took the liberty to explore a story with Bill and Frank. Instead of developing Riley's story or adding to it, they just rush straight into David's and half-bake his story before it's over within the hour.
I have no idea how they thought it would be a good to tell this part of the story in less than an hour.
Going off the game's storyline, this episode had a lot of potential to be so much better and should have been.
Originally Ellie and David are attacked by a massive swarm and a bloater (a wasted opportunity to show some more infected) who they fight off, proving to be an effective team before he saves her life, appearing to be a decent man before revealing that he actually knew who she was all along.
In this he barely spends any time with Ellie and he's ready to make her his partner? And trust her over everyone in the town? Based on what? Her just holding him at gunpoint as opposed to seeing her fight against infected in the original story?
Wasn't very believable and should have been included to some extent.
The show has gotten to a point where too much has been cut out from the original, especially storylines that actually enrich relationships and make them seem real.
We are shown David and Ellie having a conversation for a literal few minutes before James breaks a world record for a 4 mile hike and tries to ambush her. They didn't show David gaining her trust or a reason for us to believe that David really trusted her.
His character development (or lack there of) and the episode itself have been rushed.
Where was the rest of the group that wanted revenge on Ellie and Joel when she was captured? How did Joel manage to get into the resort without any trouble? In the game he has to fight his way in to get to Ellie.
Did the whole group just go on holidays or vanish?
Again...rushed and half-baked, telling us only half of the story.
The show started off so promising but now we're getting GOT Season 8 treatment were things aren't being fleshed out enough and it has become such a disappointment.
I never had a problem with the lack of screen time the infected were getting until this episode but they have just skipped over too many parts now that should have had some of them in it.
You cannot give the story of the TLoU justice by telling it in such short episodes, 50 minutes isn't long enough to tell segments of the story and to introduce and then kill off characters.
Characters are just easy come, easy go at this stage.
As a huge fan of the games, I know I'm not being completely biased either, as I have been watching this with my house-mate who had no knowledge of the game, and his exact words after the episode ended were "that was an anti-climax", referring to the build up and how quick the episode ended.
The only good things about this episode were seeing Joel's voice actor playing the character of James, and then Joel and Ellie's acting.
But again, had they took the time to develop the story properly, it could have been better.
There is definitely some cherry picking going on too in the reviews because my review for the last episode got removed and almost 24 hours after this episode released there is only positive reviews and no negatives.
It even could have been told in 2 episodes if they told the story in its entirety.
Aside from Bill/Frank, characters being introduced in 1 episode and being killed right at the end of it just feels too quick in my opinion.
For comparison, Bill's episode was almost 1 hour 20 minutes. I loved what they did with him and Frank because they spent so much time letting us get to know and develop feelings for the characters.
A whole episode was used to show us Ellie and Riley playing around in a mall in the last episode. Do we just forget about her now?
What happened to Riley? Did Ellie kill her? Did she kill herself? Did Ellie just run away and leave her? Why bother spending so much time showing her. I was hoping they would show what happened or at least explore it since the game just says that Riley became infected and nothing else.
They took the liberty to explore a story with Bill and Frank. Instead of developing Riley's story or adding to it, they just rush straight into David's and half-bake his story before it's over within the hour.
I have no idea how they thought it would be a good to tell this part of the story in less than an hour.
Going off the game's storyline, this episode had a lot of potential to be so much better and should have been.
Originally Ellie and David are attacked by a massive swarm and a bloater (a wasted opportunity to show some more infected) who they fight off, proving to be an effective team before he saves her life, appearing to be a decent man before revealing that he actually knew who she was all along.
In this he barely spends any time with Ellie and he's ready to make her his partner? And trust her over everyone in the town? Based on what? Her just holding him at gunpoint as opposed to seeing her fight against infected in the original story?
Wasn't very believable and should have been included to some extent.
The show has gotten to a point where too much has been cut out from the original, especially storylines that actually enrich relationships and make them seem real.
We are shown David and Ellie having a conversation for a literal few minutes before James breaks a world record for a 4 mile hike and tries to ambush her. They didn't show David gaining her trust or a reason for us to believe that David really trusted her.
His character development (or lack there of) and the episode itself have been rushed.
Where was the rest of the group that wanted revenge on Ellie and Joel when she was captured? How did Joel manage to get into the resort without any trouble? In the game he has to fight his way in to get to Ellie.
Did the whole group just go on holidays or vanish?
Again...rushed and half-baked, telling us only half of the story.
The show started off so promising but now we're getting GOT Season 8 treatment were things aren't being fleshed out enough and it has become such a disappointment.
I never had a problem with the lack of screen time the infected were getting until this episode but they have just skipped over too many parts now that should have had some of them in it.
You cannot give the story of the TLoU justice by telling it in such short episodes, 50 minutes isn't long enough to tell segments of the story and to introduce and then kill off characters.
Characters are just easy come, easy go at this stage.
As a huge fan of the games, I know I'm not being completely biased either, as I have been watching this with my house-mate who had no knowledge of the game, and his exact words after the episode ended were "that was an anti-climax", referring to the build up and how quick the episode ended.
The only good things about this episode were seeing Joel's voice actor playing the character of James, and then Joel and Ellie's acting.
But again, had they took the time to develop the story properly, it could have been better.
There is definitely some cherry picking going on too in the reviews because my review for the last episode got removed and almost 24 hours after this episode released there is only positive reviews and no negatives.