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OT: Movies/TV Shows

GGpX said:
I don't care about representation or lack thereof personally, the same way I don't care that Ellie's a lesbian, the Bill/Frank relationship or that Sam was deaf in the show. My questions for that stuff always starts & end with, is it actually good or just force-fed LGBTQ stuff because it needs representation? If the Bill & Frank episode were a male & female couple, it still would have been great. I'm interested in storytelling and characters that catch my attention. Everything else is noise. I watch shows/sports or play games to escape the real world shit, the last thing I want is to be force-fed it.

Just like I didn't care that the kid was trans, except that they skirted around the issue over and over without actually saying it. If you're going to have a trans character and his storyline is that he was kicked out of his village/cult because he was trans? Then grow a fucking pair of balls and say so. Don't be coy about it.

I don't know how you don't think Joel wasn't a badass, you do badass shit with him for virtually the entirety of the first game, but fine, difference of opinion. He wasn't weak either. He had some grit to him. He's a guy who had seen some real shit. But in the second game? He looked like a domesticated house animal. One of the issues I have with Joel dying in the way he did was, what was the net positive that came with it? Joel was killed almost immediately in the second game for revenge because he killed Abby's father, so Ellie's... going to do... the exact same thing...? Whereas if, for example, they had killed Tommy instead, mistaking him for Joel (or whatever plotline you want). Joel & Ellie go to Seattle for revenge, and Joel ends up getting killed there? And Ellie finds out the truth about what happened in Salt Lake City from Abby there? There could have a way to make the motive better, the story better, would have made Abby into a much better antagonist and you could have built her into a hateable character like they did with David The Cannibal. And better yet, you could have figured out a way where Joel & Ellie were split up somehow and you had to play both of them for large chunks of the game before the inevitable moment Joel died.

You know there's a major flaw in the game when half the game is spent playing a character that is universally disliked and that character has to defeat at two different times the two stars of the franchise. That was a major fuck-up.

I agree that game Ellie was more likeable than the TV version, but that's because there was much more time permitted for banter and just socializing between the characters. Unfortunately, you can't have characters socializing on a TV show while exploring a fourth straight building looking for loot.

There's part of me that would like a third TLOU game, but I don't want to revisit Ellie & co. I would have been perfectly fine if the first game had ended and they never revisited that set of characters, while instead creating new characters with their own story. Maybe somewhere like Louisiana, Alabama? During the events happening simultaneously as the first game.
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Agreed with pretty much all of this. Which is why I think the try to "fix" some of the game for the show.
 
I know I may be late to the game, but the SNL with Ortega was actually funny for most of the show
 
Ben Affleck says he has no interest in directing for DC

“I would not direct something for the [James] Gunn DC. Absolutely not. I have nothing against James Gunn. Nice guy, sure he’s going to do a great job. I just wouldn’t want to go in and direct in the way they’re doing that. I’m not interested in that”
 
I’m reading a really interesting biography of Johnny Carson by his one time lawyer Henry Bushkin. I don’t even know how he was able to write it since the whole thing is a breach of attorney client privilege, which I was taught extends past the death of the client. But damn, it is so fascinating to learn about this very complex character behind the scenes.
 
This movie on prime might have the dumbest plot ever. This girl puts in more work planning revenge on her ex for cheating than Bin Laden did for 9/11
 
Yeah it's a decent show but it does that a lot. I do know since mega rich Ave their kids are douchey too so I think they might be going for the 0.01% feel because yeah, roll eyes.
 
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