Red Mosquito

epilogue wrote:I like this show and I'll keep watching it. But it has a lot of flaws. This latest episode especially felt like a "jump the shark" episode in a lot of ways. The giant fungus monster for one. The ending for another.

I consider myself a nihilist. But even I'm kinda over the "everything you care about is gone, everyone you love will die a horrible death, nothing means anything" thing this show is doing. If the whole point is we all die terrible deaths and must do terrible things, why keep watching?

Again, I will keep watching.

Bi_3 wrote:

epilogue wrote:I like this show and I'll keep watching it. But it has a lot of flaws. This latest episode especially felt like a "jump the shark" episode in a lot of ways. The giant fungus monster for one. The ending for another.

I consider myself a nihilist. But even I'm kinda over the "everything you care about is gone, everyone you love will die a horrible death, nothing means anything" thing this show is doing. If the whole point is we all die terrible deaths and must do terrible things, why keep watching?

Again, I will keep watching.

What if it was that in the face of unimaginable suffering that remembering your humanity means everything?

epilogue wrote:I think my favorite observation about the show so far has been "it's a love story, but that's not necessarily a good thing."

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:The scene that most captures what this story is about is Joel on his side, laughing at Ellie’s diarrhea joke, despite all the sadness, despite his best efforts at keeping her at an emotional distance.

I’ve played the game so I know there’s ample material here for them to deliver on this theme; I also know the most successful moments in the game were often the most quiet, which is understandably lost somewhat in the transition to event television.

I think this show will deliver. I think Bella Ramsey is knocking it out of the park and don’t understand the criticisms she’s received. But I gather she’s not connecting for some viewers, so maybe that’s why some aren’t feeling the emotional impact.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:The scene that most captures what this story is about is Joel on his side, laughing at Ellie’s diarrhea joke, despite all the sadness, despite his best efforts at keeping her at an emotional distance.

I’ve played the game so I know there’s ample material here for them to deliver on this theme; I also know the most successful moments in the game were often the most quiet, which is understandably lost somewhat in the transition to event television.

I think this show will deliver. I think Bella Ramsey is knocking it out of the park and don’t understand the criticisms she’s received. But I gather she’s not connecting for some viewers, so maybe that’s why some aren’t feeling the emotional impact.

epilogue wrote:I like this show and I'll keep watching it. But it has a lot of flaws. This latest episode especially felt like a "jump the shark" episode in a lot of ways. The giant fungus monster for one. The ending for another.

wease wrote:I didn’t think any pair on the show could move me like Bill and Frank did, but goddamn if Ellie and Sam didn’t show me I was wrong.

epilogue wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:The scene that most captures what this story is about is Joel on his side, laughing at Ellie’s diarrhea joke, despite all the sadness, despite his best efforts at keeping her at an emotional distance.

I’ve played the game so I know there’s ample material here for them to deliver on this theme; I also know the most successful moments in the game were often the most quiet, which is understandably lost somewhat in the transition to event television.

I think this show will deliver. I think Bella Ramsey is knocking it out of the park and don’t understand the criticisms she’s received. But I gather she’s not connecting for some viewers, so maybe that’s why some aren’t feeling the emotional impact.

I'm not out there looking for LoU content, but I haven't seen any Bella criticisms. I'm sure they are out there. But I haven't seen any.

epilogue wrote:

wease wrote:I didn’t think any pair on the show could move me like Bill and Frank did, but goddamn if Ellie and Sam didn’t show me I was wrong.

Sam and Henry moved me more than Bill and Frank. That's probably why I'm so upset