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Jorge wrote:Maybe I'm too hard on this show, but I felt deflated after almost every episode despite really enjoying the two leads
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epilogue wrote:
Jorge wrote:Maybe I'm too hard on this show, but I felt deflated after almost every episode despite really enjoying the two leads
Same

i figured the beginning of the episode was a out of time thing but thought it was the future that ellie had grown up and had a baby. the actress who played her mom...good god they looked like siblings
Did the Mother Fucker pay extra to yell?
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Peeps wrote:
epilogue wrote:
Jorge wrote:Maybe I'm too hard on this show, but I felt deflated after almost every episode despite really enjoying the two leads
Same

i figured the beginning of the episode was a out of time thing but thought it was the future that ellie had grown up and had a baby. the actress who played her mom...good god they looked like siblings
Wasn’t that the voice actor of Ellie in the video game?
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Episodes 3, 5 and 9 were good enough to keep me on board for next season. Those sneaky bastards.
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Jorge wrote:Maybe I'm too hard on this show, but I felt deflated after almost every episode despite really enjoying the two leads
I think it really just feels like it's so close to being great. It's just missing something, I think in the pacing.
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Yeah pacing. The first bad omen was Ep. 1 after his daughter died. Gotta sit with that longer.
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Make this still a very manageable 12 episodes. Split episode one into 2 episodes, dedicate one to Sam and Henry, then 2 for the cult. Which is even more obvious after how good, and well received the third episode was.
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Apparently it took around 200 days to shoot this season. Probably a tough budget call to keep it at a trim 9 episodes.

The series could have really benefited from a slower paced episode of Joel and Ellie on the road between the Sam and Henry/Tommy episodes. That would have given the viewers a chance to see their relationship grow.
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Peeps wrote:
epilogue wrote:
Jorge wrote:Maybe I'm too hard on this show, but I felt deflated after almost every episode despite really enjoying the two leads
Same

i figured the beginning of the episode was a out of time thing but thought it was the future that ellie had grown up and had a baby. the actress who played her mom...good god they looked like siblings
Wasn’t that the voice actor of Ellie in the video game?

i never played the game so i have no clue
Did the Mother Fucker pay extra to yell?
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i googled it just now and the answer is yes
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She really did look like Ellie from the show.
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They both have fiveheads
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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.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
Peeps wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Peeps wrote:
epilogue wrote:
Jorge wrote:Maybe I'm too hard on this show, but I felt deflated after almost every episode despite really enjoying the two leads
Same

i figured the beginning of the episode was a out of time thing but thought it was the future that ellie had grown up and had a baby. the actress who played her mom...good god they looked like siblings
Wasn’t that the voice actor of Ellie in the video game?

i never played the game so i have no clue
She also played Chrissie Sever on Growing Pains
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Just finished episode 7. This one could have been cut
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wease wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
Peeps wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Peeps wrote:
epilogue wrote:
Jorge wrote:Maybe I'm too hard on this show, but I felt deflated after almost every episode despite really enjoying the two leads
Same

i figured the beginning of the episode was a out of time thing but thought it was the future that ellie had grown up and had a baby. the actress who played her mom...good god they looked like siblings
Wasn’t that the voice actor of Ellie in the video game?

i never played the game so i have no clue
She also played Chrissie Sever on Growing Pains
You’re thinking of Alan Thicke.
People don’t realize he played every role on that show. Amazing stuff.
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spike wrote:
wease wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
Peeps wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Peeps wrote:
epilogue wrote:
Jorge wrote:Maybe I'm too hard on this show, but I felt deflated after almost every episode despite really enjoying the two leads
Same

i figured the beginning of the episode was a out of time thing but thought it was the future that ellie had grown up and had a baby. the actress who played her mom...good god they looked like siblings
Wasn’t that the voice actor of Ellie in the video game?

i never played the game so i have no clue
She also played Chrissie Sever on Growing Pains
You’re thinking of Alan Thicke.
People don’t realize he played every role on that show. Amazing stuff.

Such a really good actor but amazing his real life son and tv son are equal assholes
Did the Mother Fucker pay extra to yell?
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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.
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*was
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spike wrote:
wease wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
Peeps wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Peeps wrote:
epilogue wrote:
Jorge wrote:Maybe I'm too hard on this show, but I felt deflated after almost every episode despite really enjoying the two leads
Same

i figured the beginning of the episode was a out of time thing but thought it was the future that ellie had grown up and had a baby. the actress who played her mom...good god they looked like siblings
Wasn’t that the voice actor of Ellie in the video game?

i never played the game so i have no clue
She also played Chrissie Sever on Growing Pains
You’re thinking of Alan Thicke.
People don’t realize he played every role on that show. Amazing stuff.
And wrote the theme song!
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