re: New trailer for 'The Last of Us'

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Regarding how you think the show should handle 2's events, you're not far off. The narrative choices that didn't work in TLOU2 COULD have worked had they been arranged differently. I think the show is going to try and pull it off and may end up being a better final product from a writing standpoint

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***** Spoilers for TLOU2 Potentially*****



Personally I think they pulled it off masterfully from a narrative perspective(the jarring back to square one in terms of reseting the gameplay progression a bit less so).

I cant think of a single game where I suddenly realized even several random people that just registered as no-name NPC's I was killing were actually these well-formed characters that suddenly made you see what you thought was the protagonist's actions in a completely different light. And as it progresses, drives home that both arent exactly wrong in their anger and desire for revenge, but that it ultimately only begets more violence and pulls everyone into a toxic and outward dehumanizing downward spiral individually and collectively. One of the few games that attacks head on the mindless violence games condition in the players, and the avatars carrying it out.