Video game fans we are now living in a world where every video game possible is being adapted into either a movie or a TV show. Well the latest video game to get that treatment has just aired it's first episode and even tho it's being based upon a video game that I haven't played I thought that i'd like to give you all my two cents and so then here are my first impressions of the show that's the latest in a long line of adaptations to earn the title of "Best Video Game Adaptation Ever" with the show in question being called simply just "The Last Of Us" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is twenty yeas into a zombie apocalypse survivor Joel meets a kid who will change his life forever. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty pretty weak at best since for the most part this episode really doesn't have a plot to speak of and that is something that really does hurt this episode as a whole in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is Pedro Pascal as Joel Miller , Bella Ramsey as Ellie and Nico Parker as Sarah Miller. Also starring in this episode is John Hannah as Dr. Neuman , Merle Dandridge as Marlene , Christopher Heyerdahl as Dr. Schoenheiss , Brad Leland as Danny Adler , Marcia Bennett as Connie Adler , Brendan Fletcher as Robert , Jerry Wasserman as Abe , Anna Torv as Tess and Gabriel Luna as Tommy Miller.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that'd actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With this shows main leads turning in some really good performances which isn't really all that surprising given who is leading this show and who is starring in this episode and as well in this very show.
This show is of course based of off the 2013 video game of the exact same name and heck even the creator and co-director of the game Neil Druckmann is a writer and producer on this show with him co-writing this episode with it's director Craig Mazin. Which does lend this show some credit since who else would know these character better then the person that created them in the first place however the issue is that from what I can gather the characters are changed so much from the game to the show that they might as well be two completely different characters because that's ow different that they really are.
It's now very common place for every single video game adaptation that gets made to be called the greatest video game adaptation ever. Which just simply isn't true at least when it comes to this adaptation since from what I can gather this episode sticks very closely to the game which is something that I can see alienating alot of people who like myself have never played any of the games and that's something a video game adaptation shouldn't do since a video game adaptation as with any adaptation needs to please the die hard fanbase as well as be open and inviting enough to attract a new set of fans to the property.
What I really did like about this episode is the fact that we got to see Joel's relationship with his daughter. However I don;t think that they should have revealed how that relationship ended this early on in the shows run since it would have been all the more impact full if we never saw what turned Joel into the man that he is until at the very latest episode nine since then you would have had the time to form a connection with his character and that would have made that reveal all the more dramatic and even more so then what it is in this episode.
To me this episode feels like it's two episodes in one with the first half of the episode just basically being a prolog and the rest of the episode being what I think is the first mission of the game. With the two not really working all that well together and so I really do feel that this episodes story should have been split up into two episodes with episode one just being the first half of this episode and the second episode being the other half of this episode since at least that way things wouldn't be all that jarring when we suddenly skip twenty years into the future.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty minuets and forty seconds. Which is so much longer then what this episode really needed to be since if anything this episode should have been no longer then forty five minuets since that's all the amount of story that this episode has to cover this running time with since the first half of this episode really doesn't have a plot and when the plot does get started in the second half of the episode it's so thinly drawn out that it makes the episode feel alot longer then what it actually really is.
So now then since there is some action in this episode that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With this episodes action being very raw and very gritty both of which worked well enough with the tone that this show is trying to create in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this show isn't the best video game adaptation ever but at the same time there is quite clearly alot of love and effort put into this show and that really does show through in every single frame of this episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very post and since this is only my first impressions I won't be giving this show a rating however if i'm still watching this show when this shows final episodes airs or is released then i'll give this a show review and a rating as well but so far it's not of to very good start at all.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post from the official The Last Of Us fandom wiki page and the official Sonic The Hedgehog fandom wiki page. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very post being the wonderful the official the official The Last Of Us fandom wiki page since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on the official The Last Of Us fandom wiki page are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.