Koray Savas

Seeing Jurassic Park in theaters is my earliest memory.

Wow you’ve only ever seen it once? There are so many little details throughout that have much more meaning the second time around.

I agree as well. The changes they made the infected make discovering a vaccine much less of a dire situation.

That’s part of what I intended when I said the game didn’t have to be crammed into 9 episodes. The universe is ripe for other stories to be told away from Joel and Ellie’s journey.

Hollywood doesn’t take risks.

I mean this plays out the same way in the game. David’s only reason for keeping Ellie alive is to groom her. His people already want her killed for the death of their own. After killing James and setting fire to part of their shelter, David knows there would be no talking them out of killing Ellie, so this is sort of his last opportunity to get what he wants out of her.

Sweet! I’m actually in the middle of a rewatch now.

Most of the main story beats are here, but so much of the character development is sprinkled through the moment to moment gameplay, not even combat. That’s the stuff that can’t be replicated by the TV format, in my opinion. It’s what makes gaming a unique entertainment medium that stands on its own. This is probably as good as an adaption that can exist, but to me the game still reigns supreme. I think that’s a testament to how great it really is.

Right, but I think more time than that spent with these characters would have made for better television.

The show can’t really replace the moment-to-moment dialogue beats and environmental storytelling of the game. It doesn’t allow the audience to simmer on certain characters or interactions before it chugs along to the next episode. The music is also severely underused, in my opinion. The aftermath of Ellie killing David, for example, is done entirely without dialogue and sound effects in the game, just music. That being said, I still think it’s an incredibly strong adaption. I just don’t understand why they had to cram the entire game into 9 episodes or even 1 season.

Or his child grooming? He tries to rape Ellie.

I just watched this last night. Really great, meditative film. I liked the analogy to the civil war, showing how fighting can corrupt even the nicest of men.

That’s a mighty hot take there. I actually agree with part of it, when it comes to the realistic movements and animations. However, it’s clear to me that Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of the greatest achievements in gaming history, even if it’s not for me.

I like how they laid the groundwork for Season 2 with the a-Ha references.

I use an Apple TV. A bit pricy for a streaming box, but it fits into the Apple ecosystem well. I use it to tether my smart devices in my home. The remote is terrible but I think the newest one fixed a lot of the designs flaws in the older models. I use my iPhone as my remote regardless.

Wasn’t Hellboy just rebooted?

Underrated flick, in my opinion. I really like that one.

I don’t really see this as an issue. She is a dumb kid that was just recruited to the Fireflies out of a necessity for bodies in their resistance. It’s shown in the way she doesn’t care about all the noise or lights in the mall, and how she lets Ellie handle the gun. I think that’s kinda the point. To show these two young girls growing up and having to adapt to a world that only knows how to be brutal and survive while they grapple with love. Harkening back to Ellie reading the kid’s diary and saying “Is this really all they had to worry about?”

I’ve always known of Katamari going back to the PS2 days but never played it. I tried Reroll a couple years ago on PS4 since it was cheap on sale and yeah, the controls prevent me from enjoying it. Otherwise it works for me as a weird Japanese physics engine sandbox.

It’s pretty much spot on in comparison to the game, even down to the song they dance to. This episode was written by Neil, after all. I enjoyed it a lot. I thought both of the performances and the set design were excellent.

I mean there’s only 2 episodes left. I don’t think either will be fully dedicated to a flashback.

Signs is my favorite.

There were rumors that he was working on a series codenamed Unrecorded Night/Wisteria with Netflix. A lot of of his Twin Peaks cast subtlety posted pictures of themselves in front of wisteria trees on Instagram. When people noticed it, Kyle McLaughlin publicly said that his photo was a coincidence and that he was not working on anything with Lynch. Production was halted during the height of COVID and Lynch said he wouldn’t continue to work until there was a vaccine. No one has heard anything about it since, so it’s assumed that Netflix cancelled the production.

Wasn’t this attempted by Intrada years ago?

Very disappointing reveal for me. No longer a purchase. More games like Spider-Man less like The Avengers.