10 Things The Last of Us HBO Series Did BETTER Than The Game

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It's hard to improve upon perfection, but in some ways HBO's The Last of Us did just that. For this list, we’ll be looking at changes made to the TV series from the game that actually enhance the masterpiece it’s based on. Our list includes Getting to Know Sarah, Jackson, David Unhinged, Fungal Beginnings, Ellie’s Immunity and more. What was your favorite change made adapting the game to the screen? Let us know down in the comments.
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  • @mojoplays
    @mojoplays Жыл бұрын

    What was your favorite change made adapting the game to the screen? Let us know down in the comments. Subscribe for more Last of Us videos! wmojo.com/mojoplays-subscribe

  • @dominictrujillo3323

    @dominictrujillo3323

    Жыл бұрын

    Getting to know Sarah. By fleshing her out more, it just made it hurt that much more when she died. 😢

  • @hattchetman_2128

    @hattchetman_2128

    Жыл бұрын

    lmao buddy the show was worse in every single aspect.

  • @andu1854
    @andu1854 Жыл бұрын

    I like both game and show, and my mom who doesn’t like violence that much really liked the show, so that is why I think not making just killing infected and humans as the main focus was a good approach and then I showed her some videos of game comparisons made her appreciate the game as well…

  • @endlessstudent3512

    @endlessstudent3512

    Жыл бұрын

    exactly. What works in a game, never works in a tv adaptation. We have seen this countless times. The makes of the last of us show were way more clever and took a step back from the game, deciding carefully what makes a good tv version. I like everything they did. Series/movies with massive zombie numbers we really have enough. And they stayed away from those soap-like, childish human interactions that make no sense and are so off-putting in series like the walking dead. However i digress, it way more diffictult to keep a level for so many seasons compared to just 9 episodes of last of us.

  • @benwasserman8223
    @benwasserman8223 Жыл бұрын

    They started by making David more sympathetic. Then made him even more sociopathic and monstrous, both of which are impressive feats.

  • @chambeet

    @chambeet

    10 ай бұрын

    I preferred the game version more. A little more subtle and I love that it takes quite a bit before you realize that he’s a villain. Like when you meet him in the game, sure, he seems creepy and off, but the actor (Nolan North?) also makes him somewhat charismatic and almost kind, so by the time you’ve teamed up with him to kill, among other things, a bloater (!), you get hit harder by his creepy revelation. He was more on-the-nose creepy in the show, and less effective because of it for me.

  • @nickfitchner3218

    @nickfitchner3218

    6 ай бұрын

    @@chambeettotally agree! David was far better in the game! The whole religious cult thing felt forced and totally unnecessary.

  • @joemisek
    @joemisek Жыл бұрын

    I'm one who believes that the rare portrayals of infected make it seem that the infected problem was largely under control after 20 years of the outbreak. It needed more to justify the wild situation humanity was left in after 20 years.

  • @kim-hendrikmerk4163

    @kim-hendrikmerk4163

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes when seeing so few infected I didn't really get the need for a cure. We only see the occasional stray and one horde that the local inhabitants actively ignored.

  • @WeedsterDuck

    @WeedsterDuck

    Жыл бұрын

    If we’re talking about realism, Joel would look very stupid if he just kept going to infected areas every episode😂

  • @chrisg5457

    @chrisg5457

    Жыл бұрын

    I think it's still believable. Assuming that most of the world scientists, engineers, manufacturers, etc. died (with most of the working experience of how to keep society running disappearing with them), the state of things still makes sense at this scale. Also, people don't trust each other anymore. It explains why pockets of thriving society (Bill's town, Jackson), are so unwilling to share it with outsiders. Humanity will need way more that 20 years to recover from the infection, even if it's eradicated.

  • @syabri2342

    @syabri2342

    Жыл бұрын

    @@WeedsterDuck Definitely, it's just that in the game it feels more like any area that isn't under the control of FEDRA or some other group is basically an infected area and you're never safe outside, even though the open countryside is less dangerous than cities, you can run into infected

  • @joemisek

    @joemisek

    Жыл бұрын

    @@WeedsterDuck First of all, realism is relative if we are talking about an exaggerated fictional world like this. But no, Joel wouldn't look stupid if he runs into infected, because he's venturing into parts of a world that is not contained... like in the game. Outside the contained and fortified communities, infected roam. I think that's a fair premise and one which the game portrayed. In the show, there isn't enough infected anywhere in the uninhabited space to think that the epidemic is even prevalent enough to justify a lawless society at that point. It made me wonder, in the show, why a QZ didn't just bomb out the small handful of spaces or buildings overrun with infected, and just rebuild society.

  • @unchartedrocks1
    @unchartedrocks1 Жыл бұрын

    David's intentions weren't different???? It was exactly the same lol. He wanted to take advantage of Ellie.

  • @MinbadTheFourth

    @MinbadTheFourth

    Жыл бұрын

    I know right. To me, his intentions towards Ellie were even clearer in the game. Plus afterwards when reuniting with Joel, she clearly said "he tried to..." whereas in the series she just stutters instead as she hugs him. Apparently, Mojo had some wishful thinking or did not play the (same) game.

  • @Good_Boy_3000

    @Good_Boy_3000

    Жыл бұрын

    I recently played TLOU for the first time. Show David might as well have a mustache to twirl & a cat to pet with how blaringly obvious he's evil. Game David was a wolf in sheep's clothing. You don't really get to know how evil he is until moments before they try to butcher Ellie. If Naughty Dog really wanted to, they could've subverted our expectations by having David be a man in over his head, wanting to escape the monsters of men he barely controls with his family from famine in a frozen hell scape. Obviously, he ended up being a cannibalistic pedophile, so good riddance.

  • @endlessstudent3512

    @endlessstudent3512

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MinbadTheFourth I only know the german translation, but there, when she hugs him im the series, panicking, she clearly says what translates to: he wanted to....."

  • @TARS20

    @TARS20

    Жыл бұрын

    Intention was the same, but game David was a little more subtle while show David went all the way in. Show David also felt more sinister.

  • @wisekong6371

    @wisekong6371

    Жыл бұрын

    They actually were, in the Game he was trying to kill her after James' death but in the Show he was trying to ... after James'death, also, he's more creepy in the show and that adds to the details of his personality not shown in the Game, soooooooo...........

  • @lambo2655
    @lambo2655 Жыл бұрын

    I’ve played every game version multiple times and while they generally did a good job with the TV series, and the great casting, it also glaringly cuts out most of the gameplay sections and in particular the disappointing lack of scenes with the infected. In fact the only memorable infected sequence was packed into one episode out of the nine.

  • @benwasserman8223

    @benwasserman8223

    Жыл бұрын

    Because this is a TV show. Not a game.

  • @TheSubZero187

    @TheSubZero187

    Жыл бұрын

    Be careful everyone will tell you it’s a tv show

  • @marvin.a.flores

    @marvin.a.flores

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@benwasserman8223 it is a video game first hence the game is the true source. TV is an adaptation. The show will never beat the experience of a video game

  • @benwasserman8223

    @benwasserman8223

    Жыл бұрын

    @@marvin.a.flores And the show managed to appeal to millions of non-gamers. So again, why are you complaining?

  • @oukeith

    @oukeith

    Жыл бұрын

    I agree with you I wanted to see more action pieces involving the infected!

  • @enderethan144
    @enderethan144 Жыл бұрын

    Me: Read the title of the video. Also me: THERE IS NOTHING BETTER THAN THE SOURCE MATERIAL!!!

  • @marvin.a.flores

    @marvin.a.flores

    Жыл бұрын

    😂 I said the same thing

  • @blinkachu5275

    @blinkachu5275

    Жыл бұрын

    Wrong, the source material is great but has some issues. Marlene showing up literally seconds after killing Robert for instance, out of nowhere. It was contrived and too much of a coincidence. That's just one of the many smaller issues the game has The game's great, but it's not perfect.

  • @marvin.a.flores

    @marvin.a.flores

    Жыл бұрын

    @@blinkachu5275 it's better than the show and it's the source. So hence it's the true cannon and how it should be

  • @jasminekaram880

    @jasminekaram880

    Жыл бұрын

    @@marvin.a.flores It is the cannon for the game, not the show universe. They have already made changed in the adaption so again saying X is true cannon or not is meaningless. The Lord of the rings novels and Peter Jackson movies are different and canon in each form.

  • @theoretical3

    @theoretical3

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@blinkachu5275 still better then the show

  • @mookiez18
    @mookiez18 Жыл бұрын

    Deana actually said something in the game about how we she first seen Elle she was thinkn who was this kid eating all the food r something like that

  • @drewskiee9254
    @drewskiee9254 Жыл бұрын

    All I wanted was the seen where he falls down the elevator shaft and has to trek the flooded basement to turn on the power.

  • @J.F.331
    @J.F.331 Жыл бұрын

    I know they have their reasons why there wasn’t more interactions with the infected or with marauders but I feel like they could have done that better. The Walking Dead had no issue with Walker and survivor interactions. This was seriously lacking in TLOU Show. I give the show a 7/10 while both games remain 10/10.

  • @joshz2491

    @joshz2491

    Жыл бұрын

    Its lacking because they are dangerous, in geme they are literally just fodder, we don't fear them for any other reason other than having to restart an encounter. I haven’t seen more than the first episode of walking dead but I know many people who say that the zombies quickly become a joke and are not scary at all because they are always there. It’s clear that Craig Mazin (who has played both TLOU games btw) wanted to avoid falling into this trap in adapting TLOU as a tv show.

  • @mappingshaman5280

    @mappingshaman5280

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@joshz2491they could still have kept them dangerous whilst keeping them in. Like imagine if in the last episode, the way they met the fireflies was either Ellie in her depression, was not paying attention, she stepped on a cordyceps branch which caused a horde to chase after them, so they started parkouring over shit until they got to that bit where Ellie nearly drowns and then the fireflies find them.

  • @BrianMarrino236
    @BrianMarrino236 Жыл бұрын

    So Ellie's mother was bit during the time Ellie came out of her womb, and the fungus from the bite spread into her bloodstream via the intestine cord

  • @andu1854

    @andu1854

    Жыл бұрын

    My guess somehow she was exposed only a little and somehow her body resisted it,

  • @hattchetman_2128

    @hattchetman_2128

    Жыл бұрын

    it's an umbilical cord you fool.

  • @chassan10

    @chassan10

    Жыл бұрын

    Sort of a natural vaccination

  • @BrianMarrino236

    @BrianMarrino236

    Жыл бұрын

    @@chassan10 ok

  • @musiciohann
    @musiciohann Жыл бұрын

    I loved the HBO series!!! I actually didn’t want to watch it. I preferred to stay with the game. But wow, it surprised me and is one of my favorite zombie related things within my favorite genre (zombie/post apocalyptic stuff).

  • @fnvfan0145
    @fnvfan0145 Жыл бұрын

    They actually showed David's community... You know, other than the faceless bad guys Ellie had to deal with in the game.

  • @BlazerK1914
    @BlazerK1914 Жыл бұрын

    I felt like we’re in an age of good video game adaptations. Mortal Kombat Legends Scorpion’s Revenge and its sequels, Tekken Bloodline, even The Last of Us tv series are those instances.

  • @AlejoConejo-vb8ln

    @AlejoConejo-vb8ln

    Жыл бұрын

    Scorpion's Revenge wasn't perfect but it was indeed the best MK adaptation to date. The 2021 live action movie is fine for mainstream but an INSULT to the fans.

  • @iraford5788

    @iraford5788

    Жыл бұрын

    And most likely the new Mario brothers movie next week.

  • @atlasprime6193
    @atlasprime6193 Жыл бұрын

    The game developers themselves have stated during a behind the scenes episode that they wished they could’ve thought of what the show included/changed. Really shows just how well adapted this story was.

  • @hattchetman_2128

    @hattchetman_2128

    Жыл бұрын

    lmao buddy the show was worse in every single aspect. and they cut half the content out you know nothing.

  • @raymondlaspina7870

    @raymondlaspina7870

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah is so well adapted that they rushed through the whole thing. The show it's a clip notes boring version of the game.

  • @shahfacekillah
    @shahfacekillah Жыл бұрын

    Help me out here. In the final episode, Marlene tells Joel she's known Ellie since she was born, which we see. However, in the first episode, Ellie is handcuffed and Marlene walks in and introduces herself. Did I miss something???

  • @Xcal64

    @Xcal64

    Жыл бұрын

    I think it's just Marlene introducing herself to Ellie. Ellie doesn't know her when she's born.

  • @sidewinder2057

    @sidewinder2057

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, my thoughts exactly. I guess they planned to deepen the lore and make things more dramatic, but messed up. That thing made zero sense.

  • @sidewinder2057

    @sidewinder2057

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@Xcal64Introduced herself by handcuffing and interrogating her long dead friend's child?

  • @joshuahecht6866

    @joshuahecht6866

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sidewinder2057 Bitten Quarantine protocol

  • @fnvfan0145

    @fnvfan0145

    Жыл бұрын

    I think she left Ellie with FEDRA in Boston, since raising her within the Fireflies would lead to a pretty turbulent childhood.

  • @ankuraloney2455
    @ankuraloney2455 Жыл бұрын

    The show is good..but when you compare it with the game.. It doesn't stand a chance. As per the change the flasbacks before the outbreak was a bonus..

  • @Ghost-Matrix
    @Ghost-Matrix Жыл бұрын

    The game is better and more fleshed out. The shows pacing was too quick

  • @KingSlayer_.

    @KingSlayer_.

    Жыл бұрын

    I think the HBO series did so.e thing better than in the game, but the game does way more things better than in the show 2 fold. And I don't here anyone talking about that

  • @kevinfromsales6842

    @kevinfromsales6842

    Жыл бұрын

    I don't really like Ellie in the show tbh. Some of the moments in the show are supposed to be emotional but the actress just doesn't seem to pull it off imo. Joel is fine but he is just a nerfed version of Joel from the game and that's pretty fucking lame.

  • @69daygrind

    @69daygrind

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kevinfromsales6842 ik what ur talking abt like Ellie acts really well but her face lacks emotion or something it can make her look like a robot sometimes. In the game Ellie's face portrayed so much of the emotion that the audience was supposed to recognize

  • @mappingshaman5280
    @mappingshaman5280 Жыл бұрын

    David wasn't better in the game because they cut out the whole fighting infected session with Ellie, which was supposed to endear Ellie and the audience towards him a little bit more.

  • @floydcooley1
    @floydcooley1 Жыл бұрын

    Watched both your videos of the best things the game did better and this one and I must say they are both excellent. I had a problem at first with how they changed Joel's character and Ellies, but in hindsight I agree that it makes them much more believeable. Plus those first few episode cold opens really pulls you into the world. That said, while I really enjoyed the series, the game is still superior and your other video really nailed it on the reasons why.

  • @mythical_phoenix
    @mythical_phoenix Жыл бұрын

    The only changed I didn't like was when Joel got injured, I wish they kept the game version. Everything else was good, I do love getting more backstory on side characters that they didn't have in the game.

  • @TyPeakee

    @TyPeakee

    Жыл бұрын

    If they kept the game version in the tv show then Joel definitely would have died😂. There is no realistic way that Ellie could patch that up

  • @mythical_phoenix

    @mythical_phoenix

    Жыл бұрын

    @@TyPeakee I guess but the game version makes it much more powerful and impacted the way he gets impaled in game

  • @unchartedrocks1

    @unchartedrocks1

    Жыл бұрын

    When Joel is impaled in the game he is stunk on the ground. It made sense for him to ask Ellie to lift him out of it & hope for the best they can find something to patch him up b4 it’s too late. In the show though he is stabbed with a broken bat & Joel himself just decides like an idiot to just pull it out & allow the wound to start bleeding out 🤣😂

  • @blinkachu5275

    @blinkachu5275

    Жыл бұрын

    the game version would not have made sense in real life. ANY puncture to your stomach region can be lethal, and what Joel experienced in the game is 100% death guaranteed. We accept it in the game because Joel is basically a Terminator and if he dies, we just respawn, but you can't do that in a real life show.

  • @blinkachu5275

    @blinkachu5275

    Жыл бұрын

    @@unchartedrocks1 no, it 100% made sense why he would pull it out. He had to get on the horse. If you have something impaled in your stomach and you make extreme movements (like idk, fucking climbing a horse and then riding it), you will rip your insides apart with whatever impaled you He HAD to pull it out, or he'd been dead outright.

  • @markour-parkour1918
    @markour-parkour1918 Жыл бұрын

    “I feel like the whole series was rushed in production.”

  • @linxx08
    @linxx08 Жыл бұрын

    I love the fact that the hand editing mistake in Jackson is in this video, I didn't catch it when I was watching the show at first.

  • @TenThumbsProductions
    @TenThumbsProductions Жыл бұрын

    The game needs zombies, without zombies there is no game play. However, the show doesn’t need you to kill zombies, because you aren’t playing a game; and instead the focus more on the creation of a world as good writing creates worlds through through character development. I get the video game people lament less zombies, but it really makes the show much better, don’t believe? Watch that disaster of a show Walking Dead.

  • @haxacodex3784
    @haxacodex3784 Жыл бұрын

    One change I didn’t like was that origin to Ellie’s immunity. Her mom got bitten while giving birth which is basically the same origin as Blade. Was such a “really????” Moment

  • @vinnyd740
    @vinnyd740 Жыл бұрын

    I dont agree with you on bill i liked how he was in the game

  • @MinbadTheFourth
    @MinbadTheFourth Жыл бұрын

    Agreed to all except for David. I found him way scarier and pervy in the game. Also, he did taunt Ellie a lot in the restaurant, maybe even more.

  • @SaucyDangles
    @SaucyDangles Жыл бұрын

    The expanded intro was by far the best addition

  • @georgekingygaming8139
    @georgekingygaming8139 Жыл бұрын

    Better than the game with capital letters? HAHAHA. Riiight.

  • @epicgamerman4268
    @epicgamerman4268 Жыл бұрын

    "pops a clutch" *proceeds to shift an automatic tranny*

  • @rpgfan007
    @rpgfan007 Жыл бұрын

    my favorites were how well the script and i like how how it explained how bill met frank

  • @D.J.ZAPELO
    @D.J.ZAPELO Жыл бұрын

    I watched this intro for 200 times its f...amazing, and it still gives me nightmares.

  • @robchuk4136
    @robchuk4136 Жыл бұрын

    I can't say I agree about the 'fungal network' and changing spores to tendrils. This change never matters outside of an excuse to do that gross kiss to Tess. On that note, I didn't care for Ellie's immunity change either. It is explained that the cordecypts recognize her as cordecypts, too... but the show established that infected don't attack each other, so it contradicts itself since infected were attacking Ellie all the time. Not to mention, if she was infected since birth, she would have been discovered by FEDRA, the people she spent her whole life with, who do scans all the time. The show should have stuck with the game's immunity excuse (a mutation) so they don't fall into any plot holes like that. Of the changes I did like, "A Broken Man" is easily my favorite. Very powerful to see the emotional toll Sarah's death had on Joel. Almost makes up for less infected. Almost. The lack of them really undermined the desperation for a cure. And a Joel that saw more action would add to the understanding of why he was the only man for such a dangerous job.

  • @hattchetman_2128

    @hattchetman_2128

    Жыл бұрын

    lmao buddy the show was worse in every single aspect. and they cut half the content out you know nothing. and the fact they made Joel an incompetent cowardly old man is ridiculous, they ruined the show, they let the black 2woman keep he4r role as Marlene but replaced the two straight white men with Hispanics. and they made Sarah black lmao, i personally liked the actress that played Sarah and would have rather seen her platy Ellie. bhut hey they kept[t the gay white men and took his entire story changed it into AN hour long gay loved scene.

  • @Simpson17866

    @Simpson17866

    Жыл бұрын

    The big reason for the change from airborne spores was that after all of the difficulties in filming Chernobyl, the guy in charge didn't want to have to go back to relying primarily on body language to portray emotion in a series where everybody would have to wear gas masks all the time. Which, as Film Theory pointed out in "How To Survive 'The Last Of Us'," is ironic given the casting of Pedro Pascal :D

  • @lenkaasia3476
    @lenkaasia3476 Жыл бұрын

    "..... (intense silence) ...... bomb" one of the best scene!

  • @Blazingstoke
    @Blazingstoke Жыл бұрын

    Bill & Frank's Excellent Romance. So much better than the "bury your gays" version the game gave us.

  • @jonathanbarker1016
    @jonathanbarker1016 Жыл бұрын

    I found that there was story in the show .Compared to the game itself ,Cause you spend a lot time taking Clickers .As we'll cannibals on the mountain part of the game ,And bandits .So you don't get really know everything about the characters in the game .But the show did that in really big way ,Plus flush more of story behind the virus .And you get to the built up fort from the second game ,In the first season of the show .And I know cause during the lock down the second time during the pandemic ,I was playing the "The Last of Us Part 2 " .

  • @paulannable3734

    @paulannable3734

    Жыл бұрын

    Space comma

  • @ashleyhatton2860
    @ashleyhatton2860 Жыл бұрын

    With the episode with bill they should have kept it to the game or at least had the encounter were Joel is hanging upside down and has to defend Ellie while she gets him down.

  • @oisinmckellar3046
    @oisinmckellar3046 Жыл бұрын

    I really liked hbo the last of us series for its take on Ellie and Joel's adventure and the last of us world minus the combat which wasn't all that great it needs improving big time. I played the game first and fell in love with Joel and Ellie thanks to Ashley Johnson and Troy Baker imaging proformance under the fantastic direction of Neil Druckman and the last of us world he co created with Bruce Straley.

  • @jacksonspeed4733
    @jacksonspeed4733 Жыл бұрын

    The part when Ellie says everyone has either died or left her and what happens after is better in the show

  • @rwwilson21

    @rwwilson21

    10 ай бұрын

    Really!?

  • @jacksonspeed4733

    @jacksonspeed4733

    10 ай бұрын

    Because of what happened after where Joel waits until the next day to say he changed his mind but that interaction where actually says it is not as good because in the game she doesn’t say anything until then

  • @freddiemolinajr.8397
    @freddiemolinajr.8397 Жыл бұрын

    Good video

  • @nickfitchner3218
    @nickfitchner32186 ай бұрын

    Imo the game did everything better. The one change I did like was spending a little more time with Sarah but I wouldn’t necessarily say it was better. That’s my big problem with the show, it’s not terrible or anything but it really didn’t do anything better then the game. And before anyone says I’m biased I had actually never played the game before watching the show.

  • @BrianMarrino236
    @BrianMarrino236 Жыл бұрын

    Don't ever kill Joel off in Season 2 HBO, I don't care how and why! It's NOT The Way! I Have Spoken!

  • @ST-tf4sq

    @ST-tf4sq

    Жыл бұрын

    Nah, he dead... and I bet you more focus is going to be on Abby and Lev, in the TLOU 2 they tried so hard to recreate Joel/Ellie relationship in Abby and Lev, Abby protects Lev, and gets attached to him, just like Joel did with Ellie... They wanted to push out Joel to make part for transgender character, and a woman who looks like a dude ( which is biologically impossible, specially the chest part, her having no milk glands)

  • @tmm4195

    @tmm4195

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ST-tf4sq No way the story is going to focus more on Abby and Lev. They are probably going to focus more on Joel and Ellie before his death to get more time with Pedro Pascal as Joel.

  • @antonfowler6582
    @antonfowler6582 Жыл бұрын

    Something a lot of people seem to forget is joel is an military combat veteran BEFORE the outbreak . You see this in the scenes at the hospital .

  • @c.8233

    @c.8233

    Жыл бұрын

    i thought that was tommy. joel was a carpenter/contractor

  • @c.8233

    @c.8233

    Жыл бұрын

    he also had sarah at a young age so i doubt that he actually served considering his ex wife didn’t take care of her

  • @DarthLobitou
    @DarthLobitou Жыл бұрын

    There's a reason so many are in agreement this is the best video game adaptation ever made, and it's precisely because of its understanding of that word: Adaptation. Each medium has its own necessities, so to speak, and while the video game may be much more action-oriented while at the same time working under ludonarrative logic (and still managing to remain quite cinematographic at that), the series needed a more personal approach that didn't rely solely on action while replicating the same tension that make players grip their controllers tighter, only without the controller. Hence, they took ludonarrative logic and translated it to cinematographic language by adapting the same feel within the same overarching beats, thus giving us a tense and emotional experience that feels different and very familiar at the same time. Or that's my take on the series, at least. I must admit I was not a big fan of the video game sequel because I thought the original was a masterclass in video game storytelling as a standalone, but I'm very eager to see how things change in the next season that might (or might not) give me a new perspective on Part 2.

  • @maytalacedo20
    @maytalacedo20 Жыл бұрын

    Sarah an all-day episode before her death is a nice change and connections since it makes it more heartbreaking and impactful for Joel as a character.

  • @martincapek96

    @martincapek96

    Жыл бұрын

    I generally didn't really enjoyed the show in it's entirety, but I have to agree.. first episode was amazing and the acress that played Sarah was phenomenal

  • @blackhawk4178
    @blackhawk4178 Жыл бұрын

    Ellie and joel had more of a connection in the game

  • @martincapek96

    @martincapek96

    Жыл бұрын

    agreed. 'more' is an understatement, actually

  • @themajesticspider-man6116

    @themajesticspider-man6116

    Жыл бұрын

    What does that even mean? How so?

  • @blackhawk4178

    @blackhawk4178

    Жыл бұрын

    @@themajesticspider-man6116 they seem bland as hell in the show compared to the game for one and Riley in the show doesn't even show emotions after they get bit or when ellie kissed her

  • @endlessstudent3512

    @endlessstudent3512

    Жыл бұрын

    @@blackhawk4178 intersting, I thought them much more interesting, less cliché and less naive in the series.

  • @blackhawk4178

    @blackhawk4178

    Жыл бұрын

    @@endlessstudent3512 what part in the game were they naive?

  • @amjustbored
    @amjustbored Жыл бұрын

    But personally i felt the series was lacking the original clickers a bit low and the my personal favourite the snow bridge action sequence. They missed a lot

  • @tai1704
    @tai1704 Жыл бұрын

    Series was great but it felt a bit rushed. It wouldve been cool to see Elle kill all of Davids henchmen before she went into the restaurant like she did in game. Also , they excluded the flooded subway part just before they got to the hospital where they kill tons of infected

  • @user-uy7bn4kt2b

    @user-uy7bn4kt2b

    Жыл бұрын

    Agreed, they cut several meaningful encounters

  • @gangg1762
    @gangg1762 Жыл бұрын

    Bruh, I thought the lack of infected made a lot of the scenes worse in comparison to the game

  • @nigelallison4579
    @nigelallison4579 Жыл бұрын

    The game is still better and David in the show is not scary

  • @tmm4195

    @tmm4195

    Жыл бұрын

    David in the show is hella creepy lol

  • @nigelallison4579

    @nigelallison4579

    Жыл бұрын

    Have you watched the game version of David on the same scenes

  • @tmm4195

    @tmm4195

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nigelallison4579 Yes, they are both creepy

  • @martincapek96

    @martincapek96

    Жыл бұрын

    David in the show is a David from wish...

  • @kylew7180
    @kylew7180 Жыл бұрын

    The series didn't do anything better than the game. The game was a far more throughly told story while the series felt rushed and gave too much exposition where it didn't really matter.

  • @max4life3

    @max4life3

    Жыл бұрын

    I have to disagree, the way tess died in the series is way better then simply some military dude’s comes and shoots her off camera

  • @kylew7180

    @kylew7180

    Жыл бұрын

    @Max4life3 nah, the fungus French kiss was just weird. Like why wouldn't it just attack her? And the lighter not lighting til the last second was super cliché.

  • @max4life3

    @max4life3

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kylew7180 yeah that I can agree too but I just felt it made more sense with zombies coming then military

  • @user-pe3fk1fb1o

    @user-pe3fk1fb1o

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank god gamers with no real writing experience on big networks or noticeable talent are offering their critique on a critically acclaimed show with a 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 467 reviewers and high ratings since its inception.

  • @EN-Fitz
    @EN-Fitz Жыл бұрын

    It’s so easy to improve the original when you have the game makers running the new product.

  • @yehadfe9838
    @yehadfe98382 ай бұрын

    The tendrils caming out of the infected mouth makes the infected better in the tv show

  • @Flipitmixit
    @Flipitmixit Жыл бұрын

    Sarah was so good that I wish she was one of the main characters

  • @unchartedrocks1
    @unchartedrocks1 Жыл бұрын

    Hospital scene sucked. It felt rushed the way they decided to film it woth time skips & sad music in the b.g. instead of actually live combat at that moment.

  • @CX0909
    @CX0909 Жыл бұрын

    The show did some really good things. I’ll give it that. It was a good show. But saying it was better than the game sounds like something said by someone who didn’t PLAY the game. At the very least the show didn’t have that ever present threat of infected and the urgency to survive. To forage for survival. In the game you got to die over and over. So surviving the encounters was stressful because it was hard. It’s what drove the story. In the show you already knew Joel and Ellie were impervious. I disagree with this assessment….

  • @TahoeNevada
    @TahoeNevada Жыл бұрын

    In my head-canon, HBO David is a serial killer from the before times. Now, he has a flock to meet his “need”, and recognized that same sociopathy in Ellie, and wanted to be her Sith Master…

  • @andrewgalioto405
    @andrewgalioto405 Жыл бұрын

    Spoiler alert: if you’ve never played the second game keep scrolling. I’m calling it now, no way the second season plays out completely like the second game. I highly doubt they’ll kill off Joel that quick this time. I’m guessing the whole second season will be build up and he’ll die in the season finale and then Ellies quest for vengeance will be the plot of the third season. I just can’t see them dumping Pedro that quick, he’s too hot of a commodity right now.

  • @BullyBoxer
    @BullyBoxer Жыл бұрын

    Episode three was a nonsense. Frank hated bill. That’s why he left him and robbed him.

  • @martincapek96

    @martincapek96

    Жыл бұрын

    I know where you coming from. I love the game and didn't really enjoyed the show, personally. But even then, I don't think Frank hated Bill.. I think he just grew annoyed with him and wanted to explore the country, but there wasn't any hatered there.

  • @TheGonemaDD
    @TheGonemaDD Жыл бұрын

    The show had better graphics, and that was it.😈

  • @oldgems4816
    @oldgems4816 Жыл бұрын

    to me jack hughman would killed Joel role

  • @craigshields8806
    @craigshields8806 Жыл бұрын

    It’s not a matter of what was better. They had 9 episodes and had to do things differently. Can you imagine that long ass Bill and Frank domesticated stuff in the game. 😂😂😂

  • @damaniqphillip2756
    @damaniqphillip2756 Жыл бұрын

    Nice

  • @chrislaverick6413
    @chrislaverick6413 Жыл бұрын

    Nothing, the show did nothing better then the game

  • @J.W.J.
    @J.W.J. Жыл бұрын

    Fans: We want Bill, Ellie and Joel vs. Bloater HBO: Best we can do is GAY

  • @ragnarokvalhalla8382
    @ragnarokvalhalla8382 Жыл бұрын

    The show is great but felt rushed. Too many things in Only 9 episodes. The last episode was only 42 minutes while the 3rd episode of side characters was almost Hour and a Half. The actors who played Tommy Maria & David weren't convincing. All the militia chapter Wasn't necessary. The lack of infected didn't help either. Overall the show was great. But it could've been a real Real Masterpiece.

  • @jgm111796
    @jgm111796 Жыл бұрын

    Prior to watching this video I doubt there are 10 things

  • @jgm111796

    @jgm111796

    Жыл бұрын

    There were not

  • @whatonearthamito
    @whatonearthamito Жыл бұрын

    but did we really need all those explanations ?

  • @kyledavis4854
    @kyledavis4854 Жыл бұрын

    Don't agree with anything in this list. The game was much better, the show was too condensed, but still not too bad.

  • @CarlCassian80
    @CarlCassian80 Жыл бұрын

    The show did nothing better than the game.. good enough maybe

  • @bryan270
    @bryan270 Жыл бұрын

    A A ron

  • @hernangundam
    @hernangundam Жыл бұрын

    Bill and Frank was an amazing love story

  • @martincapek96

    @martincapek96

    Жыл бұрын

    still.. they should've stayed to the original on this one. I was really missing that banter

  • @matrix8847

    @matrix8847

    Жыл бұрын

    More like waste of fucking screen time

  • @cassm4687
    @cassm4687 Жыл бұрын

    Guys I know they didn’t include a lot of infected but you need to remember that they had a really low budget. They filmed in Alberta Canada. Our mountains are gorgeous but trust me they had low budget 😂

  • @D_Lassiter
    @D_Lassiter Жыл бұрын

    🙄🤦‍♂

  • @Clappped
    @Clappped Жыл бұрын

    The last of us game > the last of us show

  • @aserebefree
    @aserebefree Жыл бұрын

    100 things the game does better than the show…

  • @TheSubZero187
    @TheSubZero187 Жыл бұрын

    Yeah no the game did everything better

  • @sobodmx

    @sobodmx

    Жыл бұрын

    fr

  • @jordanh806

    @jordanh806

    4 ай бұрын

    No it didn’t

  • @MrJgrillzZ
    @MrJgrillzZ Жыл бұрын

    HBO's TLOU will go down in history as the best video game to TV adaptation ever made

  • @SS-zr7cv
    @SS-zr7cv Жыл бұрын

    The series did nothing better than what was already portrayed in game especially the recent remake. It added to it, the game imho is still far superior and always will be. If the series would like to be better than the game in S2...then Joel would not be killed off by someone no one cares about still... by say episode 2 lol.

  • @LudusAurea
    @LudusAurea Жыл бұрын

    Lol no. It did nothing better than the game and the game is not a masterpiece. #10 is straight up wrong too. The show has more infected in one episode than the entire game combined.

  • @Randomness78
    @Randomness78 Жыл бұрын

    they did hundreds of which are worse

  • @gergopiroska5749
    @gergopiroska5749 Жыл бұрын

    Nothing.

  • @knockdoubt
    @knockdoubt Жыл бұрын

    None of it.

  • @jamesmcallen3354
    @jamesmcallen3354 Жыл бұрын

    So glad they added a whole hour to portray homosexuality as normal instead of having the banter between Bill and Ellie

  • @marvin.a.flores
    @marvin.a.flores Жыл бұрын

    Nothing, the tv show did nothing better than the game. There i just saved you guys 12 min.

  • @jamieburns6153

    @jamieburns6153

    Жыл бұрын

    did a few things better just like the game did some things better than the show 👍

  • @jasminekaram880

    @jasminekaram880

    Жыл бұрын

    Disagree, I liked that they fleshed out many characters, giving them more depth. They could also show more perspectives as video games often demand a strong narrative perspective for the player to feel connected with the player character. I liked how they humanized Joel and made him more human, since this is not a game he needed to be vulnerable to be relatable, he now cannot hear properly in one ear, he has pain his knees, he felt more his age. I also think they made many better decisions in more and world building, knowing history of fungal infection it made sense it spread from grain and from Indonesia than South America. It seems clear for me reading your comments that you do not seems to like film/tv as an art form and find it inferior to video games. In that case I do not think that no matter what the show would do, you would never like it.

  • @setnazworld5701
    @setnazworld570111 ай бұрын

    And Netflix is a joke make funny resident evil 😂😂😂 make BLM wesker

  • @AryanSharma-jw6iv
    @AryanSharma-jw6iv Жыл бұрын

    Did better -episode 3 -background contexts -pedro Pascal (fresh take on character, original was equally great) -jackson village Did bad- -ellie actress -irregular pacing -DLC episode -race-swaps (worst way to promote diversity)

  • @NOMOREDEI
    @NOMOREDEI Жыл бұрын

    The show is just plain inferior to the game

  • @batman-rebirth5217
    @batman-rebirth5217 Жыл бұрын

    The show was just worse

  • @AshPrimeDCFC
    @AshPrimeDCFC Жыл бұрын

    I'm no Christian, but it seems like another (and tiresome) attack on Christianity to make David a preacher. Completely unnecessary.

  • @shaungababotse8397

    @shaungababotse8397

    Жыл бұрын

    No,it’s there to show him as a predator using Christianity not an attack on it ,I’m a Christian and I know a looooot of “preachers” that use Christianity to get money from others and sexual favors

  • @McChicken94

    @McChicken94

    Жыл бұрын

    Funny I am a christian. Ive given many sermons, bible studies, and lead small groups. I'm currently working on a bachelor's in Bible theology and I am considering being ordained as a pastor after I get my masters and teaching credentials. Anyways, when I saw that they added "precher" to David I jokingly thought "why we gotta be the bad cult guy." Then I thought of my brother who majored in micro-biology. In a similar situation he once said "why does it always have to be an evil mad scientist" Was it a necessary add I don't think so 🤷‍♀️ but it didn't have a negative effect on me personslly except for it seeming like an over played concept, or as you put it tiresome.

  • @maddestmike5791
    @maddestmike5791 Жыл бұрын

    Then hopefully it doesn't give us TLOU's needlessly bleak ending. Game of The Year my ass.

  • @Nitrousbird
    @Nitrousbird Жыл бұрын

    After watching the show and playing the PS5 version usually an episode or two behind, I am 100% certain the show is better. I love the game and am currently playing Part 2, but the character development in the show is simply better, and the changes they made were typically better. Especially the first part - FAR better in the show...I was honestly disappointed in the game version by comparison and was worried the rest of the game would be a letdown. Luckily the game was still great. The changes in Kansas were much better as well. I do think there were a couple things the show could have adapted better from the game, but side-by-side comparison, the show is better.

  • @raymondlaspina7870

    @raymondlaspina7870

    Жыл бұрын

    The show has better development? The show rushed through the whole story. Joel and Ellies relationship is development perfectly in the game. In the show their relationship is so rushed is not even funny

  • @ST-tf4sq
    @ST-tf4sq Жыл бұрын

    I'm gonna say divercity, it clearly is an important issue for Neil ''the woke game director'' Druckman, so good job there. I honestly dont care, just find him annoying with this BS, just write a good story that doesnt only focus on personal life (this is where mostly woke tv shows and movies fail, because if character is lesbian, 90% of the plot is going to be about it).

  • @jamesmcallen3354

    @jamesmcallen3354

    Жыл бұрын

    Wikipedia Early Life check moment. TLOU Part 2 proves your point. Druckman says not to have fun playing it and then gives you pro weed, pro homosexual, propaganda

  • @oisinmckellar3046

    @oisinmckellar3046

    Жыл бұрын

    We knew Ellie was a gay since 2014 when The last of us left behind dlc came out It's been 9 year it time you get over it. Also Bill was gay in the original game so there is that.

  • @jamesmcallen3354

    @jamesmcallen3354

    Жыл бұрын

    @@oisinmckellar3046 there’s a difference between a quick kiss or mention and the HBO episode 3 drawn out bedroom scene. When a characters main trait is there sexuality, it’s not a good character

  • @MainexManda

    @MainexManda

    Жыл бұрын

    Pretty sure Bill being a survivalist was way more important.

  • @19Marksman89
    @19Marksman89 Жыл бұрын

    There's 0 things! Show is just overrated

  • @topdawg182
    @topdawg182 Жыл бұрын

    The only thing the series did better was adding depth to the characters. But they completely changed a lot of the outcomes of these characters. It was good to get to meet Sarah, see how Bill built his town full of boobytraps and get to know more about his relationship with Frank but they still should’ve gave them the same end like in the game. Where they find frank dead that way you can experience the emotions bill went thru when he found him instead of us just watching him get emotional. There was no need to end Bills story when the game didn’t portray that at all. Plus they completely skipped a lot of great scenes with bill and within his town. I wanted to see bill and Ellie interact and argue like in the game.

  • @ethands2828
    @ethands2828 Жыл бұрын

    Don't see how it did anything BETTER... 💀

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