‘The Last of Us’ Ratings Declined During Season 2. But Why?
‘The Last of Us’ Ratings Declined During Season 2. But Why?
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‘The Last of Us’ Ratings Declined During Season 2. But Why?
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I think the issue is the underlying content.
The first season/game is about people forming bonds and trying to survive. People do bad things, but their motives are understandable.
The second season/game is just depressing. Maybe it's a good story, but you're really not rooting for anyone and it takes a lot more effort to watch/play.
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For TV, I think it would have been better for that thing to happen at the end of S1... Although I'm not sure it can fit in S1.
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Yeah it wouldn't make sense in season 1 due to the time skip.
Personally, I stopped the second game part way through and just looked up the story cause I knew it was going to be a drag. I don't mind games that are sad, but it just felt like it went out of its way to be depressing. Figure that's the same issue with the show.
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They are correct in a few points, the end of one of the main characters was a let-down. But a show can live on from that, sadly, the turnaround for me wasn't so palatable. They did point out that the end of season one, when they got to a "safe space," felt story ending. It did, but then instead of that micro focus on the two characters, it went straight into macro character development with many characters. It was a sludge-fest, a soap opera melodrama, less about the infected (not even shown in the last ep of season 2, sigh.) I have no plans of watching season 3.
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The same thing always happens in zombie stories: its never about the zombies. Good authors understand this, bad ones don't.
If you make a zombie story about the zombies, you'll quickly find out that zombies are crappy antagonists. TLOU got it right originally, it's about people. But then they completely forgot what they were doing.
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