not sure I like them softening the blow but maybe it’ll work better for the show

if they distill the fighting animations from the game properly into the show, this might be the most violent show ever.

Neil on the restructuring of things at the start.

Makes sense from a show perspective I guess….. idk if I don’t like it just cause I’ve played the games, like I agree with what he’s saying but still don’t know if it’s the right choice.

"When we put out The Last of Us Part II, you have the entire story and you decide how you want to pace it out," co-creator Neil Druckmann, who was also the writer and director on both games, tells The Verge. "Here we're putting out episodes week by week, which are roughly an hour long. If we were to wait as much as we did in the game to reveal certain things, our viewers might have to wait a very, very long time — longer than we were comfortable with."

That means parts of her story were moved up. In the premiere episode of season 2, it's a lot clearer from the start why Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) has tracked down Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) to the relatively safe community of Jackson and why she has revenge on her mind.

According to Druckmann, this change for Abby wasn't just done for pacing reasons. It was also because of how viewers will see this new character in a noninteractive format.

"When you play a character, you immediately connect with them," he says. "In The Last of Us Part I, when you are playing as [Joel's daughter] Sarah, you didn't have to spend a lot of time with her to really care about her, because you were her. Likewise in game two, it was the same thing with Abby. We were able to keep certain things a mystery for much longer, because you were playing as Abby, trying to keep her alive, fighting the infected. We don't have that in the show. So we needed something else — through drama, through backstory — to get you to sympathize with her. That's where we pulled certain events up in the story, in terms of when we reveal them."

You're telling me that's not Vanessa hudgens lmbooo

This the only thing I wasn't a fan of but after seeing neils comment

We need hawkgirl movie expeditiously @jamesgunn

Scared to watch the episode since it sounds like I'm gonna be disappointed because tlou2 is one of my favorite games oat

That’s why I was laughing at bro saying is this a show about a lesbian killing zombies, no she is killing EVERYTHING

TLOU2 is my favorite game OAT and I thought the premiere was a great start

the hate campaign didn’t work.

We’ll get em next time

My favorite game ever and it’s a good start

Episode 2 about to go crazy 😈

Man I can’t wait for a happy action packed episode on Easter Sunday!

She gay irl too, she was dating a stud like a year ago

Interesting to note credits list Kaitlyn dever a guest star. So yeah lol she’s gonna be in the next episode then we not gonna see her till the end of the season. Per Emmy rules guest stars must be in less than half the season

Nice bro

The game is better

Of course. Was never a doubt always gonna be better

It’s going to be more exciting than a golf tournament

This is always gonna be the case cause you get more stuff with the games.

Still haven't played TLOU2. Wanted to beat it before I watch the show.

Hogwarts been taking too much of my time