Well aside from Charlie just not wanting to be a cop, I think that’s what Sterling’s speech was kind of about, the whole, “There’s nothing that pulls you in more than being really good at something for unhealthy reasons” like tie that with the scene with her sister and I think the show is making the case that Charlie…

except, because of the original story in the game, we know the story didn’t require him to be cartoonishly evil or lacking nuance for the story to work. it’s a change for the sake of it and largely undermines the story as laid out thus far.

delicately etched? compared to the game everything here was rendered in glaring neon for the show.

personally, i didn’t vibe with the changes here. yeah it got rid of ambiguity (if there ever really was any) but it also replaced it with something lacking any subtlety or nuance at all. like it wasn’t enough for him to do or suggest something heinous they also needed to install a giant neon sign pointing at it, too.

i think it should be obvious that an artistic medium should cater to more than just one type of story, no?

just speculating as i have no medical expertise whatsoever, but they show that the knife’s blade is actually pretty short right before she gets stabbed and then with her in a big neckbrace when she wakes up i think the idea is that knife just hit like her collar bone area and didnt pierce any organs?

perhaps games should be more than just power fantasies.

? Forspoken wasn’t in development for 11 years. It’s also not the first game to be made with the Luminous Engine (though it likely will be the last now). Forspoken had a now pretty typical dev cycle of 4-5 years.

oh gross

That wasn’t an assumption on Dierdre’s part though? At the last meeting Evelyn told her she would bring Joy to help translate but then at the day of the meeting, Evelyn is thrown by the idea that Becky would stay behind to take care of her father so she instead insisted that Joy not come with her.

How is that meaningfully different from just... doing a search and replace?

They do a similar thing in episode two where the murderer calls bullshit on things too. I think it’s kind of just the show’s way of showing that being able to detect that people are lying is a natural thing people generally have, Charlie’s is just turned up to eleven.

“[Side note: do her skills have a distance limit? She’s standing pretty far away from Davis when she detects his “lies” as he tells a kid that Katy’s seat belt malfunctioned. What are the restrictions of her bullshit meter, and does it matter to anyone?].”

I mean she does it both over video feed and across an entire…

I feel like Ellie in the ending is a bit more withdrawn yeah, but I didn’t get the sense she was giving up on the world. If anything I felt like what just happened with Sam pushes her even more in her desire to be the cure. She wants to move on and head West not to push past it but so that they would reach the…

? It’s a recap so obviously it’s going to have spoilers? And the headline, photo etc for this article in particular doesn’t even spoil anything?

The other two articles I’d agree more on.

SPOILERS FOR FUTURE EPS + TLOU2

“In one truly staggering moment of cognitive dissonance, she says “You think the whole world revolves around him? [That he’s worth sacrificing everything?]” as if she isn’t acting like the whole world revolves around her quest for vengeance.”