The government’s head scientist determines that there’s no hope and they should immediately start bombing the city they’re in!Ĭut to Joel and Ellie (the little girl) and Tess (the girlfriend) in the present. It’s here, apparently, where the virus was born and is starting to spread. In this episode, we start back in 2003 in Jakarta. Let’s get into episode 2’s plot and see if I was. I want to be proven wrong about all this. Audiences generally don’t like grumpy people. “Grumpy” is a tough character trait to make work. You know who he reminded me of? Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Obi-Wan show. All I know is that when we fast-forward 20 years Joel is this grumpy guy you kind of sort of like but also don’t. We meet him, we see how much he loves his daughter, then watch his daughter get killed in front of him. And what’s so frustrating about screenwriting is that, theoretically, I should like Joel. If we don’t fall in love with those characters right away… the show is screwed. The weakness I saw in that pilot were a crippling reminder of how critical character is in a TV show. The only hope I have for it is if they sacrificed story quality for setup purposes. I believe that this show is in major trouble. I’m curious to see if my suspicions are correct. A secondary character – the girl – who has some standard lame secret power that’s going to be revealed later.Īnd that’s why I’m reviewing this second episode. A main character who wasn’t compelling enough to carry an entire series. The super-generic post-apocalyptic city, for example. Which is that these little red flags popped up. So maybe they did figure out the trick to make it work.īut then last week, the same thing that happens to me when I read a bad script happened to me when I watched the pilot. It showed they were really backing this show. I became even more interested when they went all in on the marketing. And I wanted to see how they were going to do it. So from a screenwriting perspective, I’m interested in how you get around that. I think it’s kinda gangster, and also kinda insane, to try and make a show that looks exactly like another show that happens to be one of the most popular shows of all time in The Walking Dead. If you couldn’t tell by now, I’m fascinated by this series. The second episode always reveals the truth of whether you have a good show or a bad one
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