I’ll say in a vacuum, this was a very good and tense episode, it’s just hard to look past what things could’ve been when you skip a major part of it which is Ellie growing a trust for David
The way I envision a two episode track of this would leave Joel still hurt at the end of Episode 8, they wouldn’t have beaten you over the head that they were cannibals, and Ellie and David fighting clickers and a bloater to finish the episode. No hints at cannibalism at all in this episode
Enter episode 9, Joel is now healed, he goes to find Ellie (essentially same type of stuff happens in him going to find her), we’ve continued to watch people eat the food and only does the audience fully realize what they are when Ellie is in the cage and sees the ear.
There’s a lot of meat (no pun intended) in this segment of the game, probably the best part of it, and they just left it on the bone. I get a clicker battle probably would’ve been expensive, but that part of the game is why she starts to trust him. They played it very on the nose with David in the show whereas he hid his intentions in the game. This is the first episode where adding new things didn’t make it better imo.
The way I envision a two episode track of this would leave Joel still hurt at the end of Episode 8, they wouldn’t have beaten you over the head that they were cannibals, and Ellie and David fighting clickers and a bloater to finish the episode. No hints at cannibalism at all in this episode
Enter episode 9, Joel is now healed, he goes to find Ellie (essentially same type of stuff happens in him going to find her), we’ve continued to watch people eat the food and only does the audience fully realize what they are when Ellie is in the cage and sees the ear.
There’s a lot of meat (no pun intended) in this segment of the game, probably the best part of it, and they just left it on the bone. I get a clicker battle probably would’ve been expensive, but that part of the game is why she starts to trust him. They played it very on the nose with David in the show whereas he hid his intentions in the game. This is the first episode where adding new things didn’t make it better imo.