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Originally Posted by Wallcrawler

Feel free to scroll past the criticisms, Neil....er...The Franchise.

This is a discussion on how season 2 will be received by watchers of the series, and how if it follows the game (which it will, Druckmann can't take an L on his prize piece of shit revenge project he wanted to do since college, but was shot down at every turn by anyone with a modicum of common sense, and only when those people with moving brain cells left the company and Neil rose to VP and instituted groupthink over common ****ing sense did he get to have his way) then the fan backlash will be tremendous.

Perhaps instead of reading the criticisms I have about the terrible decisionmaking, writing, direction, and incoherent order of the storytelling that make you sad, maybe go enjoy a Neil Druckmann interview.

Perhaps the one in which he describes weeping at his own work. That always brightens my ****ing day.

In any case, the structure of season 2 almost has to change. You can't repeat the same mistakes of showing half the story from one side, and right at a key moment, stop the storytelling on that side to say

BUT WAIT! Let's now take a few episodes to see how we got here!

There will be no stakes, no tension, because viewers will already know where a lot of these key players end up.

Like I saw character A talking to character B on day 3, so when character A is in what is supposed to be a tense life or death moment, it falls flat, because I already know that character A makes it to talk to character B later.

Its going to have to fundamentally change. It can't become the story slog that the character switch in the game was.

There weren't any problems with season 1 and it was pretty much universally loved by everyone except the worst douche trolls that have to find something wrong with everything.