#why did some intern have to miss christmas & the birth of their kid to animate joel’s beard hair bristling in the wind

[milfheim]

craig mazin, a screenwriter on HBO’s upcoming The Last of Us tv show, proclaiming that death in the games mean less because it’s just “watching pixels die”, is a part of an ongoing worrying trend of writers that devalue and demean the medium of videogames. those measly moving pixels you’re talking about launched an entire beloved franchise with a dedicated fanbase, and those pixels gave you a show to create and profit off of. the so known curse of the bad videogame adaptation is mainly due to its own people not giving a fuck about the games they’re taking source material from and holding live-action movies or shows as this supreme ultimate form of art, which is such an uncreative, boring, stale and rigid way of thinking when the whole point of adaptation is to explore all the ways you could expand and reshape a story, live-action or not, intelligently and with care

#if i was neil druckmann i wouldn’t have let that slide but that’s just me …. #these writers need to be taken down a notch and actually respect the stories they’re using #we shouldn’t even be having a tlou live action show in the first place like it’s literally so unnecessary. sure it’s cool #but the games itself already feel like interactive Movies no? #what’s the point then of ultra realistic graphics? #why did some intern have to miss christmas & the birth of their kid to animate joel’s beard hair bristling in the wind #the last of us #tlou #tlou 2 #tlou hbo #the last of us hbo #joel miller #ellie williams #videogames #naughty dog #hbo #the last of us 2