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In It For The Tank
Feb 17, 2011

But I've yet to figure out a better way to spend my time.
The far more annoying thing about Abby's appearance is her braid. It easily ranks among the most impractical hairstyles to have during a zombie apocalypse because it is so easily grabbed. She should have snipped that thing off years ago. The comically evil slavers probably did her a favour in shaving her head.

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In It For The Tank
Feb 17, 2011

But I've yet to figure out a better way to spend my time.

Dewgy posted:

Also, yet another take on the ending where they don't pick up on the Joel's face thing, which tells me they didn't read the freakin' diaries! :mad:

To be fair, the game undermines the impact of the moment itself thanks to the flashbacks you experience throughout the game. If the first time Ellie saw Joel's unbroken face was also the first time the player saw it as well, I think the moment would have been more profound and conveyed its importance more clearly as well.

I'm not suggesting excising Ellie's flashbacks, since those are the best part of the game, but it's one of the many issues created by the game's unusual (some would say poor) structure.

In It For The Tank
Feb 17, 2011

But I've yet to figure out a better way to spend my time.
I can see it both ways but I think reading the scene as sexual is more thematically cogent considering David's role as "the Anti-Joel". He twists Joel and Ellie's platonic father-daughter relationship into something perverse.

In It For The Tank
Feb 17, 2011

But I've yet to figure out a better way to spend my time.
I'd say the first game is arguably palindrome, in that the conclusion is an inversion of the opening. I'm not sure TLOUII is one.

TLOU II's structure is:
Prologue -> Seattle Day 1 -> Seattle Day 2 -> Seattle Day 3 -> Seattle Day 1 -> Seattle Day 2 -> Seattle Day 3 -> Epilogue

That's not a palindrome. It's a, I dunno, reduplication?

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In It For The Tank
Feb 17, 2011

But I've yet to figure out a better way to spend my time.

BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

Except the prologue and the epilogue in 2LOU both have 4 parts each composed of roughly the same narrative weight; thematically it has a structure with a fuzzy sort of mirror symmetry.

Can you elaborate on this? I can roughly see how you could divide the prologue and epilogue (really, it's more of a coda and an epilogue) into four parts, although those four parts are wildly varied in length and scope, but it seems like a stretch to call them symmetrical or to say they have the same narrative weight. Happy to hear your thoughts though.

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