The dreaded Monday eve

Day 8 

Work week eve - yeih!

Why do we dread Sunday nights so much?  I think you already know the answer but in my case, and funny enough, having a really good TV show, actually made me look forward to a Sunday night at 9PM.  There are many good examples, but HBO shows tend to take the lead on this.

During the times of Game of Thrones and more recently House of the Dragons or The White Lotus, looking forward to something good and entertaining made my Sunday nights very exciting instead of dreading the fact that I have to work on Monday, is just too bad that tonight there's no new show on HBO.  We have to wait until 2024 for season 2 of HotD and season 3 of TWL, even though it was renewed, we still don't have a clear release date.

Thankfully, a new show is coming up on January 15th, 2023, on HBO, and I am extremely excited about it.  The show is a TV adaptation of The Last of Us, a post-apocalyptic action-adventure game with survival/horror element.  The excitement comes mainly from the fact that the video game itself is one of the most impressive and best games ever made. 

Originally coming out on PS3 back in 2013 and remastered for PS4 in 2014 with a full-fledged (even though unnecessary) remake for PS5 in 2022, the game tells the story of Joel, a smuggler, and Ellie (the "smugglee") as they travel across the US to help finding a cure/vaccine for a disease that has pretty much destroyed the world. 

Yeah, yeah, another tired formula by today's standards and considering this never-ending covid pandemic, there seems to be nothing new to tell, but, as a big contrast to many other action-adventure games, and post-apocalyptic stories, this one has a big focus on the relationship between the protagonists, whom are mostly together the whole time and well, through their eyes you will learn a lot about sadness, happiness, grief, fatherhood, love, hatred, malice, and a whole lot of other emotions.

Honestly, the TV has all the material they need to be a great adaptation, obviously there are things in a video game that are impossible to adapt because they depend a lot on interactions, but with if the producers of the show are passionate about the IP, they will find a way to properly translate that into a TV show.

Anyways, very excited about it.




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Damn it Chester.... Why?

Image
Day 18 Sitting down on the computer a bit earlier today particularly to prevent rushing into my ideas because it's too late and tiredness.   Every morning when I sat in my car to drive to work, I normally put my office address on the GPS to prevent (or mentally prepare) for any delay along the way and as "music" I tend to either be listening to "Elvis Duran and the Morning Show" or listening to some YouTube video. My radio, for whatever reason, sometimes changes the audio input automatically and starts playing the music I have on the CD player (yes, CD player in 2023) but I could never be happier with the music that starts playing.  I have inserted the album "Minutes to Midnight" by Linkin Park which I honestly think is my all-time favorite band. You see, when I discovered them, it was at the very beginning of career when "One Step Closer" started to creep into MTV and MTV Latino and I instantly fell in love with the song.  In general, I cons...
Read more

I'm 37 but I act 22

Day 79 Social media and their stupid quizzes and posts.  Today I went over my memories in Facebook and found one post from March 2009 where a friend of mine shared.  It was a lame quiz and based on the answers you are supposed to put the subject as: I'm (how old you are) but I act (what you got on the test). Below the quiz and my answers as of today: How old do you act? [x] You know how to make a pot of coffee [ ] You keep track of dates using a calendar [x] You own a credit card [x] You know how to change the oil in a car [x] You've done your own laundry [x] You can vote in an election [x] You can cook for yourself [x] You think politics are interesting(George Bush and a shoe!) TOTAL SO FAR: 7 [ ] You show up for school late a lot [x] You always carry a pen/pencil in your bag/purse/pocket [x] You've never gotten a detention [ ] You have forgotten your own birthday [ ] You like to take walks by yourself [x] You know what credibility means, without looking it up [x] You dri...
Read more

Remembering this day in particular

Image
Day 2 Today has been just a regular day as any other day with the advantage that it was also a holiday, is always great not to work on a Monday.  By now, the day was going to end, and I almost failed to write a few paragraphs but here I go.  Nothing major to write about and I won't be going through my daily activities for the sake of writing and bore you with many trivial and unimportant things like: "I cook this" "I went to this place" "I hanged out with..." bla bla bla. I think the major event for today is my 15th anniversary of moving to the USA.  I almost forgot about it but Facebook reminded me of past posts and well, it was a nice reminder because it made me think on how much I've accomplished since moving here, from gaining total independence from my parents to creating a life, that, with its ups and downs, is at a point of relative pure joy.  It does, however, makes me think of the things I've left behind and the many sacrifices, worrie...
Read more