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[deleted] OP t1_j6n5aq1 wrote

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uncledrewkrew t1_j6n5y3c wrote

You can't call every second of television that doesn't advance the plot forward in time "filler"

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earther199 t1_j6nat7x wrote

It’s very clear these people prefer video game plotting and don’t understand that tv and movies are different mediums.

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Your_Product_Here t1_j6nalq3 wrote

The show has established from the start that it's going to tell smaller stories within its world as well as Joel/Ellie's "main story".

Yet it still manages to give us backstory about Joel, about surviving the past 20 years, about surviving in a bubble without any health services, it gives us a lot of context to appreciate/fear the world and makes us care about people we just met. It also revealed the source of the radio music from the first episode, making us think back to that. There was a lot that ties back to our main characters, albeit indirectly. Worldbuilding is not filler in my eyes.

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earther199 t1_j6naon8 wrote

I don’t get people criticizing it for being filler. For the last two weeks those same people have been criticizing the show because it wasn’t giving details on how the pandemic played out. We got a whole episode covering 20 years on how the pandemic played out. And it’s ‘filler’ fuck off with the lot of you.

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headyg t1_j6nehxp wrote

Sad nerds upset they didn't tell the video game story the way they like it

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