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pm_me_reason_to_livx t1_j6hwcsl wrote

Reply to comment by Senscore in The Last of Us feels like a spiritual successor or a sibling show to The Leftovers. by [deleted]

Station Eleven... did not live up to its potential. But I'm still pleasantly surprised to still see it be mentioned on here. It was a good watch.

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Prax150 t1_j6j28vb wrote

Station Eleven exceeded its potential and was even better than the book. The way it ties most of the characters together is a massive improvement and incredibly well done.

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pm_me_reason_to_livx t1_j6j55eu wrote

I guess you had the books to compare it to, which might've been a benefit (that's rarely ever the case lol), but iirc I found Station Eleven to be overcrammed and inconsistent (but still good).

I can't remember specifics (I'm sure I posted a review on it here somewhere), but by the end the series just didn't leave the impact I thought it would when I was watching earlier episodes, and that's because the series went so many places and did things I thought were just lacklustre amongst other well done parts.

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Prax150 t1_j6j76sd wrote

I actually read the book afterwards so maybe that painted my experience differently than if I had already read it (although generally I don't care much if an adaptation changes things from the source material, I get that you actually have to adapt it to a different medium, and there's always the benefit of hindsight too, especially if the original author is involved like with both SE and TLOU). But Jeevan and Kirsten reuniting after all those years really got me. Spoilers for the book, which I definitely still recommend, but >!they don't get that moment at the end of the story, they separate the way the do in the show and the book catches up with Jeevan later on but it's almost completely removed from what's happening with Kirsten.!< I suppose you can argue there's more convenient serendipity in the way the show handles it but the point of that story is human connection and I really think they landed the plane perfectly (no pun intended).

BTW I also recommend the most recent novel by that author, Sea of Tranquility. Something happens halfway through that book that literally made me restart it to get the new context, I never do that while reading a novel.

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