Because Breaking BAd and The Sopranos are the better character drama.

Honestly, I hoped LOST took the Twin Peaks: The Return road. My complaint is not that they didn't explain. My complaint is that they were obsessed with explaining things like the mythos and lore.

As soon as the show focused on the exact mechanisms and secrets of the island--the core of the last few seasons hinged on this spring of life garbage--while putting the characters in the back, I stopped caring. Then introducing concepts like time travel or characters having some kind of secret origin or someone is a destined hero or something...

The Abrams mystery box gets used as an example of lazy writing but there is a point behind it: some things are better off unexplained. Answers don't stick with people the same way questions do. Random bullshit with no feasible answers doesn't make an interesting story, but not everything has to be explained to death, especially when you are tackling supernatural speculative fiction.

There’s a difference between a mystery where answers were promised (Star Wars Sequels, Westworld) and one where it’s intended to remain a mystery (the unknowable horror of Lovecraft, G-Man). The island used to be an entity outside our understanding, but it connected and revealed about the characters to create a human drama like Solaris.

It is the same reason why Silent Hill 2 is considered the best installment because it doesn't really focus on the town. Then its sequels dissect evey single detail about Silent Hill. Origin had the player literally stood in the room as Allesa burned because people want every answer fed to them. Homecoming was no longer about a human story, but a freak show in a spooky town.

I still love the first three seasons of LOST. I love the characters. The character-centric episodes like the ones with Lorke are some of the best written TV. The mysteries it raised are on a more smaller scale. Then the show throws in batshit insane concepts and fantasy nonsense like gimmicks, and then answers every single one of them in the most boring way possible.

Playing the game makes you care more about the characters because you have to fight their battles for them for a 15-20 hour game.

The show lacks much of a connection since you are tuning in once a week and the threat of infected is not in your face.

I feel sorry for people who didn't play the game and only experienced The Last of Us for the first time with this show because the show doesn't do justice to the source material.

The hopelessness and danger of just walking around places they are not familiar with was barely captured in the show. The only time I felt a horror thriller vibe from the game was the clicker scene in Episode 2.

This sense of brutality, danger and desperation is crucial because without it, you barely feel tension and development between Joel and Ellie and Ellie's wishes to save humanity no matter the cost. Thriugh the journey she saw the world as a truly horrible place and that she wanted her death to mean something by making it better.

The show took away from the gravity of Joel and Ellie's decision in the end. We haven’t seen a full progression of Joel and Ellie’s relationship. The final episode is rushed like the Game of Thrones finale.

They did not capture the horror thriller or apocalyptic elements of the story that made their journey feel so dangerous. In the game they are pushed to the limits and that experience makes their bond so much stronger.

The danger, outside of the first clicker and the one swarm with the bloater, comes almost entirely from the other very few humans in the show. That is not in balance with the game. As a result Joel saving Ellie at the hospital didn’t have the same emotional effect the game had.

The Last of Us is a zombie show lmao. Like, that's the whole point of the vaccine. If the world is not dangerous, why civilization couldn't thrive?

The infected barely feel like a threat 90% of the time so a cure feels a lot less urgent. If they had invented it, they'd still be dealing with almost everything they're dealing with now.

This absolutely is not an unpopular opinion.

Doesn't reach the first four seasons of Game of Thrones, but still great. Even at its worst, like the Daemon plot armor and the coronation set pieces, are on par with the bad moments in GOT 5 and 6 rather than 7 and 8.

It falters with a lot of the side characters. The writers seem unable to figure out who these characters are or what roles they should take. What's the point of Crispin? What's the point of that Littlefinger knockoff, whose motive more aligns with Euron (and isn't even all that cunning). Why is Laenor alive? What was the relationship between Laena and Daemon? Why didn't Luke get more weight to the series considering the finale?

The magic of GOT is the snowballing effect of small details and motives of characters to a catastrophe, and it hasn't happened often with this show. A lot of what could be small moments that could acclimate get brushed off as one-time events.

The time jump episodes are rough with the show rebooting itself like two times, which is an unfortunate side effect they couldn't avoid.

Still, it is good to see a court politics show that revolves around actual intrigues, dialogue, and planning without mindless action scenes that doesn't bore the shit out of me. The Last Kingdom bored me so bad it ruined my interest in it, and this show put me right back. The pace is good, the stakes are constantly raising, and the main characters are layered. Viserys is such a strong engine of the story that I felt bad about his death more than I felt with Ned.