It’s absolutely an adaption. It’s based on the world of LoL, using characters designs ideas. The only question is how “faithful” or how much they’re adapting the story itself. Overall there’s plenty of things they’ve changed from TLOU the game towards the show (how the virus spreads being the most obvious) but it still has a lot of similar or 1:1 scenes.

You could argue “it’s not a good adaption” because of how much it changes, but it’s definitely one. What else would it be when it’s using the same IP?

Arcane is a great show, but man now I’m starting to think it’s massively overrated.

Andy Muschietti will executive produce and direct multiple episodes.

>Set in the world of Stephen King’s IT universe, Welcome To Derry is based on King’s IT novel and expands on the story established by filmmaker Andy Muschietti in the feature films IT and IT Chapter Two.

>Jason Fuchs will write the teleplay for the first episode, based on a story by Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, and Fuchs. Fuchs and Brad Caleb Kane will serve as co-showrunners on the project. Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti (through their Double Dream production company, which has an overall deal with WBTV), Fuchs, and Kane are executive producers. Andy Muschietti will direct multiple episodes of the series, including the first episode. The series is produced by HBO Max and Warner Bros. Television.

This was covered in the film Man on the Moon as well.

Cautiously optimistic about this. It's unnecessary but still has the potential to be good. I'm assuming Bill Skarsgård will return?

Never played a second of lol and have no intention to, I really liked it a lot.

What made it cringe and uninteresting to you?

Arcane is an excellent show, but as someone who never played LoL how much of it is actually an “adaptation”? Does the game somehow explain that Vi and Jinx grew up raised by Vander and then we’re separated and taken in by various factions in the criminal underground, their eventual reunification marred and eventually ruined by the affection Vi has for a pretty young cop lady? Or is it’s like “Vi and Jinx are sisters who hate each other, now fight!”? It’s a hell of a lot easier to “adapt” a game which contains little to no plot (though admittedly the three mortal Kombat movies and a tv show and a weird web series suggests you can still fuck it up even then.)

Castlevania isn't even close to be as good as Arcane

Does it ofset the years of price increases and cost of no longer being able to share the family plan? Probs not.

What if last of us the video game never existed. And the first time the story came into existence was as a brand new Netflix original series, would it be getting the praise it’s been getting?

Maybe to offset their shitty content and login sharing fuckery?

The Last of us season 1 isn't even finished yet, seems a bit premature to compare the two.

Also, Castlevania.

I thought Maretz was great in the role.

The Peripheral was a lot of fun. The show was great until the What About Bob episode and then it ground to a halt.

I'm not sure I'd call it an adaptation because it isn't directly adapting any game's story. It's using the world, yes, but it's kind of its own thing whereas The Last of Us is directly adapting the story almost 1:1 from the game. Absolutely loved the show though and cannot wait for season 2.

Nick got the concept started. But Disney effectively built an entire network around it that eventually became one of the company's biggest cash cows in the mid-late 2000s.

Arcane is certainly a fantastic show too.

I like LOU more but that may be due to me identify with the character and story more.

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Agreed. I’m super happy a lot of people love it but as a player I feel the same.

Wish her well! Love the show and everything I've seen Jean in.

I thought she was fine.

Clearly you’ve never seen the Super Mario Brothers’ Super Show.

I like it. People love the show and it got renewed for season 2.

What's your beef other than you just don't like her? You didn't make any argument.

Unpopular opinion...I play lol every day and I can't stand arcane..it's cringe and uninteresting.

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