Last of Us Show

Oof I got my Star Wars actors mixed up Oscar Issac is playing Snake, not Pedro Pascal. Though Pedro would be a dope Cyborg Ninja|Gray Fox.

I care less about the looks and more about her getting Ellies personality on point. Them looking alike doesn't matter, them getting the dynamic and feel right is everything for TLOU.

I really liked the game but I am really into zombies.  The story was great too.

It's not that I doubt there are talented people working on this, I'm sure there are. I just always tend to be suspicious when it comes to adaptations like this in general.

I don't know how many episodes this is going to be, but TLoU is a 20ish hour game. It's probably going to be extremely difficult to fit everything in, and not simply end up as (in comparison to the game) a condensed version where the characters or world don't feel nearly as fleshed out. Adaptations like these rarely get the time they need.

I'm not sure it's really half gameplay and half story stuff either, lol. It's a really narrative-driven game. But those semantics aside, the character interactions in the quieter moments of the game where it's just Joel and Ellie talking about seemingly insignificant things is part of what separates TLoU from the rest to begin with. You just don't often come across characters in games who get humanized that much, or who form that strong of a bond with each other.  You take that stuff out and all of a sudden their relationship feels a lot more superficial. If they adapt the series only hitting on the major story beats it's all going to feel hollow, and usually that's what happens with adaptations where the source material is a lot longer.

Just looking up sole metrics to go into this, for the simple purpose of.. I wanted to lol.

TLOU is a 12 to 16 hour game. The WR speedrun is 2h and 29m. Meaning that totally optimized there is 2 and a half hours of total gameplay. But most people upon a first playthrough wont hit anywhere near that 2 and a half hours of gameplay.
You are correct even in gameplay moments there are little interactions that help develop.
But we are looking at roughly 10 hours of story. And another maybe an hour of interactions?

Lets exaggerate to give a safe number say 13 hours of time for all that.
Now HBO won't just focus purely on Joel and Ellie and will likely have side stories and characters going on. So they will absolutely need more time than that.. So I would be hoping for around.. 18ish hours of television for just the first game..

Its not that tall of an order. I hope they give it the time it deserves and focus on the things that really matter in the story. Overall I trust HBO, especially with the makers Chernobyl involved.
You aren't wrong to be skeptical as video games haven't translated well to most other media yet.

I really couldn't have asked for a better trailer for this. They even got the voice actors/actresses in the show.

Nah second game was awesome as well. The mouth breathers are just perpetually angry