The Last of Us

This episode will, rightly, win awards. I don't know much about the game, but the authentic tenderness balanced by the razor of survival. Just superior television.
 
I fast forwarded through the bed scene, we werent fans.

Honestly, the episode, as a whole, was just eh
 
Mostly a wasted episode that added little to the story of the main characters. I think this show can be better than The Walking Dead if they can get back to the main story without another detour.
 
Chris. said:
Mostly a wasted episode that added little to the story of the main characters. I think this show can be better than The Walking Dead if they can get back to the main story without another detour.
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For realllll. Waiting for it to get better.
 
Yeah it was a really disappointing detour from the game character as I said before.

Here is the scene where Ellie meets Bill for the first time. There is no gay love, the town is over run with zombies it isn’t some peaceful little haven, Bill is alive and crazy. They find frank later, he hung himself after getting bit in an attempt to take the battery and steal the car to get away from Bill.

 
Article I read is the Last of us 1 will be Season 1.
Last of Us 2 will take two seasons.


Yeah, S02E01 is gonna kill the audience. I don't see it getting a third season.
 
When you advertise that Nic Offerman is a main character...and then he's only in for ONE episode, well...eh.
And I had high hopes - here's this prepper with it all figured out, he'll run a little commune at some point maybe, yada yada yada...nah, that was decades ago and now he's old and, well, dead by the end.
It really didnt do anything for the storyline.
 
After the last episode I’m concerned that this show will just be another platform to push gayness on everyone.

The games were bad enough in that regard but at least they kept any kissing etc to a little lesbian action.
 
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Ep. 4 a little more palatable for many than episode 3. We see Joel finally starting to warm up to Ellie a bit as they make their way to Kansas City. In the game, this would have been Pittsburgh, but the show's creators said Kansas City was more realistic based on the limitations of where they were filming the show up in Canada. We also catch some of our first glimpses of Joel and Ellie being alike - Ellie having killed before, and being exposed to some crazy stuff despite her age, and effectively shrugging it off a few moments later after a quick tear or two.

We are introduced to Kathleen and Perry - Kathleen being the head of the "hunters", and Perry being her right hand man, who is acted by Jeffrey Pierce - the actor that did the voice/motion capture for Joel's brother Tommy in the game, in case the voice sounded familiar to anyone.

In general, I'm glad they are expounding on the "hunters". In the game, they were always just sort of a violent obstacle you found yourself having to work around for the purposes of gameplay, since Fedra and the Fireflies couldn't be everywhere. It was one of the "holes" in the game left open that I'm glad the show is giving some meaning/backstory to. It will also give some more heft to Henry and Sam, who were mentioned earlier in the episode and didn't appear onscreen until the very end. They are again taking some creative liberties with Sam going into the next episode, but we'll see how they work that into the story.
 
Ep4 was good, just wanted more of it.
Unlike the, almost, 90 minute Ep3, which took us nowhere, this one was only 45 minutes and created a want for more.
 
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What I don’t understand is out of all the guns the two dudes had in the “bunker” why did the main character take a bolt action rifle with no scope? Talk about a missed opportunity. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️
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I dont really understand him and guns, as a whole.
In this last episode, even my wife, after he killed a few of the guys after the wreck, said, "why isnt he taking their guns?"
I know he ditched the AR because it was low on ammo...but...why? lol Surely another 223/556 will appear and he could resupply.
PLUS, that AR looked awesome, excellent wear on it.
 
For the homophobes who didn't like episode three, I hear you saying that themes and depictions of graphic violence, including a child killing someone, and all the other terrible things that happen in that post-apocalyptic world are just fine by you, but a kiss between two men who love each other is too much.

Explain that one too me.
 
9mmEverything said:
For the homophobes who didn't like episode three, I hear you saying that themes and depictions of graphic violence, including a child killing someone, and all the other terrible things that happen in that post-apocalyptic world are just fine by you, but a kiss between two men who love each other is too much.

Explain that one too me.
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Is it possible we dont want to see ANY sex scene in a show?
Also, 3 sucked not because the dudes kissed and started oral, but because it just didnt take the story anywhere.
 
As a straight guy, who had never played the game, I will try to take up for the gay episode.

I'm definitely not into that kind of thing, and I damn sure don't want to see two guys kissing and rolling around in a bed, but I do think the director did a good job of showing two people fall in love and care for each other until the very end. One took a turn for the worse, the other nursed him back to health, then the second guy ended up in a wheel chair and the other guy had to take care of him physically and emotionally. That's how love works, no matter what gender/ sex you think you are. They took care of each other. What more can you ask for in a lifelong mate?

I didn't play the game. If I had, and I knew this whole episode was a push to normalize gay sex/ life, in the modern media, I would have been less enthusiastic... But, I came into it blind and accepted it for what it was... It was a flawed love story with a "happy"ending from two adults who ended things on their own terms. It wasn't flawed because they were gay. It was flawed because they were not very compatible, but they made it work, the best they could, in a nightmare of a world...

I saw the end coming, and I told my wife, "He put the poison in the whole bottle!" , but I still felt happy for them and the time they got to spend together.

I also liked the letter that Bill left for Joel. He was a jerk, but a jerk who was also a friend. He didn't want to die with all his toys. He wanted them to be used in a positive way.

Again, if I'd played the game, I would have been unhappy with the show. But, I didn't so I enjoyed the show on its own merits.

If this episode gets nominated for awards next year, I hope it wins.
 
Glad to see the last episode got the story back on track. I could care less about the gay love episode but it added nothing substantial to the show.
 
Getting back to this thread late, new position at work has me buried.

So we saw the demise of Henry and Sam. One big departure from the game was that Sam was made deaf in the show, but was not in the game. No real hard feelings towards this in any way, but it probably wasn't a bad choice in that it placed an even greater emphasis on how much Sam needed Henry to survive.

While I was fine seeing the Hunters given some sort of story line, I thought the Kathleen arc was pretty meh all around. It was pretty obvious in the prior episode that while she started as a "hero of the people", she quickly would use her newfound authority for personal vengeance, which was fleshed out in this episode.

We did get to finally see the "bloaters" at the end of the episode, which was fun. This scene was not representative of the game (although portions of the "sniper" scene was, just in a different context) - you are first introduced to, and battle, a bloater in the game while escaping a high school alongside Bill.

Next week's preview shows that Joel and Ellie make it to Wyoming. At the current pace, I am 99.99% positive we will make it through the entire first game by the end of this season.
 
I knew nothing about this show or the game. Literally just watched the trailer 2 minutes ago. Looks interesting but if it's just a platform to push alternative lifestyles then I'm not interested in watching.

What's the general consensus? Watch or don't watch?
 
Just watched about half of it.
WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT MONSTER?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!
 
Les White said:
I knew nothing about this show or the game. Literally just watched the trailer 2 minutes ago. Looks interesting but if it's just a platform to push alternative lifestyles then I'm not interested in watching.

What's the general consensus? Watch or don't watch?
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As someone else said - skip ep3 and you'll be fine.
 
HMP said:
Just watched about half of it.
WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT MONSTER?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!
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That good sir, was a bloater. A slightly different and faster version than the game bloater.

In the game they’re not that fast. But they are nasty, can usually only be brought down with copious applications of Molotovs or other explosives.

Oh and when you do kill one run. They explode and throw acid.
 
Les White said:
I knew nothing about this show or the game. Literally just watched the trailer 2 minutes ago. Looks interesting but if it's just a platform to push alternative lifestyles then I'm not interested in watching.

What's the general consensus? Watch or don't watch?
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Watch. Skip episode 3.

Or don’t and be prepared to fast forward through the hairy man love scene.
 
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Chris. said:
Glad to see the last episode got the story back on track. I could care less about the gay love episode but it added nothing substantial to the show.
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True Faith cover at the end of episode #4 means 80s you they are in danger.



Also did you know that diarrhea is hereditary? .......... It runs in your jeans. #nopunintended#2
 
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Episode #5 Endure and Survive was pretty good. So Lord of the Flies mixed with inglorious Basterds Nazi manhunt of "rat" Jews with a tragic ending. #judassuicide Melanie Linskey is freaking scary good in this episode. I love her suburban mom tone and drawl. It makes her sooo effective depicting someone who on the surface seems normal and calm but is completely deranged. I love after her speech to Henry and that in the end she is killed by an infected kid. Clickers are mentioned for the first time by name so of course we get to see a Bloater. #Danny&ish get mentioned and remember don't leave the door open.

It captures a theme of TEOTWAWKI. There is a difference between Surviving and Enduring. In my mind it give context and weight to episode #3. Without meaning and meaningful relationships one is simply surviving. When one faces unspeakable tragedy like we see in episode #5 and survive we are enduring,
 
i just started watching. i'm at ep2
"so there aren't super infected that explode fungus spores on you, or ones with split-open heads that see in the dark like bats?"
nice L4D and RE references
 
9mmEverything said:
For the homophobes who didn't like episode three, I hear you saying that themes and depictions of graphic violence, including a child killing someone, and all the other terrible things that happen in that post-apocalyptic world are just fine by you, but a kiss between two men who love each other is too much.

Explain that one too me.
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Because graphic violence is a real depiction of the real world and it's a zombie story at heart. You can't have zombies without death on the most basic level.

Gay love stories are pandering to a very small minority of mentally ill people and grooming younger watchers into believing the lies from Hollywood Gay Mafia who are legit groomers. If they were going to do a real depiction in TLOU, it would be homosexuals abusing children, grooming into their sick degeneracy since homosexuals are created, not born. However, since Hollywood is chock-full of WEF Neo-Feudalists that love destroying the nuclear American family and grooming children for them to exploit, it is shoved down the throats to normalize it in any media that can be forcefully used as a platform.

Also, homophobe implies fear. Disgust is a more fitting term.
 
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