Thread: HBO The last of US Teaser
Pr0cs
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A good representation of the game story.
Pretty crazy to see my office building interior in the show. I knew they were filming in Calgary but didn't think thatd include my office (been wfh since covid so didn't know about the set)
Ellie in the show is definitely an idiot. I think I was right about the show early on, it's good but nowhere near as good as the game.
I think the show goes against the nature of the game when they add all these hero moments, foreshadows, action set pieces, etc, something is definitely being lost in translation. TLoU Part I when you ignore the action parts was always really minimalist and grounded, the show is not that.
I think the show goes against the nature of the game when they add all these hero moments, foreshadows, action set pieces, etc, something is definitely being lost in translation. TLoU Part I when you ignore the action parts was always really minimalist and grounded, the show is not that.
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Episode 5 was really great, but the ending was brutal. Let people go off and live in peace. Just a rough way to say goodbye to some interesting characters.
I don't really know why the one group wanted Henry so bad though. I assume he was part of the previous government thing but it never really made that clear. And the lad leader running away was pretty laughable.
I don't really know why the one group wanted Henry so bad though. I assume he was part of the previous government thing but it never really made that clear. And the lad leader running away was pretty laughable.
HellforLeather
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Huh? Its explicitly spelled out in exposition.
Henry told Joel that he sold out the leader of the resistance (the leaders brother) because Fedra had the medicine that his brother needed.
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Is is wrong that the first thing I thought of when I saw that was 'Grove Street 4 Life'?
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Gotta ask since i never played the game but was it woke?
I know the second one went all lesbo but the first one wasnt it just another derivitive ZOMG zombie apocalypse and just happens this girl is the cure. Oh and this sad crumodegon father figure who lost his daughter becomes a father to the girl who is the cure.
I mean its a rip off of a whole bunch of movies like children of men I am legend heck i am pretty sure that was the plot of cyborg.
Was the game all about the gays and troons ?
I know the second one went all lesbo but the first one wasnt it just another derivitive ZOMG zombie apocalypse and just happens this girl is the cure. Oh and this sad crumodegon father figure who lost his daughter becomes a father to the girl who is the cure.
I mean its a rip off of a whole bunch of movies like children of men I am legend heck i am pretty sure that was the plot of cyborg.
Was the game all about the gays and troons ?
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Not at all. Ellie wasn't really even a lesbian until they made the DLC for the first one.
And Bill was a gay character and the only reference to him being gay was that Ellie finds a gay porn magazine in his hideout and steals it. The game was being developed years before 2013 (the year it came out) and then Neil Cuckman gave a big speech that year about his social media mind virus programming, then suddenly everything was gay and trans and strongwahmen for the series from then on.
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The first?
I guess you could argue either way, but it wasn't full of idpol, tokenism and any outright agenda. It picked its battles carefully, you've got women in prominent positions of power, gay characters. But for the most part you're just a guy travelling across the US with his surrogate daughter.
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HellforLeather
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Well they did just continue Ellie being gay. The She Hulk actually was not gay in the 2nd one. Oh and She Hulk leads a trans kid around. It definitely feels more woke than the first but I didnt find it too horrible in this regard. The trans kid is probably the most egregious wokery. You can bet your bottom dollar that trans issues wouldnt be a thing in a world filled with monsters and cannibals. There are other, much bigger issues with the game than this.
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You know in this post apocolyptic world with zombie cannibals' and fascist warring war lords, the real issue is gay rights and trans kids being misgendered. Don't worry about having no power and food and being eaten by a fungus zombie, the real problem is that a survivor said [REDACTED] and a trans kid can't cut of their boobies.
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It's to turn the tide against all the black characters who were swapped with white actors.
Here's the list:
Newest episode is getting review bombed again by evil bigots.
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Story about surviving post-apocalypitic zombie infection. Focus whole episodes on gay love stories.What's the point of survival if you are not even going to procreate?
Wow they're already injecting DLC episodes into the main story? I guess they felt the story was going too long without gay shit on the screen and they had no choice.
Never mind the setting, feel the representation WB.
The series attempts to be gritty and real, but ultimately it's just a dress-up apocalypse. Take the setting, but transplant today's social mores onto it, as if somehow those things wouldn't fall away pretty swiftly once the shit hits the fan, and the global infrastructure supply lines that the western world is built upon break down. Once the existing food & fuel stocks had been used up people would be back to the sort of subsistence living that defined much of human existence prior to the industrial revolution. With people living off the land surrounding them.
Not to say that things would necessarily be as bleak say as 'The Road' given it's not a case of an environmental disaster, where everything is dying, but it certainly wouldn't be easy as Canned food won't keep forever.
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Also, Petrol won't keep forever either
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Unfortunately, it's hard for people who have likely never known want in their lives to truly envisage just how shitty things would be, when you are living hand to mouth day to day with no certainty that you'd have food tomorrow.
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This is such a weird series. For me, it's been refreshing to have conversations about this series with my family, who have either never played the game or were unaware of its story prior to this series. My brother summed it up quite well and asserted that in a series which runs for 9 episodes, we've had nearly 3 hours worth of plotlines which are merely flashbacks and fleshing out characters who serve no further purpose in the story and this has lead to a lack of development between both Joel and Ellie. He finds it odd that so much is given to inconsequential characters and he has never played the game, so holds no reverence for any of the characters.
I have to agree with him, whilst I am enjoying the show, it is failing its characters by not allowing that relationship to blossom between our two leads.
Also, are they also going to completely undercook David and his crew of bandits? Two episodes doesn't seem like enough time to give any antagonist enough time to be a menacing threat.
We've barrelled through so many parts of the game, if the script had allowed for only one flashback episode we could've had a greater emphasis on further developing and expanding the chemistry between Joel and Ellie. This is basically a 7 part series with 2 weirdly out of place DLC episodes. I don't know how I feel about it coming together as a whole.
I have to agree with him, whilst I am enjoying the show, it is failing its characters by not allowing that relationship to blossom between our two leads.
Also, are they also going to completely undercook David and his crew of bandits? Two episodes doesn't seem like enough time to give any antagonist enough time to be a menacing threat.
We've barrelled through so many parts of the game, if the script had allowed for only one flashback episode we could've had a greater emphasis on further developing and expanding the chemistry between Joel and Ellie. This is basically a 7 part series with 2 weirdly out of place DLC episodes. I don't know how I feel about it coming together as a whole.
"It's going to divide people massively": The Last of Us Star Bella Ramsey Warns Season Finale Might Break the Fandom Entirely After Series Deviates From Original Game
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“It’s going to divide people massively”: The Last of Us Star Bella Ramsey Warns Season Finale Might Break the Fandom Entirely After Series Deviates From Original Game - FandomWire
Actress Bella Ramsey warns The Last of Us season finale will divide fans massively after deviating from the game. What do you expect will happen?
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"It's going to divide people massively": The Last of Us Star Bella Ramsey Warns Season Finale Might Break the Fandom Entirely After Series Deviates From Original Game
“It’s going to divide people massively”: The Last of Us Star Bella Ramsey Warns Season Finale Might Break the Fandom Entirely After Series Deviates From Original Game - FandomWire
Actress Bella Ramsey warns The Last of Us season finale will divide fans massively after deviating from the game. What do you expect will happen?
I'm very curious. The original ending was already divisive, now they change it... To what?
cryptoadam
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Joel reveals he is actually a transman and is Ellies real mother. The infection started because of Joels use of sex change drugs.
They couldn't use the same ending from the game. It was ambiguous and required the player to actually think about two different things at once.
The viewers of this show don't have that capacity.
The viewers of this show don't have that capacity.
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In a plot twist you have the 'one chromosome too many' faced actress whozits facing a death scene with her oblong gourd sized head, face down on a chopping block with her arms held by two Firefly members. As the leader of the Firefly group holds aloft a Samurai Sword from Ghosts of Tsushima™, Sony property tie-in don't you know, you hear a rumbling in the near distance.
Taking a step back everyone looks at the direction of the noise, but due to the soon to be beheading occuring in a box canyon by a creek, the noise is hard to locate, so everyone is looking in a slightly different direction, as one of the FireFly guards off to the sides begins to let out a yell and raise his rifle, his head explodes! The rumbling gets louder, cut back to Miss 'my family tree is only a straight trunk' and pan a bit upwards to see a rear motorcycle wheel come down on her head, skidding out as it revs and causes a gory mess which causes the two FireFly members holding the 'too ugly to be born' abomination Ellie to fall backwards.
As the executioner with the Hero of Tsushima™, because they are so bad-assed at playing Sony games and are true fans of all things SONY, regains composure to get into an offensive stance to raise the blade, his head is exploded by a sawed-offed shotgun, showing only the forearm with a tattoo of a Snake with a blade stabbing its head and you can make out the fingers holding the shotgun with a tattoo as R I D E even though he has two rings covering I and E. In quick succession the Biker shoots the remaining two FireFly members and says,
"We make the world what it is."
Camera pans out to show:
Fuck You SONY for not giving the better game it's due!
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The Indonesian woman from episode 2 returns and starts fucking shit up.
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Has there been a straight kiss on this show?
The only straight romantic relationship I can think of is his pussy whipped brother.
The only straight romantic relationship I can think of is his pussy whipped brother.
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Well, if you count the lame ass mouth kiss the infected had with Tess as straight then yes.
If I never played the game, perhaps I would enjoy the show a bit more. The wokeness is strong with this one. Two full hours devoted to gays is ridiculous, especially when it doesn't move the plot forward at all. I could see them bouncing back and forth during the episodes but to dedicate the whole hour is bonkers.
Also, Joel and Tommy's jungle fever is hilarious. We need THAT backstory.
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That straight kiss is an allegory to the perilous and downtrodden ways of LGBT. Literal genocide if straight people celebrate love!
So all the gay episodes support and strengthen the allyship of the ways of homolords everywhere, and if you criticize it, then you are no better than the bigot sandwich Druckman included in his game to hector players.
You can't have concepts of heterosexuality in a post apocalyptic world, only the strong homosexual relationships belong because they are the heroes of the story and your time has passed ciscum! -HBO, Sony and Naughty Dog most likely
Honestly, I've often thought that they turned Ellie into a lesbian with the DLC (despite her tender age) simply in order to avoid having to contend with the idea of her having a boyfriend down the road.
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I believe it was to promote LGBT Agenda as the intersectionality has been well on its way to be pushed culturally into vidya as TLOU was being developed. The screeching for representation has preceded The Last of Us and only required sympathetic directors and writers to jump on board. What better way than to have a triple A third party Studio in Sony's reach with a triple A game?
The idea that relationships have some sort of meaning in video games, more than to promote plot points, is something that has come about when those who couldn't get their works published in books, jobs in Hollywood and/or jobs as editors in periodicals had to push into the Vidya market and somehow uplift the industry, because Roger the film critic pointed out that Games are not Art
No one playing video games will think fondly of irrelevant relationships from a game if the game soley relies upon that aspect. Walking simulators live and die by this and that market they are going after is significantly niche. Video games create memories via the gameplay mechanics first...that is why everyone shows up. Is the game fun? Ok, great. I can think of mulitple games with a thread bare plot line if any that still are king to this day. If the game has a good story, and part of that story is well written characters, then that is a bonus, but at the end of the day no game without good mechanics, puzzles and action loops are going to make any mark outside of the arty crowd looking for a way to promote some ideology that isn't necessary.
Case in point, anytime some dumb actor or actress puts their foot in their mouth regarding Stornk Wahmanz and disregard actual well written strong women in cinema that predates the 2000's. Same for games, all these woke dingbats calling for representation and always ignore Samus Aran or attempt to rewrite Samus as a Trans character becuase muh grieveances.
That's a long complaint to have to go through, but I don't believe the character in The Last of Us was written to be anything other than survivors first, then they shoehorned LGBT and Wokeism du jour for asspats and virtue signaling.
Because if you don't give a game like that awards, then you are also a bigot and will be deplatformed for ignoring it, despite any good gameplay that exists. Cue the forever bitching about Zelda not having agency since these morons started to push that garbage online. It was tiresome even then. Now they are making it tiresome everywhere.
Stouffers
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Would an hour of straight graphic penis/vaginal penetration balance it out? We're talking "grool dripping from the camera lens" graphic.. Like "burn the boom mic after" levels of authenticity
You basically never have straight women as playable characters in videogames.
They either never express attraction or they're rug munchers, even back on the PS1.
Ironically Abbie from TLOU2 is a rare exception, but I suspect that's because they deliberately made her ugly and unfeminine, so it's still not a woman a male player would find attractive, lusting over a guy that's not them.
