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Re: HBO: The Last of Us
Posted: Sat February 11, 2023 3:26 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: HBO: The Last of Us
Posted: Sat February 11, 2023 4:12 am
by spike
tragabigzanda wrote:Yeah I’d say phenomenal episode with one exception
- Spoiler: show
- the giant monster was kind of goofy. Also oddly sentient which I don’t remember being the case in the game, but my memory is fuzzy
Other than that I loved it
- Spoiler: show
- Did they do the Rat King already?
Re: HBO: The Last of Us
Posted: Sat February 11, 2023 5:36 am
by Ensign9
tragabigzanda wrote:Yeah I’d say phenomenal episode with one exception
- Spoiler: show
- the giant monster was kind of goofy. Also oddly sentient which I don’t remember being the case in the game, but my memory is fuzzy
Other than that I loved it
If I flash back to the gymnasium sequence in the first game, I’d say it acted pretty similar.
Re: HBO: The Last of Us
Posted: Sat February 11, 2023 5:40 am
by Ensign9
That was great. The “unearthing” was incredibly well done.
I suspect I’m going to enjoy the series even more upon a rewatch when I won’t be as hyper focused on similarities and differences from the game. (I’m not sure I liked the slight difference in the final Sam scene, for example.)
#Ish
Re: HBO: The Last of Us
Posted: Sat February 11, 2023 5:16 pm
by psychobain
I dont remember pt. 1, thats prob good
Re: HBO: The Last of Us
Posted: Sat February 11, 2023 7:17 pm
by Ello Sailor
Some pretty intense feels in this ep.
- Spoiler: show
- The deaf 8 year old kid had to get bitten? Come on, now.
But on a positive note, the annoying, lumpy resistance leader got smoked. Woohoo!
Re: HBO: The Last of Us
Posted: Sat February 11, 2023 11:45 pm
by Ensign9
Let's ditch the spoiler tags.
Re: HBO: The Last of Us
Posted: Sun February 12, 2023 12:04 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: HBO: The Last of Us
Posted: Sun February 12, 2023 5:57 am
by Biff Pocoroba
One of the better action sequences so far in the second half of the episode.
I am not familiar with the game so while I don’t know where the story is going I do know enough not to get feel any character other than Joel or Ellie are safe.
The fungus really gives the makeup artists a chance get grotesque; tumorous growths are more eww to me than traditional blood and guts.
Re: HBO: The Last of Us
Posted: Sun February 12, 2023 1:04 pm
by spike
- Spoiler: show
- Was the scene between Ellie and Sam, where he reveals he was bitten, verbatim from the game? Because it went on for forever and was weird with the pacing.
Re: HBO: The Last of Us
Posted: Sun February 12, 2023 5:55 pm
by wease
Just starting the first episode.
Re: HBO: The Last of Us
Posted: Sun February 12, 2023 10:38 pm
by Ensign9
spike wrote:- Spoiler: show
- Was the scene between Ellie and Sam, where he reveals he was bitten, verbatim from the game? Because it went on for forever and was weird with the pacing.
- Spoiler: show
- Almost. Sam doesn’t reveal he was bitten the night before. Ellie finds him standing in a room with his back to her in the morning. The rest is pretty much the same.
He’s also a little older and not deaf in the game.
I’m not sure I like the change (him revealing it to Ellie) but I do think this could have some added emotional payoff in how Ellie reacts to what happens since her blood didn’t help him.
Re: HBO: The Last of Us
Posted: Mon February 13, 2023 12:38 am
by Simple Torture
I was pretty hard on this show at the beginning, and I was going to bow out of this thread after Episode 4 because I didn’t like it very much and didn’t want to bring the room down, but this episode dragged me back in, much like Episode 3 did. Like I said then, the show did this weird thing where focusing on other characters made me care about Joel and Ellie more. I think they work best almost as audience surrogates, but I don’t think that’s what the show wants us to read them as. Henry, for as briefly as we knew him, was a much more complex character than Joel, so the pairing makes Joel look shallow by comparison. Am I being too hard on the show again? I dunno. I liked this episode, and I want more of Joel and Ellie riding around and finding other people with more interesting stories, but I think in the end I will probably be disappointed.
Re: HBO: The Last of Us
Posted: Mon February 13, 2023 1:22 am
by Ensign9
That’s likely a product of you playing as Joel for the bulk of the game. Most games want YOU to be the main character and don’t necessarily spend a as much time fleshing your backstory put.
That said, I think there’s opportunity to show some of Joel’s history with the flashback approach they’ve been using all season long.
Re: HBO: The Last of Us
Posted: Mon February 13, 2023 1:24 am
by Rangi Guy
I just started watching Episode 1 during my lunch break - will hopefully finish it off tonight. Is this The Happening?
Re: HBO: The Last of Us
Posted: Mon February 13, 2023 1:42 am
by Ello Sailor
Nah, it's The Walking Dead except less shitty.
Re: HBO: The Last of Us
Posted: Mon February 13, 2023 5:15 am
by spike
Ello Sailor wrote:Nah, it's The Walking Dead except less shitty.
jury's out on this
Re: HBO: The Last of Us
Posted: Mon February 13, 2023 8:03 am
by Ello Sailor
OK
Re: HBO: The Last of Us
Posted: Tue February 14, 2023 3:21 am
by Bi_3
Loved episode 5. Both Henry and Sam were great. They’ve just crushed the casting so far… Henry’s hesitation at the end hit hard.
Re: HBO: The Last of Us
Posted: Wed February 15, 2023 2:58 am
by wease
Just finished catching up. Goddamn. They really know how to make us care about these characters don’t they?