The Last of Us (HBO, from Creator of Chernobyl) - No game spoilers please

Shamikebab · 1 Feb 2023 at 19:37

Rroff said:
Not what I said in my post - I lead into that with "and dragged out the love story elements far too much" - same criticism of why I started to find later parts of TWD boring when they dragged out that kind of setup/story far too much regardless of sexual orientations involved. You get like 3-4 repetitions of Bill's reaction to the strawberries for instance when one would have been enough.

That scene was barely even a minute long, you have weird definition of dragging things out. There was so little luvvy duvvy stuff in that episode.

Rroff · 1 Feb 2023 at 19:43

Shamikebab said:
That scene was barely even a minute long, you have weird definition of dragging things out. There was so little luvvy duvvy stuff in that episode.

The whole scene from end to end is about 2 minutes and 15 seconds - if it was that instance alone it would be fine but there are multiple times where they do that in the episode which all adds up. There was nothing in the scene which actually needed more than about a minute to convey sufficiently.

Colonel_Klinck · 1 Feb 2023 at 19:43

Rroff said:
One of the few bits of The Wire which didn't send me to sleep personally - I still don't get what people see in that show, Omar was by far the highlight of it.

The Wire is some of the finest TV ever made! It was near perfect.

Malt_Vinegar · 1 Feb 2023 at 20:06

Lord-Jaffa said:
Seems like a bad idea to eat stuff grown from the ground though surely? Zombie Fungus etc?

They would struggle to grow stuff in the sky though?!

ecksmen · 1 Feb 2023 at 20:07

The wife and I both thought episode 3 was the best so far. Not played the game, been largely unimpressed with the show. Thought episode 3 was some of the best TV I’ve seen in a while.

Lord-Jaffa · 1 Feb 2023 at 20:12

Malt_Vinegar said:
They would struggle to grow stuff in the sky though?!

Plant pots? Already seen the fungus come up and tingle the zombies to get them to chase Joel/Crew, sod eating food right out of the ground 20 years after its spread everywhere.

kakarott · 1 Feb 2023 at 20:35

Nitefly said:
It was a love story. A happy one and a sad one. Surviving the outbreak and growing together. Between two people that happened to be gay.

So they happened to be gay before everything went south and met by chance? Or they turned gay since they were the 'only 2' alive?

Rroff · 1 Feb 2023 at 20:36

Lord-Jaffa said:
Plant pots? Already seen the fungus come up and tingle the zombies to get them to chase Joel/Crew, sod eating food right out of the ground 20 years after its spread everywhere.

Earlier in the show it seemed to suggest the tendrils, etc. spread around where the infected were, though it could spread miles - they were so remote it is possible there was little risk from it compared to the cities - the show made a bit of a point of showing everyone for miles around had either been evacuated or killed.

OldKitMan · 1 Feb 2023 at 21:45

When Joel was looking for his stash he was trying to open random things, made me smile.

Thought it was a a really good episode.

Rroff · 1 Feb 2023 at 21:53

OldKitMan said:
When Joel was looking for his stash he was trying to open random things, made me smile.

Thought it was a a really good episode.

Something I find hard to relate to - if I'd stashed something, even with a lot of years and a lot of places after, I'd quickly remember where the stash was once revisiting the place.

Colonel_Klinck · 1 Feb 2023 at 22:01

Rroff said:
Something I find hard to relate to - if I'd stashed something, even with a lot of years and a lot of places after, I'd quickly remember where the stash was once revisiting the place.

I struggle to remember where i put my keys or my glasses. I sympathise with Joel.

meths · 2 Feb 2023 at 00:03

I quite enjoyed the episode but am a bit gutted that Joel didn't get scooped upside down by one leg and forced to shoot infected while Ellie tries to cut him down.

the shadow · 2 Feb 2023 at 07:34

I skipped a few parts on this episode i have to hurry up and start playing the game tho

Craterloads · 2 Feb 2023 at 08:28

Can see what they were going for but just didn’t work for me, episode 3.

Skipped the gross bits, was not invested at all in their relationship so the impact of the events had no real effect / weight.

I could see it being a great episode if I was invested at all in the relationship of the couple, their journey, love and ending but just wasn’t for me. But appreciate not everything is made for me so great if you enjoyed it.

VincentHanna · 2 Feb 2023 at 08:48

Craterloads said:
Can see what they were going for but just didn’t work for me, episode 3.

Skipped the gross bits

Elllie cutting up that zombies forehead and those raiders burning to death?

Scam · 2 Feb 2023 at 09:47

I think there's one important point we've missed from the episode. Regardless of sexuality, a prepper who was probably previously dismissed as a total nutjob is the one who not-only survived the apocalypse until his (almost) natural end, but lived a good life too. Something to take note of, no?

*starts digging out basement*

Dup · 2 Feb 2023 at 10:26

Scam said:
I think there's one important point we've missed from the episode. Regardless of sexuality, a prepper who was probably previously dismissed as a total nutjob is the one who not-only survived the apocalypse until his (almost) natural end, but lived a good life too. Something to take note of, no? *starts digging out basement*

Colin Furze's clearly has the right idea, even if a leading fungi expert has expressed there's no danger to humans as depicted in the show... yet

Greebo · 2 Feb 2023 at 10:35

Dano said:
Are we really being asked to spoiler tag game content that the show is urinating all over which is a decade old?

Some of us have never played the game and are waiting on it to come out for the pc next month thanks.

Scam · 2 Feb 2023 at 11:24

Greebo said:
Some of us have never played the game and are waiting on it to come out for the pc next month thanks.

Agreed.

hudson86 · 2 Feb 2023 at 11:40

Dano said:
Are we really being asked to spoiler tag game content that the show is urinating all over which is a decade old?

Regardless of how you feel about the TV series , are you really pretending posting game spoilers isn't going to ruin the TV series ( and the upcoming PC version ) for anyone thats not played it ?

Or because youre butt hurt about some of the Tv series choices, you want to spoil it out of spite ?

Theres a number of discussions in the console section , including a spoiler thread. Why not go there and discuss it?

THE LAST OF US Spoiler Thread (Story only discussion)

This thread should be used for those that have the game and want to discuss the story. Please still use spoiler tags and when posting a spoiler please state where you are in the game by either how many hours in or by chapter.

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New PS3 exclusive will be announced on the 10th - lastofus.com

Apologies if this has been brought up already (I did look!) but I thought I'd better share if it hadn't. On December the 10th at the VGA awards in the US an "unbelievable PS3 exclusive" will be revealed. All we have so far are the website and two videos. http://lastofus.com/...

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