The Last of Us Tv Show - Anyone saw this?

CharcoalChkn said:
I wasn't even commenting on the quality of the episode. It just destroyed my peanut brain seeing Nick Offerman being tender with another dude.

He will all ways he hardwired as Ron for me, it was certainly a shock to see.
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I wasn't singling you out, I was building on your point.

I didn't even see the sex scene, I knew it was coming so as soon as it looked like it was happening I skipped around. I skipped around a few times actually because I got fucking bored of the gay drama talking.
 
Internet War Criminal said:
I wasn't singling you out, I was building on your point.

I didn't even see the sex scene, I knew it was coming so as soon as it looked like it was happening I skipped around. I skipped around a few times actually because I got fucking bored of the gay drama talking.
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I never played the game so I honestly had no idea what to expect, but even then I really wasn't prepared for that.

I do think he fit the role incredibly well and it was a magnificent casting choice, though I do wish they kept him alive as I would have liked to have seen more of him.

And also, the episode was not that great (it was fine but not worthy of the praise I am seeing), there are plenty of romance/gay shows around that do this shit better, they are really impressed by a love story where a guy convinced another to shove his dick in his ass after singing and playing a song horribly on the piano one time?

I get it's the apocalypse, but lol, where is the build up and tension.

I found the episode quite boring personally, I wanted to see more of Bill's traps and him fighting zombies, would have been cool.
 
CharcoalChkn said:
I found the episode quite boring personally, I wanted to see more of Bill's traps and him fighting zombies, would have been cool.
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That's my problem, as I said I haven't played the game either, I know some of it (mostly related to the tranny and golfing) but I like Pedro Pascal and post-apocalyptic shit so I figured I'd give it a try.

To bring the show to an almost entire halt three episodes in to introduce the story of two characters that we'll never see again just to basically bait reviewers and try to get an award is a spectacularly retarded decision from a creative point of view. It reeks of self-importance jerking off, the cultural equivalent of spanking it in front of a mirror.
 
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Internet War Criminal said:
Why the fuck isn't Joel staying there? Yeah, I know he's got to go and get his brother, but his plan should be 'Get my brother, bring him back to this place, and we spend the rest of our lives there. Bury the two faggots, or move to a new house, there's zero fucking reason to leave such a place behind in the apocalypse just to go on the road and decide to settle somewhere else. That's absolutely fucking retarded. Even if he wants to dump Ellie with the fireflies and shit, his priority number one should be to going back there and making it his permanent dwelling.

Instead he just takes a couple of things and hits the road. That's fucking retarded.
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Joel has a bit of a complex about being a bad dude (it hasn't come up in the show yet but he's resorted to banditry and done some horrible shit) so I don't think he wants to settle down, or be the one to start a settlement, even if he wanted to be alone in the middle of nowhere with his brother. Who IIRC is a bit of a stud or something and wouldn't be content with nobody but Joel to fuck anyway.
He might know better spots in any case. Like he seemed content enough in the QZ because it was safe despite the authoritarianism, while he warned Bill that he was gonna get his shit even more pushed in by raiders eventually, so clearly he thinks two dudes and a fence isn't an ideal setup.
 
Involuntary Celebrity said:
Joel has a bit of a complex about being a bad dude (it hasn't come up in the show yet but he's resorted to banditry and done some horrible shit) so I don't think he wants to settle down, or be the one to start a settlement, even if he wanted to be alone in the middle of nowhere with his brother. Who IIRC is a bit of a stud or something and wouldn't be content with nobody but Joel to fuck anyway.
He might know better spots in any case. Like he seemed content enough in the QZ because it was safe despite the authoritarianism, while he warned Bill that he was gonna get his shit even more pushed in by raiders eventually, so clearly he thinks two dudes and a fence isn't an ideal setup.
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He said that at first, but then he saw that it succeeded for what, 13 years? Considering he spent like 20 years there and raiders never succeeded and apparently it only happened once, that's enough to reconsider shit.

As far as him feeling he's a bad guy, the show is doing a horrible job of broadcasting this, considering the fact that he basically just keeps repeating "IM A GOOD BOI" to everyone he meets.
 
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Viewers: WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK YOU GUYS HOW DARE YOU CHANGE ANYTHING
Media: AHAHAHA LOOK AT THIS SHOW FLOP THEY CHANGED SOMETHING YOU NEVER CHANGE ANYTHING.


Last of Us the show
Viewers: YOU BETTER LIKE THIS OR YOUR'RE A BIGOT
Media: GAMERS ARE BIGOTS FOR NOT LIKING THE TENDER AND SENSUAL GAY SEX SCENE, IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT YOU ARE THE PROBLEM

The entirety of the two guys in the game can be summed up as Ellie holding up a gay magazine and making fun of the pages being sticky and a bitter suicide. That's it.

The way people are mindlessly defending a completely pointless and turbo gay filler episode is disturbing.
 
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Internet War Criminal said:
As far as him feeling he's a bad guy, the show is doing a horrible job of broadcasting this, considering the fact that he basically just keeps repeating "IM A GOOD BOI" to everyone he meets.
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If the series continues to follow the game, next episode is going to start with Joel knowing they're going to be ambushed and stating so because he's been on the other side before. It's been a while since I played the game, but I think it's the first place in the game where Joel is indicated to moreso be a piece of shit than a survivor doing what's necessary.
 
I actually quite enjoyed episode 3, but I don't think it's a masterpiece work of art by any means - I think it's more telling that people going "THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER" are probably just consoomers who don't engage with stuff that isn't produced by Marvel or an adaptation of a video game.

The episode had a lot of heavy emotional manipulation that was kinda cheap Emmy bait, like the jump cut from the skeletons to a mother and baby to hammer home "look people died". Also the scenario itself is pretty unrealistic, I don't care that it's Ron Swanson as a prepper, I don't understand how he was able to fuel a generator for 20 years or build a barricade wall out of cars. Their standard of living was just too great. I'm not too much of a sperg about accuracy so I didn't mind it too much, but it's annoying they set the bar so high - it seemed too easy for them to basically carry on living as if there was no spooky mushroom apocalypse.

I liked the characters of Bill and Frank. In 2003 I could definitely see a gay man in a small town turning into an isolated misanthrope and resigning himself to a life in the closet. I really liked that they made Frank a bit of a selfish gay bitch, who insults Bill in front of others, makes unreasonable demands and walks all over Bill. He's realistic as a flawed person rather than a perfect gay angel. I also enjoyed they gave him and Tess a sort of low key fag hag dynamic. I like how manipulative Frank was initially - the whole ploy with the piano was calculated to both draw out Bill and ensure that he got a place to stay, but the character was taking pains to make it appear organic, which I think was smart writing.

Beyond establishing bit where Frank lures out the information that Bill is gay, it did feel refreshing that it was basically just a love story between two people and the sexualities were irrelevant - no tiresome commentary of "if the apocalypse hadn't happened America still wouldn't have let us get married because we're from 2003! Gay rights!". It had some sweet moments. Bill is believably awkward and shy and unsure what to do, showing off with his sommelier pour and wanting Frank to stay but not knowing what to say. The strawberry scene had me beaming. I think if they wanted to make a short film about gay guys falling in love in a post apocalypse, they could have just done that. The acting was great.

I don't mind the changes to the plot as it doesn't change the overall story. Joel and Ellie visit Frank's town to get a vehicle and Bill serves as a cautionary tale to Joel about what will happen if he remains a bitter closed off misanthrope. This version serves the same purpose, except Bill is now a model to Joel for how he should be (they really spell it out, I guess they assume viewers are retarded). A bit of a shame we missed out on all the funny Bill and Ellie interactions though.

Throws the overall pacing of the show off, but I guess it's designed to be watched once a week rather than binged. They had to change it for the show because making an hour of Joel and Ellie fighting off infected and scavenging supplies would be very boring as a TV show instead of an interactive video game.
 
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The episode had a lot of heavy emotional manipulation that was kinda cheap Emmy bait, like the jump cut from the skeletons to a mother and baby to hammer home "look people died". Also the scenario itself is pretty unrealistic, I don't care that it's Ron Swanson as a prepper, I don't understand how he was able to fuel a generator for 20 years or build a barricade wall out of cars. Their standard of living was just too great. I'm not too much of a sperg about accuracy so I didn't mind it too much, but it's annoying they set the bar so high - it seemed too easy for them to basically carry on living as if there was no spooky mushroom apocalypse.
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The game and the comicbooks pretty much confirmed that Joel, Bill and the crew were raiders who turned over a different leaf. To keep a long story short, the goverment tried to re-establish society many times. Folks like Bill and the other settlements made it extremely difficult to do because they kept killing the dudes trying to restore the powergrids and stealing their shit.
 
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The game and the comicbooks pretty much confirmed that Joel, Bill and the crew were raiders who turned over a different leaf. To keep a long story short, the goverment tried to re-establish society many times. Folks like Bill and the other settlements made it extremely difficult to do because they kept killing the dudes trying to restore the powergrids and stealing their shit.
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Yeah I get that, but I'm pretty sure petrol and diesel have a shelf life that's measured in months, not decades, and we see Bill liberated some sort of liquid fuel generator. Unless the government had somehow managed to keep extracting crude oil and running refineries that Bill kept stealing from, I don't see how they had electricity for 20 years. It wasn't a massive issue for me because the point was that Bill was a super prepared prepper who knew how to keep up a decent standard of living, but it felt somewhat unrealistic to me that they still had electricity.

I don't know enough about gas to comment but the fact his gas hob was still running fine despite him seemingly just only opening one valve also seemed a bit unrealistic.
 
Starved Artist said:
The way people are mindlessly defending a completely pointless and turbo gay filler episode is disturbing.
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HBO reminds me of that old Simpsons joke where it's the future and Marge says, "Fox turned into a hardcore porn channel so gradually I didn't even notice," except with HBO it's just gay and high schooler sex.
 
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I never really understood why people liked the Last of Us, the characters just seemed like fairly typical zombie archetype characters. The Joel-Ellie thing was fairly typical of zombie movies where you have someone basically adopt a child.

I'm not surprised the TV show is shit. Druckmann is the most mask-off Jew in media. Dude literally had a segment in the sequel to yell at the player, "THE JEWS WILL SURVIVE, GOY". I hope you guys are ready for the Ellie lesbian interracial three parter.
 
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for a one off EP.03 that was alright a little long really only 5 mins of progression at the end.
 
PST Stan Account said:
HBO reminds me of that old Simpsons joke where it's the future and Marge says, "Fox turned into a hardcore porn channel so gradually I didn't even notice," except with HBO it's just gay and high schooler sex.
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HBO has always been a hardcore channel (albeit tame when comparing to its sister channel, Cinemax, where it's straight up soft or hardcore porn aired during midnight), but since the previous decade they've been focusing on that but with pandering homo shit for a millennial/zoomer audience.
 
TVBForever said:
HBO has always been a hardcore channel (albeit tame when comparing to its sister channel, Cinemax, where it's straight up soft or hardcore porn aired during midnight), but since the previous decade they've been focusing on that but with pandering homo shit for a millennial/zoomer audience.
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I can't believe Cinemax is still a thing, at least according to a Google search.

Anyways, with a second season being confirmed, does this mean that Joel's gonna die at the hands of Abby? So many reviews claim the show is sooo faithful. I'm sure Pedro signed on for more than 1 season + be killed at the premiere of the second though.
 
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