The Last of Us Tv Show - Anyone saw this?

TheHarbinger said:
It would have been better if FEDRA had fully restored the oil industry just in a smaller capacity. So there are things like working cars and oil refineries. And society is back to normal but a civil war between FEDRA and the Fireflies breaks out or something.
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pretty sure the US does have long-life fuel stockpiles of some sort (idk what's involved in unjellying it or whatever and I don't feel like looking it up to sperg about a tv show) and since FEDRA is FEMA who Deus Ex taught me get authority over everything during a zombie emergency they probably do have access to that at least. It's at least a little more plausible than most settings where the government is entirely gone.
Doesn't explain Bill's setup etc, but at least it's not full Mad Max where everyone's on the road; it's mainly FEDRA vehicles still driving around and the odd Firefly caravan. It's not like you can't make small amounts or use converted vehicles either.

20 years is a long time to figure out how to power some lightbulbs in the QZs, when you still have some central organisation, using the resources left around by a whole civilisation to provide for the 0.01% or whatever of the population that's left. It doesn't need to be efficient. They could be running off burning furniture for steam for all we know.
It's a less spergy debate in practically every other zombie setting but I dunno if it merits getting upset about here
 
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Involuntary Celebrity said:
It's a less spergy debate in practically every other zombie setting but I dunno if it merits getting upset about here
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But how many zombie shows or movies take place two decades after a full scale outbreak of disease and a military bombing campaign? Walking Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Black Summer, 28 Days/Weeks Later, are all right within the initial outbreak. Last of Us has two decades of there being no public access to any utilities or services. FEDRA obviously has some way of powering their vehicles and making tools, drugs, weapons, and whatnot but they have a monopoly. Hence the main character trading food stamps for pills.

Like in Black Summer when they steal a car, it was a vehicle that was literally working that day, and had been sitting idly for maybe a few hours at most. So it makes perfect sense that they can use planes and cars because everything is still functioning and new. When they drive a car in Last of Us it has been sitting in a garage for twenty straight years? Where are they getting parts for maintenance? Fag Bill somehow gets 100,000 gallons of diesel from where exactly? Where are the oil filters, air filters, spark plugs, and other parts for his generator coming from? This stuff makes no sense.

I know that the kind of people who watch this stuff are usually imbeciles with no real world skills. But the reddit fags are praising this as the "greatest story ever" yet the entire premise is stolen from 28 Weeks Later or even something like Resident Evil 4. Escort missions during a zombie infestation. Keep the immune child alive. And the world is poorly written and shallow with impossible survival tactics and zero realism.

Wait until this show starts winning "best show of 2023" at every single ceremony.
 
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Wanting originality in a zombie thing is dumb. That's never the point; it's always a canned platform for usually one added element or something else they're doing. In practically every zombie movie/game you could replace the zombies with cactuses, not necessarily walking cactuses. Even the original Romero stuff was a kind of silly social commentary. You can take everything else seriously but the "zombie reality" itself which is a convention audiences can suspend disbelief around due to its familiarity.

As for where stuff comes from, probably the same place it comes from now. I have a crate of MREs from a country where it's illegal to sell them to civilians. We've already seen FEDRA corruption, they aren't leak-proof. And Joel getting his hands on a working battery was apparently a whole quest, so it's not presented as trivial anyway.

I have plenty of production-based criticisms of the show and quality-wise I think it's probably inferior to just watching the cutscenes on youtube, but it's meant to be a primarily character-driven story so realism just seems like the wrong thing to get hung up on. We're lucky they've given it as much lip service as they have, imagine if you were an autistic mycologist.
 
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kadoink said:
That kid who plays Ellie looks...special and I find it hard to watch her on camera without hearing Chris chan go on about sonichu.
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I still don't understand the mentality behind that decision. The entire casting is mostly a shitshow but she just barely matches the character, not just in looks.
 
kadoink said:
That kid who plays Ellie looks...special and I find it hard to watch her on camera without hearing Chris chan go on about sonichu.
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At this wait, Ellie is about to screw her mom like what Chris did.
 
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Then we can put on the podcast and hear Craig Mazin say something like, "We really wanted to make sure the audience knew that Ellie was capable and didn't need Joel at all."
 
Screamer_2 said:
Then we can put on the podcast and hear Craig Mazin say something like, "We really wanted to make sure the audience knew that Ellie was capable and didn't need Joel at all."
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And mind you, this is from the guy who wrote Superhero Movie.
He went from a pretty decent comedy writer to a very mediocre drama writer for HBO in a matter of a decade.
 
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Just saw the latest episode. Did release as stated on Friday, though and hour later than it would on Sunday. Shockingly not an episode filled with filler but it does pad for time with nonsensical character decisions and another flashback segment focusing on newly introduced characters. But this was actually an episode mostly focusing on Joel and Ellie interacting with two supplemental characters rather than another episode 3 or god forbid the nothing that was last week. There are some really stupid parts where every characters decision making is incredibly questionable when they're in a dangerous situation, and without spoiling anything directly it leads to the results you would assume. Though this is something that happens in the game I would assume it is less dumb there but I haven't yet seen everything the original game has to offer so I reserve judgement. There need to be more episodes like this but we're probably going to see a pattern of a few ok episodes, a filler episode or two, then one that actually progresses the story and has action befitting of a high budget drama based on one of the best selling games on consoles.
 
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28 Weeks Later has a scene where a military guy and some other people are escorting an infected kid and a sniper shoots at them. They end up escaping from the government execution squads by a super convenient zombie outbreak as well. Both of those plot points were stolen directly for this episode (five). This episode has a sniper and a highly convenient zombie outbreak that saves the main characters.

Also this episode showed that FEDRA were competent in that they isolated the plant people underground and moved them to the outskirts of the city. For twenty successful years. The army of retards are in charge for ten days and cause a mass zombie outbreak by crashing a truck into a sinkhole. Now they are all dead and the plants will retake the entire area. Also these people are idiots because flamethrowers would take care of the plant zombies in two seconds compared to wasting like 500rounds of ammo trying to kill that one big zombie.
 
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5th episode into The Last of Us, and it's just as generic as your run of the mill zombie story.

I think Telltale's Walking Dead did a better surrogate father with Clem+Lee over Elie+Joel.
Hershel's farm in TWD made more sense than the gay paradise in tLoU.
Clem + Alvin Jr is way better than Henry and his kid.

TWD goes a lot slower, but you have a lot more time to develop characters and relationships, and fall in love with them. tLoU moves at turbo pace, we establish characters in one episode, and at the end of the episode we get a sad jingle and their death. tLoU's turbo pace is more of a weakness than a strength.

tLoU doesn't improve or come up with something new. The show could easily be set in TWD universe, or Z Nation or Black Summer and the show would have been literally the same.
 
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Gender: Xenomorph said:
tLoU doesn't improve or come up with something new. The show could easily be set in TWD universe, or Z Nation or Black Summer and the show would have been literally the same.
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Zombie subgenrre has been targeting tweens to young adults for some melodramatic fanfiction.
 
Sean_Igger said:
"Get 'em while they're young" is the prime directive for these hollyweird types after all.
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And coming from the city who'd hire mentally ill patients like Bill Cosby, Lena Dunham, Harvey Weinstein, Dan Schneider, etc. with most even visiting their stays at Epstein's island.
 
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