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*****Official The Last of Us HBO TV thread***** Pro clicker rights in here! (4 Viewers)
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Capella
Footballguy
Interesting. So would you say the show is near the end of the game right now, or will they have to speed it up a bit in the finale?
It's near the end of the game. They paced it perfectly.
Leeroy Jenkins
Footballguy
Interesting. Because to me, it doesn't "feel" like we are near the end of anything.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Same.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
Well, they could have made it like Walking Dead where they spent an entire season doing nothing but building up to Negan for the inevitable cliffhanger.
This show isn't going to do that. You're getting a pretty clear ending that should give people something to discuss of more substance than "Who does Negan kill with the bat?"
Depends what you are expecting out of the show. Remember the show was really about the relationship between Joel and Ellie and their journey to the west to find the Fireflies.
Leeroy Jenkins
Footballguy
Yea, so maybe they just go be a family with the brother until something happens?
Capella
Footballguy
Cool. Figured we had at least another season to go for that.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
Not sure if this was directed at me, but I didn't take you as being critical. I was just kind of looking for an opportunity to drag TWD. Still salty about that show.
wazoo11
Footballguy
I think he implies the first game 1:1 with season one
They've already made plans for season two and how to incorporate the second game
wazoo11
Footballguy
*****TV spoiler****
End of episode eight there's a trailer that hints at them going to the fireflies in Salt Lake City (callback from episode six)
fruity pebbles
Footballguy
Seems like Joel and the relationship arc with Ellie has completed so wouldn’t be surprised if he’s a goner soon. I mean he went from his death bed to John Rambo in a blink of an eye, what more is there to do?
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CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
Save all of humanity.
fruity pebbles
Footballguy
That’s Ellie
GregR
Footballguy
This chapter of the game was the single best chapter of any video game I've ever played. I think the episode did it justice, though it could have stood to be an extra long episode. I'm going to put some game stuff in spoiler for those who don't want too much game talk.
For those asking for game clips, I'd suggest watching clips from Playstation 4 remastered instead of PS5 remake (which the other posted clips are). They redid the character models in PS5 and I think they robbed Ellie in particular of a lot of the emotion her face had in PS4. Will share links that have a whole playthrough for the chapter but I'll set the timestamps for the cage scene and the finale with David if you want to skip the stuff not shown in the TV:
(EDIT TO ADD: Be careful looking at titles of other suggested videos as there might be spoilers there)
Cage scene
Finale scene
For those asking for game clips, I'd suggest watching clips from Playstation 4 remastered instead of PS5 remake (which the other posted clips are). They redid the character models in PS5 and I think they robbed Ellie in particular of a lot of the emotion her face had in PS4. Will share links that have a whole playthrough for the chapter but I'll set the timestamps for the cage scene and the finale with David if you want to skip the stuff not shown in the TV:
(EDIT TO ADD: Be careful looking at titles of other suggested videos as there might be spoilers there)
Cage scene
Finale scene
So the cannibal stuff was not foreshadowed in the game. My friend I watch the TV show with picked up on it from the very start predicting the father got chopped up to eat, while in the game, Ellie in the cage seeing a body chopped up is the first you have any idea.
Also the dark, pedophile aspect was downplayed for the TV show. In the game, after the guy goes for the antibiotics and you're alone with David, infected attack. You have to work with him for quite awhile and build up some rapport with him. And there's just these little things, talk about how she's special, that kind of start to trip radar but not overt at first. They evade the infected and then the guy shows back up with the antibiotics, which is when David mentions the madman butchering his men at the university, a madman who traveled with a little girl. Remember from my earlier post's comment, they had to fight their way out of the university and probably killed 15 people there. Later after the horse goes down during more combat sequences she overhears one of David's men talking about her becoming one of his pets. The game didn't have the preacher-sounding stuff so much, and the cage scene was more creepy for being clearer what he wanted Ellie for, in my opinion.
There is a lot of game play left out of the episode as usual. Ellie leading them away from Joel on the horse is a lot longer with more men, then after the horse is shot she has two areas she has to fight through before she gets subdued by David leaving the ski resort and is taken to town (which is where I timed that cage clip to start). Then Joel has a lot of combat, staggering as he walks unable to move full speed, which is when the capture of the 2 guys and torture take place. After Ellie escapes the cage she has to fight through a blizzard in the town while she's hunted, while Joel has to infiltrate the town which has the entrances blocked off. Ending with Ellie in the restaurant and Joel seeing it burning and heading there.
The David finale was good in the show. But honestly they would have been better going shot for shot and exactly dialogue with the game around the David death. Have Joel come upon her inside the burning restaurant hacking away as he does in game (see the clip). The exact dialogue, and even the music cutting in overtop of them talking is, I think, a far more powerful ending for that segment than the TV ending. Not that the TV was bad at all.
Also the dark, pedophile aspect was downplayed for the TV show. In the game, after the guy goes for the antibiotics and you're alone with David, infected attack. You have to work with him for quite awhile and build up some rapport with him. And there's just these little things, talk about how she's special, that kind of start to trip radar but not overt at first. They evade the infected and then the guy shows back up with the antibiotics, which is when David mentions the madman butchering his men at the university, a madman who traveled with a little girl. Remember from my earlier post's comment, they had to fight their way out of the university and probably killed 15 people there. Later after the horse goes down during more combat sequences she overhears one of David's men talking about her becoming one of his pets. The game didn't have the preacher-sounding stuff so much, and the cage scene was more creepy for being clearer what he wanted Ellie for, in my opinion.
There is a lot of game play left out of the episode as usual. Ellie leading them away from Joel on the horse is a lot longer with more men, then after the horse is shot she has two areas she has to fight through before she gets subdued by David leaving the ski resort and is taken to town (which is where I timed that cage clip to start). Then Joel has a lot of combat, staggering as he walks unable to move full speed, which is when the capture of the 2 guys and torture take place. After Ellie escapes the cage she has to fight through a blizzard in the town while she's hunted, while Joel has to infiltrate the town which has the entrances blocked off. Ending with Ellie in the restaurant and Joel seeing it burning and heading there.
The David finale was good in the show. But honestly they would have been better going shot for shot and exactly dialogue with the game around the David death. Have Joel come upon her inside the burning restaurant hacking away as he does in game (see the clip). The exact dialogue, and even the music cutting in overtop of them talking is, I think, a far more powerful ending for that segment than the TV ending. Not that the TV was bad at all.
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fruity pebbles
Footballguy
Ugh. Last episode is only 43 minutes, shortest of the season.
Just finished episode 8. It was probably the weakest one of the season. Everything from Joel being on his deathbed and then having to strength to kill a few grown men to how no one in town notices their main building (dining hall/place to pray) in flames. Just a meh episode overall.
ConstruxBoy
Kate's Daddy
Bet you're fun at parties.
fruity pebbles
Footballguy
The way they did Joel was kinda lame. Should have been some sort of progression. He went from barely being able to open his eyes to John Rambo in a matter of hours.
ConstruxBoy
Kate's Daddy
Must have been Viagra instead of Penicillin
Exactly.
And we’re supposed to assume Ellie was able (and willing) to change Joel’s bedpan/drawers? Not buying it HBO, brosephus.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Some good medicine.
Capella
Footballguy
See I was kind of into that because that’s how most video games are. I remember in Red Dead Redemption you could be dying and would just put in some chaw and you were right as rain.
ProstheticRGK
Footballguy
If you turn on captions on HBO, you can actually see Joel and Ellie's Health Bars. Joel's bar got filled 3/4 of the way back up after the 2nd shot of penicillin.
ZADO
Footballguy
Will there be season 2 of The Last of Us?
That was confirmed after the third episode aired to massive acclaim: there'll be a season two, and in all likelihood, it'll cover the events of The Last of Us: Part II, the existing sequel to the video game the post-apocalyptic drama is based on.
ZADO
Footballguy
I ordered the game from Amazon recently, i started playing but stopped when the show started , i think the game will be better to play after the show ends as ill know who everyone is and ill be more invested
GregR
Footballguy
Episode six they get to the university medical center where the Fireflies medical operation was. They find a paper that Joel explains is "A packing list, something you make before moving". https://i.imgur.com/zDhlak0.png
They go up to the room that had the monkeys that run off out the window, and find the map hanging on the bulletin board. With colored push pins in a couple of places, including ones along three routes leading to Salt Lake City. With a note tacked on it at St. Lake City that says "St Mary's".
So presumably their next step would be going to Saint Mary's (hospital) in Salt Lake City which is where they expect the Firefly's medical operation moved to when they left the University.
But then Joel gets hurt and the 2 episodes after play out and they haven't left the area around the university yet.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
The screen freezes up, and some one has to pull the cartridge out and blow on it before sticking it back in.
It starts back up and Pac-Man eats Joel before Ellie is able to kill him with a magical strawberry.
The Gator
Footballguy
My guess is that Joel doesn't make it and Elli get's pawned off on his brother. Season/game 2 is Ellie and Tommy.
ConstruxBoy
Kate's Daddy
That Viagra is really going to come in handy for Joel then.
PIK95
Footballguy
This makes too much sense unfortunately.My guess is that Joel doesn't make it and Elli get's pawned off on his brother. Season/game 2 is Ellie and Tommy.
Seems like you are implying Ellie has to make a choice to save Joel or try and save the world.
fruity pebbles
Footballguy
It’s just killing the gamers not to spoil the ending.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
Okay, it genuinely wasn't spoiling anything, but it can wait a few days. I do stand by my prediction that the show nails it.
ZADO
Footballguy
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Ilov80s
Footballguy
I like the idea that unlike some shows, it has a built in ending so we won't be subjected to something like Game of Thrones just going of the rails for the final couple seasons. Though ofcourse when that started we all thought it would have an established ending by the time S9 would have come around.
wazoo11
Footballguy
You mean Joel confessing his love for 90s alt rock music?
wazoo11
Footballguy
There's a donkey kong kill screen coming up
GregR
Footballguy
At the end of the game, Joel and Ellie manage to detonate the Pillar of Autumn's engines, destroying the space station in the process while they get away on a smaller ship. Meanwhile it's revealed that Sovereign is only one of an entire race of sentient machines floating in the void of space outside the galaxy, waiting to return in season 2.
Also, Glen gets killed by a baseball bat.
Sorry folks, spoiling is how I roll.
Also, Glen gets killed by a baseball bat.
Sorry folks, spoiling is how I roll.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
The Princess will be in another castle.
Keep the political shots out of it.
The Z Machine
Footballguy
This latest episode with the cleaver was ****ing amazing. Best TV I've watched in a good while. Tension was off the charts, acting on point, writing was dope, cinematography put you right there in the cold. Joel with knife in the knee followed by beating a tied up man's head in? Wow, you see a side of him capable of murdering anyone to achieve his goals. The stuff Tommy says rang true in that scene.
Only criticism is that the cannibals should have been more gaunt.
Only criticism is that the cannibals should have been more gaunt.
The Z Machine
Footballguy
I didn't play the game (but may after S1 finishes) and i didn't read spoilers or know anything about the game.
My hunch is that Joel and Ellie get separated after having to make a hard choice. I think that choice will be Ellie's. Both survive but there's a price to be paid for everyone around them. Or maybe Joel has to choose between Tommy and Ellie...
My hunch is that Joel and Ellie get separated after having to make a hard choice. I think that choice will be Ellie's. Both survive but there's a price to be paid for everyone around them. Or maybe Joel has to choose between Tommy and Ellie...
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