The Last of Us 2x1 | Watch Along
Added 2025-04-16 14:00:36 +0000 UTC
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i'm catching up very slowly(and i still haven't started the latest game), but, I fucking hate how nonchalent everyone is in this first episode. Everyone deserves to get munched on. I currently don't care who gets eaten.
Patrick
2025-05-21 22:30:32 +0000 UTCThis is a very valid point.
Athasin
2025-04-21 09:40:08 +0000 UTCI always appreciate Bear Facts with Maple
Alexis
2025-04-20 23:28:47 +0000 UTCI think the homophobia makes a lot of sense, especially in this world. Because just think about the state of the world in 2003 when this outbreak happened. It wasn't exactly a good time for gay people in the US. And because all of this happened, I can't imagine there has been much activism, or exposure to same-sex couples that might have evolved the views of people like this. So I get thinking "aren't there more important things to worry about in this world" but also, you know, that has always been true ^^'
Christophe
2025-04-18 18:45:01 +0000 UTCI think one of the best things about the Last of Us franchise is how they use the infected. You put it great towards the end, living in the mountains you're used to dangerous animals being a potential risk, so you take precautions. After a quarter of a century, these infected are just another thing in life to worry about. Food, shelter, predators, we have to consider these things every day, regardless of if you're in an apocalypse or not. Ellie and Dina aren't scared because these things are dumber than animals (except for that one) and easy to deal with if you know what you're doing. I love that they stay focused on the human aspect of it all. I strongly disagree that people would put aside petty, smaller things because there are bigger problems. I feel like we all got a little taste of that during the pandemic. Also, I feel like the last scene from last season/first scene from this one very strongly implies that she knows. She wouldn't ask that question if she wasn't questioning what Joel told her. And that extremely long pause before saying ok, seems like a reasonable response to figuring out the only person in the world who cares about you has irrevocably broken your trust.
Slick447
2025-04-18 18:13:29 +0000 UTCI look forward to seeing Maple's eyes glaze over with laser-focused lust every time Tommy drags his fine ass onscreen
JD Sharpe
2025-04-17 21:56:36 +0000 UTCVery strong first episode! Love the addition of the Dina and Abby characters.
Jonathan Blaze
2025-04-17 17:51:36 +0000 UTCWhat's wrong with Ellies face?
Stanley Etienne
2025-04-17 01:57:35 +0000 UTCI'm guessing you have not played the game? This episode was very much just a setup for whats to come. The second game is so much larger than the first and takes some time before it gets going. But you also gotta understand under those 5 years a lot probably happened that we don't know about. Trust me when I say this show will not dumb down any character and there is a reason for all of it. Also you really shouldn't be scared of Abby and her friends. They are kids who are mourning. They are not supervillains. The second game is not for everyone but give it more of a shot than just the first episode. Trust me if they stick to the games story it will be phenomenal and you don't want to miss it. :D
ShadowStunts
2025-04-17 00:42:20 +0000 UTCDid the show get new writers or something? Because this episode felt like it was written by the lucky winner of the Max-promoted ClikClok TikTok competition. Everything just felt like a too-broad, simplified version of what we’d seen written, acted and produced with so much skill, atmosphere and nuance the previous season. The “Bad Guys” are introduced with no finesse or presence, just wooden, bland delivery - “I. Will. Get. My. Revenge. And. Kill. Joel … Slowly” 🙄 Each scene just plods onto the next, utterly not helped by Ellie being amped up to eleven, no longer with the excuse of being a young teenager, if anything acting dumber than she ever did back then as if she really hasn’t learnt anything from living out in this world for the past SIX years. Nothing involving her has any weight. She’s pretty much reduced to caricature. The episode would have benefited from a more solid focus on her and Joel and where they stand with one another rather than rushing into a vapid, CW-level romantic relationship with a character we don’t even know. Joel did have a nice scene with Dina though, and it felt infinitely more genuine than anything involving her and Ellie. He also had the makings of another good scene with Home Alone Mom-turned-End of the World Shrink, but once again, the writers prove amateur AF as they barely give the two of them room to breathe before speeding right into the revelation that he killed her husband. This whole episode was just so insincere, tedious and flaccid and seeing the Least Threatening Bad Guys since Draco Malfoy and his Inbred Slytherin Posse emerge from the woods as the last minute stinger just felt like a fitting, eye-rolling way for it all to end.
Chris Thompson
2025-04-16 20:07:49 +0000 UTCThe infected are not “zombies.” They are not dead like The Walking Dead. The fungus takes over and infects the living person and takes control. Once the body is dead the control has ended.
Jeffrey Conway
2025-04-16 18:29:12 +0000 UTC
