/tlou/ - The Last of Us general

she's over 18, literally old enough to star in the porn you fap to.

Be nice

Fat sluggish old face

how and why? Her acting is terrible I can't take this show seriously anymore. It was tolerable in S1 for some reason but this season have been garbaaaaaaage

kills Joel

kills Jesse

seemingly kills Tommy as season 2 ends

Normies are about to go full Abby hate mode for the next two years

No one hates cute women

True

Post some Dever pics please.

This story is so weak, drawn out and repetitive. I don't trust you gamers at all. There's no chance this is simply a bad adaption, there's no way the underlying story was ever actually good.

Part II is a masterpiece
This adaptation is crap
Cope and rope

The game unironically flows better because there's constant hooks to keep the player engaged. The only instances I thought it got a bit boring was the flashbacks and even then there weren't that many.

I don't trust you gamers at all

You really think an action zombie game would have a good writing or a story? Yea It's good for a video game standard but if you're a Anon Babble watcher and know things the game story and writing is like 6/10 at best. It's nothing crazy, but does some minor things very good.

In the show the WLF have shown up 3 times
The seraphites have appeared twice
If I hadn't played the game I would be baffled by this plot

Play. The. Game.
its free on torrents

selfishly wants to go back to the town and risk everyones lives just to see his wife again

Joel just following procedure

Why is he the bad guy again?
The post apocalyptic world in tlou is weird. Do they forget they are in a zombie filled world where they can die at any second?

the fact that the porch scene was so early suggests Mazin has a more interesting idea for how to tie up the story than "feel sad for Ellie and Joel because they killed a billion people".

most people agree that the Part 2 story doesn't work, that doesn't mean something can't be extracted from it by adding more than just basic sentimentality.

How do bullets kill fungi zombies

HOLY FUCK IT'S LALOOOOO

he isn't the bad guy.
Bella is mad because she recognizes that he tells people what they want to hear and as a way of being treated more like the good guy. it makes her see his lie to her as a conscious manipulation which strikes at the heart of their relationship.

Because Cuckmann realized he forgot to write those stakes as people rejected his false dilemma do he backtracked and tried to change it after the fact by having the characters pretend those were the stakes.
It’s like when Lucas tries to write the already unredeemable asshole Anakin as a good guy by randomly having a “saves a clone” scene after battles where they bite it by the millions.
These are amateur writer mistakes that are excused by deranged fans and their headcanon only because of the pricetags on the projects.

Kys

The pacing makes no sense. The characters randomly forget they’re in mortal danger. Burning episodes on a gay romance sideshow or an entire episode of a flashback to what was already pretty spelled out is crazy. They’re making these tight 10 episode or so shows but they don’t script them like “10 hour movies” like they pretend they are. They want little bottle episodes of some bullshit like they were doing 20 of these. I don’t get it and it’s not just this show.

joel bonding with an uggo

suspension of disbelief only goes so far

Why is no one discussing Isabela Merced’s rapid weight gain?
Did she spend the last 9 months since the 2nd season was filmed binge eating?

most people agree that the Part 2 story doesn't work

It works perfectly until the very end where Ellie's reasons for sparing Abby aren't conveyed as clearly as they could've

The first one is good(And far better then season 1), the second is just as big of a dumpster fire as the show.

Jesus fucking Christ, what the fuck happened?

Druckmann kind of forgot to setup that Ellie was starting to feel conflicted about Abby at all, so it came off as too much of a le epic subversion.

look for Mazin to create ambiguity well in advance as to whether Ellie is storming the Rattler stronghold to kill Abby or to rescue her.

I don't watch this but holy SHIT this pukebrown muddy 0 colors "muh prestige drama" look looks like ABSOLUTE FUCKING SHIT AND I HATE IT, fuck the guy who made this a thing

Part II is a very gritty, dark tale.It's deliberately uncomfortable for large chunks of it, it's full of flashbacks, perspective switches and information that's kept hidden to the player until a vital point.
Season 2 is afraid of challenging it's audience, the dialogue is in your face and removes all subtlety that the characters feel, it's flashbacks are misplaced where their meaning is lost. Characters give exposition both to the audience and to themselves because HBO is too fucking scared to give some suspense to the audience and make them actually think.
Combining the Salt Lake scene with the poarch and putting it in the middle of the narrative (counting Season 3) is such an misinterpretation of Part II's story and themes as a whole. They fucked up everything.

Predictions for the next episode? It looks like Ellie is going to the seraphite island and no sign of the aquarium. Maybe she finds Owen and Mel there?

She’s a beaner in her 20s. Happens to all of them

Last of Us star Isabela Merced has said that filming is not expected to begin on season 3 until all the way in 2026.

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making people think

yeah they make you think about how you just killed 200 people to get a lesson about how killing people is bad.

It hasn’t happened to Jenna Ortega and Xochitl
Why’s it happened to Moner specifically?

Hawkgirl needs to be aerodynamic and Merced misinterpreted that to mean "look like a balloon".

There was seraphite fights in Ellie Day 3 in the boat section.

I imagine that ep 7 will be day 3, going to the acquairiam, killing Owen and his gf and then ending on the theatre cliffhanger maybe.

apparently the ending of the season WON'T be super depressing. I think they need to delay Jesse dying until next season and might completely change the sequence of events to accomplish that... but who knows.

Why is season 2 only 7 eps long?

Did anyone else notice they showed Dina getting shot with the arrow in the recap

How do you even deal with that semi realistically in this kind of world

She's gonna have that arrowhead in her leg until she dies

*hasn’t happened to Jenna Ortega yet
FTFY

Give it 3 years

maybe not a serrated arrowhead.
archery range arrows aren't designed to stick in people and I don't feel like the Seraphites are forging their own arrowheads.

I think if they end on a cliffhanger and then go to Abby’s story in season 3 without resolving the cliffhanger in season 2 it will be very jarring

The self insert therapist was barely in this ep

everythingwentbetterthanexpected.jpg

I was seriously expecting her to lecture Joel

slampig Monerboner

don't feel like the Seraphites are forging their own arrowheads

Why not? Their whole thing is living off the land and making everything themselves

Isnt the very last scene of ep6 with Ellie already infront of the theatre?

in TV there is a term called putting characters on a bus. so if they want to cut to Abby they need to create a natural resolution point for Ellie and co, so they aren't (e.g.) frozen in time waiting to go through a door. leaving on a mission to Seraphite island could be a way to do that.

maybe in the show Nora tells Ellie that Abby has already been captured by the Seraphites: so Ellie sets off alone to kill her while also creating a justification for flashing back to find out how she got caught.

That’s because Ellie goes back to the theatre to tell Jesse and Dina that he knows where Abby is. After some persuading I guess she manages to convince Jesse to come and help her, then they go out and day 3 plays out, and after the acquarium she goes back to the theatre once more

Oh, right. I vaguely remember the game.

that's tommy? so they casted both of them as spics?

which is a new term that I learned

Fucking lmao, I can't with these zoomers man

In the preview we see Jesse and Ellie running up the theatre like in the theatre cliffhanger, so I definitely think they are ending on that cliffhanger (or showing the fight itself, which I think is more likely)

Well it wouldn’t make a lot of sense if only one of them was a spic now would it?

They made Tommy's kid a nigger.

Maybe his wife told him it's normal for one kid to be Mexican.

I think the pileup of arbitrary developments around this point of the game is one of the places where it really turns to shit, so I'm hoping for large digressions.

the idea of a big cliffhanger where we already know what is going to happen (and are going to have to wait at least 18 months for season 3) is particularly weak. but killing off Jesse this season or in his first episode next season also feels like it would stupid.

remember we already had Jesse finding Dina and Ellie because Ellie left a map behind, and in the game Abby finds her way to the theatre for the same reason. so either Mazin is changing things or he's giving up and hiding behind Druckmann's existing writing.

Druckmann kind of forgot to setup that Ellie was starting to feel conflicted about Abby at all

What are you saying, Ellie hates and doesn't stop hating Abby, it's only when she (Ellie) gets over her own guilt of how she (Ellie) treated Joel is when she allows her to let her (Abby) go

I personally don’t believe the layout for part 2 works well for two seasons because the cliffhanger for the first half of the game is so jarring. The confrontation of Ellie and Abby finally occurs and then it’s left on pause and we have to go through several hours of content (Abby’s section) to find out what happens on the cliffhanger.
It’s very jarring for a video game, but would be absolutely horrendous for a tv show where there’s almost a two year wait between seasons.

The only way I see them sort it out and make it less jarring is to have the Ellie and Abby fight at the end of season 2 in my opinion. Leaving a cliffhanger at the end of season 2, waiting two years only to have it not being resolved until 80% of season 3 is done is so bad

The weak should fear the strong

No one on Anon Babble has a respectable gaming rig

Why would they even try to make a "cure"? First off, it could not unshroom the half dead shroom zombies. Second, it literally made fungi grow inside Ellie's head, you don't want that in a general population. What if person can only temporarily (years) retain function, and then turn into shroom zombie later randomly, unexpectedly? What if they start to infect other people without realising it (like the spore spreaders in the hospital basement)? What if it makes people infertile? What if it create some even worse mutants? What if it makes the next gen fungi creatures more intelligent? Also firefly group have known Ellie's backstory, so it's a reach to assume it would work on any adults. Joel did the right thing, but for the wrong reason, as in it was impssobile to have a good outcome from any cure attempts, and it would be playing god with gene editing, so kill them off before they create a monster specie. Otherwise letting an uggo girl die for an actual noble cause would not be that bad, so killing fireflies was needed only for saving humanity reasons.

She is aging poorly, and the acting is very off, as in almost like an acting school performance, that have no idea about actual human behaviour. What one can think of, as an attempt to keep disbelief suspended, is to think her (characters) face is deformed from the fungi inside her head.

sounds like we basically agree, just have to wait to see if they do something different and what.

that doesn't make any sense psychologically. Joel's lie to Ellie isn't what sets Abby on a revenge quest to kill Joel, it's what Joel actually did that caused that. so in order to forgive Abby, Ellie ought to learn to see that Abby is like herself instead and understand why killing Joel made sense (from Abby's POV).

if you watched the inside the episode Neil mentions himself crying while filming the porch scene. he has no ability to detach himself from the material, hence why using yet another Joel scene to make all the zoomer gamers cry seemed like a good ending to him.

Lalo saved the show

Who is lalo people keep mentioning that name

The moral compass of the people writing this garbage is so blatantly liberal. Joel is the bad guy because he refused to "trust the science" and murdered a bunch of doctors who, we as the audience are supposed to believe, would have had a 100% chance of extracting and manufacturing a cure from cutting open a 14 year old girl's brain. He didn't #trustthescience and he didn't #believewomen so he must get his head bashed in.

IM MIDWAY THROUGH THIS DOGSHIT EPISODE AND IM WONDERING IF THEY PUT UP AN EARLIER EPISODE BY ACCIDENT?

Fuck this show SUCKS. Fuck the show runner holy shit

The moral compass of the people writing this garbage is so blatantly liberal.

yeah it's a HBO show lol
who do you think subscribes to HBO

Why is Ellie so fucking stupid.

How come all of S2 disappeared from rarbg?

that doesn't make any sense psychologically

Cool opinion that's not backed by anything

so in order to forgive Abby, Ellie ought to learn to see that Abby is like herself instead and understand why killing Joel made sense (from Abby's POV)

You're out of your fucking mind if you think Abby having a "valid" reason for killing Joel would in any way make a difference for Ellie and it's preposterous you dared to write the previous sentence

What's a swore?

I'm playing the game right now. Just finished with Abby's day 3 actually.

I dunno, she kinda gets likeable in the game. Even our nigga Lev does. I wanted to a be a proper chud and dislike her, but can't for some reason. If anyway, Ellie comes off worse in Seattle imo. Druckmannistic manipulation, I guess.

I'm spoiled about the ending, of course, but it's different to see things play out yourself. I'll see how I feel about it then.

Bella is horribly miscast. I cant see them do the misery porn ending of tlou2 with bella sitting alone by herself with missing fingers trying to play the guitar and then the credits roll. She looks like a retarded down syndrome kid. It would be too cruel. The normie audience would absolutely hate it as well. What are the odds they change the ending for the show entirely? Theyve already changed so much.

Ellie was more of a cunt than usual in this flashback. Did she not get her period until she was 19? What a piece of shit.

it's just a fictional premise you have to accept, like there being fungal zombies that survive for decades without food
To the characters, their belief is that there would've been a cure, and so the drama plays out based on that.

that scene in the rocket where it shows Bella's mouth open from the side and her teeth are sticking out

Bongbros...

Why does she swear with the energy of a 12 year old trying to sound badass and hardcore?
She's a fucking bong, she should know how to swear casually.

straight

buff as fuck

beats up infected barehanded

conquer her fear of heights

avengers her father

escapes the shithole that is Seattle

Abby is the MVP of Part II

imo ellie definitely continues the vengeance beyond reason because she's also mad at herself for how she treated joel and how she didn't get to forgive him

i want to remake tlou with millie as abby and me as joel if you catch my drift

To be fair the oldest fungus on Earth is at least 2.5 thousand years old and all it needed was some soil and tree roots.

Too bad she can't stealth dab on clickety-clackers (or buff Seraphites) without a shiv though.

daily calorie norm in a single serving alone

Good. My latina wife is gaining weight so she can bear strong and healthy children for me.

People survived it back in the stone age and the iron age. They had no medical knowledge or resources to speak of.
It’s the post apocalypse but they have antibiotics, alcohol swabs, they can do basic surgery and understand what signs of infection are.
Over time your body will try to either expel the foreign bodies, pushing them to the surface, or encapsulate them in nodules as they tear tissue around them. Lots of people walking around with shrapnel even with modern medicine.

Shut up, Anakin's character was perfect

I was shot in the back of my hand with a high powered BB gun and it got lodged in me. Sometimes I could feel my body pushing it towards my skin. Eventually it got to the surface and looked like a flesh colored pimple. I lanced it and out came the BB. Took like ten years though.

because it's obvious in both the game and the show that they would've made it. Your refusal to accept it borders on mental illness. Imagine fighting a plotpoint from the video game so desperately for 5 years just because you didn't like it

Flashback episodes are the worst.
This show sucks now.

she's seventeen you sick fuck

lmao

Chudbros...how we cope now?

abby is very likeable desu

The Lalo of Us

mfw no ziegler

The game only explains that Joel believed in it. "Maybe, I was starting to buy into that whole... cure business, or maybe I was trying to do right by her"
The writers have never officially said that it would work, we just know that Joel believed it would have and if im being honest thats enough for the story to work.

entire threads of gentiles trying to rationalize jewish "morality"

Lol

The only thing I'm here is Moner posting. Don't care about the rest.

Thanks for the honesty Ranjesh, you're all right

The story was solid before they turned Ellie into a dyke and made the series about lgbt propaganda

abby being likeable is the entire point
you're replaying joel and ellie but it's abby and lev
don't let insane tlou2 haters confuse you, the game is good

I'm still mad the halo TV show was so shit. Like what the fuck. Imagine if they made a decent gears of war show that would be awesome. Ik current year it will never happen though

That's why I keep saying the game was too ambitious. They made Abby less attractive on purpose (among other things) but it all relies on people willing to give her a chance, or at least stick with it to the end. I mean it all worked for me but the game would've enjoyed more success if it compromised.

Shame you got spoiled, I was taken for a ride the first time I played the game. My jaw dropped when I realised I'm going to re-live the 3 days but as Abby

The game wasn't good either, The Last of Us 2 was The Last Jedi of video games and likewise the narrative that it was a high concept masterpiece which transcended puerile low media literacy chud fanboys was the death throes of a journalism sector that's all but gone extinct since.

Top of the line AMD x3d chip

5090

2x aw3423f

5 thousand dollar UST projector

2k screen

Speak for yourself, poor

Damn buddy, must have been quite a shocker.

Also Jesus, imagine all that insane stuff Abby goes through, the rat king, everything on the island, and then she comes back to the aquarium with dead Mel and Owen.

When she says to Ellie, "we let you live and you wasted it", it's a really strong line.

The cure crap is retarded, zombies wants to kill you and eat you anyways.
This episode was terrible, they could have used the radio to make him call, Joel and Ellie are both retarded in the tv show

king henry the vth got shot right in the fucking eye and they managed to pull it out and save him idk

Great acting by Pedro desu.

The third season was literally greenlit at the end of the first season. How is that even possible? I swear it's some jewish plot to make it so every single series has three years between seasons now. What is so hard about filming these things every year?

When she says to Ellie, "we let you live and you wasted it", it's a really strong line.

eh it's a bit corny and contrived.
generally by that point in the game, characters are just behaving like extensions of Druckmann anyway.
remember that Abby just randomly decides to not kill Ellie and Dina and Tommy because Lev shouts "Abby!" at her. it's like she already knows that killing Jesse is going to be enough to shock the player. not great character writing.

She was hitting the gym for hawkgirl but i guess her diet of chicken and broccoli activated her latina genes