The Last of Us Reaction | Season 1 Episode 2 | “Infected”
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Introduction: 0:00 – 8:27
Reaction: 8:28- 36:04
Discussion/Review: 36:05 – 48:11
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Also holy crud, there might not be spores and masks like in the game, but this is way scarier. If they introduce spores it'll just be as "So, they grew spores and humans went extinct." like dam man. Those clickers are terrifying and their whole body is armored.
42:26 Her death is the game came in the form of bullets and a firefight by herself as Joel and Ellie left so to see how she went out here i definitely was stunned and surprised by it, idk which i'd prefer, cuz this way shes actually taking out the huge group of enemies off of Joel while in the game she didnt but the way she went out was very awful and disgusting, pretty much kissing a corpse, but i get it, its trying to spread and i believe if she would have resisted then the horde would have all attacked her, but still, gosh, i rather she had one of the grenades and pulled the pin once the Stalker was making advances towards her, but stress of the moment she prolly didnt think that through. Either way, knowing the full game and the DLC, i really enjoy the word for word plot from the game and scenes, AND i love the parts where they change the story abit, like the plane crash instead of another car, and how Robert died before Joel got there rather then Tess being the one to kill him in the game.
Let’s all give Pudgy a round of applause for crying on command and looking off to the side, in a mirror or monitor to see if her acting looks good on camera. Uggh!!!
8:33 His moment to shine 😂
I think all that caked up makeup and sun rays have really melted any slight IQ that girlfriend once had.
I completed the game 3 times, I remember everything and I am still shocked and completely invested in the series. It is written very very well. They do add their own little things but having played the game has absolutely not taken anything away from the show.
I didnt like the zombie kiss scene, i dont care what anyone says, if you were Tess you would have turned your head away you wouldnt just let it fungus kiss you. Regardless if you are trying to save them. I think they should have made it focus on her wound and trying to infect that, not as shocking but more realistic.
I'd say that the acting and scenes in the game were more powerful.. It's not at all that the series is at all bad.. It's that the game had years of production, so the lines they wrote and acted were basically perfected.. The show didn't get the same time. But that's the issue with watching it as a TLOU fan, I know that I'm more critiquing it than enjoying a fresh story.. I think I know how Game of Thrones bookreaders felt while watching that show, its a different level of enjoyment.
Great reaction! Great KISS!! I am a US Army Combat Medic Veteran, I did 2 tours in Iraq and work as a paramedic in NYC for the last 14 years. I have seen some shit, but that was horror! So cool!! That had me with tingles!
I tell you why she had to die that way instead of blowing up, it made the disease more real, gave you a glimpse into how the zombies work, and "YOU WILL NEVER FORGET THAT!!"
That director made an impression on you and that is his job!!!
Beef jerky rules:)
Oh my God HBO you made the clickers absolutely perfect how horrifying
37:27 "I knew that [Tess] would die, because I knew that a good portion of their adventure was based on Joel & Ellie alone"
Isn't that a HUGE spoiler and show-ruining revelation for viewers who haven't played the game? 🧐
Maybe some people don't want to know that in advance, and see the events and cast unfold naturally.
How is it any different from a book reader saying, after 2 episodes of GoT S1, "I knew that [random character] would go away, because I knew that a good portion of the GoT adventure was based on the Starks split up and alone" But for first-time watchers who didn't read the books, NONE of that has happened onscreen yet!
It's basically making an implicit statement about character arcs and where they will end up, the depth of other relationships before they've happened, how to focus attention in terms of plot and identified main protagonists, how attached the viewer should be to characters who have yet to show up, and how invested the viewer should be in events and interactions that haven't even happened yet.
I'm normally am a fan of your reactions in general, but this was an unfortunate slip of the tongue IMO…
The performances are so great
"Can't blame the guy… he lost everything in one go." The backstory for Tess that's not revealed in the game or the series… But from interviews with the programme creators we find out that her husband and son were infected in Detroit. She killed her husband but couldn't bring herself to kill her son so she locked him in her basement. When he turned she had to listen to him bang at the door trying to get out throughout the night. The infected that 'kissed' Tess is a 'Stalker' stage two infected. Stalkers are sneaky, sneaky and lay in wait.Tess likely couldn't resist the kiss because she was using her last moments of free will to light the zippo. Tess asked Joel to take Ellie to "Bill & Frank and they would take her from there." You might remember Ellie ask who Bill and Frank were in episode one (they were the ones with the list of 60s, 70s and 80s music code). Tess' death was different in the game. Same place, same time, same bite and much of the same dialogue, but it was a shootout with FEDRA soldiers where Tess sacrificed herself to give Joel and Ellie time to get away. As soon as Ellie said "… 6,7,8 f*** you" she became Ellie to me." I think the thing about Sarah's buck knife and Ellie's switchblade was to show the difference between Sarah's innocence with a knife being something she was not used to, and Ellie's familiarity with the knife as a weapon.
You are both right because Jakarta is capital of Indonesia.
Fun fact: Jakarta had the world's largest flour mill in 2003. So flour and yeast equals starter culture for the fungus. And everyone in the world eats bread! That flour was already out in the world as sarah's death etc was only 2 days later.
gosh pudgey….
Runners can see. Clickers can’t.
damn, mean Spartan
37:55 "Butterflies"
remember, dead persons wont be infected. the infection takes over people who's alive. the fungus needs a living body. so the already dead will not reanimate such as your "regular zombie".
The song at the end just signifies the coming danger from leaving the qz. No Tommy nothing deeper than it’s very dangerous outside the walls
disgusting horror is body horror, man… watch Hellraiser sometime.
Biggg spartan and pudgey guy here! Came for the original game of thrones reactions and I’m here to stay. Love what you guys do. Love your dynamic! Keep doing what your doing
i think that scientist at the beginning wanted to be with her family because she was sacrificing herself and the entire city. She wanted to be with her fam before the bombs fell all over them. She was absolutely selfless because she preferred that sacrifice than to see the virus break out towards the rest of the world
@25:34– 25:39 pun intended ? 🤔
For me, Tess's death was far more powerful in the game, and I've never even played it. I just watched a ton of playthroughs because I love this story. I'm in the minority who feels underwhelmed by the show. But I don't want to criticize too much because I don't want to be associated with the toxic faction of the fandom.
That said, none of the story beats that we've seen from the game so far, have hit me emotionally in the show. When I heard they were adapting TLOU into a show, I was excited because I love this story, and I was really eager to see HBO develop the supporting characters. I personally feel that in order for us to be attached to the supporting characters, we needed to spend more time with them.
By that, I mean that the show probably needed to take so bold step that divert dramatically from the game. Like, make us spend time and follow other characters from different factions, with Ellie & Joel being the main thread. To put it differently, IMO, all the supporting characters needed to have an arc, an emotional journey they go through, but it seems that that is only reserved for Joel & Ellie. If the other characters don't have a journey, it's really hard to get attached to them.
that's why the game was so special when you realize you're crying within the first 20 mins of the intro, they're doing a good job with the live adaptation so far
Edit: Also your reactions to big moments like Sarah/Tess's death scene from the game would be interesting
Heh, glad to see other countries are as good with our geography as we are with theirs. 😛 Ah yes, Boston, Michigan. 😂😂😂
I can see why Pedro Pascal was willing to quit The Mandalorian to star in this show.
The knife in episode one was meant to show Joel’s combat experience paired with the combat veteran sticker on the truck. It’s alluding to Joel’s past, not really tied to the game/show events.
The knife was JOEL's. Not Sarah's. It was a manual folding knife. She is NOT the owner. She is admiring the art on it but also afraid of it as she handles it delicately. (It may also have emotional significance, we may find out later that it was her moms.)
Ellies knife is a TOOL, like a fork. It is a Automatic Switchblade. She is NOT afraid of it. She twirls it around carelessly. NOT delicately.
When Joel kills the old lady, Sarah reacts with horror. She is upset. she is repulsed by Joel's action on her behalf
When Joel kills the guard, Ellie is NOT upset. She is intrigued. She is drawn to Joel's actions on her behalf
Narrative Contrast.
Since they revised the way the infection spread, were just gonna assume that sus "kiss" scene at the end was the fungis way of assimilating. Since at this point we know all the infected are connected to each other. Tess was already infected and was a mere minutes from turning. The infected knew this hence not attacking her. It was still weird tho.
Man! Main characters die more quickly here than in Game of Thrones!
You guys should do a TLOU 1 & 2 playthrough! Spartan can refresh his memory and Pudgey can experience a masterpiece of a game for the first time.
It started at a flour factory in Jakarta which sold flour around the world, Sarah and Tommy didn’t have pancakes, Joel didn’t eat the neighbours bisuits, Sarah didn’t eat the raisin cookies and Joel forgot the cake. Well that was lucky.