Tried to watch it but couldn't get through ep 1
In three tries. The high IMDB rating is puzzling.
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Ep 3 was the only good episode. The other episodes are so draggy and the dialogue is flat. Then a bunch of mad max extras or zombies crash around for awhile, someone cool dies and we are back to the mumbling, stilted dialogue of Joel and Elli.
shareI concur. Last of Us is such crap. Horrible pacing, characters who are UGLY and I don’t care about. Story that makes little sense. Too many F words for no reason. After episode four with Miss Squeaky as an apparently much feared leader, I was out.
I’m watching Alice in Borderland on Netflix now and it is SO much better! Great action, hot chicks, compelling characters, solid pacing and suspense. And NO woke or rainbowy BS. Asian fight scenes, many fun twists and Squid Games-like sequences. And none of the skinny-woman-able-to-beat-muscular-guy-all-the-time nonsense. When the hot chicks fight that way, they get pulverized pretty convincingly. And who says since it’s a quasi-apocalyptic workd, you still can’t look smoking hot? Even the guys are charismatic (for the lady viewers, episode 2 has this leader guy who goes around butt-naked. Literally).
Yeah, for good post-apocalyptic fare, watch Asian shows instead…. (Exception, Black Summer is a GREAT zombie apocalypse show on Netfilx and it’s in English….mostly).
And none of the skinny-woman-able-to-beat-muscular-guy-all-the-time nonsense.
Kuina
And NO woke or rainbowy BS.
Would Kuina not be a little bit "wokish"?
Also I'm not sure where you get the idea that TLOU, at least so far, is full of "skinny women able to beat muscular guy all the time nonsense" share
If you watch the whole show, especially 2nd season, you’ll see that Kuina loses frequently when matched against competent fighters, not the average, unskilled civilian, such as me.
TLOU has no skinny women. My comment was about the overall state of the industry. I’ll give it a pass if the gal has superpowers or a weapon that equalizes things, but hand-to-hand? Unless she’s Gina Carano in Haywire, I think not.
Yeah, I know TLOU is not that kind of action show. But it’s still disappointing, for me. Glad you enjoy it, though.
If you watch the whole show, especially 2nd season, you’ll see that Kuina loses frequently when matched against competent fighters, not the average, unskilled civilian, such as me.
She's also trans. Is that not "woke" per your logic? share
I don’t remember from Season One. It was suggested in her devotion to Ann in season two, but they didn’t hit us on the head with it.
Anyway, we’re drifting away from the main point, which is that TLOU is not very good. I gave some random thoughts, which if we break down to very element thought is this - TLOU is just not fun. It’s neither tense or scary enough to offset its very depressed dreariness.
I don’t mind dreariness. HBO has some great great series with this tone, like Kate Winslet in Mare of Easttown. Or the True Detective series. Catch them if you can!
On a side note, I really liked the first girl on TLOU. She should have been the lead. She brought a level of cheer that completely evaporated from the show after she was gone. Really a shame….
Kuina is literally a transwoman. They did a backstory on her lol. How do you not find that "woke"?
Not that Alice in Borderland is really similar at all to TLOU. Two very different TV shows.
I’ll take your word for it, because I don’t remember that far back for Kuina. I liked her just fine no matter what.
I think a closer analogy for TLOU would be with Z Nation. Both feature someone with immunity that people are trying to save. But whereas Z Nation had pacing, humor, actual zombies in daylight where you could see them, and for long sequences at a time! TLOU is just bleak and unevenly paced and seemed to adopt the Walking Dead later-episodes trend of having people standing around and talking / arguing, a LOT, with only an occasional zombie.
I don’t know how closely TLOU follows the masterpiece video game, perhaps someone can enlighten, but the TV show surely can’t be it!
https://youtu.be/bzKr4Rt_kI8?t=297 Timestamped.
Why doesn't her being trans bother you?
I think a closer analogy for TLOU would be with Z Nation. Both feature someone with immunity that people are trying to save. But whereas Z Nation had pacing, humor, actual zombies in daylight where you could see them, and for long sequences at a time! TLOU is just bleak and unevenly paced and seemed to adopt the Walking Dead later-episodes trend of having people standing around and talking / arguing, a LOT, with only an occasional zombie.
Z-Nation was a joke of a series. It was just fun, but shit. It was a comedy. TLOU is not supposed to be a comedy. TLOU is actually more comparable to Station Eleven.
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Yes Z Nation was a joke, but kinda fun first few seasons.
Thanks for the clip. I remember it now! Actually, I liked Kuina just fine. Probably because the character was well-rounded, was NOT defined just by sexuality and contributed to the team by her skills. Plus, the actress was cute and young.
Contrast that with TLOU. Two old white guys, one overweight. Neither very attractive. The backstory was actually tender, and I could have accepted them as support, recurring cast, except….it just ended! Dead! Done! No more! So, what was the whole point of episode 3? How did it contribute to the overall story arc, other than providing transportation (this could have been conveyed iin a 1/4 of the run time).
Basically, it pulls the rug out from audience’s feet. The take home message becomes - here is a story of two gay guys we just decided to shoe in. That’s not respectful of what the target audience expects, and that can be offensive. Don’t subvert your audiences’ expectation too much for a personal agenda, or the final product becomes compromised.
If I want to see Mafia film like Godfather, I don’t expect anyone to break out in a Bollywood musical number in the middle. If I want to see Jackie Chan, I expect to see martial arts, not a trades negotiation embargo. If I want to see a politcal drama like JFK or All the President’s Men, I don’t don’t want to see Keystone Kops having a pie fight shoveled in.
Contrast that with TLOU. Two old white guys, one overweight. Neither very attractive. The backstory was actually tender, and I could have accepted them as support, recurring cast, except….it just ended! Dead! Done! No more! So, what was the whole point of episode 3? How did it contribute to the overall story arc, other than providing transportation (this could have been conveyed iin a 1/4 of the run time).
Yeah sure, I get that complaint - but that is not the usual complaint many people have. They simply whine that it's two gay people. And by the way, a relatively unusual depiction of gay people in media. share
Nice attention span you got there
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