The Last of Us HBO series to debut January 15, 2023

[Nicky91]

https://hbowatch.com/the-last-of-us-sets-debut-date-for-january-15-2023/



starring Pedro Pascal as Joel, Bella Ramsay as Ellie




also starring Gabriel Luna as Tommy, Anna Torv as Tess, Merle Dandridge as Marlene

Nick Offerman as Bill



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_Us_(TV_series)




very much looking forward to this

[Mystic Mock]

Hopefully it's better than a certain other HBO Show that I've watched recently.

[Zizu]

Great … yet another ‘feel good‘ series … NOT !!

Great timing



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[Nicky91]

i got high expectations for this, mainly because i know the game through and through


and something already teased

they are having couple of changes from the game, no Pittsburgh but some other city Kansas City with Henry & Sam

and also a original character named Perry whom is played by the one who is the voice of Tommy in the game, Jeffrey Pierce, same goes for Florence & Marlon a married couple, also original characters, as well as Kathleen another original character, leader of revolutionary movement in Kansas City

a bigger role for the character Maria apparently than in the game

[Mystic Mock]

Great … yet another ‘feel good‘ series … NOT !!

Great timing



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Feel good series was so 2015.

But seriously I agree with you, most TV Shows nowadays are so glum, especially if they're American made.

[arista]

Lost in Darkness,
After a Pandemic destroys civilization,
a survivor takes charge of a 14 year old girl
who may be humanity's last hope.

First Showing 2AM Monday early

Then 9PM

90mins first episode


Episode 1 of 9


https://wp.inews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/SEI_139709463.jpg?crop=0px%2C254px%2C2500px%2C1411 px&resize=640%2C360

[Mystic Mock]

I wonder how much they'll butcher the Video Game.

It is Hollywood after all.

[arista]

Before the Credits start
that go to TV studio in USA
back in 1968.

Episode 1

10 Outta 10 Thriller


I recorded the 2AM broadcast

[Nicky91]

episode 1

OMG this is amazing :clap1: :clap1: :clap1: :clap1:

some scenes perfect similarities to the video game, quite a lot of new scene content too, Pedro as for ep1 is a perfect casting for Joel, Gabriel so far what i've seen from him as Tommy, also a very good casting, he played his first scenes perfectly well

the Tess actress looks older than in the video game but somehow i don't quite dislike that, she and Joel fit better together here in this series than they already did in the video game

also nice we have extra dialogue for some of the FEDRA soldiers in Boston QZ compared to the game



cannot wait for next weeks episode 2 :D

[Nicky91]

9.6 rating on imdb, for this first episode


whew the flavour :flutter: house of the dragon could nevah

[Crimson Dynamo]

IMBD 9.5 :shocked:

[Nicky91]

97% on rotten tomatoes :)

[arista]

Episode 2

2AM Showing

10 Outta 10


Before the Credits Start
we are far away in another nation
in 2003

[user104658]

I wonder if they're going to diverge from the plotline of TLOU2? Fans will lose their **** if it goers the same way :laugh:. Although, there's a fairly large time jump (5+ years I think) between the two games, so in theory they could have several seasons of "their own thing" between the end of TLOU1 and beginning of TLOU2 and still eventually "go there".

For those who already know the plot of TLOU2 or don't care about potential major spoilers:
Joel gets his brains bashed in by the daughter of someone he killed in the first game, within the first hour or so of the 2nd game :joker: ... can you imagine the reaction of new TV show fans who haven't played the games? Daddy Joel! It would be like the Negan/Glenn scene all over again.

A lot of people hate on the game purely because of that. And because ...half way through the game they switch perspectives and you spend a huge chunk of time playing as his killer (Abby). I personally think she's a great character and the plotline is a good commentary on there being no real "good guys or bad guys" only different perspectives, and on the ultimate futility of cycles of revenge, but boy oh boy did some people hate the fact that Joel died (and Abby for killing him... and the voice actress who played Abby because people are stupid and misogynistic).

If a muscular lady in her early 20's shows up with a golf club in the HBO ... :laugh: ...there's going to be fireworks.

In fact... thinking about it... the "basement scene" is far MORE brutal than the infamous Negan baseball bat scene.

[Niamh.]

I don't know the plot really but I know certain things because my son played it and liked to talk about it :laugh:

I know in the game Eddie Vedders song Future Days featured, Luke learned to play it on the guitar and all but he's said it won't be in the TV Show because they changed the time line in the show to 2003 instead of 2013 like the game so the song wouldn't have been released yet which is a bit disappointing

Anyway, I'm enjoying the show so far, the 2nd episode was really good, the fungus Zombies are gruesome

[Cherie]

Its too similar to the Walking Dead for my liking will stick with another ep though

[Niamh.]

Its too similar to the Walking Dead for my liking will stick with another ep though

Do you think it's similar? I don't really other than that it's about Zombies. Even the Zombies though are a lot different to the walking dead Zombies with the fungus element (which adds an extra layer of grossness plus the way they can call each other under the ground etc) The civilization is pretty different too plus the fact that Ellie is immune

[arista]

I do not.


It is as future Virus
Tracked way back


Not the Walking Dead

Also a Young Girl
that has the secret to survive

[Niamh.]

I do not.


It is as future Virus
Tracked way back


Not the Walking Dead

Also a Young Girl
that has the secret to survive

Yeah agree, I think it's a really fresh spin on a genre that can get very samey actually

[Cherie]

Do you think it's similar? I don't really other than that it's about Zombies. Even the Zombies though are a lot different to the walking dead Zombies with the fungus element (which adds an extra layer of grossness plus the way they can call each other under the ground etc) The civilization is pretty different too plus the fact that Ellie is immune

Yeah I suppose the storyline is different but the filler is the same, bitten by horrendous looking things and fighting them off :laugh:

[Niamh.]

Yeah I suppose the storyline is different but the filler is the same, bitten by horrendous looking things and fighting them off :laugh:

Well yeah but it is a Zombie show, that's like saying all Vampire shows/films are the same because the Vampires suck blood in all of them :smug:

[Zizu]

Well yeah but it is a Zombie show, that's like saying all Vampire shows/films are the same because the Vampires suck blood in all of them :smug:


True Blood was a fabulous series and I enjoyed the Twilight saga .. lost interest in the Vampire Diaries though


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[Niamh.]

True Blood was a fabulous series and I enjoyed the Twilight saga .. lost interest in the Vampire Diaries though


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True Blood was excellent alright, my favourite of the Vampire TV shows. I lost interest in Vampire Diaries after a few seasons as well. The Twilight Saga got more awful with each installment I thought

[Zizu]

True Blood was excellent alright, my favourite of the Vampire TV shows. I lost interest in Vampire Diaries after a few seasons as well. The Twilight Saga got more awful with each installment I thought


I loved the first Twilight then last summer I watched the whole saga over 5 nights and just got carried along


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[Nicky91]

nothing similar to the walking dead at all


also these clickers are way creepier than walkers :worry:

i struggled big time with those in the game, they are blind but their hearing is extra extra good


and then you also have bigger ones Bloaters, which spit fungus spores from its mouth :yuk:



also the cycle of the infected begins with a simple ''runner'' then ''clicker'' and those who get really old ''bloater''



Pedro is a great choice for Joel, wow :clap1:

[Nicky91]

upcoming episode 3
will introduce us to the live action's Bill, and more from the character ''Frank'' whom didn't have any lines in the game, and we will also see the bigger bloaters for first time in live action


1 hour and 20 minutes length

[arista]

upcoming episode 3
will introduce us to the live action's Bill, and more from the character ''Frank'' whom didn't have any lines in the game, and we will also see the bigger bloaters for first time in live action


1 hour and 20 minutes length



Yes Clever longer
episode they go back in time
to meet the Fella with a good Security
set up at his Home.

Yes, they have expanded the story
for a reason

[UserSince2005]

why she dead?

[arista]

why she dead?


Who?

[UserSince2005]

Who?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64450133

[arista]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64450133


Yes an Actress sadly Died
who starred in Video Game,
not this TV series

More Famous in Star Trek

I thought you were talking about a Character

[UserSince2005]

Yes an Actress sadly Died
who starred in Video Game,
not this TV series

More Famous in Star Trek

I thought you were talking about a Character

Oh sorry I thought she was famous ignore me.

[Niamh.]

It was a good episode but it almost felt like it's own little sad movie, odd that we meet them, get to know them and then they both die at the end of the episode just so (as I read someone else put it) Joel & Ellie could get a few supplies?

[Cherie]

Now I loved last nights ep :clap1: only one zombie and he was under a heap of bricks :laugh:

[arista]

Now I loved last nights ep :clap1: only one zombie and he was under a heap of bricks :laugh:


Yes Clever to extend
it all for a reason.



Glad the Young Girl now has her own Gun
in her bag, hidden

[Nicky91]

yes good to extend Bill's story but he should've lived (like in the game)

can't believe they ruined the fate of one of my fave characters in the game :bawling:



also such a perfect casting, i mean wow exactly similar


now we do not get the epic scene at the school in live action :bawling: :bawling: Bill saving Joel's arse in the fight against the first bloater



it was a good episode but i do not agree with some choices, that's all

[Nicky91]

It was a good episode but it almost felt like it's own little sad movie, odd that we meet them, get to know them and then they both die at the end of the episode just so (as I read someone else put it) Joel & Ellie could get a few supplies?

in the game, Bill saves Joel when he gets caught in one of his traps and loads of clickers, runners are cornering them, and the bunker in below a church in the game, and they have to get to the school in search for a working car battery, some really cool scenes those

[Niamh.]

I don't want to open that now Nicky if it is an actual spoiler :p But I'll take it as there is a reason for the story later on?

[Nicky91]

I don't want to open that now Nicky if it is an actual spoiler :p But I'll take it as there is a reason for the story later on?

if you haven't played the game before then yes it is a bit of a spoiler for that

i really don't know now anymore where the tv series will go in which direction compared to the game


but characters wise, let's just say, the worst scum is yet to come, and one of those is played by video game voice actor of Joel :fan: and we also still have Ellie's backstory to come, her mom being played by her video game voice actress :laugh: and i cannot wait for Rutina Wesley her first appearance as Maria, Tommy's wife/girlfriend over at jackson, i always liked Rutina on True Blood so am curious about her role as Maria which also is said to be larger role than in the game

[Niamh.]

No I haven't played the game, my son has so he had mentioned some things while he was playing like I assumed Tess would die because I knew it was Joel and Ellie travelling alone

[Niamh.]

Episode 4 was ok, I would have liked some Zombie action though

[Mystic Mock]

It was a good episode but it almost felt like it's own little sad movie, odd that we meet them, get to know them and then they both die at the end of the episode just so (as I read someone else put it) Joel & Ellie could get a few supplies?

From what I have read it sounds like filler to me.

I haven't watched the Show yet though, so maybe there's more than just the romance element in the episode.

And just to clarify for anyone that thinks that I'm being Homophobic, I hated the shipping episodes in TWD and Falling Skies as well.

[Cherie]

Plenty Zombie action this week for you Neem

[Niamh.]

Plenty Zombie action this week for you Neem

yay :hee:

[arista]

Another Great Episode

[Swan]

Just caught up with this. Loving it so far.

[arista]

I love it.

[bots]

ive just started it

[Swan]

I love it.

ive just started it

It's honestly fantastic, and been cast perfectly.

[arista]

Tonights episode
is the Young Girl
long flashback

[bots]

i couldn't get into this at all, it's just not my cup of tea

[Nicky91]

was a nice episode, the attention for detail comparing to the game :love:

Dawn of the Wolf ''film'' poster is also seen in the main game, ''Left Behind'' the title of this ep, is the title of the bonus DLC game



if this continues to follow the game's storyline then next episode indeed will be good fun with the sickening cannibal villains, David & James :yuk: James has a bigger role apparently than in the game, more dialogue and is played by the voice actor of Joel in the game, Troy Baker while David is played by Scott Shepherd whom is known for his roles in El Camino: breaking bad movie, Bridge of Spies, and in Dark Phoenix



also A-Ha's Take On Me also in this ep :love: something what Ellie sings in the game with her guitar :love:


lots of fun easter eggs

[Niamh.]

Kind of a boring episode I thought

[Cherie]

Kind of a boring episode I thought

same it dragged on a bit too much for my liking

[Niamh.]

same it dragged on a bit too much for my liking

I understand the point of having the flash backs for context and all that but

It's the second time now they've devoted whole episodes to getting to know characters just to kill them off at the end, it's kind of annoying

[Nicky91]

same it dragged on a bit too much for my liking

if you don't know the game, ok fair enough


but i found it a very emotional one :bawling::bawling::bawling:

both Ellie and Riley being bit, thinking these are their last moments alive, and in the end Riley dying but Ellie discovering her immunity

[Nicky91]

I understand the point of having the flash backs for context and all that but

It's the second time now they've devoted whole episodes to getting to know characters just to kill them off at the end, it's kind of annoying

well
Bill wasn't supposed to die though, that was a original choice for the tv series for whatever reason, Bill still lives in the game (very likely too given he has traps all over that town and loads of ammo in the bunker below the church)

[Niamh.]

well
Bill wasn't supposed to die though, that was a original choice for the tv series for whatever reason, Bill still lives in the game (very likely too given he has traps all over that town and loads of ammo in the bunker below the church)

Ok but I haven't played the game and don't plan to, I'm just talking about the Show

[Swan]

It did drag a bit. But im pretty sure they're laying foundation for further seasons.

I dunno about anyone else, but for a lot of the last episode i felt i was watching an episode of Stranger Things?!

[arista]

i couldn't get into this at all, it's just not my cup of tea


Last night was a Great Episode
2AM Broadcast

Another Community
near the Girl and Man.


9PM tonight.

[Jordan.]

Why are the infected barely even featured in this show? It's more like the boring seasons of TWD than TLOU.

[Niamh.]

Why are the infected barely even featured in this show? It's more like the boring seasons of TWD than TLOU.

It was a decent episode, fair bit of action etc but I agree that there should be more infected

[arista]

The Final of this series

Episode 9 of 9

Is Great

[Niamh.]

I already knew roughly what was going to happen after she found the Fireflies because Luke told me about that when he was playing the game. Still a great episode/finale though

[Nicky91]

the infected are a side thing to the pandemic, this show isn't similar to walking dead lol

it is about surviving in a post-apocalyptic world with all sorts of different settlements, groups

- FEDRA
- Fireflies
- Raiders
- several Independent settlements, including the one in Jackson
- Hunters
- Cannibals


as for the monsters you got couple of types

category 1: runner
category 2: clicker
category 3: bloater
category 4: yet to be revealed it's name but there is something worse than a bloater, some who have been infected for a long long time



it was a great season finale yes, great acting performance, also the scene with the giraffes (i was like almost like jurassic park with the brachio's, when i first saw this in the game, perfectly acted here in this episode too :love:) the innocence especially is highlighted here in that particular scene, a small bit of innocence in such a hard cruel world

[user104658]

:nono: Nicky you've not been reading the in-game literature! The 4 stages are

Runners
Stalkers
Clickers
Bloaters

an "offshoot" stage (somewhere between clickers and bloaters) are the "Shamblers" from TLOU2.

Plus there's "The Rat King" which is the giant mutated infected from the hospital basement that Abby fights, created by several infected being trapped in a small space for 20 years and merging into one.

There might be new variations in TLOU3 that don't exist yet (I'm expecting another 5 year time jump personally).

[Cherie]

Loved the finale

[bots]

i didn't make it past the 3rd episode, i didn't like a single thing about the show :laugh:

[Zizu]

i didn't make it past the 3rd episode, i didn't like a single thing about the show :laugh:


I’m kinda struggling with Django .. most of it is watchable but then they throw in the odd ridiculous scene


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[Nicky91]

:nono: Nicky you've not been reading the in-game literature! The 4 stages are

Runners
Stalkers
Clickers
Bloaters

an "offshoot" stage (somewhere between clickers and bloaters) are the "Shamblers" from TLOU2.

Plus there's "The Rat King" which is the giant mutated infected from the hospital basement that Abby fights, created by several infected being trapped in a small space for 20 years and merging into one.

There might be new variations in TLOU3 that don't exist yet (I'm expecting another 5 year time jump personally).

oh yes :laugh: knew that but had forgotten bloater was 4th stage