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Post by ganews on Jan 29, 2023 22:36:01 GMT -5
I never played this game but I am enjoying the heck out of this show. Two Game of Thrones regulars cast into the lead roles: Pedro Pascal as a haunted but resourceful man in a post-pandemic-apocalypse world, Bella Ramsey as a very 14-year-old girl.
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Post by ganews on Jan 29, 2023 22:41:14 GMT -5
S1E1. The kid has some kind of immunity to the killer zombie fungus. Pedro Pascal and his surely-doomed ladyfriend have to escort her past new-fascist-government soldiers to rebels trying to develop a cure. Kind of generic plotting really, but well done and enough to keep going. Love the opening credits which are modeled on slime mold. (Look up the PBS Nova episode on slime molds, they are fascinating.)
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Post by ganews on Jan 29, 2023 22:45:41 GMT -5
S1E2. The first real fungus zombie attack. The makeup is great! Clearly modeled on the ants that get taken over by fungal parasite and grow a stalk out of their heads. Doomed lady is indeed doomed. I wonder if it would have been easier to pull a pin on a grenade to start that explosion? Those release shrapnel not fireballs, but a lighter dropped onto a gasoline spill is not very reliable either.
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Post by ganews on Jan 29, 2023 22:50:52 GMT -5
S1E3. Mostly an extended flashback interlude but well worth your time. Nick Offerman submits for a guest star Emmy, playing a paranoid prepper who builds a self-sufficient compound but encounters a man who becomes his husband and gives him a life and a reason to survive. They go all the way to the end together. If you don't tear up at this you have no soul. In the present day Pedro Pascal gets gear and a truck for the journey west.
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Post by Djse (and a Sack of Cats) on Jan 31, 2023 19:40:07 GMT -5
Approximately where I lost my shit watching S1E3 after barely holding it together for most of the last third of the episode:  Seriously, one of the most moving episodes of television I've ever watched. I was NOT prepared to feel this way about this show. |
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Feb 1, 2023 8:56:20 GMT -5
Approximately where I lost my shit watching S1E3 after barely holding it together for most of the last third of the episode: Seriously, one of the most moving episodes of television I've ever watched. I was NOT prepared to feel this way about this show. Max Richter is partially to blame for me losing my shit several times this episode. |
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Post by ganews on Feb 1, 2023 9:20:37 GMT -5
Love the opening credits which are modeled on slime mold. (Look up the PBS Nova episode on slime molds, they are fascinating.) True Facts comes out with a very timely and conveniently shorter video:
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Post by ganews on Feb 5, 2023 22:09:00 GMT -5
80s songs mean trouble, cf. the credits.
The music director on this show is doing a nice job.
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Post by ganews on Feb 19, 2023 22:53:20 GMT -5
(Joel explaining his past job) "Yeah, we were cool. Everyone loved contractors."
Best joke of the series.
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Post by ganews on Mar 8, 2023 16:46:29 GMT -5
Frankly I'm disappointed that the latest villain, the preacher, turned out to be just a pedophile. They set up an interesting gray-zone antagonist, a desperate but genuine person trying to hold his group together. There's nothing else to suggest how he managed to amass these followers. (At least Melanie Lynskey's character had the motivation of revenge.) The Donner Party setting definitely suggested that cannibalism would be in the cards, but then not even slaughtering the deer makes no sense - it just makes him more the monster, in case pedophilia wasn't enough. The reveal that the guy is a gleeful pedophile was like fast-forwarding the tape. If it had been slower, maybe it wouldn't be such a boring story choice. I guess it's another casualty of the episodic nature of the game.
At least we got to see Ellie seriously kick ass. The episode is also pretty clear that Joel and Ellie might be the protagonists but they are not good people, in case you forgot. Otherwise, it's the weakest episode since they left Boston. Real let-down after last week's brilliant flashback episode.
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Mar 10, 2023 12:39:08 GMT -5
Frankly I'm disappointed that the latest villain, the preacher, turned out to be just a pedophile. They set up an interesting gray-zone antagonist, a desperate but genuine person trying to hold his group together. There's nothing else to suggest how he managed to amass these followers. (At least Melanie Lynskey's character had the motivation of revenge.) The Donner Party setting definitely suggested that cannibalism would be in the cards, but then not even slaughtering the deer makes no sense - it just makes him more the monster, in case pedophilia wasn't enough. The reveal that the guy is a gleeful pedophile was like fast-forwarding the tape. If it had been slower, maybe it wouldn't be such a boring story choice. I guess it's another casualty of the episodic nature of the game. At least we got to see Ellie seriously kick ass. The episode is also pretty clear that Joel and Ellie might be the protagonists but they are not good people, in case you forgot. Otherwise, it's the weakest episode since they left Boston. Real let-down after last week's brilliant flashback episode. The scene with him and the dead guy's daughter earlier was definitely foreshadowing his actual nature, really fucking creepy "you still have a father" shit there and her look in response. |
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