EFAP TV: Reacting to The Last of Us: Episode 1: When You're Lost in the Darkness

hello and welcome to efap TV this is actually the first TV for about what to be really welcome to we've had other ones that did release I'm weird I guess you could call this the first of the last of us we've shown people this format before and in episodes I've just we haven't had a chance to use it yet let's play it safe welcome to 2024 everybody oh there you go so weird I feel like this one deserves a little bit of Preamble right we got different levels of familiarity here the last of us the IP the wonderful wonderful IP the people seriously for one entry people adored that iPad I believe it was naughty dog's most successful game more so than even Uncharted so and you hear about it everywhere I remember I picked it up real late I was like fine I'll play this video game and then I was like that was good question mark and then I was like hmm it's funny that you said that because my experience was similar I bought it for uh the remaster for PS4 and I was like that was I really liked it but not as much as everybody else I was really bad but yes the story was strong straightforward simple but hit a lot of Beats and did so very effectively and they're doing the what is it has an archetype name like wolfen curb or something that's the thing a common yeah the disgruntled jaded old uh man going on an adventure with a kid well and it's funny to look back on right because a lot of people said God of War 2018 is just like a blatant rip-off of philosophers but now with Ragnarok it's like they've finished out their story and it's [ __ ] golden I lost let's do it again it's like shut up well I mean it's kind of funny right because it's it's the same thing where like Logan right people said it was ripping off Children of Men it's just like you know what it's just like a storytelling like format you're saying that maybe that's all it is having watched uh we just decided for the fun of it not for anything else to watch Kung Fu Panda and it's just like the reality is that simple or complicated people want to be moved people want to feel something people want to learn something about themselves or about the world so even though the last of us is really straightforward it's you know two people traveling across America right to maybe like save the world and yet so much it was derived from just those character interactions between Joel and Ellie and the people that they encounter on their adventure and how the two come to trust each other and value each other it's a really strong story and then they they made a sequel to it it's so weird because like oh yeah that was was that four years ago what the [ __ ] that was uh three years ago nearly uh 2020s yeah because and The Last of Us itself is 10 years old this year for some reason that's easier for me to swallow than than how old the last verse 2 is last was two for some reason feels like it's neither still no news it does feel new it doesn't feel like it's nearly three years old and maybe it's just yeah it seems like naughty dog has been subsumed by the last of us to the detriment or to the exclusion of anything else that they could be making um that's kind of how it feels right now because the last of us was their last new IP and that was 10 years ago and they used to make them way more frequently there'd be a new one every generation and maybe they're working on a new one but it seems like Yeah The Last of Us has become they're working on a multiplayer mode for two that they've been working on for like years they did the remaster or the Remake actually for the first one because they did the first one then they did a remaster and now they've done a remake for PS5 and now they're doing the show which um Neil druckman is directly involved in like in a major way to set the stage there you've got one a landscape of media that's not great we we're most of the time you're getting a bad thing second part it's an IP that was once beloved and is falling apart and then three it's an adaptation of a video game but an adaptation of the video game that people loved the one that everybody likes right well all I'm trying to say is that this is where we're at and of course uh just discourse has followed for that reason being like great here we go again and that's not to even include all the weird comments about the production of this thing that have that have existed it's been a strange Litany of comments about video games as a storytelling medium their merits compared to like film and television a lot of very dismissive remarks a lot of dismissive remarks about video games and other adaptations it's kind of like it's 2023 Arcane exists now and and I mean that's that's like one of many right obviously a varying quality but like there was Castlevania cyberpunk Edge Runners I mean Sonic the hedge Sonic the Hedgehog um well because it seems like at this point we are very much in the era of yeah we're gonna adapt video games because like the number of Sony ones like there's a horizon show God of War show a Gears of War show uh and film I believe and they're making Bioshock TV show movie dude it feels so weird because Bioshock gears and uh God of War they're all things I care about a lot like depending on it's all of that error you know are it's uh like the late 2000s that's kind of uh I don't think I can take anything well it's interesting because now we're in the era where they're getting the money right they're getting the money but oh F yeah why of course there was Halo as well oh yeah there was a Halo show everyone has forgotten about it or they don't want to think wow at all it seems now at this point is going to be impossible not to compare the last of us one of Sony's Flagship titles and Halo Microsoft's Flagship title and like the quality of those shows that that's going to be an inescapable conversation as is of course the nature of this adaptation too we absolutely should be getting the meme of Homer as Microsoft he's like why does it mine look like that yeah yeah it's one fine looking Barbecue Pit why doesn't mine look like that well writers and people who didn't care about Halo I was just gonna say if this is better than Halo but the thing is that is such an easy bar to pass that I'd be very surprised especially with the level of blueprint they've got to work with the relevant question obviously with this show is is it going to be great um which at least based on the initial critical reception seems to be like overwhelmingly positive like we've been hearing good things yes from audiences as well I've heard nothing but positive things this seems to be it really is a situation where it seems like all of the stars aligned for something good right you got a lot of backing behind it so there's not going to be any limitations by a way of what you want to achieve technically got a lot of great actors in the cast one of the show Runners made Chernobyl but then also you know one of the showrunners made The Last of Us Part Two but he also made the first one he made the first one too it's the thing that's probably whatever that comes up the old adage what have you done for me lately and that's that's the truth is what has he done lately but he still made the and he did work on Uncharted as well you know like he's got a resume and there's some good stuff on that resume well so that's actually one of the worries a lot of people have is that this show it may very well take a lot from last verse 1 but it's going to be tweaking it until it matches yeah better yes which it's funny that's like the right decision if you want to adapt both of them right if you want to adapt the second one to actually try and make sense of it but you are gonna piss everyone off when you do that oh it's just interesting because it's almost like it's not a retcon but it's almost like a meta retcon you know level to include the video game yeah people want the last of us to be adapted they don't want to see The Last of Us retold by Neil druckman's preferences years or later that's not what people want we at efab because you shouldn't be surprised by this Tech but if they actually did fix all of the problems in the last of us too story-wise and bound a new adapt adapted and fixed up last was one to match it it involves Joel getting killed at the golf club I'm pretty sure we said in our coverage like there is a way you could do that it's gonna be hard it's gonna be real [ __ ] hard not the way they did it in the game that's no we we've got examples of great Heroes getting killed it's it's just like the word respect keeps plowing into my mind it's like yeah you gotta [ __ ] respect them you can't do it the way you did it it's not respect that's very bad lots of different things being said about this already it's a big old Conversation Piece because this show isn't just a show it represents a lot more than that progress in the media landscape what will this be remembered step forward a step back step to the side because we'll just find out oh HP I associate them with good things because of House of the Dragon wow I mean that's that's not Velma category well that's HBO Max how relevant what's John Hannah on the left oh my God he's older he's in the mummy if you guys remember I know you no no no I I've just got one of those faces he was the funny brother the guy on the uh oh yeah you're right yeah man from Silicon Valley he's a completely useless appendage and we all know it oh hey man that's cool I'm just having a moment of everything's so old nurses so mushrooms there are some fungi who seek not to kill but to control viruses can make us ill but fungi can alter our very Minds fungus starts to direct the ants Behavior telling it where to go what to do like a puppeteer person in the middle doesn't seem like a real person like a robot or an Android he's an NPC in the background keeps its puppet Alive by preventing decomposition heister Industries real but not in humans true fungi cannot survive if its host's internal temperature is over 94 degrees what if the world were to get slightly warmer well now there is reason to evolved cordyceps aspergillus any one of them could be that's the one it is The Last of Us deserves a lot of credit for a really creative new type of zombie yeah and I would say this is a good start too this is a good start this is an interesting way of delivering this uh essentially Exposition so if that happens we lose um oh you would have thought you would he would do a funny thing a joke or something yeah well of course that's never gonna happen yeah last time I buy some Portobello from the Krogers what are they gonna do odds are real neat now they put a lot of effort into him gotta love that theme too and music yeah but actually I think they brought back the compo yeah just thinking about Halo well yeah because I know they butchered it they didn't like they they brought back the Halo you recognize the Halo music for that like one moment at the end so that you could [ __ ] hate them yeah but just discarding everything else where I say it actually brought back the original composer they brought back a lot of people I think uh Troy Baker uh is in it Ashley Johnson as well like in small roles it's like that's nice Steve Downs didn't get anything based on the game PlayStation we can't have our MCU but we could Corner the market on video games all right no they have a PlayStation Studios like MC logo for their films and stuff I saw it before Uncharted it's got like Airline Ratchet and Clank and stuff in it that's 10 years well I'm interested is this are they starting it earlier they're starting with the game starts right no the game was 2013. interesting game starts the same uh time as the like at the Europe came out so this is earlier yeah this room is so gay bills can be gay that's true a lot of them oh my God din jarin it's Joel then jar and my favorite oh he's from Krypton he's Joe L no it's Max Pedro Pascal really isn't like the top world isn't he he's doing all right I think yeah I don't really like pancakes no you don't like them it's my benefit you get your uh homework done fractions even a good listen to that accent oh he's doing yeah he is he's putting it on is there enough for Uncle Tommy Uncle Tommy old [ __ ] oh he loves you he's depending on me not the same I'm not splitting his job I barely want to split it with you I'll be done by nine by nine right I'll bring back a cake I promise I mean I can tell he's trying but it mostly sounds like him to me it does but maybe he's just not doing a super emphasized one your t-shirt's inside out yeah this is what I was thinking like one of the benefits I guess that it's again it's just like when you're making a video game especially when you got a lot of combat it's like well you know sometimes you have the challenge of how much do we have of no Combat versus combat compared to yeah how much time to expand for every minute you spend not doing convert you're risk whereas in this case it's like well you can have the whole day right instead of starting like right at the outbreak you guys want to spend a little bit more time seeing what Joel's you know normal life looked like and yeah that watch will matter oh yeah knife I wonder when they were making this that they were making it with the point of view in mind that everyone knows what's going to happen it's a very successful game yeah like a lot of people know exactly how this goes kind of like how if you do Batman's originally oh they're setting up the uh setting up the neighbor you know I do really like the last of us he's a zombie is he feeding him mushrooms wow because the the idea in the game is that it was like disseminated through food Atkins diet Atkins was relatively they have a popularity around then didn't it we bought the 2000s and yeah 26th of September that was outbreak day this is the day yeah I thought they lived in Dallas did they live in Austin I mean it doesn't you know it's no big deal it's just because yeah we are spending much more time with her I guess than uh I mean you got 10 episodes right like I think I think that's a good decision yeah I think it's a really good decision I don't see how it could be a bad one I guess that hair is coming in handy it's like little pillows yeah on the sides of your head there I'm just waiting for the Sean of the Dead style like I'm someone Falls over right next I'm gonna just talk often yeah reports today of many people falling over well it's going to be hard to top Sean of the Dead Montage I just flip it through on the dead it's a [ __ ] great movie yeah or a little cat I wonder if all those clocks on the wall are correct they're called fire trucks but they dispense water it's 3 15. makes no [ __ ] sense humans are stupid apparently they made up a whole language just for this scene things don't seem right I like that though the clock becomes clearer and the the line comes down blind goes down yeah it doesn't make you feel so bad about closing keep doing something for my dad hi Mercy I'm worried about that old lady now it's all [ __ ] like always people out there need to get right with Jesus oh God we'd make chocolate chip raisin oh no one likes those old lady no one likes those why why every reason you bought could have been a chocolate chip purchased you fool oh good the raisin cookies knowing a leader done she'll eat one of them grandma could eat them Grandma's that's the only thing she eats she only eats raisin cookies everyone starts to like raisins when they get old that's just how it works because they feel like they are turning into raisins they become cannibals foreign ER can I borrow this that's creepy that was nice and creepy are you sure yeah well your chicken yeah if you give someone raisin cookies you're essentially saying here you throw these away here I don't like you back to normal I guess oh doggo don't trust it doggos can sense [ __ ] he's like Grandma you're not Grandma the thing you're making a show like this it's always tempting to just how will you portray this world slowly showing signs of falling apart it's weird to see jets but well I guess the air is where they'd be it's ten oh no gave us the wrong size for the headers where's the cake come on man let's get this one tomorrow fixed it for you did you what I don't hear anything thank you this scene is really beat for beta it's even yeah like identical dialogue in a lot of places well that's the thing it feels weird but it's true I guess to say they're doing well it's like yeah you're following the guy I think that's going well yeah I think they're doing well here what's this your birthday fix it for you you kept complaining about broken watch so I figured you know you like it I think this is it's nice but I I think it's stuck it's not what no no no no oh haha did you what I don't hear anything that was lame duraland yeah I know where did you get the money for this drugs I sell hardcore drugs where'd you get the money for this drugs I saw hardcore drugs it's better when I do I'm good we started helping out with the mortgage then yeah you wish it was only twenty dollars which I stole from you besides it's thought that counts and you were never going to do it for yourself so yeah so far I'm digging it I want to see what happens next what's the thing right if none of us knew anything and we watched this with zero context that opening scene has already set the stage isn't it yeah I'm a fan of the creepy granny and uh because he said if you don't get me out today you won't be able to get me out at all assuming they don't let people out on Saturdays and Sundays Justice is off on weekends I actually don't know I was just curious I don't either I didn't know that that's a thing I wonder if we're gonna no we're not okay so yeah this is basically we're closer to where it is this is where everything the game began with that scene basically and this is yeah oh no aliens interesting too because this this game came out around about the craze for the zombie and stuff right the zombie era of media and that was like walking dead was huge they should be watching could would they be watching Paul WS Anderson's Resident Evil series I think the first one was out by then right yeah I'm sorry that was the dog's version of stupid woman come back well they said to stay indoors if the dog doesn't want to go home you know something's up oh she got a joke go inspect a bit can I have that in why not full unsettling the door open like that yeah I'm half expecting like Grandma's just staring at the wall in one of these rooms or something yeah something weird that empty wheelchair has been in Two Shots pretty deliberately right now did she be taking getting a cell phone and calling dad I feel like this would be enough to call him yeah she was asleep when he left so she should be panicking a bit Yeah so she might actually did she have a phone oh boy thank you [Music] anyway oh okay yeah I definitely would have been closing doors myself right now what are we doing Joe why would you drop that why would you drop that you fool it just saved your life keep it is he worried about the blood on it it's not just the adlers we're going to be brave and we're going to get out of this let's go come on yeah three fish was running at us he was crazy oh you're dead buddy we don't know they're saying it's a virus some kind of parasite it's it from terrorists I don't know yeah of course not yep you're saying it's mostly people in the city I went into the city fine trust me listen lady we'll just have to wing it hopefully we're okay all right whether we got it or not we gotta go oh that this is what a man that's like yeah there are a lot of bits of that hitting ones like just keep driving Tommy [Music] driving that's important for Joel's character yeah there's come along someone else will come along by the way just this is already so much more work for him to do than in Mandalorian absolutely we didn't do short Mandalorian Amanda was nobody they're riding a little low they're very low it's bad everyone and their mother had the same damn idea the sequence looking from the back seat well it's just like in the game turn here turn here [Music] try it yeah yeah even I remember that [Music] yeah in this pot I can't drive through them are you serious just keep going we can't stop here I can't [ __ ] drive through get back up there they're behind me too there they're there hold on go [Applause] come here head of the river I'll find a way wait what get her out of here Joe Lee can go around right you can just go around yeah okay yeah just go around can you run is it like so close to the wall he can't get over that is incredibly inconvenient I feel like you could yeah I feel like you could go you could the games in the game yeah you can crawl over if you're this desperate you would absolutely jump over the trunk of uh jeez closed doors I guess it was really close still because right now you don't even know if these things are smart enough to follow you through doors hey no one told you to move yes sir we're not sick sure we are not sick please stop and it's amazing that he didn't kill you yeah it's actually [ __ ] miraculous that you are not dead you're okay move your hand baby move your hand no I know I know I know why no one hurts no no I know I know I know I know I know I know Tommy help me get up come on come on that's about everything I'd expected them to do uh yep I would not have expected them to deviate from that well I mean really and tell the same story it's instrumental this is after Godzilla I was gonna say it was Boston and king of the monsters wasn't it I think so got nuked and then they totally pretended that didn't happen we don't want you falling out of the chair what's your name how did you get this what if I told you that after we gave you some medicine we're gonna find you your favorite food to eat would you like that it's just a little needle you're safe I think they cut to a harsh fire after her saying that on purpose so did Joel say unless he was 30 something for the 20 year Gap uh well because in the game he's about 50. so it's probably meow about matches or like 55 something like that he's fairly old no surprise here yep he was infected yeah because it showed red on the little detector thing in it yeah this isn't in the game Jim we're going to be meeting test pretty soon yeah I'm actually curious what we are going to see in total first episode like this episode yeah because hour and a half damn my guess would be that we're gonna get basically Joel and Ellie meeting um and then like episode two I imagine it's them leaving Boston season ends with the end of the game I think so that would be which I guess is interesting that seems like that how long can you keep it going I suppose is the interesting question because yeah we've got the uh we've got two games you know so well and there's um there's a lot of things that happen in the game that you can extend that's true well it's part of kind of I guess what's going to be interesting as an adaptation is like I imagine that we're gonna get a lot of things extended man this you execute them there's nothing else we can do I guess leaving quarantine zones is a huge it is well yeah because if you leave and then sneak back in and you could destroy everything if you snuck out and sneak back yeah I wonder if the first punishment should be Exile well then you just uh is that maybe they don't want to take any chances I guess so ah this world sorry I just expect you to count I could imagine that we could be upset here and there because of uh family members making mistakes you know bartering bring it back no it's pronounced batarang oratory bartaring like tartar sauce where it gets them from I just know they're real supposedly only makes two things pills and bullets so the more you shoot people the harder it is to sleep I guess oh you guessed I need the bag back I like that as a touch that even plastic yeah I I would like that back stay up the streets for the next few nights [ __ ] fireflies been blowing [ __ ] up all week guys are jumpy and tired what was he getting for that was it um uh he got food credits I think because remember that was in the game right like the food stamps or tokens tickets something like that it's not like I planned on ripping you off how about we just let it go guys [ __ ] you up you're so discipline them what about your guy I give you my word that he won't hurt you I'll tell him that I got jumped by some guys he's saying everything she should say he wants to survive this encounter yep Jesus Christ oh what man lucky that wasn't you also don't breathe that let's read the fireflies right must be yeah which is incredibly coincidental who's gonna let it go anywhere yeah I guess that sounds like it wait all of them are like knocked out except here okay oh wow that's lucky I don't even know where the other guy went I was gonna say the main dude I guess Robert ran off right maybe or he's in the corner well because remember the the deciding thing was that Robert stole their guns uh sold them to the fireflies you know a change like how long Tess will be in this story that's something that really to me depends on how you handle it it's not like an outright wrong to me it's gonna be depending on what they do I'm not a firefly count slowly and clearly from one to ten one two three four slowly and clearly one [ __ ] you state your name slowly Veronica same as yesterday let me out are you gonna pay [ __ ] alien The Last of Us one is just so goshed unlikable nothing is there any chances coming in at night you're sleeping you miss it when I'm sleeping Gabriella listens or my son the smart one not the other one God bless him if Tommy responded we'd know it hasn't been that long it's been three weeks it's never taken more than a day to respond show me where the tower is Joel it's in Wyoming there are worse things than infected out there Californians but you're sure tongue is okay it's uh it's the Cody Tower Q Bar four but I don't know exactly before I listened to his explanation I was actually about to say dude you want he's gonna have the best information out of anybody right you're gonna let him talk and explain and throw detail where he thinks you need to be that little circle he's made on the map that is incredibly important down to the last little scratch because you might say it's probably here but if not you might want to check over here where they're you know yeah Wyoming's a [ __ ] long way I guess it's trying to figure out where word is taking God it'll be a fun trip dulls the pain thank you I got jumped by a couple guys you're lying come on you know these guys born after the outbreak never learned how to argue to start swinging I need the battery test truck's no good without one and if I don't get to Tommy soon he's gonna die out there okay [ __ ] it we get our money back and the battery all this for such a mundane item no I promised Robert that you wouldn't hurt him ain't no mundane items in this world that's the idea so let's go hunt [ __ ] her down spirit because I just had to I had to replace my car battery uh about a week or about a week ago I just walked in bought one walked out with it simple as but now it's like worth potentially killing over having a working car battery or imagine a charger or a McDonald's Happy Meal or a McDonald's Happy Meal that's true girl or boy toy doesn't [ __ ] matter Marlene we've already lost four people and we're what's the point of this one of them now see I don't think I'd be putting the logo up on the wall and the guys you have guarding her won't tell me [ __ ] tell them to follow [ __ ] orders YouTube go to Southeast three now that'll quell the yeah are the fireflies being feder anywhere Rebellion takes time five for 20 years and you get nowhere you're not a rebellion spray paint why do we spray paint why do we do that I can understand putting it in random places as a form of like we're here we're moving things but in your actual HQ [Music] that'll be the Cure yeah keep it quiet I wonder if we're gonna get much like PR because in the game like the fireflies get yeah basically wiped out moving West yeah that makes sense to retcon just how much we got to learn about them if we're going to be going with the last 15 storyline also they've changed the stuff with Tommy because there was no like big urgent thing with Tommy it was just no go find him he fireflies he can help you out and even it's such a tough sell you you want us to the idea that you really want to make like endear us to Joel and everything and then try and make it to the end he was wrong in his decision I don't know what they're gonna do I don't know either if you're feeling lost tell me to look for the light and I'll break your jaw is that how the fireflies recruit and tell you to seek the shadow I mean it cost us a couple of cards but uh we got him not sure why they didn't just have it like because with the big explosion and everything it's like it was just before it was just Tess comes back she's injured let's go get Robert hmm so Veronica how you feeling this same a little bit down where are you gonna go back to Federal military school they put me there when I was a baby it's for Orphans I did Ellie you my [ __ ] mom or something and look like your mom and later the fireflies in the Boston cusey why would a terrorists dump me with fedra terrorists was Riley a terrorist let's say we run out of time to do our uh assumed action set piece for the Robert stuff right uh wow right hey look they like getting down taking off the backpack like in the veggie game I think they based on the video game off real life though real life my friend real life did happen before video games yeah sometimes I wonder wreck sometimes it is disgusting how real real life you just copied by video games oh that's the one I think they'll go for the stealthy approach oh my God it's annihilation I remember that movie he wasn't down here last time uh well under the sports anymore in this show oh because that would cover up actors faces there's a You could argue that'd be a reason this it makes things less complicated for them storytelling wise I guess yeah there's less to worry about I just I don't know that that's a reason to stop doing it I don't know the spores was kind of an interesting thing yeah it's interesting there will be consequences obviously you smell that asbestos gunpowder uh oh oh that's Robin right is it I was trying to spot the face the battery's no good oh I still tried to sell it I say we really deviating from the game really we're not in a wider context but we are with how closely they were doing it before well yeah because this is totally different oh yeah because she got shot yeah Marlene and war must be going pretty shitty for you to be buying from scumbags like him yeah it kind of has been the merch was bad he's standing there with a bullet point like it's nothing great not at her can you just not be a barbarian please I mean I'd want my knife back but yeah it's probably not worth it right now it's there it's there like yeah I'll get it later you know it's our business to know things to know things you're the cause of it you turn my own brother against me okay I wonder if we're gonna get a flashbacks of like Joel and Tommy Tommy is not he was not happy about those experiences that he had yeah let me take it we don't smuggle people sorry I can do it oh I really didn't I really didn't know she met literally I thought she was saying that like you're an idiot and I know what you're both capable of what are you giving them what are they capable of you get her there safely and they'll give you what you need not just a battery the whole thing fueled up truck guns supplies all of it um I swear yeah sorry that's a lot of stuff is it really worth the price because they could just go on a resource Adventure themselves right uh there's still a lot of stuff out there what I'm saying is like if you go and deliver her and come back we'll get you a truck and guns and some supplies and stuff and it's like we could probably get that across like during delivering her probably well because the original thing was Robert sold them the guns and so it's like well I bought the guns foreign Square so you know like yeah I would have played more into the fact that it's obvious that this girl is [ __ ] if you don't do this but before we hand her over they give us everything that we want if not we kill her there and then deal really that fast don't [ __ ] this up please that's that's me to this show by the way yeah yeah same here because it just there have been a few instances where the deviation is like oh that's like neutral and then there are Parts where it's good and then there are Parts where it's like seems like a worse choice that that just made you more suspicious because remember nobody here knows who you are or that there's no reason yeah nobody's looking for you you're just a girl no you're just a random person give us a minute all right I'm guessing that all that because I guess I should wait until let's just open the door if you wanted she can hear them too who's Bill cast says uh it's Nick Offerman I think that could work out let's hope oh that could be really cool yeah if this is important and she just randomly stumbled over it and annoying when that happens oh come on you knew she heard all that right link code right 60s song they don't have anything new 70s they got new stuff a lot of this dialogue is one to one what are you doing killing time what are you doing killing time what am I supposed to do I'm sure you'll figure that out whoa what am I supposed to do I'm sure you will figure that out so what's the deal with you anyway you some kind of bigwig's daughter or something like that oh the radio came home when you're sleeping they kept saying like wake me up before you go go [ __ ] 80s means trouble code broken listen it could be something specific we don't know time to go I wonder if it actually would have been a good idea to go at night in that case yes because there's a curfew because of the Firefly stuff so they went at night instead of during the day while there's like about remember how the guy said earlier they'd be jumpy they'll be I guess don't go out at night because of the fireflies it makes me think it could be fun for a conversation right like what makes more sense because of course you have the cover of Darkness but you also have their own high alert so yeah in the day anyway right they'll be all over the place potentially yeah it depends on where you're going specifically and where the ins and outs are you've got no good choices really because once you're outside the wall darkness is almost certainly best yeah of course of course now it becomes clear like the reason they showed us those people getting hanged is that raises the stakes for this you're really sparing with that helicopter yeah yeah that's the thing fuel for helicopters precious being able to go like a helicopter is one of the most valuable things you could possibly have oh I mean right after big Firefly attacked you know I suppose that's the Anglia but still still though like are you just like looking randomly with a with a light to literally using it just to fly over and use a spotlight that is a huge waste of something so very valuable oh hey guys how is he peeing oh it's not the friend is it man I was wondering if they were gonna have this be the ending actually get on your knee listen you let us do this run we'll split the cards with you oh were you yeah really man yep you're going to buy the book of your [ __ ] mind we can fix this move oh you didn't need to show it I got it yeah I got it yeah [Applause] he pulls that trigger once and a gunshot happens and he would totally uphold absolutely that's also an interesting reaction from her there that first one that one's fine though damn don't like hurt your hand you'll need that look s when did it happen we gotta move Joe out of the conversation where like they thought that Marlene set them up they heard that they were like getting put in the [ __ ] situation they would be thinking that surely right there'd be so much I mean maybe we're gonna get it next episode come to Jesus meeting yeah yeah that's the end what else we got man I would grab more if I could off that guy got a radio message then from Tommy I guess or to signify something well that sounds idios there's the buildings well then well that wasn't bad at all I would say of good I would say it's good it's just that there are some minor things where it's like just mine a little like hmm yeah I need some tweaks um yeah but that's the thing it's tweaks like the core is really strong which should be right like yes I'd agree I think this is uh definitely good because like the best shot that takes out his original daughter I'm pretty sure that's just exactly how it is in the game and I think I even I'm even like one of the people is like hmm I don't know how you I I don't know how it's possible for you to miss but all right you remember Frank does he get more more wounded in the in the game version than in this he's less winded in the the game version I don't think he even gets hit so much of this is like beat for beat very similar if it turns out to be um beat for beat almost throughout not not changing like this is strictly a hypothetical I don't think this is gonna happen but if they were to do it one to one and only changing stuff for like pragmatic reasons for adaptation no reason why this wouldn't be very popular sort of got a built-in audience and then it would finally prove like maybe you should stick to the source when you adapt the games yeah maybe you should respect the one you're adapting has Merit because it's it's funny to me that this might get quite a bit of hatred because of the current Zeitgeist around the IP but at the same time this could be the thing we need to finally prove that uh video game adaptations the only thing that was stopping it is paying a [ __ ] attention to the original well yeah why people like it because in this case in this case like as we saw during the opening sequence a lot of it was just take the same material but expand it don't really change it add new information sure add new scenes but like keep the the core stuff the same because it's the same right like Joel's got the same setup in terms of what his character Arc is going to be Ellie's probably gonna have the same stuff too right and I imagine it's going to be yeah because it's hella consistent for everybody right like bill is going to have probably more stuff with uh with his partner Frank and then you'll probably have more for Tommy maybe Maria as well like it it just seems like if this is any indication of the way that they're going to adapt it it will just be keep basically the same beats but expand them and tweak them in a little bit which compared to the likes of Halo which like radically change history well it annihilates it it doesn't even seem like Halo at all Wellness scores right it's not because I love the spores and I wish the spores were here as a fan of sports it's the um if you don't have spores there's a couple of things you're gonna have to change in the story now you it's things you can go places you might not be able to go items you need to have it's a sense of tension I will say in that in this the only thing to me that seemed like noticeably different and that it will probably have major implications is seemingly the stuff with Tommy because like in the game all it was was like Tommy is off you know in like he's in Jackson he's not with like the fireflies anymore he's not with Joel anymore uh you gotta go find Tommy because he can help you link up with the fireflies because of his connections like that was it whereas it seems they've got more of like a pressing Tommy is in trouble maybe which makes me wonder is it not just going to be that they get to Jackson and everything's really chill and then you know they have their little moment together they're setting something up as like a different plot point but I mean otherwise it's pretty pretty similar and if we didn't have any context if we were to be watching this just as a TV show I imagine right now we'd be talking about oh this this uh you know Joel's security seems to be like he's he's hardened as a result of what happened with his daughter and the uh this new girl I I wonder how much I'm going to be basing it off what I know versus what I'm given what I have concluded from this one episode that this is clearly going to be repeating do I think they've set enough groundwork to be like oh look he's got a bad relationship with this girl because he doesn't want to even risk getting close to it or am I being a bit harsh and I should wait for at least another episode before we've set that Foundation it's one episode and we only spent half of it in our uh like that belly well they've met each other for like five minutes yeah yeah I I get what you mean because I'm like I'm gonna be it's very hard for me not to view this without always constantly like drawing my attention yeah this is tough like I gotta I gotta really separate them out as uh I guess that would be that would be the thing to clarify everything where it's like it's different I'm not like thinking that it's bad or anything I'm more just like hmm I'm curious yeah like the Tommy thing like that could be that could be a whole episode it's not necessarily bad we'll have to see what happens like you know even something that seemingly way less consequential which is just like the the whole thing with the guns versus them getting the battery and the supplies to go find Tommy yeah it's just different like whether or not it's it's a better or worse change I think I think the only things would be like man that it was the same guy that you bumped into like out there when in the game it was just two random soldiers it's like that's very coincidental um though I guess it's pretty inconsequential didn't seem to make much of a difference right like this is a couple coincidences of like I would call them mid they are mid coincidences in terms of impact um yeah some of these yeah they're not they don't destroy anything but they're not exactly small this is they would be called well and I guess it's really interesting because it's like the game didn't have those so like you changed it and kind of added coincidences where they didn't really exist in the games and part of the trouble is that I I guess we need to wait a little longer before we can be definitive because it might be an aid of something we don't know yet in terms of what story they want to tell or there's more information that we'll get to contextualize some of these things better who knows but yeah yeah I mean there's not much to there's not much to be critical of really by way of like what's happening with the plug because we barely started yet and otherwise in terms of character I feel like you know like with each scene we've gotten a pretty good read of every person you know like by the end of this might be the very first proper archetype of what people want when you adapt from a game to a TV show um and it's a kind of crazy race we're like oh surely the Arcane is like no no Arcane arcane's not the same thing it's it's like a really great TV show that uh is inspired by League of Legends this is practically telling the same story but again yes it's more of a direct adaptation because when you you run the game but it's like and hey we're compared to the other naughty dog thing uncharted's very different it has Nate and it has Sully but doesn't have Elena doesn't have the same El Dorado like a central doesn't have the same villains doesn't have the same Dynamics or interactions at all it's it's very different whereas in this case it's the same plot it's just like minor changes and variations and there's not a lot of video game adaptations that'll like that that are directly doing Mortal Kombat was not really directly like pulling any story from any Mortal Kombat game kind of pulled bits and pieces and of course Halo was like not even [ __ ] close like it's totally different that's kind of the thing right you'd be like they should theoretically be four results ones that are uh the Unfaithful but you know well executed so yeah Arcane Unfaithful and badly executed Halo uh faithful and badly executed is that have we got one for that I yeah there are not many faithful video game adaptations that just aren't um at least they haven't been for they just yeah that's the thing that's the that's the reality we've been in for so long they just don't care when you adapt someone like Resident Evil it's like what am I taking zombies Mansion yeah yeah that'll do yeah um and then of course it's because when I'm thinking about other examples it's like Castlevania is kind of like its own thing like I don't think that one was retelling it was kind of like uh it pulled characters right but different scenarios and then Edge Runners is like adjacent it's like set in the same universe but it's not an adaptation what about that that Pac-Man movie with Adam Sandler yeah everyone loved that right that's right they did everyone did love that one yeah and then of course there's other ones I'm getting as well then you'd have faithful and good and that is what I would rate this right now yeah wow this episode for sure well you know what's crazy is that there are people who if they loved lossless enough could be like this [ __ ] [ __ ] isn't faithful have you seen how much they [ __ ] up I'd be like yeah see everyone's gonna draw a line differently got my references and it's like there are a lot of lines that are just like identical your watch is broken your watch is broken [Music] [Music] you mumble in your sleep you mumble in your sleep um once it really depends on how you do it right because like if it was how much does it stay one to one it's like well okay it doesn't in a lot of ways but like this the spirit is absolutely we know exactly what we're getting from this it's going to be what the point of the game is gonna be okay baby stay with me [Music] listen to me I gotta get you up come on baby please I know baby I know Sarah I know baby no no I know I know I know I know I know I know dummy help me oh joke [Music] please please come on the fact that they were even trying to like mirror the vibe or the atmosphere of specific moments in the game with the framing right like in the car where it's very much because I mean I did the same thing right in the game Sarah's the POV character in the uh the opening the opening and then and then it kind of transitions gradually over to Joel and they did the same thing too and like it feels very deliberate it's weird to see that kind of thing with the comments that came out before this thing you released what do you what do you think about one's about storytelling and video games you got you got a Vibe oh I guess yeah right it's like why were you like it it seems maybe that maybe that's the Neil druckmann influence of trying to like inject the stuff from the game that he worked on yeah maybe I'm not sure I mean it's always going to be hard to say right it could just be the man was saying some stuff that didn't translate well slash he wasn't explaining himself too well just take for example uh the whole like oh you can reset a whole thing because it's a video game and that'll ruin the your investment blah blah you could imagine if he was given like an hour to explain entirely what he means he could be like a lot of the time in cutscenes we do it because it's really hard to have something bombastic or significant drama happen and then like reset because you died or you didn't press the switch or you didn't do the low so we usually cold in those big moments off to cut scenes so that they are like that's one of the many reasons why that might happen uh so you can't [ __ ] it up and you'll feel you are permanently progressed you don't see that twice you don't see something like his daughter dying twice because you didn't kill enough guys at one point that's done um and then you could be like and that's what we're doing in the TV show now it's gonna be every moment is one you see once and so we can further focus on like that aspect that gaming does really well but I'm saying this as if it's even close to something he might think I don't know I'm just going from the fact that I've seen this and I'm like oh you clearly respect the game then it's it's hard not to get the sense that there is respect being paid to the game and and uh like even even so far it is kind of weird right the comments but then again a lot of his comments were like this is The Greatest Story Ever Told in video games which like calm down but but still trying to attack it but yeah I'm fine with them so it's his favorite but greatest well let's put it this way it's a lot better that he doesn't seem to have contempt for The Last of Us yeah even if it's comments about the industry and the medium as a whole have been very bizarre like it seems like a lot of it has been fawning over the games and I guess the fact that you've got like some involvement from like naughty dog you know Pete that does that um I guess all I would say is like after that first episode it's like yeah you know yeah I guess well it's uh what are the talking points like I think that all the acting is uh fine to good um I'm not sure I've been blown away yet I'm hoping I will be when we get to the hardest time you know it'd be nice if there's a performance in here that makes me go like holy [ __ ] that was amazing well I mean we got a lot of a lot of really crazy moments right like um yeah like Ellie against David the the cannibals like that scene yeah as well like there's yeah and of course the ending there's a there's a lot of stuff that that could be like really uh like really showcasing production value it feels like a movie obviously we're in that era yeah TV shows looking like films um this one's got a lot of money behind it but more so than Halo which it oftentimes feel felt cheap this one felt like super duper cohesive like there was never a point where I'm like man I feel like you're on a set I didn't really have this I never got those moments at all it all fell there's a lot of there's a lot of cool cinematography choices again it's like there's a clear dedication to like realizing something here so that's a good sign definitely shot with care um oh yeah so I'm I'm really curious to see more and I guess some that I I would like to actually give them props for is like bringing back the original composer is really cool um bringing back some of the actors from the games either to play the same character or to appear in some other capacity is really cool because like a few people from the games are going to be in the show not playing the same characters obviously likely to do with struckman's connection as well that would have facilitated a lot of that I'd imagine listen well it's just terrible but if this is worth complimenting we can't be lying about it like that's just how well I mean if this show is really great he deserves credit for that because he is like a major he co-wrote the show like it's it's honestly a few episodes so the thing about it is like if it were as good as it currently is when there's one episode for like 9 out of 10 episodes and then the tenth one they change everything to match Las Vegas that is gonna piss me off so hard oh yeah but hopefully they're not going to be doing that I don't know what they're going to be doing I don't know what they're up to you know it's kind of hard I suppose that the reality is if they maintain this this quality it's like oh you've done a good job um I don't know if you've done as incredible it's hard to say right like um because it's not done yet we're not we're not up to a lot of the big payoffs um no and I guess we don't know this may very well be the most faithful episode that's all we know yeah I suppose the interesting thing will be like almost sitting there wondering because my impression would be episode 2 ends with Tess dying and then you know them setting off something that I know for sure is that they're gonna do way more with Bill and uh his partner like that's gonna be a much bigger uh thing than just like which kind of expands everywhere there is room to expand but then there's also the question of how much do I want to see like do I need to see what Joel and Tommy got up to during those intervening 20 years well how long are these episodes I presume that they're gonna be like an hour yeah right I would assume well I wouldn't have been surprised it was like 45 minutes but I guess we're gonna be 50. it's gonna be all right so sometimes they're chungus episodes seriously though if they stay the course of this first episode there's no no nothing stopping them from being popular I don't think I don't think so this is definitely the beginning of what could be a very very good you know a good track to be on yes I agree that was a good Premiere definitely a good start we uh give a thumbs up and wow what's up I guess thumbs up even consider the thumbs upwards uh we will likely continue to watch them uh I think so yeah I'd like to watch it whether or not you guys would like to see more of this sort of thing what you just watched there let us know in that comment section below at the time yeah other than that that's the last of us TV show episode one episode one interesting okay bye goodbye everybody what'd you bring me

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Published: Mon Jan 23 2023