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| The Last of Us (HBO) by Rafiki 02/01/2024, 11:39am PST | ||||
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| Did anyone else watch this? I'm only halfway through and I'm mostly enjoying it despite its flaws. Spoilers!
Ellie has a serious case of boy-but-girl because I guess a lot of guys fantasize about raising and protecting a daughter as long as she's a son. She fetishizes guns and begs Joel to let her have one, she geeks out about Mortal Kombat 2 and Mileena's fatality where she pulls her mask off, eats you, and spits out the bones, and geeks out about super hero comics, making her the most relatable 14-year old boy ever. Something something Ellen Ripley something Sarah Connor something, but those weren't women who behaved like men, they were women who behaved believably when forced into extraordinary circumstances. I'm waiting for the scene where Ellie is reading something and leans over on one cheek to blast one out while absent-mindedly fondling her imaginary penis. There's an episode where Nick Offerman is an anti-government survivalist, and yeah it was poignant and well-written, but it was way, way obviously headline-baiting. I'm not sure it was necessary to have 50 minutes devoted to a flashback of Ron Swanson's heart-touching gay romance just to setup how Joel knew where to get supplies. Especially considering Joel and Ron are together in the flashback for about 30 seconds and then Ron and his husband are dead when Ellie and Joel get there. And them dying seems less like a fitting end and more like an excuse to get rid of them after they're done tugging at your heart strings so the writers don't have to spend even a second thinking about what to do with them if they were put in the same room as Joel and Ellie. Then Joel and Ellie are traveling from Boston to Wyoming and they end up in Kansas City, which is fucking stupid if you have even a casual knowledge of US geography. It's not a problem of not having a map, because Ellie is literally giving Joel direction from an atlas of the US. Then there's the question of why Joel would choose to drive through Kansas City instead of around it, because he knows for certain there's going to be a hostile military presence, infected, and probably raiders and the like. Some asshole would probably tell me to just turn my brain off, but I shouldn't have to turn off my brain just because the writers turned off theirs. And the two episodes that take place in Kansas City wind up being completely pointless. Every character that's introduced is killed by the end, their deaths are of no consequence to Joel or Ellie, they gain no new information, and the plot isn't advanced in any meaningful way. They just lose the truck. That could have easily happened any other way. I mean, you can't drive from Boston to Wyoming on a tank of gas, for one. The Kansas City episodes seem to mostly exist just to have live-action video game scenes and a Left 4 Dead finale (It's impossible to watch this without expecting someone to yell TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK), and to make the audience go hand to chin to ponder the moral choices throwaway characters have made in the post-apocalypse. Hey assholes, how about you make me ponder the moral choices the main characters make in relation to the fucking plot. Maybe I'm enjoying this show less than I thought. |
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The Last of Us (HBO) by 02/01/2024, 11:39am PST  "just turn your brain off" people are the worst by 02/01/2024, 9:42pm PST Re: "just turn your brain off" people are the worst by 02/02/2024, 10:57am PST I'm not entirely certain I exist by 02/02/2024, 5:46pm PST 2 was straight up never ending misery porn by 02/03/2024, 9:48pm PST The other part about jacked Abby by 02/04/2024, 8:27am PST Abby's no longer jacked in the final fight. NT by 02/04/2024, 10:26am PST Sometimes you have to suspend your disbelief. by 02/04/2024, 10:59am PST Actually they grabbed one of Schwarzenegger's bodybuilder friends to play anothe by 02/04/2024, 11:29am PST Re: Actually they grabbed one of Schwarzenegger's bodybuilder friends to play an by 02/04/2024, 1:10pm PST Franco Columbu is 5'5" though, put him in a hoodie and he's basically invisible. by 02/04/2024, 1:22pm PST All the T-800 needed was a glowing red nose and he would be exactly Rudolph :( NT by 02/04/2024, 1:37pm PST |
