The Last of Us (HBO) TV Show • Page 55

They are calls bloaters. the name makes more sense in the video game because they have like these gas grenades that they produce on their body and throw at you

 

This take kind of bothers because it's implying that there's sexism in any criticism, and people only want a one dimensional hulking man villain. At this point, I'm okay to just agree to disagree and I'm not trying to convince anyone, but I thought her performance after 2 episodes just didn't land and the plot failed to really explain how she was in charge beyond blood relation. There doesn't have to be a specific physique to lead, but there has to be a gravitas. It felt a little silly and contrived and little monarchal like oh, the current leader is dead, next in line is... his sister? Nothing about how she spoke to her people in either episode said 'capable leader' or 'inspiring leader'. It didn't really explain why Perry followed her, other than the fact that under Michael they didn't defeat FEDRA but under Kathleen they did? How about explain HOW they did that so we can see how cunning she was. It just started with FEDRA is defeated, Kathleen did it, all hail and follow Kathleen blindly. There was a ton of context missing both in the plot and the performance.

But that's just my opinion, and I didn't hate it, I still think the show is generally pretty darn awesome, and I know we're moving on.

 

That bloater whipped

 

Bloater showed up like “You couldn’t have handled me casually showing up on ep 3 in the gym, man babies.”

 

One thing I took away that I found interesting is that in watching episode 4 we didn’t know that FEDRA shoved all the infected down so when she says “lock down we find Henry first” I took it as I don’t know what’s going on down there and will worry about it later when in actuality they knew exactly was happening and I’m still in blind rage over revenge.

 

One thing I’ve been wondering which I don’t remember them Explaining in the game is the life expectancy of infected without food

 

The second game established that they eat animals if humans aren't around, so you would think they starve to death in the normal month or so. Does the infected know to drink water?

One thing that always bothered me about the game was the distribution of the types of infected. Since it has been twenty years and the survivors are mostly locked down, you would expect many more bloaters and clickers than runners and stalkers. Of course from a gameplay angle you have to scale the enemies but it should not be a world of mostly runners.

 

Cool shot of Henry looking like super Sam.

 

She’s great and all but Melanie Lynskey is not 1/100th as scary as that bloater dude lol

 

Bloater dude is a beta

 

She’s not supposed to be

 

Direct response to a tweet on the previous page

 

Oops didn’t make that connection. My bad

 

Wow easily the best episode of the show so far.

 

This episode fucked me up, not least of all because a friend shot herself in the head a few weeks ago so that scene was particularly rough. Some of the best, most emotional character work I’ve seen in a show in a long time. I am so fully invested in every single character

 

The whole motel scene was so stressful knowing what was going to come. Absolutely brutal scene.

wish they would’ve just put a guy in a big suit for the Bloater, the CG wasn’t great.

I still don’t see how they’re going to fit the remaining game into only 4 episodes

 

They did, but they likely replaced it with CG because the suit/prosthetics looked worse.

Tommy/College/Joel Injury, Left Behind DLC, David and the cannibals, and Salt Lake City will be the 4 remaining episodes. Doesn't seem too far fetched when it's laid out like that. Although I get where you're coming from.

 

in particular I find it hard to see everything with David happening in a single episode, unless it’s an extra long one.

 

Yeah most of the infected are real people and then they do CG afterward.

 

Last four episodes are 59, 56, 51, and 43 minutes, respectively.

 

43 minute finale?

 

Yeah I just don’t see how they’re gona do it

I trust Mazin and Druck and I know they could’ve done more episodes if they felt they needed it, but there’s a lot of shit that has to happen in those two episodes.

 

Two? There are four left

 

I meant the last two episodes, considering all that happens in those episodes based on dumpweeds prediction

 

Yep