'The Last of Us' HBO Series (NO GAME SPOILERS!) | Season 2 Coming Spring 2025 (7 Episodes)

[Gizmo_Duck]

For sure it didn't, but speaking about what @Conz is talking about there being fatigue with another zombie dystopian show, I wanted to confirm if Station Eleven had anything to do with it from his perspective. I don't think the masses will care cause I'm sure a lot of people haven't seen Station Eleven.

HBO is def going hard with TLOU so it's going to get the eyes and attention, but I also can see how fans of the genre could be waiting for more after the pilot. I'm confident they'll be happy with it because if the pilot is any indication of them being able to create the same sense of tension like the game did, people who have no experience with the game are in for some prime pure cut fukkery that has not been executed on TV/Movie in this space IMO.

Funny enough station 11 didn’t even have zombies lol

And the most interesting parts of that show for me were the flashbacks to the virus which reminded me most of TLOU. The traveling circus shyt was kinda doofy

 

[Zero]

So you normally like your actresses playing 14 year old children to look “developed”?

Yall doing the most for a white actress who wouldn't piss on you if you paid her to do it

 

[jwinfield]

For sure it didn't, but speaking about what @Conz is talking about there being fatigue with another zombie dystopian show, I wanted to confirm if Station Eleven had anything to do with it from his perspective. I don't think the masses will care cause I'm sure a lot of people haven't seen Station Eleven.

HBO is def going hard with TLOU so it's going to get the eyes and attention, but I also can see how fans of the genre could be waiting for more after the pilot. I'm confident they'll be happy with it because if the pilot is any indication of them being able to create the same sense of tension like the game did, people who have no experience with the game are in for some prime pure cut fukkery that has not been executed on TV/Movie in this space IMO.

Another thing that people might not realize is that TLOU's story has probably had a lot of influence within the genre since the game dropped. Station Eleven for example was released AFTER the game. So a lot of things you see in these shows/stories with certain depictions and dynamics were probably things that were creators seen or experience in the original TLOU game. Keep that in mind.

Yeah, the book came out a year after TLOU.

i also liked Jeevan and the little girl more than our main chracters here.

Jeevan and the little girl had a lot more interaction in the pilot of SE than Joel and Ellie did in TLOU pilot.

 

[GoldenGlove]

Funny enough station 11 didn’t even have zombies lol

And the most interesting parts of that show for me were the flashbacks to the virus which reminded me most of TLOU. The traveling circus shyt was kinda doofy

It didn't, but a lot of what makes these stories stick aren't about the zombies/infected. It's about how the "event" changes human behavior and how survival takes the highest priority. That's where I felt Station Eleven was dope af at, but like I said in my edited post... I feel like Station Eleven pulled some inspiration from TLOU on the survival tip. TLOU will explore a lot more than the dangers of the infected.

I agree the circus was hit or miss overall. I got the message for it. But yeah

 

[Rain]

this is an honest question. let me preface it by saying it was a very well made pilot, and i thought the acting was well done. as someone with no knowledge of the game, how am i supposed to see this as anything more than "derivative, typical zombie-ish dystopian storytelling?" i feel like i'm supposed to be jizzing all over myself after that pilot, and outside of "oh these people are all hopped up on fungus" i don't think i saw a single thing that i haven't seen before.

I think you're expecting too much out of one episode. A lot of people didn't even think much of the game until I gets to a certain point in the story, which I won't mention here. The first part of the game was very much a slow-build (which they seem to be following pretty closely).

You also should stop expecting it to be some groundbreaking story. There's nothing particularly special about the plot here. The best parts about TLOU are very much the characters' journeys and the tense encounters. If they can capture that all on the show remains to be seen but, they did a good job of it in the first episode.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Yeah, @Rain what you said about TLOU is right, even though ‘Walking Dead’s Tell tale’, ‘Children of Men’, and ‘The Road’ really knocked the concept of it out of the park before hand i dont think any of them really broke through the zeitgeist like TLOU did.

Then you had stuff like Logan, The Girl with All The Gifts, Station 11, and like a half dozen other post apocalyptic escort stories since, that its probably easy to feel like TLOU missed its big moment but judging by responses to it, that doesn’t seem to be the case.

I think at the end of the day people just want well written, high quality, and well acted drama

 

[NotAnFBIagent]

What’s the point of the video game? Do you just run, and fight off zombies?

Joel is smuggling Ellie across the country while they have to survive the infected, military, bandits, etc

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

i could see someone saying the second half of the episode wasn't AS good.. but if someone didn't enjoy the 1st half of the ep. then the series probably won't be for them..

that 1st say 45 minutes or so was masterful... beautifully shot.. tension building and told us exactly who the character Joel is without being on the nose.. there was so much wonderfully done scenes of subtlety to explain the characters and their motivations.

 

[Sad Bunny]

You a grown man nitpicking a teenagers girls looks on a Tv show. Embarrassing

Yo I’m keep seeing this everywhere. It’s sad as hell.

She probably feels terrible too.

It isn’t that serious. Just don’t watch the show then.

 

[Sad Bunny]

rumors circulating they gonna get Florence Pooh to play abby

Is that really a rumor or is it just a Twitter thing where people said she should play her? Lol

I saw someone post a picture of her saying she should be Abby.

 

[HiiiPower]

The only problem I have with this series is Ellie. Maybe she’ll grow on me but as of now, she looks nothing like Ellie.

Bro So what lol

 

[WMG the 2nd]

Yall doing the most for a white actress who wouldn't piss on you if you paid her to do it

What type of response is this? nikka a full fledged weirdo

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Half the cast of house of dragon look inbred as hell and no one was talking about how they couldn’t watch teh show because of it lol

 

[old pig]

Half the cast of house of dragon look inbred as hell and no one was talking about how they couldn’t watch teh show because of it lol

we joked the hell out that girl mouth tho

 

[Rain]

Half the cast of house of dragon look inbred as hell and no one was talking about how they couldn’t watch teh show because of it lol

I'm blaming NaughtyDog. Who knew we had so many real-life Davids out there