New episodes of season 2 of The last of us premiere every Sunday evening at HBO, and Ars’ Kyle Orland (who played the games) and Andrew Cunningham (who doesn’t have it) Will talk about them every Monday morning. Although these summaries do not go into every plot point of the episode, there are clear heavy spoilers Inside, so first look at the episode if you want to go fresh.
Andrew: We are five episodes in this season The last of usAnd most of the infected person we have seen have still been “brainless, screaming hurdle” of the variety. But in the first episode of the season we saw Ellie encounter a single “smart” infected person, a creature that retained a sense of strategy and a self -retention instinct. It implied that the samples of the show were not ready to evolve and that the seemingly stable fragments of civilization that had succeeded in rooting were based on a whole series of incorrect assumptions about what these samples were and what they could do.
In the midst of all the drama created by people, the changing nature of the Mushroom Zombie-apocalyps is the background of this week’s entire episode, starting and ending with the revelation that a 2003-Vintage Cordyceps Nest has become a hotbed of spurs in the air, ready to infect with no bee.
This is news for me, as a non-game player! But Kyle, I assume this is another shoe that you knew would fall.
Kyle: Actually no. I suppose it is possible that I forget something, but I think the storyline “Some infected are actually pretty smart” is completely new in the show. It is just one of the countless ways in which the show has deviated enough from the games at the moment that I do not know where it is going or how it will come at a certain moment, what equal parts is fun and frustrating.
I will say that the “smart zombies” have been made for my first real one “, how are Ellie and Dina coming from these?” Moment, while Dina’s improvised cage was actively torn apart by a smart and strong infected. But then, see, here Deus Ex Jesse came to save things with timely reinancing in the actual storyline. You had to know that we hadn’t seen the last of him, right?
Ellie is good at many things, but not so good in low.
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Andrew: Just like last week’s Subway Chase, I expect that every time Ellie and Dina seem to be really in, a different entity will dive down and “save” them at the last minute. This week it was a real ally instead of another enemy who happened to take away the people who chase Ellie and Dina. But it is the same fundamental narrative fake out.
I assume that their happiness will be at some point, but I also suspect that when it comes, that point will be a bit closer to the season finale.
Kyle: Without pampering anything from the games, I will say that you can expect both Ellie and Dina to experience their quite part of happy and unfortunate moments in the coming episodes.
Speaking of unfortunate moments, while our favorite duo hides in the park, we get to see how the local cultists treat prisoners, and it is extremely not beautiful. I repeat myself a bit of last week, but keeping these moments of torture feels somehow more free in an HBO show, even compared to comparable bloody scenes in the games.
Andrew: Well, we had just heard these cultists compared to “Amish People”, not long before, and we already know that they have no tanks or machine guns or one of the other standard problem The last of us Paramilitary goon equipment that most other people have, so I think you have to do something to ensure that the public can actually take the cultists seriously as a threat. But yes, if you are prudish about blood and guts things, it is difficult to view.
I notice that I am more a fan of Dina and Ellie’s relationship, or at least from Dina as a character. Of course, her tragic background story is a bit trite (she harmless this criticism by pointing out in advance that it is Trite), but she is smart, she can handle herself, she is a good counter-weight for Ellie’s hasty shooting impulses. They are still doing something stupid and reckless. But at least I am rooting for them to make it alive!
Kyle: Personality is the Dina/Ellie coupling just as many charms as the Joel/Ellie combination of last season. But although I always had the feeling that Joel and Ellie had a clear motivation and drove the goal of the end of them forward, the hunger for revenge Dina and Ellie is starting to push deeper into Seattle, to feel less relevant as more time continues.
The show also seems to realize and stop since Joel’s death to interrogate a kind of interrogation whether tracing these murderers is worthwhile when the alternative just goes back to Jackson and prepares for a coming baby. It is as if the writers try to convince themselves, even if they try (and in my opinion somewhat fail) to convince the public of their righteous and worthy matter.
Andrew: Yes, I have noticed the points where our heroes paused to ask: “Are we sure we want to do this?” And clear, them Are I will continue to do this because we have spent all the time setting up all these different warring factions and we are going usage them, dang it !! But this has never been anything that Joel would bring back, and it only seems like it can end in misery, especially because I assume that the plot couple of Jesse is not as thick as that of Ellie or Dina.
Kyle: I personally think that the “Ellie and Dina are giving up revenge and preparing to start a post-apocalyptic family (while he stops zombies)” would have been a brave and interesting direction for a TV program. It would even have been more brave for the game, although very difficult for a franchise where the most important verbs are “shooting” and “stab”.
Andrew: Yes if The Last of Us Part II Had been a city structure simulator where you trade back and forth between managing the economy of a big city and building defenses to keep the hordes out, fans of the first game may be deterred. But like one Adventure of link Fan, I say: bring the sequel with a few gameplay agreements with their predecessors!
The Cordyceps dainty continues to evolve.
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Kyle: “We killed Joel” team member Nora had definitely preferred Ellie and Dina that played more homely playing game. As it looks now, Ellie chases her to a miserable looking death in a Cordyceps-tasted basement.
The chase scene leads in many ways in many ways. But although I found it easy to suspend my disbelief for the (highly scrapped) chase on the PlayStation, watching it in a TV program made my hands up and said, “Come on, these heavily armed soldiers can’t stop a little girl who makes so much ruckus?”
Andrew: Yes, Jesse can hit half a dozen “smart” zombies in half a dozen shots, but if it is a girl with a giant backpack that runs through an open corridor, everyone suddenly has Star Wars Stormtrooper Aim. The visuals of the Cordyceps-hole, with the fierce boys who push up gigantic clouds from toxic traces, are at least effective in his disturbing!
This episode is other Revelation is that what Joel apparently visited the fireflies in the hospital at the end of last season not News for Ellie, when she hears it from Nora in the last moments of the episode. It is possible that Ellie, noted liar, lies about this. But Ellie is also completely unable to control her emotions, and I have to think that if she was surprised here, we might have said.
Kyle: Yes, saying too much about what Ellie knows and when would some large spoilers risk. For now I will just say the way the show decided to mix things by placing this detailed information in the desperate, spore-approached mouth of Nora, a bit landed with a wet crush for me.
For a moment I was perplexed by the sudden jump cut from “Ellie torturing a prisoner” to “peaceful young ellie flashback” at the end of the episode. Should the public assume that this is what is going on in Ellie’s head or something? Or does the story just shift without a link?
Andrew: I assumed that we were about to get a timeline episode episode next week, a where we spend some time in the flashback mode that fill in what Ellie knows and why before we continue with Abby Quest. But I think we will see, isn’t it!
Kyle: Oh, I waited with held breath for a whole series of flashbacks that I knew came in some form. But the special one way They shifted to the flashback here, with only a few seconds left in this specific brutal episode, was astonishing for me.
Andrew: I think that you do that way to get people hyped about the possibility of seeing Joel again next week. Unless it is just a cruel pest! But it’s probably not, right? Unless so!
Kyle: Now I hope that the next episode will go back to Ellie and Dina and it does not go into the five seconds flashback. Screw you, public!
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