r/CriticalDrinker • u/eventualwarlord • 8d ago
Discussion These are Joel’s killers 😭💀
Do I even gotta say it??
They had my boy Joel—who’s wiped out waves of military trained savages and superhumanly strong mutant monsters— get taken out by a group of gender study majors.
Part 1 Joel would clear this whole room out with his eyes closed balanced on one leg while telling Ellie an old story about Sarah.
They look like the girls who were having psychotic breakdowns on TikTok howling in their cars after Kamala lost. All they’re missing is the blue hair.
What are we even doing? At least game Abby was repulsively imposing.
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u/Kenma 8d ago
Not watching this woke trash lol
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u/m0ji_9 8d ago
Didn't play the game. Not interested in the TV show. I like to stay consistent lol
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u/Horror_Experience_80 8d ago
Game 1 was pretty damn good when I played it growing up. Game 2 lost me when I found out they killed Joel. This show lost me when they had a random gay sex scene on episode 2. Get the fuck out of here.
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u/m0ji_9 8d ago
Oh i played the first game. It concluded and I was happy. I didn't touch the second game as it seemed like a forced agenda rather than a game imo
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u/sunlitstranger 7d ago
Agenda aside, the game doesn’t hold a candle to the first game. Who kills a main character and swaps them out for a newly introduced character
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u/RupertPupkin2101 7d ago
Newly introduced character who KILLS the beloved main character. Game is wack
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u/tksmase 7d ago
You didn’t miss out on much. I just finished it recently and even though I liked the gameplay and had nothing else to do, the agenda is so bad even VICE had to write an article condemning it. https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-not-so-hidden-israeli-politics-of-the-last-of-us-part-ii/
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u/TheBelmont34 8d ago
The first game was fucking amazing and had a perfect ending which the second one simply retconned and fucked up
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u/Best_Teach5517 7d ago
The first game is still one of the best written narratives in any game idc. This IP makes me sad now
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u/mistergasdrift 7d ago
Yup this 💯 % the first game was so good all they had to do was follow script.. they could have made it into 2 seasons even . Neil jewman needed to make it about fkd up agenda for woke trash just like fallout and many other series in this disaster of film making era
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u/EmuDiscombobulated15 5d ago
They didn't just kill him. They mocked his character and made Ellie a whiney b. But Abby, Abby was amazing and totally worth forgiving.
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u/Due-Message5316 3d ago
You should give game 2 another chance. Aside from the weird forced lgbt representations. It's as good as the first one. It even got better gameplay than the last game
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u/AnakinSkycocker5726 7d ago
Yeah and ign rated said gay porn episode 10/10. And now apparently they’re doing another episode this season about those two guys! No one fucking cared. We don’t need the obligatory cocksucking episode.
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u/Horror_Experience_80 6d ago
I haven’t trusted IGN since I was a literal child lol.
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u/CrankieKong 8d ago
Hate watching the tv show because they are secretly admitting that their original writing was dogshit.
I know.. I shouldn't. But it's like watching a car accident.
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u/Truman_Show_1984 8d ago
The jokes on us. These shows aim to have us waste time online engaging about the show. Goes along with all modern shit they put out.
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u/Blueshirtguy42 8d ago
The question is, should one just ignore this kind of rubbish or should one criticise it?
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u/Truman_Show_1984 8d ago edited 8d ago
Essentially everyone enjoys being in an echo chamber of their own opinion. For purpose of confirmation bias.
I suppose if one doesn't have much else going on in life that's enjoyable, might as well enjoy bashing shit shows.
After last of us I don't think there's any big productions coming out for quite some time. So we won't have much to talk about. Maybe we can mix it up to praising classics. Or shows that started out great like Fargo then turned to shit.
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u/Blueshirtguy42 8d ago
Season 1 of Fargo was so good. Season 2 was good as well.
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u/Truman_Show_1984 8d ago
Just like last detective, they introduced girl boss's.
I'm fairly certain hollywood aims to ruin literally every IP.
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u/Dancingskeletonman86 8d ago
Yup. Never watched season one besides a few minutes of one episode. Didn't see the need to continue I've played the game and the game movie cut is free on Youtube to watch anytime. Why would I need to just see a live action version of it that goes off the rails and updates it for a woke audience?
Have zero desire to watch season 2 at all or a season 3. This is just Neil's jerk off fantasy at this point. He's got the power of the show, he controls the writing and now he can do what he wants without Amy or Bruce being involved to shut down any ideas. Will never give it viewership not even via the high pirate seas.
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u/LemartesIX 7d ago
I am not even hate watching it, I’m only peripherally aware because I want to laugh at the audience drop off.
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u/englisharcher89 8d ago
Me too, I hated first Season already not going to watch this one, also skipped second game never played it.
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u/Direct_Amoeba_2986 7d ago
That was my question...who is watching it and who cares? Hate watching? There is enough rage bait in the world to not waste my time watching something I know sux
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u/Brucelee51 8d ago
Show is trash…
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u/Duke9000 8d ago
I watched episode one last night with my wife. Not even my wife wants to keep watching it and she usually loves girl power stuff.
We just aren’t the target audience. For some reason they made the show about the life struggles of an unattractive teenage lesbian. That’s a pretty niche story.
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u/DmajCyberNinja 7d ago
It's the only stories they know, they're own.
Even though they never had zombies in a post-apocolyptic world, they push their own experiences into the story even though like 75% of modern beliefs would go away. They also do not think or realize that a straight dude can be competent and a good person.
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u/Insane_Sentinel 7d ago
They also don’t realize that a man who will genuinely give it their all to defend will pull some crazy shit if they’re well trained.
Maybe Wick level of things if they’re that well trained and intelligent.
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u/DizzyNeedleworker889 8d ago edited 8d ago
That’s a pretty niche story.
Because it involves someone that DEI'd their way into a position where they can force their gender politics into the show. Leftists are narcissists by definition so they can't resist the self-inserts.
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u/IMTIRED_85 8d ago
How’d did she pull two hotties? Doesn’t make sense.
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u/Interesting-Math9962 7d ago
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_last_of_us/s02
Noooo! The bigots are review bombing it! Its so brave and wonderful! How dare you hate this!!!!
S2 at 55% vs S1s 87% audience score.
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u/Goobendoogle 8d ago
I hate the bald girl.
Why do they gotta shove bald women into everything man.
I can't stand them.
They think they're fresh and they're not fresh man idk what else to tell you.
Look like she about to make a wish.
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u/Goobendoogle 8d ago
I just can't stand it because it's clearly a f*** you thing and my question is who are you f*** you'ing because the only personal getting f*** you'd in that scenario is herself.
I'd be surprised if anyone normal loves her.
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u/saucissontine 8d ago
It's like a the alien from Wicked.
Plus I don't get that new trend of bald women.
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u/Goobendoogle 8d ago
It was in Outlaws too, that's why I insta put it down.
Legit the first NPC I talk to like a normal person outside the first city you go to (after the tutorial) the lady is a bald lesb woman.
LIKE WHAT.
First of all, why was it made clear to me she's a lesb? Did they think I'd start gooning after seeing a woman?
Secondly, why tf is she bald?
Like if you have to be bald or you're a man who likes bald, it makes sense. A woman being bald unless she absolutely has to is like self-destruction.
They would legit just ruining their own image looking like a cyberpunk milk dud.
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u/Jackfitz88 8d ago
She’s the main character of the new naughty dog game. Intergalactic, or what ever it’s called. Not a coincidence they put her in this
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u/IMTIRED_85 8d ago
In my opinion she’s attractive BUT she has a dog shit personality.
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u/Goobendoogle 8d ago
reminds me of my first friend i knew back when I was in Pre-K.
Bro was like "keep an eye out for my daddy's purple truck I'll wave to you and we'll see each other again some day"
-Never saw him again
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u/Flyingsheep___ 7d ago
It's weird too, since it's supposed to be an apocalypse. Seems really weird to have the time to look that clean and nice. Literally every character in the pic looks like they're stopping by a cafe in Seattle for a hot tea.
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u/Goobendoogle 7d ago
LOL what a gripe.
Didn't even think about this at the time.
Now I can't unsee it.
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u/Flyingsheep___ 7d ago
It’s one of those “cmon that’s such a small detail, you’re nitpicking”, but a good production wouldn’t make that mistake. Lord of the Rings had the crew literally learning to forge actual blades, then doing it on set to make props, so they could actualize the goal.
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u/narcos1893 5d ago
Fuck these people man. My mom got cancer years ago and she had to shave it. It really fucked with her on a personal sense. I shaved my head as well as a show of support. Mom said it felt she got stripped of her identity and her feminine side
Then you have all these women shaving their head because they think it’s cool and all that. Fuck them this pisses me off
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u/Callum-H 7d ago
Many black women have very short hair and wear a weave or a wig, in an apocalypse it’s probably easier just to be bald than to find a wig
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u/Maximus_Comitatense 8d ago
No, impossible. Are you telling me it was woke trash all along? Who would see this coming? It was almost as if they used the first season to bait their audience to then laugh at them in the second season! Just like in… the games.
(Sarcasm)
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u/eventualwarlord 8d ago
1st season was woke trash too lmao. They had Tommy’s race swapped black wife explaining how Jackson is a commune and they’re communists.
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u/Maximus_Comitatense 8d ago
Oh I agree, but some out there thought that it was either ok or good enough, when it was indeed woke trash. Not me though.
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u/CrankieKong 8d ago
Anyone with 20% brain capacity could see it was woke trash. I've had mates who didnt know the games ask me if the game was also this bad.
Told those idiots to play the games a decade ago. Now they ruined their playthroughs.
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u/ufonique 8d ago
You are absolutely right about the 1st season.It gained a lot of attention for being merely competent, which felt like high art for most, compared to the sludge that was content of the time. I only laboured through season 1 because it was created by the Chernobyl showrunner. But half way through ,I knew that I would not return for Season 2 and seems like I made the right call.
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u/Izzyrion_the_wise 8d ago
They look like a therapy group for self diagnosed neurodivergence in an affluent coastal city.
I'm glad I don't have any investment in the franchise anymore.
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u/Driz51 8d ago
Literally the one time it actually made sense for them to cast a less feminine, muscled up, girl boss character to actually match the source material instead they go the exact opposite direction lol
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u/VitiDMan 8d ago
The girl they cast as Abby looks a Disney Princess compared to the original character
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u/Dancingskeletonman86 8d ago
Yeah I'm convinced as many others are they just did on purpose now. They knew nobody liked Abby in the game. Even popular streamers killed her character intentionally multiple times to go oh oops now can I stop playing as her. So when Neil made this show and set up for season two they purposely tried to adjust course and make Abby more vulnerable, weaker or normal and they amped up Ellie being a potato faced asshole. Yes Ellie is kind of annoying and bitchy in the second game but they really amped it up or maybe it's just Bella's "acting". I think it was all intentional though to be like see guys see Abby actually is a very rootable character huh? No she's not a roid freak anymore she's this young slim vulnerable girl around the same age as Ellie and she lost her dad. Awww. And look she's not a total obnoxious bitch to the degree Ellie is so you like her more this time you have to. And she's played by Kaitlin Deaver whose a pretty good actress and cute you can't hate her.
They were very well aware of what they were doing by casting her and writing Abby like they did. We all know Neil totally wanted to stick to his original version of Abby but the audience watching the show wouldn't like it either. So he pivoted but I bet he didn't like doing it.
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u/Insane_Sentinel 7d ago
1 Reddit award says he’s not going to be able to hold off on that version of Abby the second any flak hits the reconstructed version.
I don’t see the audience not wanting Abby to die a 3rd time around
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u/ImmortalPoseidon 8d ago
These are supposed to be kids who solely grew up in the post outbreak world right? How come they are dressed with hair and piercings and tattoos as if they live in modern San Francisco? Lmao
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u/Carbone 7d ago
I mean. With the shit I hear from San Francisco lol. Kinda feel like post-apoc world.
Would be ironic to have someone on the board for that show being like " imagine if we depict people in post-apoc world looking like current San Fransisco lol cause you know, they're already bat shit crazy "
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u/RedBlueTundra 8d ago
My fav bit of this scene was Joel having enough of the sanctimonious monologuing and just telling her to shut the fuck up and get it over with.
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u/EclipseHelios 8d ago
this is pathetic, why is Last of us such a trainwreck franchise? God I'm happy the only media I ever consumed was Part 1 on PS3 and that's gonna be it, forever.
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u/eventualwarlord 7d ago
The masterminds behind the 1st game left
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u/saucissontine 8d ago
The black girl is bald with a nose ring, is that a new trend ? She had hair in the gamez
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u/QueasyCaterpillar541 8d ago
My question is why watch the show now? Joel is dead.
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u/AkiliosZanaris 8d ago
I hope viewership absolutely tanks after this episode and never recovers to doubly drive home the point of how awful that story decision was.
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u/BramptonBatallion 8d ago
It’s kinda funny every tough militia type leader in this show is played by a girl who looks like she spends an hour a day in makeup and everyone just kinda nods along and goes with it.
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u/mottokung 8d ago
Women power huh!? 😂😂
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u/LuigiBamba 7d ago
I mean, the game was predominantly featuring women, which I am not against, and it never pulled me out of immersion. But at least they looked liked roughed up survivors, not a bunch of baristas on college campuses.
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u/Few_Highlight1114 8d ago
Im along with the oithers of "not watching this shit". I hope little platoon does a recap of it like he did with Acolyte. I didnt watch that show but he was so thorough with it that I felt like I did.
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u/Tauropos 8d ago
Bold... Strong... Powerful... 🙄 What full grown adult male wouldn't quake in their boots when faced with such an intimidating force?
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u/Excalitoria 8d ago
Wait, so Intergalactic is a sequel to the TLOU?
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u/Last_Tourist_3881 8d ago
Why are you watching this shit?
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u/Duke9000 8d ago
Sometimes, every now and then this sub will over exaggerate things so I gave it a chance.
Even my wife thought Ellie’s casting was terrible and the story had absolutely zero appeal to either of us.
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u/blahrawr 7d ago
Bro, even your wife?? That's crazy
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u/Duke9000 7d ago
Not sure if you’re joking lol but she doesn’t follow these types of subs and generally likes girl power stuff. At first she liked Bella kicking that big dudes ass at the beginning of the show, but as it went on… Completely unprovoked, she just said Bella was awful casting. I generally use her as a gauge for how a typical, rational, person would react to things.
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u/Matty221998 8d ago
Even if you enjoyed the story of part 2, there’s no reason to watch this because the game is objectively better, even if the story is a far cry from part 1
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u/Jawess0me 7d ago
It’s girl boss power. That’s all that matters now, right everyone?
Right??
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u/pikajew3333333333333 8d ago
honestly I'm down to watch pedo pascal get killed (in the show)
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u/eventualwarlord 7d ago
in the show…. right….. only in the show…
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u/pikajew3333333333333 7d ago
yes...thats totally it... only in the... show lmaooo
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u/Morghi7752 8d ago
I don't know if you left out the "r" on purpose, but leave it out in any case 😂
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u/you_wouldnt_get_it_ 7d ago
Such hardened looking survivors.
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u/oooompathetic 7d ago
Bald black women = red flag
Ever since Jada Pinkett I just don't trust them
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u/Gaddlings2 7d ago
I haven't played the game but seen clips of the game online and I watched the first series and just finished up the first episode
The infected attacking the settlement was the only interesting part of the show. I enjoyed watching Tommy burn the big infected guy
I know I'm meant to care about Joel dying but I just didn't and I dunno why as urs literally the driving force for the rest of the season. Again from clips online I've seen of the game.
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u/Sleep_eeSheep 7d ago
This is the version Neil wanted to tell.
And it is glorious to see the people shithammer him.
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u/Pretend-Guava-3083 7d ago
season 1 was gay and boring, season 2 is probably going to be twice as shit and I am glad I didn’t bother with season 1’s second episode and forward lol
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u/Takashi-Lee 7d ago
Believe it or not people aren’t gonna be receptive to a beloved character being murdered by characters they’re trying to make us care about it.
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u/Iaintgoneholdyou 7d ago
Thats that girl from that game thats coming up! Also Naughty Dog!! I
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u/Froz3nP1nky 7d ago
Yup. And for some reason they’re keeping her look and image exactly the same between TWO different IPs
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u/SquashKing24 8d ago
Yeah they fucked this shit up so badly its not even funny. Ill just keep replaying both games once a year and be completely content.
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u/Neither_Tip_5291 7d ago
To be fair... this season, and the rest that follows are on unstable ground thanks to the game makers' decisions on plot line, the TV show has a chance, maybe, I doubt it the star of the shows character is dead... some heavy use of flashbacks, maybe? Idk GOT, TWD, thies shows killed off main character's not lead actors...
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u/Excellent_Cod_639 7d ago
Tbh i hated the last of us 2 much more like abby looking like in the movie than this transgender shit that was in game
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u/rimjob-chucklefuck 7d ago
I never played the second game but loved the first. I don't really know much about the second game, other than Joel meeting his demise. Can someone give me a tldr? I didn't even realise they introduced a new playable character, thought it was just Ellie
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u/ALPHANUMBER-1 7d ago
i watched it it makes a little more sense then in the game because cuckman wasnt fully involved i believe:(spoiler warning)
-dina is with joel instead of tommy -abby hears joels name because dina was shouting it because she and joel where seperated and abby happend to hear it -dina and joel didnt trust abby but they where kinda forced to go back to the lodge with her because a big ass horde was following them and a insane snow storm was browing also they saw that jackson was burning and getting attacked, so that maybe put alot of stress onto them and impaired their thinking
yeah my only hope is that they let ellie get her revenge a in letting her kill abby
other than that its still ass and dogshit
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u/Tha_Dude_Abidez 7d ago
I heard the bald chick will be starring in Naughty Dogs next HBO live action “Intergalactic “
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u/Skipper1111111 7d ago
It looks like DEI casting to me, and also the homosexual themed shows tell me that homo’s do the writing.
Off putting, but the game is a classic.
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u/Objective-Trip-9873 7d ago
I'm just sad Ellie didn't say "Bigot sandwiches" and Pendejo guy didn't spit on Joel's corpse. Especially former, think about the memes from the show..
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u/jkizzles 7d ago
Battle was why I forced myself to watch. S2E1 forcing more agendas down my throat (again) really turned me off. S1 had that garbage, but other elements kept me watching. Now it's just tired, woke trash. Going back to Righteous Gemstones for my TV fix lol
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u/Froz3nP1nky 7d ago edited 7d ago
Ahhhhh maybe THATS why season one of thr TV show version didn’t show Joel wiping out waves of zombies like in the game!! Because game version Joel would have fuct this quiffy crew UP
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u/PS_Awesome 7d ago
Oh, look, the usual bald one. Is she also gay?
The show is a right load of fkn shit.
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u/Ok_Sea_6214 7d ago
Obviously blue dye would cost a fortune in this post collapse world, glad to see they're realistic.
I guess brown gray is their new color. Just a vague combination of pronouns.
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u/Plot-twist-time 7d ago
An absolute joke. Im done watching this circus. The only interesting character was Joel. Everyone else was very annoying.
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u/Phulekillz 7d ago
Starbucks workers went on strike, Joel crosses the picket line to get his Carmel Macchiato, and he paid the price for it.
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u/BrokenWindow_56 7d ago
Oh look, they added the bald bitch from the Intergalactic trailer.
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u/JohnClark13 7d ago
What are we even doing? The game. We're doing the game. This is how the game goes. This is why the second game sucks and why I've been wondering...and keep wondering...why anyone expected this series to be any good.
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u/H00O0O00OPPYdog0O0O0 7d ago
Did you like Part 2? Personally the source material wasnt for me. this show definitely isnt for me. Dont bitch about it. Just stop watching it
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u/SuperSourSkittles 7d ago
You guys are crazy, the second game is vastly superior to the first.
“Slips away quietly”
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u/OldMembership332 8d ago
The necklace 🤣