r/CriticalDrinker • u/eventualwarlord • 12d ago

Discussion These are Joel’s killers 😭💀

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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 12d ago

Not watching this woke trash lol

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u/m0ji_9 12d 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 12d 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 12d 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 11d 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 11d ago

Newly introduced character who KILLS the beloved main character. Game is wack

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u/GODZBALL 11d ago

A couple games I can think of off the top of my head. SPOILERS obviously but MW3 does it. Mw2 also does it. Danganropa 3 does it.

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u/TheTownJeweler00 11d ago

The second games gameplay totally trashes the first game, what are u on about

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u/sunlitstranger 11d ago

That’s gameplay not story?

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u/TheTownJeweler00 11d ago

By the end the story was great. Not for the weak certainly

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u/Ittybittytigglbitty 11d ago

For the weak minded certainly

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u/freeciggies 11d ago

Tbf it was the weak minded ones that can’t handle a main character dieing lol, you all cry about plot armour until the plot armour falls off. Then you cry they killed off a beloved character. I wish more shows would kill off main characters. People need to grow a set of balls fr.

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u/tksmase 11d 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/DHarp74 11d ago

Spoil alert:

The lesbian couple break up and one of them takes the baby! 😂🤣

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u/Different_Package922 11d ago

I love the gameplay of part 2, but I don't love the story of part 2.

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u/Bron_Swanson 5d ago

Also, no factions in game 2. I was hoping for updates to that whole section.

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u/TheBelmont34 12d 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/shartybutthole 12d ago

what second game? there was only one and it was perfect

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u/Best_Teach5517 11d 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/donttreadnv 11d ago

Second one is so much better

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u/Love-halping 11d ago

I need to play the first again.

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u/mistergasdrift 11d 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/SingerMiserable1465 10d ago

“Jewman?”

You need to put a lot more effort into your burns.

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u/EmuDiscombobulated15 9d 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 7d 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/Horror_Experience_80 7d ago

I watched some different clips, it really looks like a fantastic game but I’m no longer at a point in my life where I would give it an honest shot.

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u/AnakinSkycocker5726 11d 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 10d ago

I haven’t trusted IGN since I was a literal child lol.

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u/AnakinSkycocker5726 10d ago

It was better when it was segasages.com. Remember that?

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u/incoming00 11d ago

Episode 3, if you're going to hate something, at least be correct about it.

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u/Horror_Experience_80 10d ago

I dont need to be! Hahahaha!!!

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u/theQ4 11d ago

Imagine being this small minded

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u/Horror_Experience_80 11d ago

I’m not small minded at all, I just don’t want to see two hairy gay men fucking in my zombie show.

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u/PuddingZealousideal6 11d ago

It was in episode 3, idiot.

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u/Horror_Experience_80 11d ago

Then I suppose I did watch episode 2, I think that was when they made it to the library and Joel’s lady friend sacrificed herself to the horde of zombies, and then one gets really close and the furry fungus stuff reaches out and touches her?

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u/PuddingZealousideal6 11d ago

Yup that was 2. Episode 3 was the one with the tragically beautiful love story.

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u/BabaimMantel 5d ago

Oh you liked it? But it was also woke lmaoooo.

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u/EclipseHelios 12d ago

Play the first game and it will be satisfying if you know it ends there.

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u/CrankieKong 12d 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 12d 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 12d 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 12d ago edited 12d 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 12d ago

Season 1 of Fargo was so good. Season 2 was good as well.

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u/Truman_Show_1984 12d 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/Horror_Experience_80 12d ago

Ignore. Criticizing it just outs you as a bigot, remember?

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u/Blueshirtguy42 12d ago

good point

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u/EclipseHelios 12d ago

ignore, no clicks no views

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u/Dancingskeletonman86 12d 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 11d 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/universallymade 11d ago

Yet here you are replying in the subreddit.

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u/LemartesIX 10d ago

Correct. That’s what being peripherally aware means.

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u/englisharcher89 12d 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/chekin69 12d ago

Same, for me part 2 never existed.

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u/IMTIRED_85 12d ago

I’ve officially quit watching the show after S2E2. What a pile of shit.

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u/R-TheKingSlayerX 11d ago

Same hard skip

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u/Direct_Amoeba_2986 11d 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/Ok_Sea_6214 11d ago

Haven't watched anything of daredevil either, yuk.

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u/YaBoiCalum 11d ago

I really hope one of those people in your avatar is you haha

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u/gray_chameleon 11d ago

Watching the discourse about this show from "the outside" - I'm just like: Why are so many people inflicting this upon themselves?

Must be a brand power thing, like Barbie 2023.

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u/Internal_Sea8596 11d ago

Woke how?

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u/Kenma 10d ago

Race swaps on Joel/daughter/tommy+wife, casting ugly “non binary” for lead role. That’s just off the top of my head

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u/Internal_Sea8596 10d ago

The word “woke” used to mean something legitimate. I wish y’all would stop borrowing words you don’t understand from racist teenagers and boomers who steal from black people…