 The Last of Us, The Last of Us, and The Last of Us are exclusive video games that each came out in the PlayStation 3, 4, and 5. But since I took my sweet time to make this video, it's also down in your beautiful little battle station that you call a computer. Congrats gamers, you get to mod your little hearts out like you did for God of War and Spider-Man. Not gonna lie, it's pretty nuts that I'm making a video about The Last of Us in 2023. I, uh, didn't really think this was gonna happen. For those who are familiar with my itty-witty channel, you might have been able to pick up through context clues that I didn't play PlayStation 3 too much as a kid. Even though I didn't own a PS3 and only played LittleBigPlanet sometimes at my friend's house on the weekend, I was still in love with my beautiful little princess, the Xbox 360. 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But him being a grown man he saw that the X-Bone was uh, not the best. So he got a PlayStation 4 for himself and placed its little bum bum in the living room. And a year later in 2014 The Last of Us Remastered came out for the PlayStation 4. Which lined up nice for me since I was turning 12 in May and the game came out in July so I used the $60 from that birthday and bought the game because I really wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I still have the case even to this day. Rocket roughed it up a bit in 2019 since he was a little puppy. We still love him though because he's our fun little guy. The Last of Us is a game that I will never forget about since I first played it. And since then I've replayed it over and over and over again. It could even possibly be the reason I'm here making this video on YouTube for you to watch. As a kid I always loved shooters and platforming games but The Last of Us was the first time I ever got to experience a narrative masterpiece where I could feel the weight of what I was playing. I grew up with films that helped shape my interest and personality such as Jurassic Park, Mad Max, Star Wars and many other pieces of fiction but as an 11 year old I couldn't comprehend the beauty of 2001 of space Odyssey or how alien was the revolutionary change of the sci-fi genre. I was too little and while I enjoyed the combat of Bioshock I was also too young to see its complexity. But with The Last of Us I had no choice but to fully allow myself to be immersed with this game since I had no choice but to be involved with this world because if I don't move Joel and Ellie don't move either and on top of it being third person with a lot of dialogue I could tell that I'm not Joel get that camera the fuck away from me but I get to be Joel it's really confusing games are confusing play of sport instead yes I probably made a roadhog nevermind play games instead The Last of Us to boil it down is a story about a man rediscovering his purpose in a doomed world through an innocent little girl that believes she could possibly put it back together and you the player get to go on this journey first hand and experience it with these two complex people in this really complex world I struggled a long time with surviving no matter what you keep finding something to fight for and quickly you discover that this fallen broken world at times could be full of beauty wonder and innocence but that same world is also full of violence hatred and tense decision making that could be the difference between life and death but what makes The Last of Us stand out from other multiple copy and paste pieces of zombie media is that it's a well-written narrative with breathtaking performances alongside beautiful character writing that makes these pixels on screen feel like real people by the end of the game you will know about all the insecurities interest and basic things such as likes and dislikes between both Ellie and Joel and this level of intimacy was rare for a video game at some point Master Chief Isaac Clark Doom Guy Leon even Mario not the Chris Pratt one the the other little Italian man are great characters but they aren't real people these are fictional dudes in a fictional world but killing necromorphs and slaying demons is not why they aren't real you are pixels a kid trying to whistle a dad losing his daughter in his arms which causes him to hate the world a dad learning to love again a child being loved for the first time by a parent figure is what makes these characters real people The Last of Us reinvented the wheel for storytelling and video games and since then we've seen a complete change the landscape that is now full of some of the best pieces of media I have ever experienced as a kid I only ever saw Kratos as a violent god killer and when I play God of War my God of War PSP things aside though guys like the PSP was just so cool dude and the PlayStation 3 that I got to play at my friend's house across the street sometimes in the weekend boy it was fun to turn off my branding kill all these gods but in 2018 my mind was blown for a complete different reason I didn't like God of War because it was fun like before I liked it because it made me care about a father and son bonding trip and in 2018 I got to play as Arthur Morgan and Red Dead Redemption 2 who is now one of the greatest protagonist I've ever played as dutch dutch i don't think these experiences would have existed if it wasn't for The Last of Us created by Bruce Straley and Neil Druckman all right guys we got the sponsor so how about we go play this game for a good 10 hours get this footage and we edit it all together oh yes yes i'm going to play for 10 hours 10 hours all the time nothing else to do 10 hours of gameplay yes now that's a stupid idea no sense to waste all that time to play something all of us have played a bunch of times already to be fair you've got a point we can always just steal a let's play on youtube and crop out the watermark no no no we cannot do that i'm making chicken alfredo tonight and i've already bought the ingredients since the fourth time you've all tried to flake on dinner and i'm starting to lose my patience it is kind of rude to interrupt the meal we all don't hang anymore like we used to and i look forward to these meals plus we've cancelled a bunch of times and he does make a really good alfredo i'll give him that all right all right we're not all gonna play the game enjoy your dinner i'm gonna make a phone call maybe some people don't like to play video games they can't bunny hop get a victor a while while hitting the gritty look i'm here to bring you a million dollars or use a blue shell last second like a spineless coward so where i get to know about joel and ellie kratos and atreus arthur morgan and dutch i had a good thing going on where i was like adult and kid god damn it man i fucked it up i get to know about these cool people through gaming but mom grandma and my stupid little sister that tells me i spend way too much money on lego we'll never get to see these wacky and fun little guys that like to punch and sometimes kill people a lot there's a lot of people who complain about the last to specification of video games jesus that that took me like 10 that took me like 10 tries while recording this video to say by the way they don't like that so many games are now structured like long tv shows with lots of cutscenes and cinematics and your first playthrough you see what it does to the dead body they turned it into this stupid dragged out cutscene and hey maybe they're onto something why make these games into shows if they're pretty much shows already right nope you're wrong because while the last of us is a movie like experience there's still a lot of video game stuff involved in the video game like shooting people killing people shooting people shooting people killing people and setting them on fire but there's also a lot of boring stuff like moving ellie on a piece of wood for the fiftieth time or grabbing gliders over and over again and yeah that's not that fun to watch but the boring stuff is tolerable because at least it's you who gets to do this stuff so it's semi engaging but watching everything like a show is it's stupid because at that point just play the game it's a video game unless you're like in a weird circumstance where you can't afford a playstation console with a drastic park skin wrap that you got by selling your soul to the devil i understand i concede just watch markiplier play it then now that's quality content but as hit rapper and philosopher i spice one said boy let's keep it a buck mom and dad are gonna watch market player kill people and play with pieces of wood for 10 hours that ain't gonna happen it's not gonna happen are you sure about that but now imagine if you made this pretty much tv show video game into just a tv show so that mom and dad don't have to watch these let's players also your co-worker susan now doesn't have to buy a ps5 with a cool drastic park skin job to see this little girl say the f word a bunch of times are you gonna pay no no not that one the monetization has been a little kind of crazy lately but imagine how many more people are going to experience this 2013 story for the first time since it's easy to access video game adaptations are not a new thing at all good faithful and successful video game adaptations are a new thing entirely and it started in 2016 with the angry birds movie have you ever stolen anyone's children huh have you i mean you look like you would okay how the hell did you get into the movie there's adaptations of media to media all the time books usually get a good run who doesn't like a good read of harry potter anime has some pretty good adaptations from manga like chainsaw man of course uh i wouldn't know because i'm not a weeb get that out of here there's even been recent adaptations of legos like literal lego bricks that are only good for draining my bank account but video games they uh never got a good rap nor does animate a live action those have uh also been pretty bad 2005 doom didn't have a doom guy rip and tear through demons trying to speed run i said you got the rock playing space army max pain didn't have a cool action noir story it had marky mark and thank god he didn't have an asian co-star that could have gone pretty bad need for speed the game about going fast watch the new average pixel video by the way it's pretty good um as jesse pinkman with a bunch of explosions while you're screaming he's got keep getting away with it tecan was awful far cry was awful resident evil had nothing to do with resident evil at all and this was the super mario bros movie the famous video game everyone knew about just by looking at it has nothing worth looking at this is bowser this is a goomba drastic part came out a month later after this movie and i was adapted from the book and became the biggest movie of all time of all time now belongs to those dirty blue people super mario bros sums up everything when it came to video game adaptations in the early days studios enjoyed the ip's of these video games but did not like the video game parts of these video games because god help if somebody put any cartoony video game crap in my mario movie rather than whatever the hell this is it's really bizarre to look back at i know video games were looked down upon in the early days as cringe nerd media but the insecurity is hilarious instead of having a cool video game movie about the game it's based off of they rather just make the most generic nothing movie instead what's even more crazy is that i framed this like it's a back then issue no this is still happening to this day 2016 yeah the assassin's creed movie you used to be nice which was a soulless cash grab you could tell us tone deaf when they used i am a god from beloved album jesus in the trailer in 2015 you had the hitman movie which was horrible and the next year you had the world of warcraft movie which hey blizzard only fucking nerds play this fucking game nerds losers losers mortal combat messed up twice and the first one wasn't even that good it was just really funny and it's so bad it's good way resident evil tried to be about resident evil for once and yeah they still messed it up badly but naughty dog though unfair advantage it's easy to adapt their source material since the games are already made like movies the in charge of film had tom holland as nathan draken marky mark as victor sully and they put tommy boy in fortnight now no hate to peter parker but the film was um it was awful it was horrible actually the reason that these video game adaptations haven't worked is because corporatization leads these films to greed which creates a massive disconnect from the people who like the original pieces of media like all you had to do was make a cool indiana jones movie without harrison ford get the fuck out of my house that's what the games pretty much are why'd you do this instead well i know that recent sonic movies aren't bad it's crazy that i had to take a mob outcry to change sonic's art style to not be creepy there's gonna be this weird realistic looking creature rather than a fun cartoony guy that likes to run fast and people didn't like it it was horrible so they redid it and it looks way better which means that it's not all doom and gloom detective pikachu remains faithful to the art style in a real world the pokemon don't look like hyper realistic freaks the mario movie is actually in the mario world not trying to use the face of mario with some weird mobster twist it's a fucking disgrace video game culture is becoming more accepted in white spread and as these video games get older so do the people that once played them and then those same people who grew up with these video games get to work on the same movies about video games but as the years keep going we're still seeing a disconnect from people who are in charge versus people who care so video game adaptations need a bunch of w's to show that there is potential and it's starting to happen arcane and edge runners were animated adaptations of cyberpunk and league of legends and they were both amazing they were visually stunning but more importantly they were well written and both made by netflix cuphead was also made by netflix which is an adaptation of a video game but uh i don't think anybody cares about cuphead and i say that these two are really good with no bias at all i rather eat glass and blow my brains out than ever play league of legends like i've done a lot of wrong in my life i played star wars roleplay on gmod as a kid but that's not as bad as playing league of legends there there's levels to this we all make dumb ass decisions but the amount of money i put into useless skins is fucking stupid you're fat so what happened today was you know i woke up and i've complained a lot about cyberpunk and cd project read in a bunch of videos so yeah i ain't meat riding these games at all which i think makes these shows better arcane and edge runners are good standalone pieces of media that could be enjoyed by people who don't care about its video game source material at all because i rather lose all five of my fingers before i touch that piece of shit game and those shows being too large successes brings legitimacy to the realm of animated adaptations but like a double-edged sword their success also invites a lot of greed corporations most of the time see dollar signs when they see other things succeed and right now as we speak a lot of animation studios are eyeballing the landscape wondering what would happen if i followed the same path cyberpunk got a huge boost because of edge runners which gave it a massive second win there's business to this make something good connected to something bad and everyone starts to believe that they're both good it's a fucking disgrace everyone started a meme about battlefield 2042 making an anime to save its game and while it was a joke then stuff like this is going to start happening so in general we're gonna start seeing a lot more game adaptations in the coming years there's a bunch of films that have already been in the works for a while like the borderlands movie the bio shock movie the mario movie with all three of those having a star cast and many more movies with most likely star casting are going to be releasing as well but it's still a coin toss or whether or not these projects end up good or complete trash but a new realm of media is getting tapped into which is live action television the only way for the edge runners tactic to work is if that external piece of media is so well made and enjoy that it persuades people to visit the source and the biggest requirement for that is a good product so let's talk about halo i am public enemy number one when it comes to halo if i saw you walking down the street i'd fucking kill you i'd kill your fucking kids i'd kill your fucking wife i'm gonna kill your fucking mom halo infinite is the worst halo game in its franchise i ripped it apart once in a video and since then the game is still next to no new content while still lacking old content but this is the last of this video and we've been talking about adaptations so watch that video if you want to know why that game sucks let's get back on track i explained that the game had a bad development cycle due to its processing neglected since higher ups were more interested in the tv show counterpart and yeah the show was bad who would have thought the halo show by paramount was going to be me assault from a mile away find the halo win the war this guy's just like the game the people behind the show were corporate suits that saw money before quality halo everybody loved these halos so let's use this beloved ip to make a generic sci-fi show full of edgy baits like violence and nudity i saw a chief blow up halo rings when i was a kid now your kids get to see his ass and i mean literally see his ass the people making the show were never involved with halo and the showrunner didn't even play or look at the games before making season one they only looked at the character designs and world designs of the games take in mind that 343 stated that they were an open book to any questions that the showrunner could have potentially had but the showrunner wasn't even a fan of halo so nothing mattered it was pretty much doomed from the start and because of it it was terrible even as a standalone sci-fi project it's really lackluster due to it being so poorly written and on top of that it's cheap looking without much of the stupid action that made its community of shills cry tears of joy when it first came out you don't get that fan service every second you instead get puddles of poor writing and bad worldbuilding don't get me wrong having constant action is a horrible principle when there's bad writing but that would have been way more enjoyable than this edgy plot with unnecessary nudity and violence i'm not a square by the way i like violence and nudity in certain shows when it warrants it but here i just sense so much cynicism this is a video about the last of us i know but after how bad the halo show was and how bad halo infinite was you have an announcement that the last of us is releasing a show coming out after a sequel to the first game that was very divisive in its own community you also had the announcement that pager pascale was playing joel which at the time looked like a situation of cast popular guy for more attention they also casted bella ramsey who looked nothing like ellie but unlike corporate cynicism for the guy who just came off the mandalorian people were ripping apart the facial features and potential insecurities of an 18 year old that never started in the lead role the announcement was full of toxicity and skepticism and for the skepticism it was justified even i was skeptical but then it was announced that the show would be on hbo made by neil druckman who made the first game as well as craig maizen who made chernobyl which was really good which instantly made me go wait let these men cook and let's see what happens much like how i give a 24 praise for the reputation of giving filmmakers creative freedom i have a lot of trust in hbo when it comes to visual quality hbo has a reputation of its originals not looking cheap sopranos game of thrones house of dragon and many more shows have a certain level of quality to their appearance because hbo gives massive budgets to their projects since they expect to get massive returns which in this case yeah it worked the last of us even surpassed house of dragon in views recently it was a massive success the halo show looked ugly because it had a very low budget the suits looked like they were made of plastic the sets were baron and the cgi was awful like this shot with the sliding cgi assault rifle that could have been practical i say this but when they did practical they forgot the cgi as well this was the first episode by the way but the more important thing other than this be on hbo was that the creative director and writer who made the first game was also making the show and next to miss craig maizen who was a fan of the first game and just made a really good show as well sony at some point sat down with craig and asked him if he wanted to adapt any playstation games which one would he want to do he asked why the last of us was not an option and it was stated that it was off the table due to the potential making of a film this film was never made due to disagreements and writing since neil found it impossible to fit the story in a at most three-hour window which also put sam mary me out of a job may god rest his soul he had to make a mid-ass marvel movie and sometime after chernobyl came out the adaptation rights for the last of us reverted back to naughty dog and neil druchman and hey neil druchman was a fan of chernobyl so him and craig met each other and began chatting and due to the success of chernobyl craig had some connections at hbo and since he just finished a project that being chernobyl he now had some time on his hands to start something new after i played the last of us i was just an awe of the game i was an awe of neil so i immediately want to meet craig now that i've seen chernobyl you know let's just assume we wanted to make this as a tv show at hbo what would that look like and he said oh be very easy we go across the street and we meet with them and i tell him i want that to be my next project and we make it my next project and he finishes the pitch and then uh kasey stands up and he's like well craig i told you whatever your next project is has to make you float this is clearly it and they turn to me and he's like it was a pleasure meeting you let's make this show that was a snippet from episode one of the last of us podcast which was released directly after every episode of the show the podcast was hosted by troy baker who is the voice actor or Joel from the video game and in the podcast he talked with neil and craig about every episode after they were released and the two have been fully transparent about the show and how it was made as well as the changes they made for television and how compares to the video game such as intentions within character writing what i'm trying to explain by saying this is that these two are real people not corporate suits that mainly care about getting good ratings and money off of something they know people love like the halo show it's literally the guy who made the first game and a guy who was a fan of all the behind the scenes footage you could find it seems that everybody loved working on this even those who were involved with the video game are involved in the show which shows that the creators aren't insecure about this existence they're not trying to write out the video games and have this be on the main stage they're instead trying to live up to its quality and coexist alongside it all the minor things like this have a big impact like how important roles were given to the voice actors from the first game like Joel playing the camera guy who gets whacked by ellie ellie playing ellie's mom that gives birth to ellie tommy playing a new guy that gets his head ripped in half hell marlene from the game gets to play marlene in the show also abby from the second game is in the hospital scene at the end which hey i know not everybody's a big fan it's still cool that they put the voice actor in the show and all of this gets us to the important explanation of this video's title the last of us is the best video game adaptation by a mile so far in the modern youtube landscape it's way more beneficial to be negative about something popular justified or not people are interested to find a contrarian opinion to something they might agree or disagree with but i find it really hard to rip the show limb for limb like some people have been i have dislikes of the show and stuff that i prefer in the game for sure and i'm going to be talking about it but i couldn't possibly see myself going the route that i've gone before with these videos so i question how others could as well but to first explain why the show is good we need to talk about craig mason in george lucas i truly believe that craig mason is the reason why the show is not getting ripped apart neil druckman made the first game with bruce straily who also helped with other naughty dog games like the uncharted series with his last project being uncharted fourth he said where then after he cut ties with naughty dog and this was most likely due to that subway commercial hey i'm nathan drake subway we're winners eat what the fuck bruce helped co create the world and characters for the last of us he even came up with the whole cordriceps angle but he wasn't there for the last of us to neil druckman led the last of us to coat written by hailey gross do you now see why we need to talk about george lucas the mind of george lucas is a brilliant one the prequels as a concept is awesome and genius it's way better than the corporatized sequel era from disney but the original trilogy is also amazing as a concept changing the perspective of sci-fi from being an aesthetic of 1950 silver woman to space cowboys samurai's and uh space n words i'm not being racist just like tf word from earlier i like money and don't want to get demonetized but let's just say that the empire might be similar to a group of people that didn't like another group of people in world war two and kanya west might be their leader but the original trilogy wasn't only good because of its awesome ideas in world they also just had some really good movies i think people always forget that george lucas is the co-creator of indiana jones and that it's one of the very few projects by lucas film that isn't star wars related also has a little short round who recently won an oscar yes yes yes yes yes you as well i love you as well also pixar was a part of lucas film which revolutionized the world of animation but when his wife divorced him he lost everything so he had a so he sold pixar to steve jobs who made toy story then sold it to disney and then he died this is the last of his video by the way the original trilogy and indiana jones are what they are because of george lucas has pretty little mind and his council the prequel trilogy films have a lot of flaws revenge of the sith is usually the only one people tend to rewatch due to it being better than just its concept unlike the two other movies it's really good standalone it's even one of the best star wars films ever but the prequel trilogy as an entity in its entirety even with these two staker films is amazing and has been used to make a ton of creative external star wars media for example clone troopers are boring in 2005 that is the clone war show has given these literal clones unique and distinguished personalities and it's molded my mind so now when i see a clone trooper i don't think of the boring white clone army mormons be like i instead think of captain rex commander wolf republic commandos the 501st 212th i spend way too much money on lego so if george lucas had a good council random when he made these prequel films there could have been small adjustments and better decisions to make these amazing ideas more cohesive neil druchman is george lucas even if you like the last of us two you are in denial if you cannot concede that there are massive flaws not even subjective decisions of concept like illiterate flaws that make no sense because of poor writing oh yeah heads up by the way massive last of us two spoilers for those who have only watched the show skip to this immediately you got like three seconds i think neil is an emotional guy who tends to think with his heart before his brain a lot so while he thinks this ending is really cool with loads of themes and subtext that he's been laying out i'm thinking uh these two don't really know anything about each other it kind of makes no sense that they would react like this okay like even the idea of joel getting whacked isn't that bad i'm okay with the character dying but the way it's written disconnects me from the suspension of disbelief which takes me away from the messaging that you're trying to make me feel it now just feels like shock value and in terms of that a succeeded i guess but it could have had brutal shock value while also having good writing this is why you need counsel and second opinions from creative people when you write stuff you should have had a second or third opinion to point out little details like why is joel's suss rate are not thrown off by multiple people in a very small place especially since you don't know the intentions of why they're there yet they could potentially be raiders who are scouting out jackson and to make it worse you let yourself be cornered while giving out your name even though it has been written yet that joel might have gone soft and lost his survival instincts so it looks more like bad writing than intentional writing and then neil goes oh yeah that is kind of dumb uh i still really like this idea though so let's rewrite it towards impactful and make sense that's why you need craig mason a video game and a tv show are not the same thing so you got to present stuff in different ways craig made a statement before the show came out and it made a lot of people upset so outraged that they began to compare it to the halo show's outrage where the show runner didn't even play the games this statement was ripped apart in the most unfaithful uncharitable and moronic ways and with hindsight uc is because gamers were defensive and up in arms about something that they didn't trust yet but what craig is saying is true some were so dense that they read it as death in video games aren't impactful but deaths in shows are which is not what he's saying at all comparisons are even made to the death of sarah or main characters in other video games like in general when in this context he's talking about storm trooper like npcs spoiler again the last of us to skip here but the last of us to was watered down because of its ludonarrative dissonance ludonarrative dissonance is but okay naked jakey explained it well pretty much the difference of gameplay versus narrative here's how he explains it it's a term used to describe a situation where the story being told during gameplay conflicts with the story being told during cutscenes thank you jacob i really appreciate you doing my job for me you sweet little prince mwah games have to be engaging and because of that joel gets to blast off legs and kill tons of people and zombies but it reduces these people to not feel like real in-depth guys but rather storm troopers that you get to mangle for your own enjoyment so death and violence is no longer shocking they try to fix this in the last of us to by having the storm troopers call each other by real names but all it did was make me know that it was dylan who got his jaw ripped off by my rifle and charlie yeah um that guy could go straight to hell it's still really fun don't get me wrong especially in the last of us to work you only get to do it for three hours before you have to do boring bullshit but yeah having all this fun definitely numbs you to the chaos the last of us to would actually be way better as a tv show because the ludonarrative dissonance ruins a lot of the gut punches that they're trying to insert in the show like ellie crying over the death of a pregnant lady when for the last couple days she's been on a bloodlust rampage or abby not killing the pregnant lady that helped kill all of her friends when for the last couple days she's been on a bloodlust rampage so for the last of the show craig and neil had to make some changes in the lab to make this baby boy good for your living room maybe it's not good for your living room though because episode three definitely led to some people getting beat the show can't just be a constant shooting gallery so this makes death in the show way more impactful than in the game which is a great change for tv in game it's sick when i blast an npcs head off because he's an npc that i don't care about i'm gonna do it a bunch more times later but someone dies in the show it's a big deal because it doesn't happen a lot for people who haven't played the game yet there is a new tension that wasn't present in the game joel can't respawn so if he messes up it will affect the show which it does and even if he succeeds it still has effects during the car crash fight joel had to execute someone that was trying to kill him this person was scared and pleading for his life to then be finished off by joel and this death really had an impact on ellie joel and the audience because so far at that point they have only seen joel be violent a couple of times this also applies to the infected in the show the clicker reveal displayed something that was never in the game before which was a very hoarse cinematic presentation in correlation to something like the Jurassic park kitchen scene with the velociraptors clickers in game are an obstacle for the player to have fun with within a sandbox with the gimmick being that the clickers can't see you but they could hear you very well so it creates a fun in-game puzzle where you have to find a way to sneak up on them but in the show they aren't a puzzle because everyone would get pissed off after the tenth broken bottle this change leads to a new element of visual horror causing distress since basic human panic and mishandling could be the difference between life and death of a character is bitten tess riley and most of all sam's death are especially tragic now since it's more believable that they might have got scared and made said mistakes from said fear that cost them their lives whereas when i'm ellie i'm bobbing weaving everything like i'm fucking rocky then you got abby's a straight up bare knuckle fighting infected in general are way more intimidating in the show than they ever were in the game let's compare this to the best zombie show of all time the walking dead i'm joking that show sucks besides its first couple of seasons the infected were once scary in that but through repetition of killing them over and over again they lost their intimidation so when someone died from them it felt kind of stupid and unbelievable the zombies act more like animals than an infection that wants to win so when infected come in waves against a faction it turns into a video game but since it's not interactive it gets boring fast the infected in the last of us are brutal you are not winning against this horn and it's intentional to add urgency and pressure to the idea of the world potentially being saved but it makes total sense why people think that this world is truly screwed the episode five conflict with the infected was a terror that you'd never got to experience in the games even when i saw the rat king in part two my first thought was oh fun boss fight and i was more in all of its design rather than being afraid by its presence this is terrifying it wipes out everyone in the span of a couple of minutes you can't just slowly stab them all the death of crowd control like the walking dead if test didn't make a distraction ellie and joe would have definitely died infected in humans are a serious threat in the show not to say that they aren't presented as a threat in the video games as well but since it's a video game where you need to kill stuff to have fun it loses shock value but instead becomes enjoyable for a different reason that being it's fun to kill people and set them on fire the emotional outrage to kreg statements represents how a lot of people work toward the show and its changes in general change is really scary but change isn't always bad and sometimes change can lead to stuff that's better or different than what there was before like kreg changing tessa's death is actually a good thing before it made no sense that fedra would be that far from the qz searching for two runaways who most likely would have died if it wasn't joel and tess or how the jackson raider segment was random and out of nowhere for the sake of a gameplay segment and for some instances kreg and neil wanted to change some characters completely which we'll talk about in a bit but something else they did was changes to presentation since kreg and neil don't want shooting gallery presentation it now has to replace that void with something else and while the show loses some violence in action and now has to focus on the world building and character building vegas is a very ugly place the only interesting display of world building you have here is construction and the drunk homeless people who like to go searching for ants but unlike vegas the last of us is pretty and that beauty makes this fallen world very rich with great sets and prop work that helped make the world actually look like it's been abandoned and lived in for the past 20 years they went so above and beyond that during the winter segments they filmed everything on location saw the actors have frozen in red little cheeks and are breathing out cold air constantly it's so much cooler than building an artificial winter set somebody please get this man a gun and i know it's probably really annoying for the cast and crew because they're freezing their asses off but god does it look nice other annoying stuff for the team was doing a bunch of practical work with a good mix of very well-made CGI every time you get to see an infected in the show they all look stunning and not cheap like a certain other show since they were practical for the most part having an actor be in makeup for countless amount of hours including the bloater also i'm going to give a diss to my friend typo we had a bet on the giraffe in episode nine before it came out if it was going to be CGI or not and it was practical it was a real giraffe they touched a real giraffe and that's really cool and i was also right so that's the biggest part i went and the development of this entire world is done very well it can even at times be better than its source material since the game is restricted by its player interactivity and to translate that to english instead of speaking for i for the non-gamers out there when you play the last of us no matter what you have to follow either ellie or jewel whether it be in the cutscene or through gameplay guess a 14 year old girl can take a bullet like that and you go my stomach hurts and it has to be like this because cutting to someone completely different that isn't a playable character is really jarring in a video game that's no shade the last of us too by the way in case anyone thinks that i might be throwing shade that way in that game it's a perspective swap it's literally a perspective change where abby becomes the main protagonist for 10 hours a good narrative example is going from arthur to john and from john to jack if joel and jelly if at the end of the game joel and ellie were together and then we go to cutscene with tommy and maria back in jackson to then go back to ellie and joel talking about wanting to go to jackson it would be really odd and would kill some of the immersion in a video game you should always have the character you are playing be in frame tech capacity and through that character you could explore the world that the character lives in yourself it's something that the video game does really well replaying it recently i enjoyed just walking around and seeing pretty landscapes but since we're a show now we get to leave the perspectives of joel and ellie and sometimes we could be both of their perspectives with other people that aren't each other at the same time when joel talks to tommy in-game ellie goes to maria to get food and we don't get to see that interaction but in the show we get to see tommy with joel as well as ellie with maria at the same time since we're no longer restricted to one perspective and not being limited to a perspective to help flesh out characters that aren't protagonist as well as the world that these side characters live in since we're now able to see it through a whole new set of eyes in episode one we open with an intro that explains flout to everyone that if one day mushrooms want smoke with us it's a wrap then in episode two we get to see a scientist from a whole different continent that being the city of jacarta in southeast asia jacarta where is that middle east examine in the start of the virus where she states that the only solution is to bomb the city so you can keep it under control for a little bit boom i read this is worldbuilding of the corducepts infection and it solidifies that the world not just the united states is truly doomed which adds more desperation to the idea of a potential vaccine making this journey more important while adding extra tension and controversy to its ending in that same episode we also get to see the perspective of joel's daughter sarah outside of where the game starts and she goes into the outside world showing what life was like right before the outbreak and since the shows in 2023 we had to go back to 2003 in a post 9 11 world with good ol g bush sadly we don't find out if he hates black people or not joel's bush doesn't care about black people don't care later in the show it also explains that the virus was present in the food supply which caused it to spread and in the episode it shows all the bullets that were dodged by being irresponsible while showing how it affected the responsible people who do eat breakfast but like for real it shows everything they didn't have pancake mix where's the pancake mix what was that yeah i was sorry i thought we was having pancakes sarah turns down the cookies from her neighbors twice yeah i want some biscuits i do but i'm on akins i should go you sure yeah well you're taking some cookies and joel forgets to get himself a birthday cake i'll bring back a cake i promise where's the cake come on man i'll get this one tomorrow all these decisions led to them not getting infected that night even later it shows that the neighbor's mother fell to the infection from that tainted food supply from the hospitals within the city and once she on the mallet she was empty it could have possibly took longer for it to hit shelves in other places and those places might have been dodged by joel not caring about breakfast as well as his birthday god he really is just like me for real the attention to detail is crazy and requires later context to notice it but little details like these are scattered throughout the entire show in episode four kreg explains the thought process behind joel killing the kid with a knife it was to conserve ammo and not be allowed in episode five we see sam use an etch a sketch because paper and pencils would be extremely limited in that world it establishes that dogs could smell infection in episode one that leads to a tense moment in episode six in episode eight we see ellie emptied the rounds of a rifle on the floor while still holding david and james hostage a subtle smart detail that has no payoff but is still realistic these subtle details help rich in the characters in the setting of an apocalypse there's not a lot of ammo the gas does still exist but is really watered down which means they have to stop for it constantly and dried out jerky and 20 year old chef boy rd is pretty much the diet that most people would have beef eroni chef boy rd and these details add up over time and show the observation and care made toward the small things that most people wouldn't even notice or seek out the open perspective made sarah a better character and made the last of us more expansive and this is present all throughout the show you learn more about fedra and the inner workings inside the wall you see how bad the fireflies are actually struggling while also seeing how they got in possession of ellie how violent the liberation of the kansas qz was how intense being the subject of a citywide manhunt can be how children under fedra grow up the inner workings of a pragmatist cannibal colt with a falling leader that everyone resents and a functional communist safe haven full of sheep and movie knights you also get a day in my life vlog starring two gay guys because you can now see stuff that the protagonist can't see oh yeah also frank is alive henry's a coward and sam is deaf the change of these characters are interesting to say the least the changes in writing i mean not their appearance this is going to ruin some of your guys's parasocial views on good old doctor skipper but here it goes everyone i don't hate black people i don't hate mexican people and i don't get a single shit about race swapping when you talk about a character talk about a character there were grown men with tons of funko pops who look like the whale but didn't have the heart of charlie getting mad that sarah was black maria was black joel was hispanic and that someone playing a 14 year old girl was not hot like the video game which um what the fuck does that even mean a cupcake notice one major change immediately that sarah is now black what does this add to the show why absolutely nothing could make the argument that it's here to make us care more about sarah but i really didn't partially because of the race swap in the problem is not that she's a terrible actress i honestly think she was just fine here it's just that her face is so fucking distracting i don't know if she has fetal alcohol syndrome down syndrome but she certainly has some issue of some kind she doesn't look like a normal human being um that was uh that was really bad and look i know how this might sound to some it's easy to claim that people are grifters and incels when they don't like something that others like but some of the people bitching about this show are just genuinely hateful with semi-large platforms and when people have these preconceived ideas they use it to attack other problems that are non-existent like the claim that pager pascal was a wooden board with no talent even though he showed great range many times in various episodes or that bella ramsey was a bad casting choice due to her being distracting because of how ugly she is which it has no relevancy and is extremely fucked up to state as a criticism especially from grown men that whine and piss about stupid minimal shit so just one last time i'll go over these wokeness changes if you're curious notable one the one you've likely seen is the all-gender bathroom get a goddamn job and we haven't even talked about bill and frank which oh my god well we'll get to but pager pascal's little mexican face bella ramsey's not sexualized face for degenerates and whatever whatever's faces all did a great job in the show with many good performances and impressive displays of acting so now let's talk about the characters since that's what is most important Pedro and bella were instructed to not play the video games before shooting or while shooting the show and some thought this was another halo situation but it wasn't it was a good change to help with the show's identity the best parts of the show is when it's swayed from being an adaptation and focused on being its own standalone thing if Pedro and bella were told to be ashley and troi you would have just had a watered-down copycat version of the characters since it's impossible to live up to the same expectations of the original troi and ashley's performance have their own little quirks and sets of improv that you can't get naturally if instructed to copy something else to a perfection joel calling sarah baby girl which he eventually calls elie later in a crucial moment was completely improvised some of the worst parts of the show was when they try to recreate scenes from the game because while being faithful it sometimes felt unnatural since joel and ellie didn't have the same time to develop as the characters in the video game the last of us game does not have an open perspective and because of this you are going to be around joel and ellie a lot which gives them a lot of time to develop and build chemistry so when big events happen it's really impactful joel and ellie's fight was better in the game by far it's a better performance the context is stronger and it's more emotional tommy knows this area well i'm sorry i trust him better than i trust myself stop with the bullshit what are you so afraid of that i'm gonna end up like sam i can't get infected i can take care of myself how many close calls have we had well we seem to be doing all right so far and now you'll be doing even better with tommy i made this decision for your own good you'll be way better off with tommy he knows the area better than i do you give me shit about me or not of course i do then what are you so afraid of i'm not her you know what maria told me about sarah ellie you are treading awesome mighty thin ice here i'm not her you know maria told me about sarah and no don't say another word i'm sorry about your daughter joel but i have lost people too you have no idea what loss is i'm sorry about your daughter joel but i have lost people too you have no idea what loss is everyone i have cared for has either died or left me everyone fucking except for you everybody i have cared for has either died or left me everybody fucking except for you and while it's possible in the show the dialogue and scene all together should have just been adjusted and tweaked for peter and bella's version since they aren't the same as ashlyn and troyes it's what happened with tess's death and that's why it was really good in this adaptation it wasn't a one-for-one recreation but instead something of its own that could be judged that way an adaptation doesn't need to be a retelling completely the cute and lovable pager peskel has been put into a weird situation with a character that he has to fill the shoes of pager peskel's cute little joel is not joel it's a new joel and i won't lie at first i was not a fan of this joel because i was comparing them one to one with the joel that i love and as each episode had passed i felt that they ruined his character making him overly soft and incompetent but then i realized later that this is a complete reimagined of that same character or he's supposed to be soft and incompetent troye baker's joel is a violently blunt guy who speaks straight up most of the time while not fearing any confrontation but at the same time this is still the joel we've known since 2013 the same guy that has that protective dad instinct and will kill anyone for the people who he loves most this joel is not like that pager's joel has the same events happen to him he loses his daughter and just like the game it's heart-wrenching and extremely emotional but the joel we get moving forward has a new spin to him instead of a man who is mad at the world full of violence and rage pushing back against a new child figure in his life with a coldness to not let in those feelings instead have a man who is capable of violence but is also plagued by regret and insecurity being both aimless and ambitious while having empathy and consideration for people in the world around him put the gun down slide it over to me please don't do it we see joel cradling his dead child then go 20 years in the future where he has to burn the body of a recently dead child since his co-worker can't stomach to do it showing that joel is numb to this new world with his only purpose being to hustle for a car battery so that he can attempt to find the only family he has left and while doing this he isn't alone he's met someone in this new world to share this burden with yet he's still aimless and at the same time we're introduced to a little girl chained up in the same episode who is aggressive and impatient in the game the first time we meet ellie is when joel meets ellie due to the game perspective thingy we talked about earlier but it makes sense to flesh out this kid or on the same time as joel since the time we'll see them together is much more limited than the game ellie in the game was a kid who didn't know how cool the world was and was more fascinated by its beauty questioning if that beauty is also everywhere else you know i've never been this close to the outside look how dark it is can't be anywhere south there can it and throughout the game she learns first hand about how bad that beautiful world really is but on this journey she's accompanied by someone who is heavily damaged but is very experienced and through the journey of the game she has to learn to be resourceful independent and reliable while also falling in love with the idea of a parent figure being in her life for the first time ever while that parent figure is standoffish about the same love of being a dad with purpose again look i'm not supposed to tell you why you're smuggling me if that's what you're getting at you know the best thing about my job i don't gotta know why be honest with you i give two shits what you're up to look great good and through the game she slowly starts to peel back his layers and slowly joel starts to let down his walls ellie in the show is more codependent than game ellie she's not able to function in this world without joel which puts more pressure on joel since in this world he's not as confident or resilient as the video game counterpart but ellie is also delusional with an extreme false sense of confidence about the world she lives in due to her childish immaturity ellie in the game is not used to violence and is frightened by it she's afraid of it the first couple times when she's introduced to it and throughout the game she is slowly more traumatized by it as she sees how bad shit could really get i guess this is how it ended for this zone every battle's got a losing side what if they had families everyone has a family best not to dwell on it how can you not whereas the show ellie is fascinated by the idea of survival and craves to be a strong violent survivor video game ellie is shocked when joel makes a guy shoot himself in the head with his own gun much like in the show when sarah shocked by joel killing their infected neighbor but show ellie is fascinated by joel's violence as he punches the man he used to sell perk 30s to uh to death he punches him to death and she chooses to observe it like a baby t-rex from Jurassic park the the lost her jeez man i i there's so many references to Jurassic park in this video and through the show we see these two character traits expand and regress that being insecurity and failure for joel and the loss of child innocence as well as immaturity for ellie while joel miller in the video game is displayed to be hell on wheels tv show joel is shown many times to be incompetent and sloppy making simple mistakes while also freezing up time to time and as joel makes these mistakes the more insecure he gets about being able to protect this child that he's taken the responsibility of also fearing the emotions of losing a kid all over again like he did with sarah a thought that he hasn't had to worry about for 20 years and these thoughts plague him riddling him with anxiety causing panic attacks left and right as well as waves of nostalgia and regret for what he could have if he succeeded at protecting the ones he loved and at the same time ellie is full of immaturity believing that she has what it takes to survive in this dangerous world and is fascinated by being a survivor like joel we see her explore this fascination carving into trapped infected with her knife to then plunge the blade in its skull where then later she steals a gun that she's not supposed to have and like the child she is she poses with it imagining herself having to use that gun in a broken mirror with her reflection looking back thinking of herself being just like joel but when she actually has to use this weapon to save the life of joel who just got himself stuck in a life or death situation she does and at that moment she comes to grip with reality quickly realizing that she just attempted to kill somebody and that she's not the wild west gunslinger who dropped the bad guy but that she just shot someone who was alive and didn't finish the job and now that person is in pain crying while pleading for their life and it freaks her out snapping her out of this delusion while also bringing her to tears it's a loss of innocence and a loss of confidence this type of delusion is common within children we just call it imagination since we're not in a clicker fungus zombie apocalypse it's like when you watch transformers as a kid and you thought you could rip people's arms and heads off like optimus prime or how you thought that if you let a spider bite you that you too could be spider-man and that kid bubble was just popped and she doesn't enjoy what just happened and at the same time it makes joel feel like a failure all over again in the game the sequence is very different the test is infected and before making a sacrifice she makes one last request to joel to promise her to get ellie to the fireflies to find a cure joel is skeptical of this and later verifies this immunity through ellie being able to breathe in spores so with his confirmation and motivation he goes and visits an old friend named bill for a truck which develops the trust issues of joel and ellie throughout the whole segment ellie fights for joel's validation and wants to be seen as reliable and trustworthy and at the same time joel wants to shut this kid out as nothing but a job not wanting to accept her as someone who could be more in his life than just cargo jam from the other side here boost me up no that's not such a good idea well i can't boost you up how else are we gonna open it now just open it nothing else okay tada let me use that pretty good shot with that thing how about we just leave this kind of stuff to me well we could both be armed cover each other i don't think so uh uh what i need a gun no you don't joel i can handle myself no it's tied on the other side what about going through here what the doggie door maybe you should have given her a gun okay bill and as him and ellie have to rely on each other more and more and protect each other from this constant danger he slowly starts to give in and begins to slowly rely more on this kid but when they're just about to arrive at that finish line he still closes her out later when joel is put into position of life and death ellie breaks his order of staying put and takes his gun to save his life expecting validation and praise ellie is instead rewarded with bitterness and aggression as joel doubles down not wanting to admit that this kid is someone he can rely on and you just hang back like i told you to well you're glad i didn't right i'm glad i didn't get my head blown off by a god damn kid you know what no how about hey ellie i know it wasn't easy but it was either him or me thanks for saving my ass you got anything like that for me joel we gotta get going but full of guilt he drops the act right after and gives ellie a test of trust while thanking her for saving his life you stay here this is so stupid we'd have more of a fucking chance if you let me help i am if i get in trouble down there you make every shot count yeah i got this just so we're clear about back there it was either him or me where she's then rewarded with a weapon making her now a partner instead of a damsel in distress the scene in the show is different due to the change of the bill and frank segment this development is not existent and ellie as a character is codependent she's not really a partner at all what we haven't said is joel flat out stating the mindset in the car instead of having that whole development period keep going for family i'm not family no your car go the change to joel and ellie is that joel kills the person that ellie's shot to relieve ellie of that situation and ellie hides while crying joel is full of regret and feels guilty given that he just messed up at protecting this kid by almost getting himself killed which forced ellie to intervene and shoot this guy and he feels even more guilty since she's just a kid that shouldn't have been put in the situation in the first place and while ellie is still sad by what just happened joel gives her the blessing to carry the same gun she stole earlier and it lifts up her spirit like an actual child when i was a kid i used to stay up late playing video games when i knew i wasn't supposed to but when i got that permission directly to play nw3 till 10 o'clock at night it made that session 10 times more enjoyable since i didn't have that guilt in the back of my mind stuff like this made the show really interesting since it's still the same events as the game but now with a unique twist that makes it more than just a live action video game cutscene that happens to have the mandalorian in it as you can see these are two completely different retellings of the same characters with the same names a lot of the changes in the show from its source material were really impactful as standalone things most of the best parts of the show was when they diverted from the games and chose to be original while the bedroom conversation felt awkward in episode seven due to the character building not being the same as the game making it much weaker joel breaking down with tommy about how much of a failure he is is extremely emotional while also still being original that scene solidified patrice joel as patrice joel for me it's his own character now and i'm happy they stuck with that personality and double down rather than it being wishy washy dipping its toe in and taking it out kind of like the accent he tries to do from time to time rule three you do what i say when i say it we clear you're sitting there like a fucking bamboo my other favorite parts from the show is when joel and ellie just settled down and talked since a video game is a video game joel and ellie are killing people from sunrise to sunset no sleeping eating using the bathroom none of it except for the the nap the nap and almost dirt nap throughout the whole winter other than that though no rest for the wicked but since pager peskel is a real person with a real face and a real bladder he needs his full eight hours and a potty break so you have multiple moments where they just set up camp and just talk either it be about the future their current dynamic or just simply telling stupid jokes another good change of originality is that some characters from the game were re-envisioned for television henry and sam were rewritten for the show and it works very well in the game henry and sam were pretty much an exact copy of the joel and ellie dynamic and craig mason said that falling the perspective of clone characters would be repetitive and boring since it's just the same dynamic with different people who are temporary as it is so he changed it to where henry is no longer joel but instead a guy who has no combat experience and for sam they didn't make him the same age as ellie anymore but rather a much younger kid who is now deaf and instead of trying to escape the hunters in the city like the game they rewrote the conflict being that henry sold out his rebellion leader that was also his friend defedra to get medicine for his brother's leukemia screwing over his own people for the protection of the one he loves most and when the rebellion wins the qz the sister of the rebellion leader takes command and wants henry and sam dead if there's a creator in this world he was professionally hating when making this kid first he's deaf and zombie apocalypse which is really not helpful but jesus christ bro what the fuck but like joel and ellie's dynamic henry is trying to preserve the innocence of sam while also having to protect him at the same time and eventually sam finds joel and ellie by joel's negligence of sleeping on the wrong side rather than joel stumbling on them in the game and getting the upper hand to then concede when sam draws his gun henry asked them to help get him and his brother out the city henry doesn't have joel's combat experience but like him he has someone he needs to take care of but what henry has that joel doesn't is city knowledge later sam is infected and in parallel to ellie she is also an innocent kid who shares her secret with sam hoping that her blood could save him and in the morning when it doesn't henry kills sam to protect ellie making his first kill ever be his own brother to protect another innocent kid where he then shortly realizes that all the bad stuff he has done was for nothing since he failed to keep the one he loved most safe not able to deal with the trauma of the situation he takes his life in front of both joel and ellie which leads to another original parallel that being that joel attempted to kill himself just one day after her passing and that failed attempt left him disabled which is now affecting the safety of this new kid making him feel even more guilty and after seeing what just happened to henry and relating to it he's now in a position that he's never wanted to be in again with his child making him more desperate to get to tommy and have him take the burden away the change of henry and sam is better than the game it was changed and i preferred it and i feel like it would even translated very well to a video game since in the game you still have some like better joel and ellie development like the waterfall jump or her refusing to leave joel side if they added the same depth to the hunters as the rebels and adjust to sam and henry it could have possibly been the best mission in the game so with that let's talk about bill and frank now i think there's a problem with episode three but skipper why why do you think there's a problem with this episode it's because bill and frank are gay there i said it they are gay and i can't stand it all right all right we got about our first system we wiggled it out once again snipping that parasocial bond bill and frank being gay is not a problem with this episode them being gay is not an evil character flaw or a selfish character flaw or whatever some of these losers online are saying the problem i have with this episode has nothing to do with that it is radical it is disgusting and fuck anyone who thinks of that way i i do not want you in my audience it's weird the problem i have with this episode is that it's a waste of time because it's gay episode three of the last of us is a really good episode of television and while it has some really bad action scenes like bill shooting in the street when he's shown to be a doomsday prepper that would have totally built a sniper's nest i whatever it's still a good episode and the whole love story in the apocalypse is really cute and wholesome and reminded me of like the first five minutes from up i really liked it and i enjoyed it as a standalone thing but in the season of last of us um it points out a glaring problem with this show the last of us was originally 10 episodes long but they mash episodes one and two together for the sake of a good pilot so it actually ended up being nine episodes in total and for those nine episodes one of them has to set up the world really well and focus not so much on joel and ellie's adventures or rather setting up the foundations and another episode is about one-off characters that die and another episode is about an origin story that was a dlc in the game and now you have open perspectives in all the other episodes so a lot of minutes are getting eaten up by external characters also most episodes aren't even an hour long and the ending is super short compared to the rest so with that all combined it means that we don't get to see joel and ellie develop as much as they could have and when they get to it now has to be rushed so they could follow the order of events from the game and at the same time the show was really allergic to fun so it made some of these rushed moments lack intensity and scale the bill section in the game is really good outside of just its combat because while having bill show up as a character it also has joel and ellie right alongside him like i said earlier the whole development for ellie in this segment was her trying to prove herself to joel as more than just cargo but for joel a message was also being told at the same time while ellie is trying to earn joel's trust and prove that she can be useful and reliable at the same time joel is shedding himself off and being extremely blunt and harsh i just want to say i'm sorry about tess that's it i won't bring it up again ellie you don't need to worry about me but when he meets bill he sees that while having nobody to care for is the best way to survive bill is also not living at all he's a toxic sad and angry person that has nothing to live for and that survival mindset drove the only person who loved him away which led to their death and now bill is an aimless ghost surviving in isolation but for what joel sees this and relates to bill since recently he also just lost his partner and being in the same position joel does not want to survive like bill and given what happens in part two bill is objectively correct his way of survival is the most effective but is this constant misery and loneliness while having no purpose worth the safety and survival in comparison to living a purposeful life while protecting someone who is more deserving of life than yourself and throughout the whole segment we see joel reflect on this multiple times you should have it you too right like an idiot you only be okay with this yeah not a problem you're doing a good job i figured you should know that i won't let you down with this the only important part of episode three in the show is the start and finish it's the only part that's going to carry weight for the rest of the show going forward that being that ellie is kind of an asshole and is pushing back the same coldness joel is giving which is different from the game where ellie has a lot more remorse for tess's death which makes this counterpart more immature look i've been thinking about i want your sorry i wasn't gonna say i'm sorry i was gonna say that i've been thinking about what happened nobody made you or tess take me nobody made you go along with this plan you needed a truck battery or whatever and you made a choice so don't blame me for something that isn't my fault this guy stinks and that joel's reminded that he's a failure for the death of tess while also learning that he can find purpose and that while bill was at first a selfish and miserable asshole he found a person that was worth living for and above all protecting the ones you love matter most and this is all left in a death note no no no not that kind of death note but just a normal note that they get when they visit and by doing that you now left a whole episode of potential world building character building and fun set pieces that's relevant to our main characters to just an intro note and you have a whole side quest that has no relevance but to get to that note it's a 30 second payoff that could have been expanded on if they stuck to the source material episode five and eight different from the game but still involve joel and ellie heavily but episode three seven taking almost two hours of vital progression means that everything else in the show now has to be rushed to stay on time and since now everything has to be rushed the show has to compromise fun to tell its story i still stand by my statement earlier that every episode doesn't need to be a shooting gallery since it's a non-interactive tv show like the jackson change from the hydro plant was better since raiders attacking the hydro plant was solely for gameplay reasons but three minutes worth of infected in the whole season is crazy like come on that's that's a bit lame after playing the game again on pc i was reminded that a lot of the reason why the last of a story is so good is because how intense and fun it could be joel and ellie's relationship is strengthened a lot from survival and protecting one another in life and death circumstances which is a really good bonding experience and for the sake of tv it makes sense why everyone's favorite episode was episode five while it's cool to see page wrote kill a bunch of soldiers to rescue a child he once didn't care about to then threaten the doctor to unplug the kid while taking them unconscious to then exit and treat the person that got you that kid in the in the first place wait what the hell it's not going to make normies get excited and any show you could see humans get shot a bunch of times but not every show has fungus monsters that rip people apart mom and grandma want to see this season from work want to see this everyone wants to see this and there should have been more of it you don't even need a bunch of clickers and bloaters that have a lot of makeup if that's the problem runners are really interesting as they are in the game they're portrayed really well displaying that there's still somebody behind those eyes as they cry and scream and gurgle at while they rip people apart as the fungus hijacks their nervous system forcing them to do so it's brutal now if you replace episode three with the source material then you get some cool action you get some cool set pieces you get good character development a bunch of cool ellie and bill scenes now do that but make the show 12 episodes instead of nine and now you get to have the cool gay love story and frank could die at the end and bill could be mad at the world and have the same cool episode as the game win win win and win touchdown extending the show means that you could put more fun and more infected which would have impacted the show in its world building Joel gunning down people trying to save humanity would have been impactful no matter what so him only killing one dude in five seconds at the college was really underwhelming especially compared to the game where that segment was another case of ellie proving that she can be independent and resourceful just before having to take care of Joel for the winter or the david episode could have had a little more intensity from both ellie and Joel but they had to rush it to stay on track it's a lose lose you have to rush character development and you don't get to have as much fun action if every episode had the same length as the pilot it would have been way more beneficial for the show or if you made the show 12 episodes you could have kept the left behind bit and the bill and frank stuff and still have Joel and ellie get a lot of time together and the finale should have been the same length as the pilot as well i don't want Joel killing people for 40 minutes but what i do want is more scenes like Joel talking about a suicide or ellie being nervous or seeing Joel scared when he's about to lose the thing he loves most that being said the last of us is still a really good adaptation is that better than the game no the last of us was built specifically for the video game medium and that player interactivity allows the game to be way more rich and expressive down to its world interaction character writing performances and many other aspects that make it the best video game of all time to some but i don't really like the idea of putting the show down because it's not as good as the game to be better than the game is an impossible task that was never going to be completed the last of us though without the knowledge of the game is still a roller coaster story about a father learning to love again and a daughter learning to be loved as they go through trial and chaos to get there and as a standalone adaptation it's one of the best right now certainly the best live action one and the important thing about this show is that there was care put into it there are people who've never played the game but love this story the visuals are stunning the cgi's crates prop team's makeup and everything up behind it's good a lot of people accidentally forget about video game stories because they're video games imagine how good of a western show you could have with red dead two and now apparently they're making a dead space movie with james one and then you also have the god of war show a fallout show there's so much crazy stuff you could do now with video games that you could put on to tv it's crazy that i'm making this video just like i said in the intro i played the last of us when i was 12 i'm turning 21 and we're still talking about the last of us today since the show's conclusion it's received its flowers breaking streaming records left and right and now the dooming question lingers what happens now with season two which is adapting the last of us part two the fact that season one was so good that we're now anticipating its next season rather than ripping it apart shows that the season succeeded at being an adaptation i'm excited to see what happens with season two but for this chapter we come to a close last of us has been on every playstation generation it's now on pc available to everyone has some of the best graphics in the market right now and it now has a mainstream television show available to everyone it's hit the ceiling for a video game title it's so good that it's done its ground for 10 years and still manages to be a breath of fresh air the last of us is truly one of the best pieces of media ever made and i'm happy that i've been able to be on this high again with you watching so don't go to sleep don't rest your head once again thank you to wonder for sponsoring the video and please visit the link of the description goodbye