The Last of Us (TV Show)

PostRe: The Last of Us (TV Show) by **Imrahil** » Tue Mar 07, 2023 1:31 pm

speedboatchase wrote:Eh? I literally said nothing about what happens. Will put on a spoiler tag anywho.

Don't be silly, that heavily implies what's going to happen. It shouldn't even be in a spoiler.

I don't know why people just can't help themselves.

Imrahil wrote:
speedboatchase wrote:Eh? I literally said nothing about what happens. Will put on a spoiler tag anywho.

Don't be silly, that heavily implies what's going to happen. It shouldn't even be in a spoiler.

I don't know why people just can't help themselves.

PostRe: The Last of Us (TV Show) by **Moggy** » Tue Mar 07, 2023 1:39 pm

speedboatchase wrote:
Imrahil wrote:
speedboatchase wrote:Eh? I literally said nothing about what happens. Will put on a spoiler tag anywho.

Don't be silly, that heavily implies what's going to happen. It shouldn't even be in a spoiler.

I don't know why people just can't help themselves.

Gamers are going to be watching this with non-gamers. I think for many people who played it, there is an interest in seeing others reacting to major plot elements. Such as eh, a finale. You are being very, very soft.

It's a thread about a TV show, outside of the main games subforum and literally says "TV Show" in the thread title. Why would you talk about the game in here and why would you heavily hint at what the ending is likely to be like?

Is it really so shocking that there would be people here who haven't played the game and just want to enjoy/talk about the show? Your post would have been fine in the game thread, it's annoying in here.

PostRe: The Last of Us (TV Show) by **sawyerpip** » Tue Mar 07, 2023 1:56 pm

speedboatchase wrote:
Imrahil wrote:
speedboatchase wrote:Eh? I literally said nothing about what happens. Will put on a spoiler tag anywho.

Don't be silly, that heavily implies what's going to happen. It shouldn't even be in a spoiler.

I don't know why people just can't help themselves.

Gamers are going to be watching this with non-gamers. I think for many people who played it, there is an interest in seeing others reacting to major plot elements. Such as eh, a finale. You are being very, very soft.

Why would you talk about the source material the TV show is adapted from.

Ludicrous.

PostRe: The Last of Us (TV Show) by **Moggy** » Tue Mar 07, 2023 4:56 pm

Captain Kinopio wrote:Why would you talk about the source material the TV show is adapted from.

Ludicrous.

Yeah it's ludicrous for people who haven't played the game to want to talk about the show in the TV Thread. What idiots they are to expect the thread to move at the TV pace and not be full of spoilers from the games.

Saying "in the game Joel grew wings and flew Ellie to safety " is fine as long as it's clearly marked as a game spoiler. Although it's beyond me why the game stuff can't go in the game thread.

Saying "and at the end of the game it turns out it was like the "it's all a dream" bit in Dallas!" is banana splitish.

Moggy wrote:
Captain Kinopio wrote:Why would you talk about the source material the TV show is adapted from.

Ludicrous.

Yeah it's ludicrous for people who haven't played the game to want to talk about the show in the TV Thread. What idiots they are to expect the thread to move at the TV pace and not be full of spoilers from the games.

Saying "in the game Joel grew wings and flew Ellie to safety " is fine as long as it's clearly marked as a game spoiler. Although it's beyond me why the game stuff can't go in the game thread.

Saying "and at the end of the game it turns out it was like the "it's all a dream" bit in Dallas!" is banana splitish.

Tell me the exact spoiler of the game that I gave.

PostRe: The Last of Us (TV Show) by **Moggy** » Tue Mar 07, 2023 5:09 pm

speedboatchase wrote:
Moggy wrote:
Captain Kinopio wrote:Why would you talk about the source material the TV show is adapted from.

Ludicrous.

Yeah it's ludicrous for people who haven't played the game to want to talk about the show in the TV Thread. What idiots they are to expect the thread to move at the TV pace and not be full of spoilers from the games.

Saying "in the game Joel grew wings and flew Ellie to safety " is fine as long as it's clearly marked as a game spoiler. Although it's beyond me why the game stuff can't go in the game thread.

Saying "and at the end of the game it turns out it was like the "it's all a dream" bit in Dallas!" is banana splitish.

Tell me the exact spoiler of the game that I gave.

I haven't played much of the game, how the strawberry float would I know if what you said was an exact spoiler?

Saying it is much like the red wedding is heavily hinting at something happening at the end of the season. If it is exactly like the red wedding then you've spoiled it. If it isn't much like that, but is a big show changing event, then you've spoiled that. If it is nothing at all like it, then you've still spoiled the end by building up something that doesn't happen.

Talk about the game if you want, this thread is pointless for people that haven't played all of both games, so I'm out of it.

Moggy wrote:
speedboatchase wrote:
Moggy wrote:
Captain Kinopio wrote:Why would you talk about the source material the TV show is adapted from.

Ludicrous.

Yeah it's ludicrous for people who haven't played the game to want to talk about the show in the TV Thread. What idiots they are to expect the thread to move at the TV pace and not be full of spoilers from the games.

Saying "in the game Joel grew wings and flew Ellie to safety " is fine as long as it's clearly marked as a game spoiler. Although it's beyond me why the game stuff can't go in the game thread.

Saying "and at the end of the game it turns out it was like the "it's all a dream" bit in Dallas!" is banana splitish.

Tell me the exact spoiler of the game that I gave.

I haven't played much of the game, how the strawberry float would I know if what you said was an exact spoiler?

Saying it is much like the red wedding is heavily hinting at something happening at the end of the season. If it is exactly like the red wedding then you've spoiled it. If it isn't much like that, but is a big show changing event, then you've spoiled that. If it is nothing at all like it, then you've still spoiled the end by building up something that doesn't happen.

Talk about the game if you want, this thread is pointless for people that haven't played all of both games, so I'm out of it.

Amazing. God forbid. Back to the fainting couch for you then.

PostRe: The Last of Us (TV Show) by **poshrule_uk** » Tue Mar 07, 2023 5:13 pm

Moggy is correct, people do this all the time.

People say stuff without telling you if that makes sense and it is a spoiler because your then alert looking out for what they were talking about.

poshrule_uk wrote:Moggy is correct, people do this all the time.

People say stuff without telling you if that makes sense and it is a spoiler because your then alert looking out for what they were talking about.

You’ve just given me a spoiler about a thing people can say to people that spoils things.

PostRe: The Last of Us (TV Show) by **sawyerpip** » Tue Mar 07, 2023 6:37 pm

I'm not sure why you are being such a dick about this when people are telling you what you've said is going to affect their enjoyment of the episode.

If you actually want specific details you can poke fun at as well, don't click this if you haven't played the game:

sawyerpip wrote:I'm not sure why you are being such a dick about this when people are telling you what you've said is going to affect their enjoyment of the episode.

If you actually want specific details you can poke fun at as well, don't click this if you haven't played the game:

Can you not see that specifically referencing the Red Wedding, and talking about how crazily shocked everyone is going to be, is going to have people thinking down a very certain track? If I'd read that without playing the games I'd definitely be expecting Joel or Ellie or both to die in the episode, and I'd spend the whole episode expecting it. And at the end I wouldn't think "oh that wasn't a spoiler after all" I'd just be annoyed that I'd been distracted by that idea the whole damn time.

PostRe: The Last of Us (TV Show) by **jiggles** » Tue Mar 07, 2023 7:08 pm

speedboatchase doesn’t believe he’s done anything wrong here because he hasn’t, but you’d only know that if you’d played the game.

This post doesn’t contain spoilers, but an explanation of why there have or haven’t been spoilers posted which you might be crazy enough to think is, in and of itself, a spoiler so reveal the above and below at your leisure

PostRe: The Last of Us (TV Show) by **sawyerpip** » Tue Mar 07, 2023 7:08 pm

speedboatchase wrote:
sawyerpip wrote:I'm not sure why you are being such a dick about this when people are telling you what you've said is going to affect their enjoyment of the episode.

If you actually want specific details you can poke fun at as well, don't click this if you haven't played the game:

Can you not see that specifically referencing the Red Wedding, and talking about how crazily shocked everyone is going to be, is going to have people thinking down a very certain track? If I'd read that without playing the games I'd definitely be expecting Joel or Ellie or both to die in the episode, and I'd spend the whole episode expecting it. And at the end I wouldn't think "oh that wasn't a spoiler after all" I'd just be annoyed that I'd been distracted by that idea the whole damn time.

I disagree. Something big happening in the season finale of a TV adaptation is expected. I used the Red Wedding as an analogue for potential impact, considering they're both HBO shows with huge audiences. How people react or read into that is beyond my control. In any case, the spoiler tags were applied about 2 mins after my post. And life goes on.

PostRe: The Last of Us (TV Show) by **Skarjo** » Wed Mar 08, 2023 2:44 am

In Speed's defence, he didn't say that the ending was actually similar to the Red Wedding (and I'm not saying that the next episode will or won't feature a scene similar in content, tone, narrative consequence or whatever), he said that people familiar with the source material would be watching the reactions of people who weren't.

I don't think 'Season Finale has noteworthy development' is really a spoiler.

I never read the Walking Dead comic but if before a season finale I read that 'Comic readers will be watching Show Watcher's reactions!' I wouldn't consider that a particularly important spoiler beyond 'Something happens in the finale' which... I mean... Yea? It's the finale. Things usually happen in season finales.

Filming someone reacting to something. The state of that :dread:

Let's watch the season finale! Hold on, let me just set this camera up!!

Victor Mildew wrote:Filming someone reacting to something. The state of that

Let's watch the season finale! Hold on, let me just set this camera up!!

Make sure it's in portrait mode and don't forget to leave the cat filters on.

Cheeky Devlin wrote:
Victor Mildew wrote:Filming someone reacting to something. The state of that

Let's watch the season finale! Hold on, let me just set this camera up!!

Make sure it's in portrait mode and don't forget to leave the cat filters on.

Can't wait to film my wife reacting to finding out Joel is really Ellie's biological father!!!!!!!!!!

Hopefully she'll make an extra effort to exaggerate whatever reaction she would have naturally had!!!!!

"OH MY GAWD! ARE YOU KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW?!?!?!"

"I KNOW RIGHT!"

oh wait I wasn't recording, do that again.

"OH MY GAWD! ARE YOU KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW?!?!?!"

"I KNOW RIGHT!"

PostRe: The Last of Us (TV Show) by **Barnsy!** » Sun Mar 12, 2023 2:15 pm

jiggles wrote:What part of the game does episode 4 cover up to? I’m playing alongside and trying to keep pace where I’m just ahead of the show.

That is such a cool way experiencing the game and TV show - have you been keeping this up.

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Still in love with this show. Finished episode 6 - there are two new episodes sat there waiting for me but I've episode 3 (The Billand Frankepisode) 3 times :fp:

. My favourite individual episode of anything since better call saul :wub:

Reading an otherwise nice review which I enjoyed from the Washington post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-ga ... episode-3/); this paragraph slightly rubbed me wrong (spoilers for episode 3)

The author seems to be alluding to the "bury your gays" a trope in literature that goes back hundreds of years (gay people that die being presented as tragic figures or in the worst cases as punishment for being gay). If anything the episode subverts this trope - they got the best deaths possible within the context of this show - dying old[ish], content and in love after a long, happy committed relationship.

Another interesting write up exploring similar themes and discusses queer representation in love stories from Owen Jones makes a similar but different observation about that scene evoking the HIV/AIDs pandemic; https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -tv-series

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