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New episodes of Season 2 Our Last It premieres on HBO every Sunday night, and ARS’ Kyle Orlando (who played the game) and Andrew Cunningham (who wasn’t) speak here every Monday morning. These summaries don’t dig into all the plot points of the episode, but they are obviously Heavy spoilers It’s included inside, so if you want to go fresh, watch the episode first.
Andrew: We are five episodes of this season Our Lastand most of the infections we saw were still “heartless, screeching horde” types. However, in the first episode of the season, we saw Ellie encounter a “smart” infected person, a creature who holds a sense of strategy and a self-preservation instinct. The monsters in the show have not evolved, and the seemingly stable fragments of the rooted civilization are based on an entire bundle of false assumptions about what these monsters are and what they can do.
In all human-created dramas, the changing nature of the Mushroom Zombie Apocalypse is the backdrop for this week’s entire episode, starting with a revelation that the vintage 2003 Cordis nest becomes a breeding ground for airborne spores, ready to infect humans who don’t have to bite.
This is news for me as a non-game player! But Kyle, I think this is another shoe that I knew the series would drop.
Kyle: Actually, no. I think I might have forgotten something, but I think the storyline of “infected people are actually pretty smart” is completely new to the show. This is one of the myriad ways that the show has diverged quite well from the game at this point, and I don’t justify where I’m going, or where I’ll get there anyway.
I would say “smart zombies” was made for my first real. At the moment, Dina’s improvisation cage was actively torn apart by a clever, strong infection. But then, behold, here comes Deus Ex Jesse to save things with a timely re-entry to the right storyline. You had to know we never saw him last, right?
Ellie is good at a lot, but she’s not that good at lying low. Credit: HBO
Andrew: Like last week’s Metro Chase, whenever Ellie and Dina appear to be really cornered, we expect other entities to plummet and “save” at the last moment. This week they were on their actual allies in place of another enemy who just happened to have taken away people chasing Ellie and Dina. But it’s a fake of the same basic story.
I think they’ll run out at some point in time, but I doubt that if it comes, the point will be a little closer to the season finale.
Kyle: Without ruining anything from the game, I think we can expect both Ellie and Dina to experience a significant share of lucky and unlucky moments in upcoming episodes.
Speaking of unlucky moments, we can see how local cultists treat captured WLF members while our favourite duo hide in the park, but that’s not too pretty. I’ve been repeating it a bit since last week, but I feel that what lingers in these moments of torture is somehow more free on the HBO show, even when compared to similarly anguished scenes in the game.
Andrew:Well, we’ve heard of these cultists quickly comparing them to “Amish people,” but we already know that they don’t have tanks or machine guns or any other standard issues. Our Last It’s a paramilitary goon gear that most others have, so I think we need to do something to allow our audience to actually take cultists seriously as a threat. But yeah, if you squeal about blood and gut things, this is hard to see.
I find myself becoming a Dina and Ellie relationship, or at least a Dina fan as a character. Certainly, her tragic backstory is a bit trivial (she rejects this criticism by pointing out in advance that it is trivial), but she is smart, she can handle herself, and she is a good counterweight to Ellie’s rush-in impulse. They are still doing something stupid and reckless, as Dina points out. But I’m rooting for them to bring it to life at least!
Kyle: Personality-wise, the Dina/Elly pairing has as much appeal as the Joel/Elly pairing last season. But I always felt that Joel and Ellie had a clear motivation and ultimate goal to move them forward, but the craving for revenge that pushed Dina and Ellie deep into Seattle began to feel more and less relevant as more time went by.
The show seems to have done this too. It has stopped many times since Joel’s death, and appears to be questioning whether these killers are worth tracking down. It seems that writers are trying to convince themselves (and in my opinion, they are somewhat failing) and try to convince their audience of their fair and valuable causes.
The heart threat continues to evolve. Credit: HBO
Kyle: “We Killed Joel” Team member Nora would definitely prefer Ellie and Dina if they were playing more domestic games. As it stands, Ellie ends up chasing her towards a tragic death in a horny cellar.
The chase scene leading up to this reflects in many ways a very similar scene in the game. But I found it easy to stop distrust of (very scripted) pursuits on the PlayStation, but after seeing it on a TV show, I raised my hand and said, “Come on, can’t these heavily armed soldiers stop a little girl making such a fuss?”
Andrew:Yeah, Jesse can pop half dozen “smart” zombies in half dozen shots, but when it’s a girl running in the hallway with a huge backpack open, everyone has suddenly Star Wars The purpose of a stormtrooper. Cordyceps Den’s visuals are at least effective against that anxiety, as the fungicide men breathing a giant cloud of toxic spores!
This episode is other The revelation clearly states that Joel went to the hospital fireflies at the end of last season do not have News to Ellie, when I hear it from Nora at the final moments of the episode. Ellie, a liar, could be lying about knowing this. But Ellie has no complete control over her emotions, and we must assume that if she was surprised by this, we could have conveyed it.
Kyle:Yeah, I’m saying too much about what Ellie knows and whether one day they’ll endanger some major spoilers. For now, I just say how the show decided to confuse things with Nora’s hopeless, spores infected mouth like landing wet noises for me.
At the end of the episode, I was equally confused by the sudden jump cut from “Erie tortures a prisoner” to “Peaceful Ellie Flashbacks.” Should the audience assume this is something going on in Ellie’s head or something? Or does the story just shift without a clutch?
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