TCTTS said:
Great, incredibly tense episode, but for whatever reason I thought their destination was a lot farther away, both geographically and episodically. So I was confused for a second when Tess got all pissed there toward the end. I didn't realize they were already there.
jeffk said:
Have any of you read The Girl with All the Gifts? Novel with a really similar apocalyptic premise as TLOS - fungi, spores, young girl protagonist, etc. Both came out right around the same time too - 2013.
I disagree with all these shows insistence that everybody would be cruel and violent. I think people would come together and cooperate. Would some people be a-holes? Yes. But not 90% like these shows always imply. What do I base this opinion on? The real life Lord of the Flies incident that happened decades ago. Several boys got marooned on an island for like 8 months or so, and did they bully/kill each other? No they worked together, assigned each other responsibilities, and took care of each other. They even built a gym out of logs and stuff and gained weight by the time they were found. One boy broke his leg, and the others took such good care of him, that the doctors later couldn't tell that anything had happened to his leg at all. To those who think that would be boring, just watch the Walking Dead for a few seasons to realize how boring that can get.PascalsWager said:
The people (fans of the game) I've talked to about this and the way its marketed feels like yet another post apocalyptic zombie show.
I tried the Walking Dead and lasted two seasons. If the point of a show like this is show how people go about working towards a "cure" or fix of any kind, I can get behind that (even if its never reached). If the point is to show that living in this world would be difficult and that people would be cruel and violent; that seems tedious me.
aTmAg said:I disagree with all these shows insistence that everybody would be cruel and violent. I think people would come together and cooperate. Would some people be a-holes? Yes. But not 90% like these shows always imply. What do I base this opinion on? The real life Lord of the Flies incident that happened decades ago. Several boys got marooned on an island for like 8 months or so, and did they bully/kill each other? No they worked together, assigned each other responsibilities, and took care of each other. They even built a gym out of logs and stuff and gained weight by the time they were found. One boy broke his leg, and the others took such good care of him, that the doctors later couldn't tell that anything had happened to his leg at all. To those who think that would be boring, just watch the Walking Dead for a few seasons to realize how boring that can get.PascalsWager said:
The people (fans of the game) I've talked to about this and the way its marketed feels like yet another post apocalyptic zombie show.
I tried the Walking Dead and lasted two seasons. If the point of a show like this is show how people go about working towards a "cure" or fix of any kind, I can get behind that (even if its never reached). If the point is to show that living in this world would be difficult and that people would be cruel and violent; that seems tedious me.
I think you would have good people band together to protect themselves from those criminals. Another example is how prisoners treated each other in the Nazi/Japanese death camps. Life does not get much more desperate than that. Yet overall, they took care of each other. Sure you had a few jackasses who would steal bread or take somebody's cap (which was a death sentence), but for the most part they self-policed that as the good people far out numbered the evil ones. For example, American POWs, who were treated better than their Russian counterparts, risked their lives to conserve bread and throw it over the fence to the Russians.BoydCrowder13 said:aTmAg said:I disagree with all these shows insistence that everybody would be cruel and violent. I think people would come together and cooperate. Would some people be a-holes? Yes. But not 90% like these shows always imply. What do I base this opinion on? The real life Lord of the Flies incident that happened decades ago. Several boys got marooned on an island for like 8 months or so, and did they bully/kill each other? No they worked together, assigned each other responsibilities, and took care of each other. They even built a gym out of logs and stuff and gained weight by the time they were found. One boy broke his leg, and the others took such good care of him, that the doctors later couldn't tell that anything had happened to his leg at all. To those who think that would be boring, just watch the Walking Dead for a few seasons to realize how boring that can get.PascalsWager said:
The people (fans of the game) I've talked to about this and the way its marketed feels like yet another post apocalyptic zombie show.
I tried the Walking Dead and lasted two seasons. If the point of a show like this is show how people go about working towards a "cure" or fix of any kind, I can get behind that (even if its never reached). If the point is to show that living in this world would be difficult and that people would be cruel and violent; that seems tedious me.
Unfortunately I disagree. People may be kind for a bit but if **** truly hit the fan, I think we'd see a complete breakdown of social order quickly. People need to eat and protect their own family. We have a lot of criminals now when life is pretty good and food is readily available. You'd have pockets of people helping each other and large swaths of people ripping each other apart.
I can't say for sure, but I think it's in the vibe of The Road.Quad Dog said:
Haven't watched this yet. Is this show something more than another bleak, depressing, end of the world, zombie show?
I'm not sure I need another one of those in my life.
So far (only 2 episodes in) there is more plot than that. There is a higher purpose mission they are trying to accomplish in said world.Quad Dog said:
Haven't watched this yet. Is this show something more than another bleak, depressing, end of the world, zombie show?
I'm not sure I need another one of those in my life.
Came here to post this. So awesome.Madmarttigan said:
Two great opening scenes so far.
So creepy when she basically tells them to nuke the whole city after learning so few already have it.
I figured Tess had to die at some point since every HBO preview and game cover is just Joel/Ellie. Actually figured it would just be those two from the start.
BoydCrowder13 said:aTmAg said:I disagree with all these shows insistence that everybody would be cruel and violent. I think people would come together and cooperate. Would some people be a-holes? Yes. But not 90% like these shows always imply. What do I base this opinion on? The real life Lord of the Flies incident that happened decades ago. Several boys got marooned on an island for like 8 months or so, and did they bully/kill each other? No they worked together, assigned each other responsibilities, and took care of each other. They even built a gym out of logs and stuff and gained weight by the time they were found. One boy broke his leg, and the others took such good care of him, that the doctors later couldn't tell that anything had happened to his leg at all. To those who think that would be boring, just watch the Walking Dead for a few seasons to realize how boring that can get.PascalsWager said:
The people (fans of the game) I've talked to about this and the way its marketed feels like yet another post apocalyptic zombie show.
I tried the Walking Dead and lasted two seasons. If the point of a show like this is show how people go about working towards a "cure" or fix of any kind, I can get behind that (even if its never reached). If the point is to show that living in this world would be difficult and that people would be cruel and violent; that seems tedious me.
Unfortunately I disagree. People may be kind for a bit but if **** truly hit the fan, I think we'd see a complete breakdown of social order quickly. People need to eat and protect their own family. We have a lot of criminals now when life is pretty good and food is readily available. You'd have pockets of people helping each other and large swaths of people ripping each other apart.
The Stanford prison experiment was exposed as a fraud.johncAG said:
I'm in the camp of if things got real sideways, humanity is getting darker overall. Stanford prison experiment shows that even ppl who would be on the "good" side of the wall may not have the best intentions
100% agreed. All you have to do is go to H-E-B the days before a hurricane is scheduled to hit to know how a hypothetical worst case scenario would play out.johncAG said:
I'm in the camp of if things got real sideways, humanity is getting darker overall. Stanford prison experiment shows that even ppl who would be on the "good" side of the wall may not have the best intentions
TCTTS said:
Great, incredibly tense episode, but for whatever reason I thought their destination was a lot farther away, both geographically and episodically. So I was confused for a second when Tess got all pissed there toward the end. I didn't realize they were already there.
aTmAg said:
If the beginning of each episode continues to show a glimpse of life during the start of the outbreak, then that would totally fix the complaint I had in the other thread about zombie movies in general. That I wish they didn't always just gloss over that and say "X year later..."
That would be pretty great.
Chuck Cunningham said:BoydCrowder13 said:aTmAg said:I disagree with all these shows insistence that everybody would be cruel and violent. I think people would come together and cooperate. Would some people be a-holes? Yes. But not 90% like these shows always imply. What do I base this opinion on? The real life Lord of the Flies incident that happened decades ago. Several boys got marooned on an island for like 8 months or so, and did they bully/kill each other? No they worked together, assigned each other responsibilities, and took care of each other. They even built a gym out of logs and stuff and gained weight by the time they were found. One boy broke his leg, and the others took such good care of him, that the doctors later couldn't tell that anything had happened to his leg at all. To those who think that would be boring, just watch the Walking Dead for a few seasons to realize how boring that can get.PascalsWager said:
The people (fans of the game) I've talked to about this and the way its marketed feels like yet another post apocalyptic zombie show.
I tried the Walking Dead and lasted two seasons. If the point of a show like this is show how people go about working towards a "cure" or fix of any kind, I can get behind that (even if its never reached). If the point is to show that living in this world would be difficult and that people would be cruel and violent; that seems tedious me.
Unfortunately I disagree. People may be kind for a bit but if **** truly hit the fan, I think we'd see a complete breakdown of social order quickly. People need to eat and protect their own family. We have a lot of criminals now when life is pretty good and food is readily available. You'd have pockets of people helping each other and large swaths of people ripping each other apart.
We know who to stay away from in a post-apocalyptic environment.
I know this is the non-gamer thread, but that was the question in the back of my mind for the first two episodes. Does/will anyone who hasn't played the game view this show through a "level" structure at all and, more so, do certain scenes or episodes feel like they're drawing those invisible lines for you or not.Chuck Cunningham said:
I"m not sure I've ever watched a TV show based on a video game.
I have never played a game like this either.
But I can see how each room is a level. Pretty interesting actually.
It seems very level-ish to me. I am not bothered by it, it just seems interesting. We'll see how it goes but i'm still planning on watching ep 3.Head Ninja In Charge said:I know this is the non-gamer thread, but that was the question in the back of my mind for the first two episodes. Does/will anyone who hasn't played the game view this show through a "level" structure at all and, more so, do certain scenes or episodes feel like they're drawing those invisible lines for you or not.Chuck Cunningham said:
I"m not sure I've ever watched a TV show based on a video game.
I have never played a game like this either.
But I can see how each room is a level. Pretty interesting actually.
Yes, so far it very much feels like different level set pieces. It even has that post-level epilogue scene where you see a cutscene of the characters moving on to the next level, or walking through a corridor, or something like that.Head Ninja In Charge said:I know this is the non-gamer thread, but that was the question in the back of my mind for the first two episodes. Does/will anyone who hasn't played the game view this show through a "level" structure at all and, more so, do certain scenes or episodes feel like they're drawing those invisible lines for you or not.Chuck Cunningham said:
I"m not sure I've ever watched a TV show based on a video game.
I have never played a game like this either.
But I can see how each room is a level. Pretty interesting actually.
possibly…..maybe…..I don't know…..could be……vague answers #5Head Ninja In Charge said:I know this is the non-gamer thread, but that was the question in the back of my mind for the first two episodes. Does/will anyone who hasn't played the game view this show through a "level" structure at all and, more so, do certain scenes or episodes feel like they're drawing those invisible lines for you or not.Chuck Cunningham said:
I"m not sure I've ever watched a TV show based on a video game.
I have never played a game like this either.
But I can see how each room is a level. Pretty interesting actually.
