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I think it could be an awesome one season HBO deal, or at most MAYBE two seasons. The hardest part would be illustrating the weight loss. I've never read the other books in the series primarily because I don't think they could conjure up the same feelings that the first book generated (it stands just fine on its own), so I'm not sure I'd want it to go much further but I think it would make an awesome limited series.

Surely someone already owns the movie/television rights to it, right?

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From Wiki

Adaptation:
The option for the film rights to One Second After was initially sold to Warner Bros., but has subsequently expired. As of August 2011, a new option was being negotiated with another unknown studio.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Second_After#cite_note-6][6][/url]
In November 2021 the TV rights for the book series were licensed MPI Original Films. J. Michael Straczynski is involved with the production and will be writing the pilot.

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A TV show based on a book is always better than a movie.
You can always expand on minor characters.
Each season should be 1 book.

Just my thoughts.

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Head Ninja In Charge said:

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The finale is supposedly only going to be 45 minutes. Kind of a bummer.

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AggieOO said:

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i'm also disappointed in you texags...i opened this thread ready to read a hundred comments about how Ellie was carrying/holding the rifle under her arm.

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AlaskanAg99 said:

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Prosperdick said:

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AlaskanAg99 said:

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I enjoyed this episode.

After 20 years of infection, post apocalyptic living and constant fear of death, most people are not going to be well educated rational thinkers. When someone says "I have the way" and mostly delivers why wouldn't people go along? Then that leader finds men that are willing to get the job done in order to protect their own. Which means killing others in order to survive. America and its government are gone, groups have become tribal.

Even Joel and his brother fit this mold. They have killed and taken in order to survive. It's stated repeatedly.

The party of 4 that was out scavenging, away from the eyes of their wives and children, will do whatever it takes to get through another day. Another week. And they already know this winter is harder, colder and longer as their food supplies dwindle. To that end, it's resulted in cannibalism, they had 3 other bodies already strung up ready to be butchered.

Starving people being fed probably aren't going to ask too many questions.

A solid series to read is called "1 Second After".

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The only thing I questioned from the episode was how did the women and children not know about the cannibalism? There is literally nothing to do in the dead of winter for those kids and they didn't snoop around and find the meat locker?

I get not asking too many questions when you're starving but you would think one of the men would confide in his wife/partner at some point so that was strange.

I guess the iron fist rule was so harsh they dared not to go investigate anything...like gun shots and the warehouse literally ablaze.

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It's cold and windy out. Why exert the effort and burn calories you don't have unless necessary?

Gunshots were inside and empty building with cinder block walls, which to me indicates a basement since the windows were higher up. By the time the sound gets to neighboring buildings it may have not been noticeable, along with the wind blowing hard.

Inside the building was on fire, strong winds and with everyone Bing inside, it may go unnoticed for awhile. There were only 20-30 people during the dining scene. Joel killed 3 and Ellie killed 2 of the expedition team...so that doesn't leave many men roaming about.

I put all this in the plausible category.

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Zombie Jon Snow said:

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AlaskanAg99 said:

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Prosperdick said:

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AlaskanAg99 said:

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I enjoyed this episode.

After 20 years of infection, post apocalyptic living and constant fear of death, most people are not going to be well educated rational thinkers. When someone says "I have the way" and mostly delivers why wouldn't people go along? Then that leader finds men that are willing to get the job done in order to protect their own. Which means killing others in order to survive. America and its government are gone, groups have become tribal.

Even Joel and his brother fit this mold. They have killed and taken in order to survive. It's stated repeatedly.

The party of 4 that was out scavenging, away from the eyes of their wives and children, will do whatever it takes to get through another day. Another week. And they already know this winter is harder, colder and longer as their food supplies dwindle. To that end, it's resulted in cannibalism, they had 3 other bodies already strung up ready to be butchered.

Starving people being fed probably aren't going to ask too many questions.

A solid series to read is called "1 Second After".

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The only thing I questioned from the episode was how did the women and children not know about the cannibalism? There is literally nothing to do in the dead of winter for those kids and they didn't snoop around and find the meat locker?

I get not asking too many questions when you're starving but you would think one of the men would confide in his wife/partner at some point so that was strange.

I guess the iron fist rule was so harsh they dared not to go investigate anything...like gun shots and the warehouse literally ablaze.

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It's cold and windy out. Why exert the effort and burn calories you don't have unless necessary?

Gunshots were inside and empty building with cinder block walls, which to me indicates a basement since the windows were higher up. By the time the sound gets to neighboring buildings it may have not been noticeable, along with the wind blowing hard.

Inside the building was on fire, strong winds and with everyone Bing inside, it may go unnoticed for awhile. There were only 20-30 people during the dining scene. Joel killed 3 and Ellie killed 2 of the expedition team...so that doesn't leave many men roaming about.

I put all this in the plausible category.

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To me it was more that they only go and do what they are told when they are told.

There are tons of subtle hints to that. They all waited to eat until he came in, nobody questions much of anything or they get ***** slapped like the girl did. And he got a much larger portion than anyone else. And they left and walked back to their homes. Nobody was ever out on the streets which you could chalk up to it being cold but I think that was secondary.

He has them under thumb screws and has his enforcers who know whats really going on. And they have the guns. Nobody likely dares to disobey.

I don't think any of them would dare come and interefere unless told to.

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Teddy Perkins said:

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Lots of discussion relating Pastor Dave to the Devil.

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#TheLastOfUs keeps hitting new heights in viewership, as Episode 8 #WhenWeAreInNeed gathered 8.1M viewers across #HBO & #HBOMax on SUN night alone, in the US alone, 74% higher than Season Premiere.
Average viewers per episode is approaching 30M, almost same as #HouseOfTheDragon. pic.twitter.com/zKeSy62j6F

— Luiz Fernando (@Luiz_Fernando_J) March 6, 2023

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Prosperdick said:

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Teddy Perkins said:

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Lots of discussion relating Pastor Dave to the Devil.

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Also he speculates that when the girl asks at the start of the episode if they can bury her father it's because she knows they're eating them and obviously doesn't want papa for supper. Of course he says it's too cold to bury him, which should have been our first clue something wasn't kosher.

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David then says they'll bury him in the spring…he was lying to her and she had no idea.

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AggieOO said:

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i'm also disappointed in you texags...i opened this thread ready to read a hundred comments about how Ellie was carrying/holding the rifle under her arm.

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I thought it was intentional to show the rifle is way too heavy for her and she's a relative newbie to using the gun. And David could pick up on that.

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schmendeler said:

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Good episode. Impressive that she got out of the trouble on her own. My wife was practically fist pumping when she was hacking away at the rapist pastor.

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Minor annoyances:
- she said they could have half the deer but gave them all of it.

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