Any idea how or why they got sidetracked to Kansas City? Going from Boston to Wyoming doesn’t even take you through Missouri.
Dude, have you driven through Chicago at rush hour?
There might be an actual in-game explanation that I don’t know, but my fanwank is that it avoids the congestion of the major cities lining the Great Lakes without going too far out of the way.
If they took I-80/90 they’d pass through Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and Minneapolis. Considering the state of things in Boston they may have had reason to avoid those cities in favor of less congested cities like Columbus, Indianapolis and St Louis. Just an idea.
Even somebody completely unfamiliar with Linda Ronstadt should be able figure out it’s just something that two older gay men might bond over. That’s all the audience needs to know. Better than hitting us over the head with something cliche from the Bette Midler songbook or (shudder) show tunes.
Linda Ronstadt’s name rings a bell, but I don’t know if I ever heard a song of hers before the episode. Didn’t throw me off and don’t understand why it would.
What was the depression in the floor that rumbled? The people who found it seemed to know what it was.
Chekov’s rumble. I bet whatever it was ends up killing one of both of those people at a moment that’s opportune for Joel/Ellie.
I mean, sure…but this conversation is happening around the episode here and elsewhere. I doubt the show runners really want this to be the thing that gets out into the ether about the show. Something cliche isn’t great but neither is something obscure. While any old thing could work narratively, you’re trying to evoke something other than confusion from the audience here. Picking the music is important, I think they missed the mark here.
This is the only place I’ve heard it mentioned and I’m addicted to twitter and youtube. Everything I’ve read and heard about ep 3 is glowing reviews: believable relationship, great acting, world building, emotional devastating. Nothing about Linda Rondstat. You might be thinking it’s a bigger deal than it is.
Don’t have to look very hard.
This stuff shouldn’t need an explainer.
…a 4900% increase in streams doesn’t mean it needs “an explainer.”
It means the song has gone viral, which means articles about the song and the show will get written, so that they too can go viral within the very small window of virality until that goes away.
No, it doesn’t. It probably just means it had a really small denominator in the fraction. If it blows up on TikTok for the next month we’ll know it went viral, that’s unlikely. And if you read the links you’d know that the increase in streams is not the point, it’s a factoid.
…yeah, it does.
Of course it does.
It’s gone viral. The click-bait articles will get written while they can, because tomorrow nobody will care.
It’s not TikTok viral. It’s bog-standard 4900% increase in listeners viral. TikTok viral right now are dances to the classic NZ preschool song “bad hair day.”
Ain’t nobody gonna be doing an interpretive dance on TikTok to this:
LOL, wut. A song that features prominently in an extremely popular series getting more attention means that it was a stupid choice?
I didn’t read super closely because I don’t care, but I don’t think any of those articles are questioning the use of the song or criticizing it for being “obscure.”
I never loved a man or fought a zombie before, but those parts of the show haven’t thrown me. I don’t understand why a song I haven’t heard before is supposed to.
Whoa, what a mistake to use this song, people wrote articles about it!
No I-90 through Minneapolis.
I-70 takes you way south of where you need to be. That said, considering the state of cities, I was surprised they didn’t take the bypass and avoid downtown.
I dunno. I think Lynskey has the ability to seem sweet and nice and girly and then shoot you with no compunction thing down pretty well.
There was a throw-away line from Joel about how there’s a lot fewer infected in rural areas, so yeah, this. He was trying to avoid built-up areas, which is part of why he’s so annoyed with himself at getting lost in a city. He knows it’s a bad idea, but he didn’t want to waste too much time back-tracking.
Yes, the showrunners felt that Kansas City looked more like Calgary than Pittsburg (the original location in the game). Given that my family is from Pittsburg, I applaud this choice as I’d prefer to not have two cities in the show that look nothing like they do IRL.
As for the how or why they ended up in downtown Kansas City, I don’t know why anyone ever does in these post apocalyptic stories. Take a ring-road around the city. At least if there is a pile up you can just offroad around it. Highways that cut through cities are usually sunken, elevated, and/or have tunnels that are too easy to bottleneck with all the wrecked cars of all the people trying to escape. Then you have to try to get off an exit, navigate a maze of ruined streets filled with zombies, mutants, crazies, and deal with that whole thing.
Which is always what happens. You don’t have time to back track but you have time to spend hiding in a crawl space for days while being hunted by crazed militia until you can find a new working vehicle.
Yeah but our ring road five decades in the making isn’t quiiiiiiiite done.
Was fun to see the Globe Cinema prominent in the shot with no disguising. Watched a lot of movies in there.