Yeah, the cannibalism made zero sense. There were even a bunch of canoes! Send everyone out on the lake to fish. And you don’t have to be a great shot to hunt game. Set traps, ffs. Obviously, there are plenty of animals around. Ellie went out for ten minutes and saw a nice, plump rabbit and then a deer.
Still, I enjoyed that episode quite a bit. Solid acting all around.
They did, they show a pack of zombies taking down a horse in an early season. That means the Walking Dead zombies will eat animals if given the chance, while The Last of Us seem to leave them alone.
The last episode will be an Any% Speedrun where Joel exploits an out of bounds glitch to trigger a duplication bug for an infinite horses spawner and then has to perform a series of very precise jumps across horses to exponentially increase gallop speed. That coupled with a few well placed dialogue skips from precisely bringing up the menu at the right cutscene moments. If he pulls off a few frame perfect inputs, he should comfortably reach the end credits by the time allotted by HBO but of course, if he makes a major mistake, we will have to watch him retry in Episode 11.
There’s also a scene in the first episode, where they go out deer hunting, and find a dead deer with a bunch of zombies eating it. They kill the zombies, and debate whether the deer would be safe to eat or not. (They decide not.)
Pfft. Gamers. 
All Joel has to do is say “Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, select, start,” and he’ll have full health and unlimited ammo. That should do it.
Maybe Ellie finds some old Metroid armor that just happens to fit her?
Well…the show is called “The Last of Us”, not “The Lots of Us”. So presumably not that many.
Bullets are precious and they might not have fishing lines. It all depends on what they have and know. Maybe they were all city folk and took the lazy route of eatin’ long pork.
Is that what they call a fan wank?
Could be? I’m just theorizing, but I’m not really a fan.
That’s one of my common complaints about post-apocalyptic settings, set many years after the apocalypse. Anyone who was so “citified” that they couldn’t figure out how to fish, even decades later, would never have survived the first year of the apocalypse. They’d have starved, or been killed by the people who weren’t totally useless.
They did give us a line about an extra harsh winter. But it hardly explains their lack of hunting skill by this point.
Or, forget hunting, how about just growing things? Potatoes aren’t that hard!
But they’re still scrounging the last of the canned tomatoes from 20 years ago…
Well, David mentioned they had to abandon previous settlements because of raiders, so maybe they haven’t been there very long?
Would they really have been that precious? I live in an area where not having at least 1000 .22 rounds and another 1000 .223 rounds is an oddity. It seems like the US, with 400 million firearms, and billions of rounds, would be good for awhile. Plus, all the stockpiles of primers, powder and other fixings for rolling your own. Yeah, people would safeguard what they had, but it seems like guns & ammo would be something that would be more available than almost any other resource like medicine, preserved food and viable auto fuel.
Well, that’s my point. If they have a history of being driven out of every place they tried to build, they’d likely have starved or been murdered long before now.
That’s a good point. I was letting the scarcity of bullets in games like this influence my thinking.
The worst example of this I’ve ever seen was in the movie The Road. At one point they find a bunker built by a prepper that hadn’t been looted yet. It was filled with canned food, batteries, equipment, you name it - but no guns or bullets. I can’t imagine anyone building such a bunker in the US, and then not stocking any kind of firearms or ammunition. And while it might have been necessary to the story to have the main character short on ammunition, it would have been trivially easy to fix this - just fill the bunker with the wrong kind of ammunition. He had a .38 revolver. Just show him being frustrated that all he can find are .45 rounds and rifle ammo.
I have some Mormon relatives, and they all have “bunkers” filled with food and supplies, but none of them have any guns. It depends on the type of prepper.
It wasn’t really a lack of skill, they said there just wasn’t any game in the area. The line was “We didn’t expect this winter to be so cruel. Nothing’ll grow. Game’s been hard to find.”