I feel like they are kind of important to make the world feel lived in (or un-dead in as the case may be). Especially if the story is supposed to take place in a post-apocalyptic version of our world. It should be recognizable and unrecognizable at the same time. Like if you are going to tell us that the location is in Boston, I’d want to see the ruins of some iconic Boston landmarks. Like Hancock Tower with all the windows blown out or a wrecked Citgo sign by the remains of Fenway.
Not a Bostonian, but that was supposed to be Quincy Market/Faneuil Hall, no? And the gold-domed State House.
I agree, though. The toppled skyscrapers were pretty generic, and the Citgo sign would have been awesome (not to mention easy to do).
Reminded me of The Scorch Trials and I even said to my wife, “Or Idiocracy, where the buildings were leaning on each other.”
Cloverfield, too.
I don’t go into the office anymore these days, but I do admit that 104th is just about my favorite part of downtown. It’s absolutely beautiful when they close it down during the summer.
I keep thinking that there’s not really enough damage for it to be twenty years after the major cities were bombed. Seeing a US flag still flying on top of a building, albeit tattered, is a little hard to believe.
My biggest pet peeve is that anyone who has been paying attention to war these past hundred years or so knows that “bombing cities” never, ever kills everyone. Even Hiroshima and Nagasaki had survivors. So using bombing to try to control an infection spread by individual people is doomed to failure, if killing everyone in the city is an essential part of that plan.
So I’m not familiar with the video game, but about Jakarta…
If its been less than 2 days since the incident at the flour factory and the authorities are just now figuring out what’s happening how were they so quick to enact a euthanasia protocol?
Also is there a reason the inital outbreak was 20 years ago and the show is in the present day instead of having the outbreak take place in the present day and the show be 20 years into the future?
Immediacy perhaps. We can relate to the timeline better.
I presume they euthanized the infected after they tried to kill everyone around them.
Also, if the outbreak was in 2023 the Sarah likely would have known what was going on from her phone.
Well, the 2003 scenes in the first episode would have been very different if his daughter had a smartphone.
I don’t think she is capable of being bad in anything.
I think it’s interesting to note the only actor who is playing the same role they voiced in the video game is Merle Dandridge as Marlene. Other voice actors are supposed have parts in the show but not in the same roles. I guess it would be spoilery if I mentioned the character names listed in IMDB.
We were told North End. As for the skyline, it’s recognizably Calgary and, therefore, recognizably not Boston. I wonder how viewers in Boston felt about that.
My friend posted a video on YouTube: Debunking the Cordyceps Fungus “Science” in The Last of Us. My film is more accurate, Here’s Why.
Was that supposed to be a link?
Not watching a video even if there was a link, but yes, the “science” is just as stupid as in any other zombie show.
Me, I’m especially pulled out of suspension of disbelief for shows wondering how people are farming food, refining petroleum, and shipping it around.
I would hope no one thinks the logic is solid or scientific.
It is silly and the main thing watchers need to suspend their disbelief for.
My friend’s YouTube channel makes him money, and he promotes the video on which his film appears; hence, I didn’t link it. The title should be searchable if anyone is interested.
In a nutshell: My friend researched cordyceps, and concluded that the TV series is crap because cordyceps don’t work that way. (He also objects to climate change causing the thing in the TV series. Let’s just say we disagree on some political points.)
Well that’s the objection addressed in the first three minutes of the cold open of the pilot. Did he even watch the show or does he just object to summary?
Don’t recall them blaming it on climate change.
The show’s premiere opens with a brief prologue in 1968, in which Dr. Neuman (John Hannah) explains how the fungus infects ants, before pointing out that if the world gets warmer due to climate change then Cordyceps could evolve and target humanity.