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Wrong wrong wrong, it's coming back In October!!!
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I don't think we're going to get a conclusion...
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So, in addition to the Alone Australia (premiering tonight I believe), there is an Alone UK, set not in the UK, rather it's contestants from UK
Spoiler(mainly London....lol)
dropped in Canada on the Mackenzie River. Y'all....
SpoilerI swear, it seems like the producers set up on some random corner in downtown London asking random people, "hey, you wanna be on our reality competition show?" until they had 11 contestants. ONE person brought a bow and arrows. I don't think any of them have ever started a fight in their lives, not even with a lighter! One contestant has a FULL FACE of makeup...all the way to day 7.
Anyway, I watched the first 2 episodes on Daily motion.
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On 7/28/2023 at 2:52 PM, peeayebee said:
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Great episode, ignore this post please
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1 hour ago, iMonrey said:
Well who didn't see that coming? Out of all of them I think Cade had the most unrealistic expectations. His entire strategy was based on hunting big game. Has he never seen this show before? Nobody has ever won by relying on hunting big game. In ten seasons I can only think of one participant who ever got a deer or a moose. And I don't think that person even won.
Seriously? Jordan with a moose ring any bells? G.O.A.T Roland with a damn ox he killed with a pocket knife? Both of those men won by the way.
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Cancelled, does that mean they're not finished out the season? Casey Patrol was so so long ago...
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So, if you've watched enough seasons of this show you already know that shitting the bed is very common amongst contestants and almost everyone who does that does not tap, they clean it all up and carry on. Luke either exaggerated or was just being a baby about it.
Second thing will be under spoiler tags but if you want to know what Im spoilering, it's about Cade.
SpoilerApparently he "found" his quiver and at least "one" of the arrows.
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1 hour ago, SassyCat said:
Yeah, the ones who put all their energies into cabin building from the get go always seem to be the first tappers. I too was thinking at any moment Jodi was going to crash right through her roof. <SNIP>
I am also surprised Luke is an early tapper too. I do understand the uncomfortableness of a stomach bug preventing him from being able to carry on in a survival situation though. <SNIP>
Compare Jodi's shelter to Melanie's. Jodi did the dumb, she used giant logs that took all her strength (plus she decided to mainly subsist on her own body fat right at the beginning) and every time she was onscreen, she was talking about her family; meanwhile happy Melanie also built a log cabin, but her logs were saplings, not trees and yet she's got something cozy and warm. She hasn't had much to eat but she's upbeat and having a great time, I think she'll go far, maybe even be the surprise winner.
Luke built 2 shelters, one far more intense than the other but that's not what took him out as he was keeping himself fed. He stupidly drank not just directly from the lake BUT AT THE SHORELINE, literally the most toilet part so yeah, he took himself out (although, in the end it looked not so much physical sickness but rather sudden homesickness). I thought he was going to go far.
Taz seems a little scatterbrained but fairly competent, Wyatt rubs me the wrong way....oh, something I was wondering, last episode 2 people tapped out, this episode was set during the same time period and 2 people tapped so did 4 people tap on a single day or within 24 hours? Seems like a first?
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Only 3 women and they're all old. I'm starting to really dislike this show.
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Well, read this thread I think a lot of people have done a great job of explaining but at this point I would say...this is a brand new TV series that is based on a video game but not beholden to that video game. Since it's a brand new TV series, if you've been enjoying it so far, just keep watching and draw your own conclusions at the end of the season. Cheers!
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4 hours ago, Ilovepie said:
This was Bill's first time with a man, and he tells Frank he had been with a woman before. I've been wondering if pre-pandemic, was Bill a closeted gay or was he hetero?
Two things to consider. Frank asked Bill (after Bill played that song so beautifully) "who's the girl?" and Bill answered "there was no girl" then when the bears are in bed, Frank asks Bill if he had ever done it before, with anyone and Bill barely stammers out "one time with a girl long ago" which reinforces this was not the girl he had been singing about as well as puts Bill's experience in the "long ago, far away" category. I don't know about every LGBTQ+ person's experiences but I do know mine and I do know my wife's and I do know my sister's and her husband's and every single one of us "experimented" back in our youths. For me, one time made it so blatantly clear that no, Im not oriented that way, not even halfway that way. Same for my wife. My sister and her husband experimented long enough and I guess extensively enough that now that their kids are out of the house, they're both comfortable identifying as bi.
Watching the show, part of what was heartbreaking to me was thinking Bill had himself convinced he was not (socially) allowed to be himself, mainly due to his political leanings. One day maybe we'll all just leave each other alone and just quit worrying about it. Frankly, it's creepy to realize how many people are literally angry that Im married to the love of my life. We're just two elderly ladies! The only use we have for children is possibly mowing the lawn or weeding the garden, maybe pick up our groceries, seriously, we can barely groom ourselves, we do not give a shit about anyone's kid.
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10 hours ago, Raachel2008 said:
Someone mentioned, though, last episode, that the swearing was too much. I'm no prude and swear a lot myself, but I'm over Ellie swearing in all her lines. I never palyed the game, so I don't know it is how the character is or something they decided for the series, but make it stop.
Heh, in 1980 I was 14 and the main thing I was known for in school was being "that girl who says fuck all the time", I thought I was SO PUNK ROCK lmao.
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5 hours ago, Absurda said:
I'm really not a fan of throw away episodes that focus on minor characters we'll never see again so, while I understand all the praise for the episode, I didn't like it. Especially since there as so few episodes to start with. It slowed the action down to a crawl without advancing the story much.
Well, according to the writers/show runners, this entire episode underlined, highlighted and expanded on the theme of the show
QuoteOne of the things that I remember from the game was that Bill was safe. I love the concept that he had built this oasis of safety, there was an allusion to his relationship with Frank, and I just started thinking that there was an opportunity there. That there was an opportunity to, first of all, help people understand how the passage of time functioned between the outbreak to now, but also to really dig into the point of the show, which is the nature of love. Two very different kinds of love and how those two kinds of love need each other.
n the best of circumstances, you get what you get with Bill and Frank, which is a success. They win regardless of how it ends. They win. They have a happy ending. But then we will see over and over throughout the season this dynamic repeat itself, and it isn’t always successful and sometimes it’s deadly. We continually have to wonder, as Joel and Ellie begin to bond permanently to each other: is this going to be dangerous or not? Because they’re both dangerous people. And what kind of love are we going to see exhibited when this is all said and done?
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That was amazing. If you don't know the game, I reckon you can head over to the other thread to learn about it so I will only say that I LOVE this portrayal of Bill + Frank. Main difference being that in the game one of those 2 ends up being more-or-less the object of a homophobic joke (mild but still) where this was just a wholly realized love story. That's what it was, "love" and I for one was so relived when it was that and not some boring softcore near porn thing. I'm so happy we're FINALLY getting stories like this because THIS is what all us gays have been asking for all along! Just show us as normal people. People from all over the political spectrum. People who fall in love and show kindness, tenderness (that love scene omg), vulnerability but also are like real people who argue over stupid shit. Just seeing that makes a world of difference.
Regarding "rabid gamer guys", TLoU wasn't "queer" in any way, nor was it "straight" but TLoU2...well it was basically it's own giant Pride Parade (and I loved it for that). Maybe a day will finally come when we are just part of the tapestry of humanity and not noteworthy, not some "thing" to be enraged by. Episodes like this one go a long, long way towards building that future for all of us.
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I'm starting this topic because I am just so blown away by the visual world building in this show. Pedro Pascal LOOKS like he's pushing 60 but he's only 47! Anna Torv LOOKS like she's had a HARD 50+ years but she's only 43! That's cool but easy, right? Yeah but LOOK AT THE BUILDINGS and the highways and the cars and seriously, LOOK at that cityscape! Now if you're like me, you watched your fair share of The Walking Dead and how many times were you jarred out of a scene due to a well manicured lawn? Roadways with the shoulders mowed down nicely? Hell, working cars and motorcycles and the fresh, clean gasoline to go into them? Now here's The Last of Us and EVERYTHING looks like shit. Glorious, beautiful shit, devastation on screen that you can really FEEL. Just looking at the cityscape causes my mind to instantly fill with all the untold stories. How many people were still alive in that building when it slumped over onto another building? How many people had to just abandon their families in those cars on the highway? How many proud Americans surrendered sheeplike to the fascist FEDRA just to have a CHANCE at a meal? Why did people move from one city to another? Everywhere I look, I see stories and stories and more stories and it's just incredible. It all looks real, looks like hell.
And there there are the infected and honestly, right now I can NOT say they are "better" than TWD zombies because on TWD, ALL the money went into those zombies, never had a complaint about them. However, these Last of Us infected (not zombies as they are not dead) look amazing. Difference is (at least to me), zombies retain enough humanity in their faces it's hard not to feel sadness, empathy, pity. TLoU infected, especially those nasty "clickers" look much more like straight up monsters to me so they do not trigger empathy. Monster? Kill it!
So, I am REALLY enjoying this show, it has far exceeded MY expectations and it really looks like every doller it cost to create is right there in the screen. It's awesome, it's haunting and it is carrying it's weight in a way TWD never ever was able to do.
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22 hours ago, nomodrama said:
On another note, one zombie troupe I can't with is the extremely super humanly fast zombies. That's one thing I always appreciated about TWD, zombies moved realistically. These guys were a bit fast for my taste. Seeing some of the upcoming stuff though, it definitely does not look like these are the typical kind of zombies though....it seems more of a mutation occurs.
TWD zombies are dead people. It looks like TLoU "zombies" are still alive. As Geoge Romero said, "I do have rules in my head of what’s logical and what’s not. I don’t think zombies can run. Their ankles would snap!" So dead things are slow things, living things can be fast things.
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13 hours ago, PurpleTentacle said:
Just hoping <SNIP> that they change the ending of the first game, because that was bullshit.
Um...absolutely no spoilers from me but my guy, the ending was the entire point of the whole thing. Without THAT ending, this is nothing, not even The Walking Dead level pointlessness.
SpoilerI can 100% see where people hate the second game, I know I do because that second game took a giant shit on the first game and made no sense at all. The same story could have been told more elegantly in some other game or media but as it stands, the second game sucks.
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I've not (yet) played the game but I've watched full play throughs twice because the story is so good. I very much enjoyed this episode and hope it keeps being so good. I liked the little tweaks and knew from interviews that gas masks were not going to be a thing and I'm glad about that really. I liked all the cast except the young lady playing Ellie but not for her acting which seemed fine, I just...well...this is terrible to admit but I don't like her face. UGH, I'm happy with her acting so I'll just have to ignore that tiny little baby face on that adult size head. Honestly, I wish the girl who played Sarah was playing Ellie (but maybe she's not yet ready for such a demanding part?) Anyway, I don't think the average viewer would watch this and instantly think "video game adaptation!" because structurally, it wasn't particularly game-ish. It felt far more "action movie" is certain parts...interestingly (to me), the most "action movie" bits were the bits that were directly lifted from the game (the chaotic truck escape at the beginning). I'm a huge, life-long fan of the zombie genre so of course I will stick with this show. I think it's a more realistic take on what might happen if a horrible *something* wipes out almost everyone and parts of governments and militaries attempt to rebuild some sort of society (instead of the dumb hodge-podge Rick and Co did for their 15 or so years).
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So, I am well aware there is a vocal segment of this forum/fandom that absolutely hate Carol with a burning passion but here's my 2cents. I started watching this show because the website io9 turned me on to the comics which lead to the tv show. In the comic (spoiler for a really old comic), Carol was so different. She was so traumatized, at one point she came on to both Lori and Rick, wanting to create a thrupple. When they rejected her, she ended up committing suicide via chained up zombie. She was a weird, barely there character with hard to understand motivations.
The tv show Carol started out that way and was that way for 2 seasons and then she just changed. That sudden, complete about face really threw a lot of people and I think maybe that lead to some of the above mentioned ire towards Carol. For some people, that kind of sudden change represents some deceit or for the more literal minded, a plot-hole instead of character development.
Im a survivor of domestic violence and I grew up seeing important women in my life (mother, grandmother, great aunt) suffer under extreme domestic violence. I saw my mom and later myself behave like season 1-2 Carol, meek, withdrawn, quiet but more importantly I saw my grandmother go the route of season 3 Carol. No more taking shit. No more being the punching bag. No. More. So why say all this?
Because for me, Carol was the most important, most relatable character on TWD followed closely by Daryl. I totally got that weird, unexplained sudden transformation between seasons because I had seen it in real life. Sometimes you really do JUST CHANGE. It's change or die and she chose to change. She did so many heroic things but no way was she a hero. No, she was still damaged, still fucked up from all the trauma. What else could possibly explain her horrible psychological abuse of Sam? I mean, she really did a number on that poor child and this marked yet another change in her character, her descent into what looked like psychotic depression.
She went downhill for a long time, a real long time. Her decisions grew ever more reckless, her paranoia grew and she began to develop obsessions that nearly got herself and those she loved killed, over and over. I think by the end of the series she had made yet another change, the one called menopause, the one big ass change that really puts a person's whole life in perspective. I think the Carol we saw at the very end of the show was the best, most balanced, most psychically integrated she had ever been. Strong, brave, nothing left to prove, able to love and care and protect without the insanity. I loved this inspiring character, she was the show for me with filthy Daryl as a very close second (the wounded child grown into fierce protector). I prefer this ending for her instead of her racing off to fucking France.
So now I cry instead of when cypher Rosita died, lol.
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Well, as far as series endings go....it was better than the end of Xena, less annoying but very similar to Battlestar Galactica reboot ending and it could only dream of being anywhere near to the endings of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. I didn't hate it, I did get misty eyed over Rosita but it didn't hurt my heart, not like losing Carol would've. Did they earn that sappy ending? Sure, why not, who cares. I did NOT like the coda with Rick and Michonne, I feel like the actors made the choice to leave the show and they should've just kept walking but I think Clutterbuck misses the paycheck and the constant fan adoration and Danai, well she's trying to get as big creatively as possible as fast as possible and I respect that but even she should've just kept walking away because frankly, for a LOT of people when Michonne abandoned her children she became almost equal to Negan in villainy. I know I lost all my respect for her (Michonne) when she left (but at the same time, nothing but respect for Danai....until she decided to come back for the R&M thing).
Maybe it's just me but I still do not understand what the point of The World Beyond even was. Z-virus came from France... ok? Rick is wearing a CRM jacket and was picked up by a CRM helicopter with Jadis who somehow was secretly CRM... ok? That's just all so stupid and pointlessly convoluted and seriously, The World Beyond looked dumb, only hardcore nutballs even watched it (yes, referring to myself here) so IDK....plus really seriously why tf would Michonne be dressed in Dora Milaje cos-play?!?!?!? THAT WAS SO WEIRD!!!!!
I guess when it's all said and done, The Walking Dead seems to have turned into a missed opportunity and having missed it, certain parties are trying desperately to create something, anything to recapture that lightning....too bad because the last season of TWD did not do the franchise any favors and really, the show ought to have ended years ago (before Negan IMO).
It's been so great posting here with you all fellow hardcore nutballs, especially the few of us who came from TWOP and are still here! We've had so many awesome conversations, some of you mf-ers are some of the smartest people I've ever "met" and I'm so grateful. I'm not going anywhere, I'll be around but I reckon this subforum will slowly die, as all things should.
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1 minute ago, wait.what said:
Ummmm, if Rick had been there they could have cleared that horde with hand to hand combat and saved all that fuel. Haha
how did they coordinate all of that in just a few hours? The sun hadn’t even risen yet.
but Daryl woulda just blew up all the fuel anyway!
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The Andrea one was wild!
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Oh...oh yes....zombie bomb go boom....yessssssssssss
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S04.E12: Done Patrol
in Doom Patrol
Now THAT's how you end a fuckin show. I was just SOBBING. Beautiful, weird, amazing, pure art.