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S02.E02: Another Shit Lesson


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20 hours ago, millennium said:

I've never played a single computer game, so I guess the "everything" of the show is just going over my head.

Basically 80 to 90% from the show was done the game with a few changes.

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Like the brother's from season 1 from TLoU the 1st game, the event that happened happened but they changed it a bit and the tv version was actually a little better than the way it happened in the game.

And the killing of Joel (in TLoU2) is basically the same but you don't learn till later in the game why Abby killed Joel. And you played half the game as Abby and people was pissed about it especially still playing her after she killed Joel.

 

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This episode made me think a lot of the later seasons mother show where everybody on both sides of nearly any fight were such relenting assholes that it was nigh impossible to root for anybody or any outcome. The New Babylon crew won't listen to anybody, have terrible strategy approaching a dark island lit up like a slow moving Christmas tree, and don't seem to care how many of their conscripts they get killed for ... reasons. The NYC crew seems to be entirely a rogues gallery of assholes trying to out-asshole each other for street cred where anybody acting remotely like an actual human being instead of a cartoon villain must be put down like a rabid dog. Yeah, okay.

Still no idea why all these terrible men are so all-fired eager to line up behind the world's oldest stringiest theater kid. I also honestly didn't get until reading some think piece about the episode that what Maggie was staring at so horrified at the end was Herschel tourniqueting one of the boat crew with the same kind of rag used in the tire fire signal to let the islanders know they were there. So I guess we're to think that the sheltered teen who already lost a toe to these people is playing both sides? A spy? Who knows.

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On 5/13/2025 at 8:02 PM, nodorothyparker said:

This episode made me think a lot of the later seasons mother show where everybody on both sides of nearly any fight were such relenting assholes that it was nigh impossible to root for anybody or any outcome.

That's one of the problems with this series of shows.  One of the central themes is that if your not an unrelenting asshole than you won't survive in this world.  Which makes it hard to like anybody.  

The Dama lady told the Bach violin player that she wanted to move forward, not look behind.  Then she killed him.  That made me wonder why she didn't kill off the journalist kid, after all he was writing down the past.  It was the recent past, but still the past.  Why was she interested in his history?

On 5/18/2025 at 9:20 PM, iarwain said:

The Dama lady told the Bach violin player that she wanted to move forward, not look behind.  Then she killed him.  That made me wonder why she didn't kill off the journalist kid, after all he was writing down the past.  It was the recent past, but still the past.  Why was she interested in his history?

Just watched this season over the weekend. Couple of reasons why she was "taken" with the "historian."

One, she understands the value of having things recorded in a certain way for posterity.

Also, as an avowed theatre person,... she's going to want a "good review" for her plans to build a new world.

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