Last time I saw Pedro Pascal, he was doing an admirable job at Hollywood Gun Fu in “Kingsman”.
But apparently he’s in the new HBO post-apocalypse series “The Last Of Us”. I’m familiar with the game a bit, and its a storyline I can get into. Now that Walking Dead is history, I need a good post-apocalyptic fantasyworld to climb into.
Any of you guys been watching this series and wanna share your opinion on it? I know it’s only three episodes old, but I’ve been seeing some good reviews on it.
I’ve seen all three episodes. It isn’t bad. I’ll try and leave out any spoilers.
The last installment focused on the ‘relationship’ between two gay men, one of which was heavy duty survivalist lifestyle.
Pascal’s character is well written. Basically being handed a teenager who has a condition that could cure the world of a deadly disease. He has to transport her to the facility where Mankind could benefit. Pascal’s character formerlly had female partner who did odd jobs for the government but did some smuggling for extra money to get by. Very similar to ‘Firefly’.
Recommended series – I haven’t been disappointed yet. I have the satellite box set to record the entire series.
Fascinating thing is, I used to know a gay survivalist. Wasn’t a big deal to me or to him.
Um, something reported about gay interaction scenes or subplots or some such as is typical with hollyweird woke programming productions. Best to stick with last century movies, t.v., books, etc so as to not have your eyes raped or intelligence insulted by (those) pushing an agenda through media and art forms. Caveat emptor and all.
I dunno, man. There’s gay people in the world so it seems fairly realistic there’d be gay people around after the apocalypse.
Looks like a new dimension of the marvel universe.
Also, ‘The Last of Us’ is a telling double entendre when depicting gay & tranny characters who will by any reasonable definition, never reproduce more of themselves.
It’s why I love & encourage them so much. Whether through abortion, sexual mutilation, or natural selection, their ideology ensures they remove themselves from the gene pool.
Thanks, progressives!
Sincerely,
Earth
I think your reasoning needs some examination: if gay people dont procreate, that doesn’t mean there won’t be more gay people. After all, the parents of the gay person aren’t gay, right? Gay people are the children of, presumably, straight people since a hetero couple can reproduce. So, in your analysis the only way to ‘remove them from the gene pool’ would be to remove the people who create the gay offspring – straight people. And if you do that, you then effectively remove all future people. QED.
Which tranny character. Have you actually watched it? Or is this simply your default position?
Episode 3:
“So, what, you were a…prepper or somethin’?”
“Survivalist.”
I seriously doubt a “lone wolf” survivalist like the character Bill would live in a nice suburban cul de sac a few hours on foot from Boston…!
Granted, the show tells us that the apocalypse happened literally within a day, but you would assume he had at least a more secure bug out location somewhere.
Thanks from Italy,
Davide
Youre assuming that he didnt have a more secure bugout location. If it all happened in a day he perhaps was unable to get to his bugout location due to travel restrictions, roadblocks, etc, and had to make the best of where he was.
He did have a hidden bunker under his residence though.
True enough. But was that bunker there because his plan was to bug-in all along? Or did he create it when he realized he couldnt get to his bugout locale?
I think it was preexisting, because it was well stocked and well hidden with a secret access. All indications are the event happen quickly which would have affected how much time he had to prepare if it was a last minute decision. That is my 2 cents anyway.
Might be. I look forward to watching the episode. I think I’m going to start watching the series this weekend.
Oh, I left out one other thing, he had a full perimeter camera surveillance system in the bunker also.
I think at this point it is a good series. Never played the video game, but I think it does reflect the cross society that would emerge after an event like this.
So you are saying that it is doubtful that a survivalist would live close to Boston. You are not saying that it is not possible.
Survivorman99:
You might stay close to a city if you are expecting a severe but short problem.
Once it becomes clear that you are talking Years, not Weeks, “Bugging In” is simply slow-motion suicide…
Ceejay
In a perfect world, were one trying to design the perfect retreat, sure, getting away from any big city is the right choice for most. To make broad statements it is just not probable that any “survivalist” would choose a suburban environment is pure fantasy-driven hogwash.
A one hour long TV series is unlikely to have an extra fifteen minutes to tell the character’s back story. “Bill” appears in only one episode and dies, and there will be no flashbacks.
Even if there had there been time to develop his back story, I can imagine one that involved the need for him to have taken care of an elderly parent, or needing to work a job that required him to remain local in order to pay for his large inventory. Or maybe, just maybe, he was a fellow who valued friends and relatives more and who was unwilling to sever ties and move away to East Jesus and eat possum or raccoon in solitary confinement. while waiting for an Armageddon that might never come. A more imaginative person might be able to come up with ten other explanations.
Having said all of that, if Bill’s home had been located in a rural area, it would not have made one bit of difference in the storyline. As so many people have told me through the years, “It’s just a movie (or a TV show).”
Review from the Critical Drinker, for whatever it may be worth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6z-ow9bAus&ab_channel=TheCriticalDrinker
I have watched all three episodes. It is a lavish production. A lot of money shows up on screen with the sets and locations. The kid is annoying, but I am sure that she is supposed to be. Pascal is good at anything he’s in. He was outstanding in “Narcos,” my first introduction to him.
Fanboys will probably expect that the series will slavishly follow the video game on which it is based. I am of “a certain age” and I have never played a video game. As a result, I didn’t play this one and, frankly, never heard of it. I expect that what will unfold in the series will pretty much follow the game. If it doesn’t, I couldn’t care less.
I’m looking forward to watching the rest of it. HBO scored again.
I saw the first episode and was intrigued by the fungus infection. I have read up on the possibilities and it could be plausible. Who knew? I may just have to follow that series. TTFN
The premise concerning fungi is not totally bizarre. There is a YouTube video about how this fungus can enter the bodies of ants and basically controls them until the ant dies–and the fungus reproduces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vijGdWn5-h8
Fortunately, humans aren’t ants. 🙂
I just found this today: https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/zombie-fungus-last-us-real-171900046.html
I think it is worth the watch at this time.
Video games these days that have the production value the first “The Last of Us” are basically movies with interactive action scenes. Watching a movie based on such a game is like watching a remake of an original movie. Sometimes the remake is fun and lives up to the original but usually it doesn’t. I will hold out judgement on the series untill the first season is complete but I have little hope current Hollywood won’t ruined it
more into non-fiction in my old age. Worked with a line crew foreman back in the 70’s. Joe Gonzales. He escaped into the jungle during the Bataan Death March and made his way back to the friendlies. Weird old dude with a lot of eccentricities, guess he earned them.
They should make a movie about him. Too bad no one wrote down his life story.
Waitwaitwaitwaitwait!!!!!!
You just posted a scene where an actor pointed guns right AT people!!!
ZOMG! ZOMBIES!! ELEVENTY!!!
When ten million “gun guys” who’re sure that never, never, never, ever happens on productions see that, their heads could explode!
Hey, waitaminute!?!?!?
And…nobody died in real life???
(Or is it, like chemtrails and 9/11, they just buried all the evidence – and the bodies from that shootout – and hundreds of other ones…in a massive conspiracy???).
How is this even POSSIBLE???!!!???
It’s almost like the rule on productions is that the number of actors firing actual guns, firing actual bullets at each other, must always equal ZERO.
So that clip was really just an advert for your blog(!).
I see what you did there, CZ.
That clip must be a trick. They must’ve had…somebody…in charge of making sure real guns with real bullets weren’t used???!!!
Employed, even, to make sure that was so. Almost like it was their entire reason for being hired.
It’s just a shame that scene from Kingsman 2 wasn’t seen by anyone, anywhere, especially on the internet.
I hate to think of what’s going to happen if anyone ever sees all three John Wick movies. Or all three Taken flicks. Or Heat. Or Saving Private Ryan. Or Pulp Fiction. Or Lethal Weapon 1-4. Or Die Hard 1-5. Or… Or…
There’ll be millions of internet “Hollywood gun-use experts” who’ve never spent five minutes on a working set, walking around with no heads after theirs totally blow apart. (And we can’t be having any of that.)
Too late! They already are.
Aesop:
It’s rare, but it DOES happen – if you don’t believe me, ask Alec Baldwin…
Ceejay
The point of even that one video clip is, it’s anything but rare to point “not-a-gun” loaded with “not a live round” at another actor. Like 20X day since forever.
Total number of live rounds from live gun supposed to fly out on set since ever: Zero.
So when that does happen, like with Baldwin, the list of people responsible is always only two people, neither of whom was an actor on that (or any) set.
Baldwin’s a prize-winning dick, and deserves the karma of a body count, but that doesn’t make it okay to throw out common sense and centuries of jurisprudence to want him persecuted and prosecuted because someone doesn’t like his politics. Ask the J6 folks how they feel about prosecution based on feels instead of facts.
It’s like pulling teeth to get people to use common sense in that case.
Aesop:
Are you saying that Baldwin shouldn’t have checked, even if he expected it to already be checked?
Poor safety controls kill…
Ceejay
I say check it out. Quality production and a good story so far (I haven’t played the game). So far, not at all “soap opera-ish” like Walking Dead was.
I haven’t played the games but I know them by reputation. The first one is supposed to be good for the kind of game it is. The second one fell victim politics and had the protagonist knifing pregnant women and featured and unfortunate golfing accident. Bottom line is that if HBO wants a second season they are going to have to dump the plot of the second game or risk their shiny new series being canceled early.
According to internet show link, an anticipated 9 episodes for this season. So about halfway there already. I HATE these short season productions.
What annoys me about these type of shows is that its a missed teaching opertunity. The carictors blunder along, passing up obvious opertunities to collect item’s along the way, as in this show, passing up amo, guns, grenades, ect.
Still watching, just have to ignore Hollywood’s veiw of the world.
So what did you think about episode 6 ? How many cartridges did that bolt rifle shoot without reloading ? Ii counted 10 shots minimum from the window shooter, then another 10 from our hero. One wonders when he had time to find it in the 1st place.