Love 28 days later
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I thought I did. Turns out itās aged incredibly badly.
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Excellent, excellent. Another zombie movie bites the dust.
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What if I told you people are the real monsters
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The Last of Us is not a zombie show/game.
if anything, the premise is closer to Contagion or Children of Men than The Walking Dead.
But thatās not what the show is about. The show is about humans and our relationships.
Both of youā¦just put on the cold open of the show and youāll see what I mean.
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The first 15 minutes are pretty zombie-ish FWIW, so if someone is curious about the show but doesnāt like zombies, Iād say to just stick around.
I loooooved Station Eleven, so as far as post-apocalyptic relationship shows go this one has big shoes to fill.
by cold open i mean the very first talk show portion
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I understand what you mean. It is a limitation of mine that the presence of zombies is a genre-defining element for me.
But you were right about [redacted] so I am going to put on the cold open and seeā¦ 
the āzombiesā arenāt even really zombies in the traditional sense.
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Goddamnit 
Amazing open.
Okay convinced wife letās watch first episode and see. She is a nut for zombie stuff so maybe we meet in the middle.
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I donāt think Last of US is going to fill the shoes of Station Eleven, if you liked Station Eleven. It was written as a novel that was adopted to TV and its style is very novelistic with different set pieces that lend itself to a novelistic feel. Last of US came from a video game, and a very good video game as far as video games go, but youād be hard pressed to name one video game that could compare storytelling wise to a good novel. Theyāre just different animals.
Have you played it?
I canāt wait for this show to prove that storytelling in games can be just as good or better than anything in books or movies.
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So far zero zombies and loving it 
Just gonna sit back and relaxā
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Thank you
I had high hopes, but this lost me at the same point that every other zombie story and most post-apocalyptic stuff loses me.
Twenty years laterā¦
Looks awesome and gonna check out the video game, but the showās story isnāt to my taste.
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the whole point of that spoiler thing is to avoid the plodding exposition of most zombie things. Iām kind of surprised thatās what lost you, since it expressly avoids what makes most zombie things annoying.
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That makes sense. I appreciate that Last of Us avoids the stuff you find to be boring and annoying. It doesnāt do the same for me.
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Iāve played it and I think, if you were to measure it as a story, itās superior to a lot of prestige TV. But the medium is part of the message. The reason why itās better is because you spend a lot of time inhabiting the characters. You succeed with them, you fail with them, you spend a lot of time with them. That combined with some great writing means by the time you get to the end, the resolution really hits home. Translating that to premier TV might not be as impactful because you missing that part of inhabiting the characters directly for long periods of time. We only get a few hours with the characters at all. The translation part is what Iām worried about. I could see how someone who hadnāt played the game might slot it into another zombie post apocalypse story, because thatās what it is in the broadest strokes, the story is what elevates beyond the genre.
But if you like a more artistic quirky novelistic take on the post apocalypse then it might not scratch that itch.
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Yeah, i think the season as a whole, which is expected to tell the story of the 1st game, will really hit the spot and redeem any perceived shortcomings put forth by the 1st episode. As has been said many times, this is a story about relationships, growth, choices, and consequences - and the journey is awesome. Iām very encouraged by what Iāve seen so far.
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