Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-13 (Sunday)

On Apr 14, 2025 at 7:26:01 PM PDT, "Arthur Lipscomb"
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 4/14/2025 6:28 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

 BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

 Apr 14, 2025 1:45:51 PM PDT, Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>:

 

 The Last of Us (HBO) - "Future Days" - Season 2, episode 1.  Things pick
 up with Joel and Ellie now living in Wyoming and Ellie being annoying.
 This feels like a show I could dump pretty easily and not miss.

 

 For me, it's all about Ellie. She really kills the show for me. And it's not
 the character, it's the actress. She's just off-putting to me for some
reason.
 Same show with a different lead and I'd like it a *lot* more.

 

I suspect you're right.

I forgot to add that the opening scene of Ellie training in the barn, where a
4-foot tall, 90-lb girl (70 pounds of it seems to be her face) defeats a
240-lb muscle-bound adrenaline-fueled man in hand-to-hand combat is taking the
whole grrrl-power trope to a ridiculous degree.

 And because it's been so long between seasons, I've completely forgotten
what
 Joel lied to her about.

 
 At the hospital in the season finale, didn't they need her brain to make
 the cure? I forgot what he told her.
 
 Didn't Joel kill 30 people or so escaping?

 
Something like that, yes.  He had to chose between saving the human
species or Ellie and he picked Ellie.  Then he lied to her and said
there was no cure or something like that.