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

On Apr 15, 2025 at 1:46:40 PM PDT, "BTR1701" <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

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.

This is how that sort of scenario would play out here in the real world where
there is no "sassy grrl-boss" exception to the laws of physics:


https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1909586982940086272/pu/vid/avc1/720x1280/nSa-9Oya-Ae70KWe.mp4?tag=12