The Last of Us | Episode 1 | Fungus Pandemic Takeover Explained Perfectly
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The Doctor explaining in this scene how Global Warming could cause this pandemic.
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Why would we? This isn't even your content.
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@scorcher117 Exactly, this guy's pissing me off 😂
A lot of young men need to hear this.@@GNKClips
no i dont think so
"Fungus" - Audiences laugh.
"We lose" - Audiences silence.
That's horrifying.
that rhymes
@Hanstein. what rhymes nothing rhymes from my perspective and I read it over and over and over and over again to get what you mean to get what you meant.
@@ichigotheg.o.a.t "fungus" rhymes with "we lose".
at this point I don't even know whether to tell you "learn to read", or "learn to type".
@@Hanstein. no the fuck it does NOT. lmfao.
"Ah, Shit."
In less than five minutes they did what The Walking Dead couldn't do at their show in 11 seasons
What do you mean?
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@@erenkaskarli9436 Explain what caused the apocalypse.
@@0b3ryn29 I'm also asking that. That's why I said 'what do you mean?'.
@@erenkaskarli9436 i was answering you. you asked what OP meant. i answered that the show (Last of Us) explained the cause of the apocalypse in a few minutes vs. Walking Dead taking 11 seasons
The shots of the audience when he's describing "billions of puppets with poisoned minds fixated on a single goal" are absolutely chilling.
& like a fungus, they were all in perfect sync of silence
seems like islam and u forgot the last part of it by any means necessary
@@nishantmaderna6295its could be any religion or belief, not just islam. anything has the power.
Incredible shot choices
@@philcollinslover56705I agree with you.
I like that the doctor doesn't just talk about cordyceps but also talks about fungus in general about how it adapts and survives.
Fungi are kind of an odd one out of all the living things. Prior to 1960, it was generally thought they're just plants, but it took some digging deeper to realize they don't actually fit to plant category and aren't like corals (which are classified as animals).
Candida are doing this…
@@OniLeafNinNot exactly. Becoming more pathogenic, yes, but candida cannot and will never be able to turn you into a zombie. Cordyceps however, were it to suddenly jump to mammals, potentially could do something analogous. Not sure if it'd present like in this series, but it would not be good. I'm thinking more along the lines of rabies, you wouldn't be functional enough past a certain point for any deliberate action like chasing someone down. That is, unless some jackass scientists in a sketchy government lab were able to decode _exactly_ how Cordyceps does what it does, correlate that with specific genes, and then deliberately do something really... Stupid
He kinda forgot to talk about how temperature isn't the only thing preventing cordyceps from infecting humans like it infects insects. It took millions of years of co-evolution for cordyceps to infect insects, and it only works because they don't have antibodies in their immune systems. Humans are much more complex organisms, and the human immune system would absolutely dunk on any attempt at anything resembling a cordyceps infection. In fact, cordyceps has been used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicine for its wide array of health benefits, which have also been documented in scientific studies, so consuming cordyceps is actually good for you.
@@OniLeafNin I grow Candida for a living and I always alcohol my hands even when I've been wearing gloves.
no jumpscares, no ghosts, but the scariest scene i’ve watched.
It plays on common facts in reality and even thou it omits another crucial fact ( human immunity system ) it starts the show with a bang
Helps that humanity, globally, is coming off a real pandemic. Of the virus variety thankfully, I guess?
@@Puti880415 i think people can overlook that fact because we can assumed that if the fungi know how to infect human bodies it probably know how to avoid or defeat human immune system, like HIV.
@@tarrinpun3798 That is a correct assumption, not to mention fungi produce penicilium which is form of antibiotics. So therefore it all clicks together that fungus can produce some sort of immunity suppresant
It's complete simplicity makes it terrifying
They should do more pre-extinction scenes like this in season 2. It's a wonderful way to break up the pacing and establish more of the world.
I'd kill just to see some more prelude into the apocalypse for it happens. Like actually getting police reports from Indonesia where the first infected was sighted instead of just analyzing its corpse. It was still pretty cool nonetheless.
But zombies....
Seriouy I believe that is the direction they are taking. Its more of a drama then a zombi outbreak. Kind of like later seasons of the Walking Dead but with a higher budget. Obviously the relationship between the two main characters will be the shows primary focus with zombies going "Rawr arggg" in the background.
@@franksegui4478🤓☝️Ermm.. actually the term for those "zombies" are infected
Oh great, if this stays more a character drama than about the zombies, that means 100% of zombie films and TV shows relegate the zombies to some background threat, rather than the cause of the apocalypse.
@@franksegui4478have you played the games… because zombies were ALWAYS the background… tlou2 is probably going to upset you if you’re in it for the infected
I love how John Hannah went from being actor who mostly did comedy to more serious roles, being "that exposition guy", somewhere after he got the part in Spartacus. Dude can deliver exposition for five minutes and not make it dull.
Ohh shit i forgot he was in Spartacus sand and blood fuck that show was bomb as hell
R.I.P Andy Whitfield dude was amazing so sad to see him leave is at such a young age
He takes the attention of the audience well
I did not realize until right now that that's Johnathan from The Mummy movies.
I can never forget his role in Spartacus. He made Batiatus the best character in the show.
he was also in agents of shield
The perfect contrast between a doctor who have studied these type of things his whole life, and doesn't feel the anxiety and the panic anymore, he just accepts the facts, and someone who just heard the possibilities for the first time and now is feeling pure terror. Brilliant.
Because at that point, it is an impossibility. It'd be like an astronomy professor feeling anxiety and panic over the powers of the universe. Like, one of the things that could happen is that a cosmic laser hits Earth, and wipes us out. No warning. No chance to take cover, no chance of survival. Extinction in the blink of an eye for those lucky, while a massive heat up and the Earth blowing up for those who managed to survive the initial hit. The odds of us being hit by a laser are astronomically low. But it's never zero. Here, the doctor knows what fungus can do, but only if the odds hit it to reach that state. There was no fungi at that point in time that was able to do what he said would happen, until the astronomical odds hit that number, and cordyceps did. He was calm, because, while he was talking about it, it was essentially not going to happen. Not in the world he was living in at that time.
and this goes to show the horrors of global warming if global warming raises the temps just enough for force said evolution and fungus will own us all
scariest scene i've ever seen by just talking, the silence of the crowd is horrifying...great job from the actors, writers and director.
Yes, the way the entire crowd goes silent and motionless all at once, frozen in the horror of what they're hearing is itself a mirror to the fungi controlling all of humanity.
This series opening is as unforgettable as the opening to HBO's The Newsroom. m.ua-cam.com/video/bIpKfw17-yY/v-deo.html
Kind of reminded me of the, "the people it kills, get up and kill" scene from 'Dawn of the Dead'.
the host face reaction from when the scientist started talking about climate change until the end was soo good, so you can see the uneasiness and fear creeps into him
And the scariest part is: it's a real possibility
seriously...this is not scary. and the crowd reaction comes off way to forced and predictable, like the whole scene was actually playing out predictably.
“We lose” followed by that dire silence
*Another top “oh shit” moment*
The way he said it sounded like someone who’s really thought about this, and has since made peace with the fact there is nothing that can be done if it happens.
@@alexman378 Indeed, he’s come to terms with the fact, as hard to accept as it was.
There's at least one thing that can be done tough: isolation. It's not like TWD where everyone in the planet is already infected regardless of what they do.
You need to be in the vicinity of the fungus to get it, and don't let modern globalization fool you: planet Earth is f*cking HUGE. There are lots of places where people could seclude themselves and live relatively normal lifes. Hell, some places may not even notice the world falling apart at all.
When he said "we lose", I take it as the loss of civilization, land and lives. The world wouldn't be the same again. But humanity would prevail.
@@moteroargentino7944 Isolation didn't work very well for us last time. The more advanced humanity becomes, the less people are out of reach. Siberia and the stretches of northern Canada and the Anatarctic could even be at risk not too far from now. In many ways, they already are. In a would-be scenario, the smarter people would run to the north or the south. Forced to flare out. Nobody is ever perfectly safe.
Idk why but that makes my blood run cold
the most horrifying "slightly warmer" for any heat loving human.
The world has been warmer than now, and will be again.
@@Kyle-sr6jm With less trees to absorb the heat compared to the last time it happened. The earths' natural forestry has basically been decimated. Google "do trees absorb heat?" and have a look at the type of tree mentioned. The oak tree. The most important tree on planet earth, and it is largely the reason we even have a temperate atmosphere. It is literally known as "The tree of life". The next time the earth heats up we won't have enough oak trees to offset the temperature. And everyone knows what happens when heat stays in one place with no release or absorbtion....it becomes an oven.
@@Kyle-sr6jm Yeah, it has. About 120,000 years ago. And the average was about 0.1-0.2°C hotter than it is now.
When we reach the 3°C point above pre-industrial level that we're heading towards in the next 40-50 years now, we'll have to go back several million years to find something similar.
At 4°C, here's a perspective for ya:
When the Earth was at 4°C below pre-industrial (about 15,000-20,000 years ago was the last time it was that cold), New York was under a kilometre-thick sheet of ice.
Imagine the difference to today, then replace "cold" with "hot". That's how fucked we are if it hits +4°C.
@@heavycritic9554 shouldn't it technically be fahrenheit because 94C is a pretty high temperature to be able to survive at anyways
What I love about this scene the most is the fact that he isn’t even saying it’d be strictly from cordyceps, but any fungus given the right circumstances can become a threat
Which is ridiculous. Portobello mushrooms are not about to suddenly evolve to zombify us. He mentions aspergillus, the mold essential to Japanese cuisine consumed in huge quantities. Miso paste will not suddenly turn us into zombies. This is not how evolution works. Saying any fungi could potentially suddenly zombify us is like saying any plant, animal, insect, or bacterium could suddenly evolve to zombify us. The precedent given are a handful of exotic fungi that evolved over long periods of time with a fee species of small insects. Evolution is gradual. Besides, fungicides exist. There is fungal disease and antifungal medication. You can walk into any pharmacy and buy such medications to kill fungal infections like athlete's foot. The more common fictional modified rabies virus and supernarural explanations are more plausible than the overnight evolution of a fungus that can turn humans into zombies. An engineered bioweapon, alien technology, magic, and good old fashioned divine retribution are more plausible than the sudden emergence of human zombifying fungus.
The pseudoscientific explanations that have been in vogue to be explain zombies over the last several decades are less believable than magic. These are walking corpses, often living indefinitely. There is no mechanism for them to function. Muscles cannot work without the human organs and behaviors that sustain them. Anyone zombified would be dead in a few days, since they don't have any self-preservation instincts. They'd die of dehydration. In a few hours, they'd be tired. In cold regions, they'd freeze outside. In hot regions, their bodies would degrade extremely quickly.
My son who was diagnosed with autism also has a severe candida infection (aspergillus niger to be exact). It is believed to have caused his condition, and is becoming more and more common worldwide, along with increases in cancer, and other serious diseases.
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@@christophersheldon7088 Candida is becoming a threat because of its ability to thrive in clinical settings, but I have never heard of it being able to cause autism. I think you may have misunderstood something.
@Michael-jp8ir Gut dysbiosis and candida are extremely common in ASD children and adults. Candida is linked with many different mental disorders and diseases. I believe damage to the vagus is what caused my son's autism, and anti-fungal medication (combined with low carb/sugar/dairy diet) has changed his life for the better. Perhaps some research is needed on your end.
The gradual shift from amusement to horror on the TV host's face is just so damn perfect, that scene in particular sends chills up my spine.
LOL
When I watched this for the 1st time this scene did indeed send MAJOR chills up my spine.
As an old actor, I say this scene is brilliantly crafted. Superb performance that slowly, with out hyperbolic bs, builds to show the danger.
Almost Lovecraftian...
What if the world was to get slightly warmer..? 😳
You didn’t get “chills” quit exaggerating
This is by far, one the greatest intros to a show ever. You have a professor, specialist explaining in simple terms, the seriousness of a pandemic of this kind, followed by the ignorance and sarcasm from the host and audience. By the end of it though, the look on the hosts face, is priceless
I like this type of idk what it is called. I call them Science Horror. Explaining about some type of pandemic that can't be stopped even using fire (I heard that the cordyceps can survive high heat). According to my experience (and you too who's reading this), we all know this will spread very fast even If we tried to warn, prevent and stop this pandemic/endemic. Why? Look what happened during the COVID-19 pandemic. No one can stop ignorance except ourselves. I think you know what I mean. History can be stopped from repeating if we all learn from it. But, we'll never learn......
By far, one of the.... OK. Do you understand where you went wrong? 😆
They're pretty lucky to not even be alive to see it even happen. This was in 1968
@@ADcommenter But that's only 35 years later. John Hannah is 61 now. If we assume his character is around his age, that would put him at 96 by the time the pandemic hits. It's not out of the realm of possibility that he could have still been alive.
@@Saimeren the average man lives until the age of 75. So him already being 6 feet under is definitely a possibility. And i guess he should be thankful about it.
The only zombie theory that actually puts fear to my heart.
Also, even if it dosn't evolve to kill us. It could evolve to spread faster among our food supply, plantations, meat etc, which would be a dramatic hit to our survival as well.
I thought that the 28 days franchise has an extremely terrifying take on the zombie theory. Super-rabies that spreads from bites and blood? Unrealistic given the time the infection kicks in, but…let’s just say it revolutionized the zombie genre for a reason.
@@BenjaminSteber Interestingly enough, from an epidemiological standpoint, the Rage Virus is easily contained. Its rapid onset and virulence ensures that it cannot spread past geographical boundaries and, thus, cannot infect the entire world.
They all seem to bounce off each other in one way or another. Halo did this with the Flood through some of the original lore. It's a fungus that evolved into a hive mind. Then they ruined it with some story about a shape-shifting ancient hyper intelligent race. Even 20+ years later, I still hate that level when they first show up.
I haven’t watched the show or played the games, but this scene plays out so memorably and is so well crafted, makes me want to dive into this world in all its mediums.
I envy you! Both are great, if you decide to dive in, you're in for a treat! Bring tissues
@@CataRDJ I love the comradery!!
God, please do. You're in for a ride.
Do it. You dont have to buy a videogame console, just watch one of the many playthroughs here on UA-cam. You wont regret it. IMHO, watch the games before the show if you do.
Ews
At first, everyone is amused by the notion. The further he explains, the more colder you feel the room become as the audience becomes more and more unnerved by his every words about the horrifying nature of how dangerous fungi could be.
Ok... Cringe.
Were you born yesterday or what?
And the sound of dripping yellow/green water and the filling of brown in trousers,bring some spares
"more colder"..
@@Saimeren his username indicates english probably isn't his first language.
And, some of them realise that they’re already on the path to extinction. Global warming was not trendy at that time but was still getting some attention.
For those who don't know, the man sitting on the left is John Hanna. He starred alongside Brenden Fraser in the Mummy trilogy. I was happy to see him make an appearance in TloU
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Let's not forget Spartucus. His portrayal of Quintus Batiatus is glorious.
The actual fear in the tone. Perfect.
@@errolpletcher9186 never saw it, shame the main actor passed away 😢
I just remembered him as the evil Steve Jobs from Don't Look Up, but now that you mention it, he was Jonathan from mummy as well!
One of the best monologues from a TV show ever. In only 3 minutes we have established how the apocalypse is going to happen and even worse; we’ve established how easily it will destroy humanity. Amazing writing and a brilliant performance from John Hannah. This really set the tone for the rest of the show
That's how you start sci-fi horror. Use logic alongside your fiction to build your world.
"So what if that happens?"
"We lose."
So you watched the video?
The director Craig Mazin is a genius, he made 1 of the most captivating and horrifying series with Chernobyl and does it again in this opening.
"It's not 3 roentgen, it's 15,000" and then Jared Harris' dejected yet horrified downward look.
Guess he's smart and realized how awesome that scene was in Chernobyl. Can't blame him for trying it again.
You mean that Chernobyl which basically lied half of the story just to slander USSR? He spit at the truth and those who died for propaganda.
@@dutchmilk You are expecting Americans to be educated and cognizant of world history. This is your first mistake.
@@darkkonoha5865 oh yea, that is my mistake indeed. But then again, can't resist poking a finger into their eyes. They often earned it.
Need to give props to John Hannah here, a great actor can pop up for 5 mins and be so well remembered and his delivery absolutely chillingly perfect
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@@MarsFromEarth1Stop being cringe
Hate to break it to you but John Hannah's been around for a little more than 5 minutes
@@hudsoncraftworksHe's obviously talking about the show.
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With the single line "what if the world were to get slighlty warmer" they made everyone watching shiver. I can only hope with enough work and practice to ever getting to this quality of writing
Made everyone shiver. Ironic, that ;)
That scene alone was perfect. The atmosphere quickly shifted from the amusement to horror.
Brilliant storytelling
I love that little joke of "we'll be back" right after that scientist says "we lose". Yeah, he was saying "we'll return to the program after these commercials" but it also references humanity's survival against the virus for a good 20 years despite just how bad things have gotten in that time.
Deep one. Good catch
I am glad you took the time to explain it.....sort of ruins it...and those who did not get it, did not need an explaination either.
"Stop having fun!" -this guy@@AchimEngels
It's not a virus. It's a mushroom.
The FUNGUS
I'm a huge fan of John Hannah. His character here is debonair, articulate, good-humored, unruffled despite the insults and chillingly correct. I wish we could see more of him.
Seeing John Hannah deliver these lines totally in character is chilling... totally versatile character. Slightly smug yet delivering doomsday prophecy with seriousness and straight facts without hesitation.. and yet you remember him blurting Aegyptian spells and goofing around in mummy.. you rewlise how excellent actor he is. Stole the show for himself and only came in for 3 minutes.
@@Puti880415 he was also fantastic in Agents of SHIELD
yea such a great voice, still remember his speach from 4 weddings and a funeral
There’s something encapsulating when a Scotsman is being serious
Big head keeps getting promoted.
John Hannah's delivery in this was a masterclass in acting.
the beauty of this scene besides there is no background music or cinematography technique used in horror movies, is that as he furthers the discussion the audience (the ones in the show and us who are watching) starts to understand that his explanations make sense and in the end when he made his point, we are all left speechless with fear
Part of what’s freaky is that, given the time jump from this point to the start of the outbreak was about 35 years, much of the audience was probably still alive to experience what was being discussed.
Jimmy Saville loves this story
They also would have been much older and more likely to be infected.
Probably explains why no one likes the fireflies because they all understand that a vaccine is impossible, as is said here. TV show ruined it's own ending by ripping off I am Legend.
I do wonder if the doctors/host were still around. Maybe they’d be old but damn I’d watch their specials fr
And too old to do shit except die
That "but what if, for instance, the world were to get slightly warmer?" was perfectly done.
Makes you realize that this isn't all that far-fetched.
EDIT: "Not all that far-fetched" still means "far fetched", people.
No, it is. It's more plausible for something like rabies to evolve in such manner.
No, it makes you realise how gullible some audiences can be
@@alepuc89 but whether or not rabies might evolve that way doesn't influence the possibility of a fungus evolving that way, does it?
There are hot regions of the world that dont cool down that well if at all, yet we have not seen any 'evolution of fungi that could or would change and infect humans the way it would ants, humans arent ants, we are more complicated than an ant.
The Only way fungi like Cordycepts could actually do what is in this show or what the fella explained in the beginning is if it had outside 'help' (like Gain of Function)
@@Rink03 it all depends on one lucky mutation.
watching this while having a fungal infection is quite concerning
Such a incredibly powerful scene, shifting from comedic to dire. This alone makes me want to watch the show
This cold open to episode 1 is hands down the most scariest scene out of the entire 1st season, no jump scares, no infected (like clickers) it's the dialogue & how the audience reacts to the possibility of a fungal infection that could infect & control humans.
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Ugh I thought it was the scene where they asked the scientist lady what they should do about the new unknown infection.
@@MarsFromEarth1 It's not *your* video. It's a clip from a show.
Fully agree, I have to say, as much as I loved the show, I kind of hope, they wont make more seasons, the ending was just perfect
@@BlueberrySwede You do realise this show is based on the game which already has two instalments and is rumoured to have a third at some point? If you didn’t know that then let me just tell you, the second game is just as good as the first if not better and would make an amazing show.
One of the strongest opening to any show I've ever scene.
Seen
@@ZacharyGreenberg18 Your right.
@@TyTimeIsAwesome You're
@@anzac5399 Damn, I blue it again.
@@TyTimeIsAwesome blew :)
John Hannah shines in this scene, I keep coming back to it. That absolutely intent look into the camera at 2:15 is incredible. Master of his craft
Feels like he’s staring directly through the screen, into the future, at the viewer, like “yeah. yeah, you know exactly what I’m talking about, don’t you?”
”So if that happens…?”
…
“We lose.”
John Hannah went from fighting mummies, to being a doctor talking about a pandemic
Hey don't forget a owner of gladiators
He was also an amoral futurist who thought cybernetic implants were the next step in human evolution and created an off-brand knockoff of the Matrix.
@@MrPjw5 Is this a reference to something? I'm interested, but I don't know what this refers to.
@@thek2despot426Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. It's actually worth the watch.
@@jackkelly7855 a moulder of gods, titans!!
Probably the scariest scene of the whole show. I'm glad this was the opening because it hooked me in right away. This is how you make a video game adaptation. Just as amazing as the game.
It was cringe
@@Loquacious_Jackson The intro or the entire show? This intro was cool but from what I hear in other videos and on comments the show as a whole sucked.
@@UWG3 you've been very selective then with the videos you watch
@@167kinggam Not really. If the show's good then please tell me, does it stay faithful to the source material? Is the acting good, does the liberties they took from adapting a game to TV make for a better property?
@@UWG3 i was addressing your point about various videos and comments saying it sucks. Because a majority of the internet is full of praises. Im confused how you didn’t stumble upon them.
"what if for instance the world were to get slightly warmer" 👁👁 oh shit...
It already got...
Maybe one of the best scenes that I have ever watched during my entire life.
mmmm you need to live more
This is a masterclass in how to create a terrifying opening in a known intellectual property. No jumpscares, no scary monsters, just a simple, honest evaluation of the real-world science that the concept is based on. If you're watching The Last Of Us, you're most likely familiar with the basic idea, "Fungus Zombies", but until now, you might have said "There's no way it could ever happen." This scene takes a handful of simple facts to simply state "It's less unlikely than you think", and lets the dread grow from there.
Fungi produce numerous chemicals that can impact a living body and mind, fungus exist that parasitize and puppeteer living creatures in nature, fungus can't be stopped by many of the methods we'd use to stop the spread of other illnesses, and the human body's only defense against fungus is largely that our body temperature is only five degrees too high to prevent infection, those simple facts, on their own, aren't very scary. However, when brought together and add the simple concept of "If our environment gets hotter, then the fungus would have a reason to develop a resistance to heat", and you get a recipe for disaster.
This becomes especially terrifying when you consider the following: In later episodes, it is revealed that the Cordyceps fungus was spread through wheat-based foods. Just about anything using flour as an ingredient gets cooked at 300-350 degrees F for an extended period. That means that the Cordyceps can survive even temperatures that would cook a human body. If the Cordyceps had just a ceiling of, say, 100 degrees F, then a strong fever could kill the fungus. However, since it can survive being cooked in a literal oven, then even that one potential natural defense is meaningless. The fungus has effectively future-proofed itself, and you likely can't even burn it away anymore.
Bruh I'm boutta turn the oven up to 401F
Nooo 😭😭😭
Why are you scaring me like this
Now I won't be able to sleep (Tʖ̯T)
time to acquire a substance that is from the exact femtosecond the universe was created which is also 900 duotrigintillion celsius
Who could have predicted antifungals though?
Yeast spores nowadays can survive 140 degrees fahrenheit.
Take a spore from a heat-resistant fungus, and it might just survive an oven. Then the spore germinates, infects its host, and horror happens :D
Not only the main actors, but even the audience crowd also, went from jovial to completely silent and feeling devastated!
That’s how you write a script, not spend 10+ seasons explaining the pandemic…
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@@MarsFromEarth1
No
The host and the audience's reaction in this scene is completely stupid though.
@@smockytubers1188 how?
@@notblabby some people just like to disagree
Perfect set up and intro for the series. And the actor did a great job.
I love how it went from everyone not taking the scottish dude seriously but then when he gives his points they fall into stunned silence, amazing show
I felt that "Ah shit" 😂💀
And people who played the game and now are watching the movie have the CJ mentality
" aahh Sh*t here we go again"
@@Hans353 CJ?🤔
@@GameslordXY Carl johnson from gta san andreas
Ha I’m in danger
@@GameslordXYhow can one not know who cj is
This scene made me know I was going to binge watch the show. The clear explanation of certain doom, the silent terror of the audience. Simply one of the most amazing scenes I've ever seen.
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Shame rest of the show was different. I would love to be it like Chernobyl, from perspectvie of a scientist, goverment and one family trying to survive the outbreak.
binge watching is for beta humans
@@randomdude7345 well bc its based off of a game so it would be a bigger shame not to, if you want a movie like that I suggest watching "Contagion" (2011) its a great movie about the topic you're hoping to find. :) i really enjoyed it and its scarily accurate
@@randomdude7345 world war z is more your taste then, it’s a movie though
I consider it the best opening for a TV show ever.
The simple fact this information is real and not just fiction for the movie is the most terrifying thing.
It’s not real.
@@bluealteran4599 Yeah no, cordyceps is 100% real but not a danger to anything but insects.
@@lohcantfail That’s what I meant. The “information” about it needing temperature to evolve to infect humans is bullshit. Obviously fungi exist
Why I love this opening:
1: The scientist throws a confusing curve ball with saying fungus is a bigger threat than a virus.
2: He explaining the stages of infection from the game as those who have played it (like me) remember.
3: The phrase “What of the earth were to get slightly warmer and the fungi has reason to evolve” REALLY hits now.
4: Explaining how we will lose if a fungal infection in humans like that ever happens.
Edit: Why is there so much angry misery in the replies? I’ll never know.
Fungi evolved during Cambrian, 20 degrees warmer than present "Climate". ......
Mammals evolved 208 million years ago
Primates 55 million years ago
Humans 200,000 years ago
they've had that long to infect us
It’s always global warming.
@@mr.xernorus4026 the weather fluctuates, but the microorganisms that were present then were different. Now thay had time to change, and have another roll of dice to mutate.
Lmao the global warming deniers bots found this post
@@ClemiHW you really think driving a car is gonna start a zombie apocalypse?
John Hannah is the king of memorable secondary/tertiary roles
He's a critical part of hte best two episodes of Carnivale.
Yup ever seen Spartacus
@@100milesnrunnin He's got one liners in sparticus that rival Ian McShane's in deadwood. The dude's great.
The great House of Batiatus!
I’ve always loved him playing Jonathan in the Mummy movies, he was absolutely hilarious!!
I love the attention to detail - that looks exactly like the set of the Dick Cavett Show
This is my favourite opening to a series. Have been watching it every day for the last few weeks, as soon as it pops up in recommended I feel like I need to see it again :D
I wasn't really scared until he said "what if the world were to get slightly warmer" that gave me chills
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You didn’t get “chills” quit exaggerating
typical carl sagan behaviour
@@bugradogan2431 people always comment on some of the most mundane tv/movie scenes “I got chills down my spine” no you didn’t.. it’s fucking cringe
@@carlsagan2607 I did, and I'm sure he did too. Besides, this is youtube comments. No need to get so mad over it.
It's a lot scarier, actually. The fungus doesn't take control of the brain, but instead the body, basically cutting off the brain and leaving the host with no control of their own body.
Yikes, wouldn't like to be a passenger in that train.
@@simcoyote
True
Yeah but still nonsense. The guy r retends anti funguls dont exist (they do). That fungus have complete control of ants (they dont). And that the nervous system of a human is similiar to an ant (many fold times more complicated).
I get its just a show, but people might by some of these arguments without thinking.
Very similar to someone being fully paralyzed, except instead of being motionless your body is being moved against your will, you feel all the pain and exhaustion as usual but you can do nothing. Prisoner in your own mind. For me, the most terrifying iteration of the zombie in pop culture by far
The game of this show actually established that very fact in the background. There's certain times in the game when you can sneak around and encounter the infected and if you manage not to alert them, you can hear the human inside crying as it eats another person. They are very much just along for the ride.
I like the touch in this scene where when the audience is shown, they all look like puppets already
Dr. Neuman really understand the situation since he facing army of dead 30 years before in Egypt
"We'll be back"
Morgan Freeman voice: "They would not, in fact, be back".
I like the way you think lol
It's nice to see a fictitious audience intently listening and considering the validity of what he's saying, instead of every movie and show ever with audiences that like to shake their heads and chuckle because "that's ridiculous"
Different era though. The audience would have more decorum compared to the modern world.
The audience did react quite skeptically, until it started to scare them.
@@JonatasAdoM Yeah you can tell the exact moment when they realized he had a point
In the 60s it was thought the world was becoming colder and heading for a new ice age. So it would have been more likley that they would have.
I always appreciate a good explanation like this. Of course not every detail is going to track, but if the explanation is based on actual science and well-presented, it makes the show all the more believable.
I have come back to watch this video so many times, John Hanna just kills it in this scene, I love the transition to comedic laughs to utter terror when he describes the possibility of this actually happening
The hosts face at 2:22 as he puts all the peices together before the scientist can say them, and it begins to dawn on him that maybe, maaaybe what the scientist is saying is more than just some thought experiment about Fungus, and actually has a realistic basis is an incredible moment. That shift from casual, humerous, comfy talkshow, to the dread of realising that however minor there is still some chance this could happen, is an amazing moment.
That host face tell that: "I hope that kind of thing will never happen and if its, i hope i already dead to not saw it coming"
My face changed with the host. I also was smiling up until that point hahaha
Masterclass writing and acting
A Masterpiece scene. Excellent writing, directing, and acting.
The scene is terrifying, but not by playing with audience's basic reflexes with jump-scare or tension. No, it honors our intelligence, directly speaking to our imagination. WE create the horror as he speaks. WE picture it in our minds, and oh God, WE know it CAN happen.
No, its impossible to happen. Its a science fiction, don't take it too seriously (but kudos on the directors to cherrypick the facts to make it 'reasonable' in TLOS universe, hence the immersiveness).
TL;DR:
The nature of human body is way, way, WAY complex than ant's to make it a reality. The reason why ants that are infected with cordyceps are 'zombified' is because the fungus infected the ant's muscle membranes instead of the mind, which is way, way, way harder to achieve in mammals. Insects like beetles got infected by cordyceps having the similar end but they didn't get 'zombified' because it takes too much energy to spread throughout the muscle membranes. All that with the combination of the complexity of our immune system with the likes of neutrophils and integrins to combat fungus infection is making it more irrelevant, unless your immune system is having a bad time in the wrong time.
And we still didn't dive into the topic of antifungal medical treatment yet, which is a thing for literally millennials. A simple antifungal treatment can easily chase off the fungus out of our body. If people are really concern with fungus related topic, we should all focusing on Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) instead as fungus are growing resistance to antifungal medical treatment in recent years. The entire world still didn't bother to focus on such concerning subject yet as little development and research are being done on it (Sounds familiar? Thats right, its a similar vibe as COVID back in 2020 as human never gives a fuck until shit hits the fan). WHO's 2019 report has stated that there are literally 1.27 millions of casualties caused by AMR, and speculated that by the year of 2050 it will reach 350 million casualties, yearly deathly toll will be 10 millions.
All-in-all, we should focus our effort in combating AMR instead by voicing our concerns to the global community. Fungus are a magnificent creature with tons of benefits when controlled and combat well, but when its out of control, don't expect it will end well.
Stay strong, stay healthy.
@joker_j1268 his explanation of the world getting warmer and thus causing this danger has been corroborated by actual scientists so yes it could happen
You just made the scene even better. Excellent analysis of how the horror takes place within our imagination.
@@joker_j1268 Excellent thoughts, except for your points in the first paragraph, I find no other fallacies in the monologue in the video, it all really makes perfect sense.
As for the second paragraph, awesome man!! That parallel to COVID hit hard, but I wonder there may be much more cases like AMR that are on upward trend and risk an explosion like COVID, are we really tracking them all? Do we have the capacity to track them all? WIll THAT be a doom for us??
This is a great explanation of why so many say "the book was better than the movie."
the aww shit at the end was hilarious.
The real haunting thing about this opening is the discussion of the evolution mechanism. In regards to avoiding spoilers with this show. Let's just say his "no cure" remains true throughout the season. It's actually the mutation aspect that haunts the underlying story. Cleverly disguising itself behind a wall of innocence.
The sudden tight shot when he says "But what if..."
I still get goosebumps. Love this scene!
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there is no need to guess "what if" when "being hotter" has occurred before, many times in earth's history.
in fact avg temps used to be over 30c.
They sold the show in less than 5 minutes. It was godly. Absolutely hooked from the start
extraordinary acting, dialogue, and cinematography. the ominous music at the end is awesome too.
What a phenomenal delivery by John Hanna ! Truly a master at his work. I HAVE A DROP OF PEE IN MY TROUSERS !!!
dont be afraid brother. a measly sample of human urine in your leggings is not a fearful threat to the everday person
Lol
The black fungus recently killed 4500 people in India. It mutated to tolerate higher host body temperature and came out of nowhere. It is only a matter of time until we get a fungal pandemic, and it will most likely not turn us into zombies, but will have a mortality rate around 30-60%.
it came out of the use of steroids and fungal growth in oxygen tanks during the covid second wave
Oh god we are doomed
it didnt kill as much as it maimed people, eyes and other afected parts had to be removed of some peoples. horrifying scenes. hospitals was where it spread
@@siddharth2998 so if its mutate we are dommed
@@gigachad3457 not really, black fungus has always existed and our immunity systems have kept us from the black fungus since time immemorial. Mucormycosis is a very rare infection. It is caused by exposure to mucor mould which is commonly found in soil, plants, manure, and decaying fruits and vegetables. it also stays in the nostrils of people but donot affect them, if ur already weakened by an existing condition only then it gets dangerous. it doesnt need to mutate to harm you it already can it depends on how good ur imunity is. the second wave of covid ravaged the healthcare in India and this was a result of that
The Scene itself is pretty simple, but it does an amazing job at foreshadowing the outbreak, how far ahead the Doctor saw of the fungi outbreak and the death and chaos it.
Even the other doctor, the TV show host, and the crowd horror in silence. I actually would love to see more of him in some way.
You can see the other doctor nod at "we lose". even if he thinks the chances of fungi evolving that way is slim to none, he admits if it happened, we'd be dead.
The “slightly warmer” line. 💀
The explanation of the fungus cordyceps here is so perfect and it was very easy to understand without replaying the scene. This is actually my favourite part of the series.
So Jonathan has left the mummies in peru and now has to deal with zombies now. Next he ll have to deal with vampires.
It's a bird! A stork!
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By jupiter's cockerel...you mean to offend my ludus by forgetting about it? The house of batiatus shall rise again!
Loved when he blamed his nephew when asked why he chose a bus as an escape car from the mummies
I knew I recognized the actor!
Loved this scene. Of course, if this were reality, the terrifying "zombie ant" fungus was only able to develop the mind-control behavior after millennia of co-evolving with ants in the same geographic location, an evolution that sophisticated would be very unlikely to occur in any fungi that affects humans, and even if it did, we'd probably see it coming in plenty of time to develop countermeasures, or at least prevent any kind of catastrophic spread like what happens in the show. But, as a sci-fi, zombie apocalypse premise, this is about the best one out there.
I'm a biologist, specifically a postdoctoral researcher of neurogenetics. Given the number of spores a fungal fruiting body releases when it sporulates...I am not sure that this is unlikely. It actually seems like a real possibility. Let's hope not.
@@LukeDOMGBBQ A number of insects are susceptible to to these fungi, but that hasn't prevented these insects from achieving a healthy population.
For that matter, our bodies constantly encounter hostile fungal spores in stupendous numbers every day. Cordyceps may have a novel method for spreading it's spores further if it sufficiently infects a host, but it still has to defeat the hosts immune system.
@@Sethgolas To counter your points, human society is integrated in ways that even ant colonies don't replicate. Ant colonies are isolationist and two ants from different colonies meeting typically results in all-out war. This means that ants roam inside their own territory with little "exploration" of the vast world outside of it except for food. A single fungal epidemic can wipe out an ant colony, but transferring to the *next* colony is where the difficulty lies. Human travel and societal integration means that the spread is already almost guaranteed.
As for the immune system, humans are already being slowly stripped of their immune system in the developed world. Everything being "clean" and the sheer lack of exposure to nature that city dwellers have means that they are even more susceptible to transmission as we sit.
I think its the best reason "why" zombies exist. Too many times, zombie infection takes on a bit of a supernatural component. Last of Us has a somewhat plausible reason for zombies.
Sounds exactly like something a fungus would say..
I remember watching Tlou on HBO and this scene. This first scene of this series got me goosebumps, it was so impressive, exciting and a little creepy. Best intro to the series i have to say.
I thought the same thing. You actually feel the tension in a fake audience which is hella impressive on a creative level and with nothing but literal dialogue to do it with to boot.
Never thought that Rick O'Connel's brother in law would scare the sh*t out of me
I don't know if it's intentional or by accident, but the close up of the scientist explaining at the end reminds me of the famous clip from Robert Oppenheimer when he said " Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
I got reminded of that too, I kinda got chills.
Ps: The Oppenheimer movie is gonna be great
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@@_etwas_ you're welcome. You need to see the trailer if you haven't already
@@pjv3963 I just now have and I am genuinely hyped now :)
That's the same actor who's gonna play Oppenheimer is it not? I stand corrected peaky blinders guy got it, I've gotta say though this actor, peaky blinders, and Oppenheimer himself all have a similar look about them.
This guy is epic in Spartacus... As far as being an actor ...he's top shelf
Spartacus ? is that same guy who get to have segg with many girls in almost every opening scene in every ep ?
@@anacc9261 there are none straighter
@@anacc9261 kinda like your profile pic
Kept expecting Batiatus to launch into a speech about how he has the finest gladiators in the Republic 😂
Honestly one of my favourite scenes out of all the apocalypse movies and series.
Fun fact: Humans core temp is dropping every decade or couple of decades or so now it’s 36.5 used to be 38 in earlier human so you never know we might let the fungus grow at 34 lol
Fahrenheit or Celsius?
@@skiboi Celsius
Well I'm certain the reason for that would be the globe warming up after the ice ages receded, no longer needing a higher body temperature to withstand the frigid temperatures
@@gabrieltorres3932 nah, considering the fact we only started measuring that in the last 2 centuries it's most likely due to a reduced amount of infections causing fevers. If less people are sick, less people have fevers and less people are hot (haha). That's the issue with averages, they seldom tell the full story.
@@aytekineric8306 But there was a mini ice age which ended in the 19th century, that could've been a factor too. Its also the reason we're seeing "Record temperatures", because we started recording around the time it ended, before the planet started warming up.
I was hooked on this show in the first 3 minutes. I've never had that happen before. Normally, it takes half an episode or so. But this chilling opening is so effective.
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a few details aside, but i freaking love this opening scene. It takes a truly ridicullous concept, and makes it seem both real and truly terrifying at the same time.
I can watch this over and over again and not get bored. Each viewing is just as captivating and chilling at the end
i love how the scene goes from lighthearted to unsettling in a matter of minutes. the cold opens played an intrinsic role in setting the direness of the world of TloU.
Hannah send chills down the spine. His sharp delivery on the "what if" line was cold as F**k. It immediately got our attention and we felt like part of the audience on the chat show. All because the delivery of his lines were utter perfection.
Also know its a completely far fetch scenario. But i love how they used some scientific facts and mixed it with science fiction. It gave it believability even though its just a complete misdirection of a fact with a lot of fiction into it.
So why is he wrong? That's not a challenge - I'm honestly curious.
@@Atreus21 For one, we do have means of combating fungal spores from disseminating in the air. Air filters would be the first line of defense on a macro scale. I'm not certain that likening human behavior to that of ants is entirely accurate. Sure, humanity is also a social species, but ants are on a whole different level of population density. And most importantly, unlike ants, we have scientific methods to assess human brains for abnormalities.
@@jonahmiller5881 yeah, that was the only thing that was false in his speech. Most of the other stuff could happen, but we do have ways to fight fungal infections.
@@AnthonyJMurph The problem is that any infection of the brain is exponentially harder to treat. We have a structure in our bodies called the blood-brain barrier. This is a membrane around our central nervous system that is extremely selective about what it lets through, far more selective than most of the other membranes in our bodies (lungs, stomach, intestines, etc.) and this is a good thing. It prevents most viruses and bacteria from crossing into the central nervous system, which without modern medicine was almost always fatal.
But some microorganisms are a lot more effective at crossing the blood-brain barrier (Meningococcus bacteria for example), and that means that the antibiotics or antivirals have to be able to follow them into the central nervous system. This can be a serious pharmacological challenge though since the blood-brain barrier is really selective about what it allows across.
So yeah, we have a ton of antifungals that can treat a fungal infection in the lungs or the bloodstream, but not as many that are able to cross the blood-brain barrier. If a fungus evolves that is either immune or resistant to the CNS antifungals that we have discovered, then that represents a serious problem if that fungus is also highly infectious. Not likely, since a lot of things have to happen in tandem, but over a long enough timespan anything can evolve.
I was sad he left Transplant
Honestly this opening is genius.
And most things after that are utter garbage.
@@fuck4317 What? The show is an amazing adaptation of the game overall.
What an amazing way to set the tone of the series
My favorite thing by far is the unnerving shots of the audience, earlier in the clip they move around and function like indivual people, but by the end they are all mindlessly watching without moving
“We lose” That simple answer gave me chills.
Everyone did amazing in this small bit. It set up the entire show.
This is my favorite cold opening to anything movie or show I've ever seen.
the moment he said "The world were to get slightly warmer?" my expression matched the tv host. Cause it does feel like the world has been dealing with that, this has been the hottest summer in decades after all, we've been dealing with higher temperatures. Its like, damn, talk about putting some actual fear into your writing with a simple explanation like that, that gives you the feeling that this could happen in real life too.
Neumann: “What if the world were to get slightly warmer?”
Me: “Eheheheh, ah man wouldn’t that be cra… ah, fuck.”
Temp has very little to do with it. Its directly related to the increase in carbon in the atmosphere. My son who was diagnosed with autism also has a severe candida infection (aspergillus niger to be exact). It is believed to have caused his condition, and is becoming more and more common worldwide, along with increases in cancer, and other serious diseases.
These unsettling foreshadowing scenes are always scarier than the actual horror scenes. I've heard it said that the first kill in any horror movie/series sets the tone, but for me, it's little things like this
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I like that when the scientist talks about zombies, the camera shows the spectators with trance looking faces.
My final for Biology in college was a presentation on Cordyceps and a few other specialized Fungi. Initially, everyone treated it like any other presentation. By the end, I'm positive that my entire class went home with nightmares. I was nowhere near as elegant with my words as this video, but I had slides to show pictures. Sometimes, that old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words is true. My professor actually gave me a bit of extra credit beyond a 100%. It helped to offset some of the homework I halfway finished that week.
The whole crowd went from 😒😂🤣🙄 to 😕🙁☹️😶
Craig Mazin, this show creator also stands behind other highly anticipated HBO project "Chernobyl". This man sure knows how to TELL the horror story and does it well. It's quite a unique feature nowadays.
Love the fact that Dr. Schoenheiss is skeptical at first but nods his head at the end in ackwnoledgment...