The entire concept of the zombies in this universe is fucked up. Not only are they fast, but even if you're quiet as hell and miles away from where they are, you can wake them up by stepping on some roots? Yeah I'm definitely ending myself as soon as it starts.
Makes a lot of sense why FEDRA wouldn’t be out in a small-six man team just to hunt for some fireflies. In this universe they probably only go downtown in strong force with armored vehicles.
@@spiraljumper74 I think the whole take of the show is more about "the enemy is the fungus", so no need for the whole fedra situation. Also, mantaining the focus on the fungus, they highlight Ellie's uniqueness for the times to come
Read about this Fungus once, it is a damn nightmare. What they saw in ants was It just kind of wraps around the brain without actually damaging it, just cuts it off from the body and takes over. So The infected are still conscious, just sitting in the back seat while the fungus drives.
Realistically you’d always want to aim for center mass in a close range gunfight, these are still living creatures after all, not zombies. Clickers are just tough fucking bastards with enough fungal growth on their bodies that bullets don’t immediately penetrate vital organs.
@@bink5242 For real, they’re tough to headshot in the game too. Unless you get them right when they do the scream when finding you. I like to think that was purposeful, like you get this one second to kill them easier right when they find you.
19:32 for people who don't understand, the infected goal isn't to eat the victims but instead breath in and spreading the spores (fungus) on to others they come into contact with to survive.
@@fyrebirdd nah i think there is still spores,they just kinda didnt make sense early on,since it served no story purpose other than gameplay areas in the first game. later on maybe?
It’s not spores anymore, it’s mycelia particulates in tainted flour that started the infection. That’s why the runner put its mouth-mycelia in Tess, that’s why we see all the shots of sinuous, moving fungal strands going into infected’s bodies. If it was spores, everyone would just be dead. You’d have to wear a gas mask anytime you were outside and you’d need to purge your clothes every time you came back in. It didn’t make sense in the game but it didn’t really need to, we could easily handwave it for gameplay purposes. You should watch the after-episode behind the scenes, they go into it a bit, it’s really interesting. We’ve actually learned a ton about fungal structures since the game originally came out. The presence of miles long mega-mycelium underground which uses bio-electric impulses to communicate is a relatively recent discovery and obviously perfect for a horror setting. It’s why we got it in RE8 too, it was kinda the hot new discovery for a bit.
For anyone who didn't understand the ''kiss scene''. She was already infected and a bite on the neck gives you 15-20 minutes. The infected didn't recognize Tess as a human, but as one of them that is why alot ran past her. Im guessing the one infected that came to her slowley and did...that, was to spread the infection through the tendrils, since she still was not fully infected.
@@solusmaximus2566 i don't really know for sure since they changed some key element from the game, but i'd say, based on how the show introduced the hive-mind thing, is that the one infected was just creating some sort of connection? Thus trying to spread the tendrils inside of the already infected Tess.
Companion podcast for episode two the writer/director/creator goes into this. She was slowly turning. As soon as the infected approached her. She could feel slipping away. It took her last little bit of humanity she had left to flick and turn the lighter on. She could feel the connection of the fungi.
@@solusmaximus2566 I think the explanation is a bit different. If I recall, the infected aren't immediately aggressive. They just want to infect you. I'm assuming it was the only one in the horde that noticed she wasn't fully one of them yet, so it infected Tess further by sending the tendrils down her throat. If she had tried to fight back, then it would've gotten aggressive and bitten her to further infect her instead.
@@Mellowkin on the first episode when that infected girl on the wheelchair was being tested, the camera shows a poster with the times needed for a full on infection, and one on the head/face/neck is indeed,15-20minutes. I see where you're coming from though.
These cold opens are the creepiest aspect of the show so far as it’s not just your regular slice of horror but much of how the virus itself is so based on scientific fact that it could legitimately happen in real life. Especially the scene where the mycologist flat out tells the soldier to bomb everything & everyone in it who contacted the infection. Such incredible writing & expansion on the lore of The Last of Us!
@@Nocturnewashere I agree but I don’t know how much more than they can do, I mean it all happened in 3 days and with this we’ve pretty much gotten a ton as is.
I love all the little change ups in the show vs the game. Ellie getting bite again to prove to Joel that she truly immune. Vs the game she proved it by doing down into the subway full of spores and being able to breathe like normal. So GOOD 👏🏾 -The tendrils make it WAY more terrifying you literally would have to be looking out for EVERYTHING. I'd be like NOPE I'm staying right in the QZ.
I’ve seen some purists not liking the change but personally I find the concept of mycelium communication between infected to be so much scarier than some interior spaces being dangerous. It’s also a lot more grounded, that’s real shit, we literally discovered that about fungus since the game came out. With spores, there wouldn’t have been any survivors in the first place. They’d have been carried on the wind to every corner of the Earth, people would have to be literally living in clean rooms with disinfectant protocols every time they come in from outside, where they’d have to wear gas masks specifically designed to filter fungal particulates at all times.
in the first episode they show the tv news report about indonesia and notice how they had no pancake mix, sarah and joel declined the biscuits, sarah didnt eat the raisin cookies, and joel forgot the cake. all use flour which is where it started.
That's not really that important. That would limit the spread to people who buy Indonesian flour. The US grows its own. The fact that it spreads person to person through aggressive means and the quick infection rate is the reason it spread so fast.
@@tiawilliams5690 I don't know about flour/grain specifically but making something internally has never stopped the US from importing those same goods. all that matters is if there is profit to be made
@@uyangkuthi6641 I mean the clicker scene had the best reaction and that's when he talks about it. If he missed that part in particular than yeah he deserved that sass
Even though I played the game and knew how it would go down I was somehow even MORE terrified in the museum scene than when I played the game! The fact that Neil Druckman himself directed this episode makes it even more perfect. And from the cold open showing how cordyceps originated in Jakarta it proves the Bread Theory was right. Which makes rewatching the pilot even MORE tense because you see how lucky Joel, Tommy and Sarah were that they didn’t get infected from eating any flour based foods. As for Tess’ ending, I think it was actually done better than the game. The scene of the mycelium (the fungal threads) going into her mouth was incredibly disgusting but the look in her eye when it happened showed that even though she was about to turn into one of them she managed used that iron will of hers to force herself through those last seconds before turning to burn them all. Stand and applaud for Anna Torv everyone!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Fun Fact: So Neil Druckman and Craig Mazin did more research on fungus and found out that if spores were as much of a threat as they are in the game that humanity would be completely wiped out. So they changed it to another scary fact about fungus which is that there are some species that grow so big that they can cover entire acres of rainforest in Brazil. So they added that instead of spores.
Seriously, it’s so cool and much scarier. And it’s something that we actually didn’t know about fungus when the game came out. Obviously the idea of a mega-mycelium underground, communicating via bio-electric impulses is perfect for horror, which is why we got it in RE8 too.
Tess backstory : She had a husband and a kid. They got infected. She killed her husband but couldn’t kill her son. Most likely locked him up in the basement to where he is a clicker to this day
They wrote a back story for Tess where she had a husband and son they got infected early and she killed the husband but locked her son in the basement where he’s probably still a clicker
What's so scary about the opening scene in Jakarta is just how competent everyone was. Like, there wasn't naive or clumsy oopsy by the military or the scientists that let things spiral. We see everyone in that scene being professional, knowledgeable, and pragmatic. That's how I would want to see people responding to a zombie outbreak in the real world. None of this "Oh, they didn't kill the infected all the way so the scientists get bit," or "Oh, she made some oversight in decontamination that let some of the cordyceps break containment," or "Oh some of my soldiers got bit, but they weren't hurt too badly and they're just taking a couple days off" or anything like that. The military knew they were dealing with a contagion, they knew to kill the infected for real, they knew their only hope was a cure. And that's what is scary about it. I can't think of one thing anyone did wrong. But that didn't matter. From the moment anyone found out about it, it was probably already too late. It was in the grain, and patient 0 was nowhere to be found. Things went from "Everything is fine" to "Global annihilation is almost unavoidable" in 30 hours and there was nothing to be done
I always remember this thing someone said about set design. It's very, very difficult to design sets for a scene with natural deterioration of things because there shouldn't be a single hint of a human touch. Vegetation should look like how vegetation would grow. Buildings, cars and other structures should have appropriate damage. This show does it so well. The fungal patterns also remind me so much of annihilation.
So fun fact. The opening sequence was from one of the files u find on how the infection spread. What if every opening to the show is a passage from the notes u find in game just given a live action scene. Then cuts to the 2023
i love how the show expands on the lore. yet it isnt afraid to change stuff like how the virus works and tess's death. while also putting moments in that pay homage to the game. W show
Anna Torv who plays Tess was also Olivia Dunham in this tv show long ago called Fringe. Its like a new generation X-Files and its really good. I recommend it to everyone who loves that genre of sci-fi mystery
If you watch the behind the scenes after the episode they say they don’t think they’ll be able to do spores and make it feel real. So they decided to do the tendrils that attracts other infected to the area
9:30 Didn't they say Pedro actually had a problem with kneeling all the time or something like that? 😅 ik it's not the same but I heard sum like that. 13:31 Nooooooooo lmaooooo 😭😭😭 13:52 I literally did that yesterday, forgot to check a whole room and couldn't go back 🤣 14:49 Good catchhh I didn't even peep.
I see there was a surprise anatomy lesson for someone. 😂😂 These cold openings are terrifying. I hope there's one for every episode. Loved Joel and Ellie lobbing barbs at each other, just like in the game.
ROTFL you guys are absolutely awesome. I love how free you guys are with your emotions! And it is also awesome to see people with some brains reviewing things cause the sarcasm and jokes are always better! Subscribing now :)
Whats cool about the intro scene is the city of Jakart was being mentioned in the previous episode for riots and industrial issues, and thanks to this episode, now we know why, also Roshi apology video when? 🤣🤣
@YaBoyRoshi, 19:54 did you not notice that Tess had the shakes? She was we saw her hands shaking in several scenes after she left the museum and it was noticeably worse prior to this kiss--she has the shakes because the cordyceps are walling her brain off from her nervous system, which is f'ing up her motor skills; they're taking over. This is why she snapped at Joel earlier; she can feel herself slipping away. I think many watching this moment think her lighter is low on fuel, but I think it's because she doesn't have the coordination to flick it! She couldn't run from the Stalker because the cordyceps want what was coming--the infected didn't chase after her because like the Adler's dog Mercy, they already know that she's one of them, and that explains why the Stalker calmly walks up to her; she's not a threat. Look at Tess' eyes. Her eyes and hand are the only parts of her that she can control, as she's quickly fading. This death was far worse than the game, but more meaningful, IMO. Another great reaction.
The fastest form of infection is the fungal spores being attached directly to the brain stem. That’s why so many bites were in the neck. But by going mouth to mouth with a non resistant host, it helps the fungus conserve energy with its host and spreads the infection EFFICIENTLY!
So for the explanation of the alerting system is because in nature its called the mycelium network where the fungus sends out feelers to look for food and water and they also talk to eachother with them
I think that the throat robbery scene was different to the game because now the fungus knows about Ellie because it was able to read her thoughts prior to her dying
I saw twitter talking about flour and grain factory, it is very interesting, because he said in episode 1, on Joel's birthday they never ate pancakes, because flour in pancakes and they didn't get infected.
I believe the "kiss" was just because the fungus new Tess was infected, so it just sped up the process of infection.... Which is horrifying as shit if u think about it... They're clever enough to do that.
Yea i was confused at first when the horde was ignoring her then i realized since she was already infected she didnt pose a threat. They knew it was just a matter of time til she joined them.
Since you guys are loving the last of us you should definitely check out kingdom. It’s another zombie apocalypse show set in ancient Korea. It’s an original Netflix show.
20:48 so they did change it. From what I’ve heard there’s no spores. It’s the fungus and mold. It’s spread through how you’ve seen. Bites and I think I’ve heard spread in some things that could of had the mold in it like some bread (that last bit I’m not 100% on). They switched it up because if it was with spores still and they where going for the more real outcome and such then there is no way humanity would of lived.
I think it was on the official HBO podcast, the showrunners said that the first thing they decided to make sure they could get right was the clickers. And ngl man they got em right and then some. That whole scene was perfect.
Okay. Probable explanation for the “kiss”. The infected recognized Tess was one of them, but didn’t recognize her as part of the network he was a part of, so he was connecting her to the hive mind network.
The look of fear In the doctors face when she realized wtf was happening. Then the way the officer looked at her and was like wtf we do then? Straight up nightmare fuel.
Welp, Im cancelled lmao
It is what it is.
LOL Time for that deep sigh apology video
tbf i thought that was a dude at first too 💀
@@SarumanTheStinky dont forget to start the video off with petting a cute animal.
Ahh me and my mom thought the same thing 🤣 I realized after the lady said woman.
Gotta love that Lupa and Sheera unity against Roshi
😂
When your friend & significant other clown on you it feels like you’re up against Team Rocket 😂
2:32 even the editor 😂
Even the editor lmao 💀
Well I wouldn't expect to be hit with female nudity right out the gate either let alone full frontal.
Nothing makes my morning better than seeing Roshi get clowned on.
And it's only the beginning.
Lmao that's messed up 🤣😭 but why is this so funny
I pictured you as his arch nemesis. The kind from venture brothers 😂
This comment is crazy af 😂
Gotta love sheera. She always picks on subtle clues and is just a pleasure to watch
im sayinn!!
She also has a way higher gross out threshold lmao
"kiss me on my tentacle lips" 🤣
But they sometimes discredit her when she’s usually the one who is always right
She funny af too. I feel bad when they don't laugh at her jokes
She has a good eye fr
I liked how it was the scientist that recommended to bomb instead of the usual military guy, shows how bad things really are
right
Military dude was even shook when she said it that's the crazy part
That was my favorite detail. I had the same thought
"If she so much as twitches"
"Starts fake twitching"
Ellie is a character 😂😭
And the actors acted, the script scripted, the audio sounded, the sequence of pictures in 24 frames a second and...
Definitely one of the characters of this show
@@DystopiaWithoutNeons Kellogg's Flakes
It was such a ellie thing to do lol
@@DystopiaWithoutNeons I sure bet your fun at parties..
no way roshi referred to Joel losing his daughter as him taking an L💀
casually doing mans like that 😭
Roshi really bout to clean the evidence with the rewind technique🤣
I don't get why he was about to rewind though
@@durotimiomotobora2154 so he could go back to that scene and not say she was a man and act like it was his first time seeing it.
So he could fake react again 🤣
@@sendmemoneythanks you can just not watch them💀💀
He's trying to use that redo-jutsu
They did a nice job of showing the origin of the cordyceps infection and those clickers were spot on. RIP Tess.
The entire concept of the zombies in this universe is fucked up. Not only are they fast, but even if you're quiet as hell and miles away from where they are, you can wake them up by stepping on some roots? Yeah I'm definitely ending myself as soon as it starts.
Apocalypse Speedrun any %
Makes a lot of sense why FEDRA wouldn’t be out in a small-six man team just to hunt for some fireflies. In this universe they probably only go downtown in strong force with armored vehicles.
@@spiraljumper74 I think the whole take of the show is more about "the enemy is the fungus", so no need for the whole fedra situation. Also, mantaining the focus on the fungus, they highlight Ellie's uniqueness for the times to come
Read about this Fungus once, it is a damn nightmare. What they saw in ants was It just kind of wraps around the brain without actually damaging it, just cuts it off from the body and takes over. So The infected are still conscious, just sitting in the back seat while the fungus drives.
It's like The Quiet Place but with zonbies
Joel and Tess' shitty aim really makes the authenticity very real lol
Realistically you’d always want to aim for center mass in a close range gunfight, these are still living creatures after all, not zombies. Clickers are just tough fucking bastards with enough fungal growth on their bodies that bullets don’t immediately penetrate vital organs.
Shit also it’d be hard being fucking terrified because of a clicker and trying to shoot a twitching clicker while shaking
@@bink5242 For real, they’re tough to headshot in the game too. Unless you get them right when they do the scream when finding you. I like to think that was purposeful, like you get this one second to kill them easier right when they find you.
@@spiraljumper74 especially when you haven’t upgraded your weapon sway control💀 with how jittery they move if rather go for a torso shot
@@bink5242 twice at that because the mushroom is literally a helmet.
2:28 Roshi reaching for the remote to rewind it so he can edit it out lmao He was like “I made a mistake” 😂😂😂
19:32 for people who don't understand, the infected goal isn't to eat the victims but instead breath in and spreading the spores (fungus) on to others they come into contact with to survive.
i think they went away from spores in this adaptation. seems to only be those tendrils in the mouths of the infected that spread the virus
@@fyrebirdd nah i think there is still spores,they just kinda didnt make sense early on,since it served no story purpose other than gameplay areas in the first game. later on maybe?
@@NGBH no spores, confirmed by Neil
It’s not spores anymore, it’s mycelia particulates in tainted flour that started the infection. That’s why the runner put its mouth-mycelia in Tess, that’s why we see all the shots of sinuous, moving fungal strands going into infected’s bodies.
If it was spores, everyone would just be dead. You’d have to wear a gas mask anytime you were outside and you’d need to purge your clothes every time you came back in. It didn’t make sense in the game but it didn’t really need to, we could easily handwave it for gameplay purposes. You should watch the after-episode behind the scenes, they go into it a bit, it’s really interesting.
We’ve actually learned a ton about fungal structures since the game originally came out. The presence of miles long mega-mycelium underground which uses bio-electric impulses to communicate is a relatively recent discovery and obviously perfect for a horror setting. It’s why we got it in RE8 too, it was kinda the hot new discovery for a bit.
@@spiraljumper74 yeah and since pedro pascal is already playing a character that has to wear a mask 24/7, i can see why they didn't do the spores here
This whole reaction was hilarious, between Roshi being cancelled and Sheera with the tentacles kiss 😂
😂I almost cried lol
For anyone who didn't understand the ''kiss scene''.
She was already infected and a bite on the neck gives you 15-20 minutes. The infected didn't recognize Tess as a human, but as one of them that is why alot ran past her. Im guessing the one infected that came to her slowley and did...that, was to spread the infection through the tendrils, since she still was not fully infected.
@@solusmaximus2566 i don't really know for sure since they changed some key element from the game, but i'd say, based on how the show introduced the hive-mind thing, is that the one infected was just creating some sort of connection? Thus trying to spread the tendrils inside of the already infected Tess.
The bite on the neck was 2-8hrs I think, they spent 15-20 minutes coming down from the roof alone surely
Companion podcast for episode two the writer/director/creator goes into this. She was slowly turning. As soon as the infected approached her. She could feel slipping away. It took her last little bit of humanity she had left to flick and turn the lighter on. She could feel the connection of the fungi.
@@solusmaximus2566 I think the explanation is a bit different. If I recall, the infected aren't immediately aggressive. They just want to infect you. I'm assuming it was the only one in the horde that noticed she wasn't fully one of them yet, so it infected Tess further by sending the tendrils down her throat. If she had tried to fight back, then it would've gotten aggressive and bitten her to further infect her instead.
@@Mellowkin on the first episode when that infected girl on the wheelchair was being tested, the camera shows a poster with the times needed for a full on infection, and one on the head/face/neck is indeed,15-20minutes.
I see where you're coming from though.
"That I don't want to canceled" by roshi had me dead
Nope try again
It was so sincere lol
These cold opens are the creepiest aspect of the show so far as it’s not just your regular slice of horror but much of how the virus itself is so based on scientific fact that it could legitimately happen in real life. Especially the scene where the mycologist flat out tells the soldier to bomb everything & everyone in it who contacted the infection. Such incredible writing & expansion on the lore of The Last of Us!
Not a virus. And can't happen.
I hope every episode opening shows the time before the outbreak/how it progresses. It's such a good addition to an already great story.
@@Nocturnewashere I agree but I don’t know how much more than they can do, I mean it all happened in 3 days and with this we’ve pretty much gotten a ton as is.
No this couldn't happen in real life lmao look up the actual science. I like this show but it is not real
@@Matthew-uh9id bro, dont tell him that. Let him be afraid of mushrooms, more mushrooms for us to eat!
I love all the little change ups in the show vs the game. Ellie getting bite again to prove to Joel that she truly immune. Vs the game she proved it by doing down into the subway full of spores and being able to breathe like normal. So GOOD 👏🏾
-The tendrils make it WAY more terrifying you literally would have to be looking out for EVERYTHING. I'd be like NOPE I'm staying right in the QZ.
Yeah those are really my favorite changes in the game!
I’ve seen some purists not liking the change but personally I find the concept of mycelium communication between infected to be so much scarier than some interior spaces being dangerous. It’s also a lot more grounded, that’s real shit, we literally discovered that about fungus since the game came out. With spores, there wouldn’t have been any survivors in the first place. They’d have been carried on the wind to every corner of the Earth, people would have to be literally living in clean rooms with disinfectant protocols every time they come in from outside, where they’d have to wear gas masks specifically designed to filter fungal particulates at all times.
The beginning of the episode in Jakarta is incredible. I was on edge the whole time
You could feel the influence of Chernobyl in the intros. They really know how to make the suspense hit hard.
@@chickenbiskit3620 yeah. Craig Mazin is on fire with this show
Fr especially when she said to start bombing the city
Best part of the episode
don't remember the desiese originating in Jakarta from the games. Was that always part of the lore?
What's wild is what they're establishing is based on fact. Fungus really can "communicate" with each other across long range networks like that
Lupa: remain calm absolutely nothing is about to go down!
Later
Also Lupa: *panic noises intensifies*
Clickers are so cute
Bruh, the screaming from Sheera and Lupa has me dead! 💀
“LET ME LIVE PLEASE” i’m crying 😭😭
The set designers deserve a raise and a nomination; they popped off so hard
in the first episode they show the tv news report about indonesia and notice how they had no pancake mix, sarah and joel declined the biscuits, sarah didnt eat the raisin cookies, and joel forgot the cake. all use flour which is where it started.
That's not really that important. That would limit the spread to people who buy Indonesian flour. The US grows its own. The fact that it spreads person to person through aggressive means and the quick infection rate is the reason it spread so fast.
@@tiawilliams5690 I don't know about flour/grain specifically but making something internally has never stopped the US from importing those same goods. all that matters is if there is profit to be made
@@tiawilliams5690 Indonesia has the largest flour/ grain factory in the world the us definitely gets some from there
@@tiawilliams5690 Chekhov’s gun, they included all those details intentionally, it’s important in that regard
Yo that Alec Baldwin cut about guns was WILD lol
Dude I caught that and i was like naaaaah 💀
I caught that too
Fun fact for everybody, the people who voiced the clickers in the games are the ones voicing them in the show as well :D
wow bro almost like roshi didn't literally say that in the video 😭🙏
@@BrandedBreacher Oh shit lol I didn't actually see that part oops xD
@@iHaveOneArm dang bro u didnt deserve that sass XDD
@@uyangkuthi6641 I mean the clicker scene had the best reaction and that's when he talks about it. If he missed that part in particular than yeah he deserved that sass
Even though I played the game and knew how it would go down I was somehow even MORE terrified in the museum scene than when I played the game! The fact that Neil Druckman himself directed this episode makes it even more perfect. And from the cold open showing how cordyceps originated in Jakarta it proves the Bread Theory was right. Which makes rewatching the pilot even MORE tense because you see how lucky Joel, Tommy and Sarah were that they didn’t get infected from eating any flour based foods.
As for Tess’ ending, I think it was actually done better than the game. The scene of the mycelium (the fungal threads) going into her mouth was incredibly disgusting but the look in her eye when it happened showed that even though she was about to turn into one of them she managed used that iron will of hers to force herself through those last seconds before turning to burn them all. Stand and applaud for Anna Torv everyone!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Fun Fact: So Neil Druckman and Craig Mazin did more research on fungus and found out that if spores were as much of a threat as they are in the game that humanity would be completely wiped out. So they changed it to another scary fact about fungus which is that there are some species that grow so big that they can cover entire acres of rainforest in Brazil. So they added that instead of spores.
Seriously, it’s so cool and much scarier. And it’s something that we actually didn’t know about fungus when the game came out. Obviously the idea of a mega-mycelium underground, communicating via bio-electric impulses is perfect for horror, which is why we got it in RE8 too.
Tess backstory : She had a husband and a kid. They got infected. She killed her husband but couldn’t kill her son. Most likely locked him up in the basement to where he is a clicker to this day
Where did you hear this?
@@TJ_Strick Source: Trust me bro
It's discussed on the official TLOU post-episode podcast on HBO's channel
@@grumpysphinx4911 source?
@@KillbotSw HBO UA-cam channel
THANK YOU SHEERA OMG. someone who understood the "kiss" scene. Like basic critical thinking man. So many on twitter crying or confused.
“That’s wild. I’m just gonna eat these seeds” 😂 so randomly funny. You guys are hilarious keep it up.
Yooo that cut at 13:31 was outta pocket 💀
They wrote a back story for Tess where she had a husband and son they got infected early and she killed the husband but locked her son in the basement where he’s probably still a clicker
There is an after credits behind the scenes on how they made that specific episode and the way they’ve changed things to work better cinematically
& a companion HBO podcast 😉 it really goes into the mind for each episode.
What's so scary about the opening scene in Jakarta is just how competent everyone was. Like, there wasn't naive or clumsy oopsy by the military or the scientists that let things spiral. We see everyone in that scene being professional, knowledgeable, and pragmatic. That's how I would want to see people responding to a zombie outbreak in the real world. None of this "Oh, they didn't kill the infected all the way so the scientists get bit," or "Oh, she made some oversight in decontamination that let some of the cordyceps break containment," or "Oh some of my soldiers got bit, but they weren't hurt too badly and they're just taking a couple days off" or anything like that. The military knew they were dealing with a contagion, they knew to kill the infected for real, they knew their only hope was a cure.
And that's what is scary about it. I can't think of one thing anyone did wrong. But that didn't matter. From the moment anyone found out about it, it was probably already too late. It was in the grain, and patient 0 was nowhere to be found. Things went from "Everything is fine" to "Global annihilation is almost unavoidable" in 30 hours and there was nothing to be done
I always remember this thing someone said about set design. It's very, very difficult to design sets for a scene with natural deterioration of things because there shouldn't be a single hint of a human touch. Vegetation should look like how vegetation would grow. Buildings, cars and other structures should have appropriate damage. This show does it so well. The fungal patterns also remind me so much of annihilation.
The "let me live" had my crying laughing
Slapping the Patreon banner on there when you guys are lookin in the clown mirror was just perfect
12:44 a good way to avoid creaking stairs as much is to walk on the sides of the stairs preferably towards the wall
So fun fact. The opening sequence was from one of the files u find on how the infection spread. What if every opening to the show is a passage from the notes u find in game just given a live action scene. Then cuts to the 2023
Roshi was so confident that it was a guy lol, until they so the whole body of the female😂🤣🤣 immediately got clapped😭
Love watching the full length vids on Patreon then coming here and seeing what edits were made 😂 no matter what version it’s always 🔥🔥
i love how the show expands on the lore. yet it isnt afraid to change stuff like how the virus works and tess's death. while also putting moments in that pay homage to the game. W show
The edit of the clown hat on his head cracked me tf up.
Anna Torv who plays Tess was also Olivia Dunham in this tv show long ago called Fringe. Its like a new generation X-Files and its really good. I recommend it to everyone who loves that genre of sci-fi mystery
just have to say this is by far the best and funniest react channel in the game. you 3 and your editor kill it every day.
Great detail in a clever way to explain why the horde comes out of nowhere.
If you watch the behind the scenes after the episode they say they don’t think they’ll be able to do spores and make it feel real. So they decided to do the tendrils that attracts other infected to the area
8:18 i choked on me meal, man LMAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Anytime there's a roshi upload I get a smile on my face ❤
Sheera when she went like “Your a whole short” had me dying XD I love you guys and your content!
Good thing Joel didn’t get any cake. They would’ve been infected if they had that cake.
The cake, the pancakes, the biscuits the neighbors offered them, which infected the old lady.
The immersion this show brings is on another level 😂, love yall reaction to the clickers
14:31 onward is just screaming 😂😂😂
9:30 Didn't they say Pedro actually had a problem with kneeling all the time or something like that? 😅 ik it's not the same but I heard sum like that.
13:31 Nooooooooo lmaooooo 😭😭😭
13:52 I literally did that yesterday, forgot to check a whole room and couldn't go back 🤣
14:49 Good catchhh I didn't even peep.
I see there was a surprise anatomy lesson for someone. 😂😂
These cold openings are terrifying. I hope there's one for every episode.
Loved Joel and Ellie lobbing barbs at each other, just like in the game.
Whoever edits these videos does such an amazing job
ROTFL you guys are absolutely awesome. I love how free you guys are with your emotions! And it is also awesome to see people with some brains reviewing things cause the sarcasm and jokes are always better! Subscribing now :)
Pretty much in the tv series, it's exactly as the video game
17:42 Neil spotted as a Firefly
Whats cool about the intro scene is the city of Jakart was being mentioned in the previous episode for riots and industrial issues, and thanks to this episode, now we know why, also Roshi apology video when? 🤣🤣
I really appreciate how after the episode is done, they give you more explanation as to how they decided to direct the episodes.
@YaBoyRoshi,
19:54 did you not notice that Tess had the shakes? She was we saw her hands shaking in several scenes after she left the museum and it was noticeably worse prior to this kiss--she has the shakes because the cordyceps are walling her brain off from her nervous system, which is f'ing up her motor skills; they're taking over. This is why she snapped at Joel earlier; she can feel herself slipping away. I think many watching this moment think her lighter is low on fuel, but I think it's because she doesn't have the coordination to flick it!
She couldn't run from the Stalker because the cordyceps want what was coming--the infected didn't chase after her because like the Adler's dog Mercy, they already know that she's one of them, and that explains why the Stalker calmly walks up to her; she's not a threat. Look at Tess' eyes. Her eyes and hand are the only parts of her that she can control, as she's quickly fading. This death was far worse than the game, but more meaningful, IMO.
Another great reaction.
Roshi got taken out way too early as if it was the beginning of TLOU part 2 😭
NOT THE ALEC BALDWIN EDIT!!! 💀💀💀
The fastest form of infection is the fungal spores being attached directly to the brain stem. That’s why so many bites were in the neck. But by going mouth to mouth with a non resistant host, it helps the fungus conserve energy with its host and spreads the infection EFFICIENTLY!
So for the explanation of the alerting system is because in nature its called the mycelium network where the fungus sends out feelers to look for food and water and they also talk to eachother with them
I think that the throat robbery scene was different to the game because now the fungus knows about Ellie because it was able to read her thoughts prior to her dying
I saw twitter talking about flour and grain factory, it is very interesting, because he said in episode 1, on Joel's birthday they never ate pancakes, because flour in pancakes and they didn't get infected.
I believe the "kiss" was just because the fungus new Tess was infected, so it just sped up the process of infection....
Which is horrifying as shit if u think about it... They're clever enough to do that.
Yea i was confused at first when the horde was ignoring her then i realized since she was already infected she didnt pose a threat. They knew it was just a matter of time til she joined them.
Love your guys reactions
the scream I scrumpt when that Alec Baldwin cut about guns came up like 💀💀💀
Leave it to HBO to create some werid/nasty version of a kiss of death LOL!
Y’all might’ve not noticed but the one that rizzed her up was a a stalker, that’s why it didn’t just attack like the runners do
My favorite episode so far. That clicker scene was amazing, and everything else in the episode was so awesome
Since you guys are loving the last of us you should definitely check out kingdom. It’s another zombie apocalypse show set in ancient Korea. It’s an original Netflix show.
2:01 Yeah!? Farmland Saga!?? 🤣🤣
That Alex Baldwin clip killed me 😂 😂
8:21 Foreshadowing for the Shamblers in the second game? 👀
It's official. The "cancelled" room is finally open and Roshi is about to enter.😂
They did such a great job on this show so far, and they made the clickers look horrifying 🔥🔥🔥
16:58 gotta remember, he is a carpenter/construction worker
13:46 LMAOOOOOOOOOO😭😭
They decided to replace the “spores” aspect from the game with the “tendrils/vines” since it would be more realistic irl
the jab at alec baldwin at 13:32 had me dying XDDD
It's moments like at the 2:25 mark, why the channel is growing. And why I'm an instant fan.✌👍
Amazon delivery update:item:size 12 clown shoes Roshi red. Status: shipped
Bruh tell me why this channel has THE most fire intro on yt?
Do you guys do your own animation cuz that shit the dopest I’ve ever seen on UA-cam I swear
20:48 so they did change it. From what I’ve heard there’s no spores. It’s the fungus and mold. It’s spread through how you’ve seen. Bites and I think I’ve heard spread in some things that could of had the mold in it like some bread (that last bit I’m not 100% on). They switched it up because if it was with spores still and they where going for the more real outcome and such then there is no way humanity would of lived.
I'm literally waiting for them to react for this series/ ep2 lol... even though i see some creators/reactors already react to this
I like the call back to Indonesia, bc in the first episode the news coverage of the bombs are playing on the radio or tv in Joel's house
the 2 cold openings so far have been amazing
Are they calling out someone with the shock comment? 😂 5:28
Yep lol
Vinland 😇
11:33 perfect sync
2:57
Roshi: I DON'T WANT TO GET CANCELED! LET ME LIVE!
Lupa & Sheera: No!
Roshi: PLEASE!
aww the matching bottles
I think it was on the official HBO podcast, the showrunners said that the first thing they decided to make sure they could get right was the clickers. And ngl man they got em right and then some. That whole scene was perfect.
Okay. Probable explanation for the “kiss”. The infected recognized Tess was one of them, but didn’t recognize her as part of the network he was a part of, so he was connecting her to the hive mind network.
The look of fear In the doctors face when she realized wtf was happening. Then the way the officer looked at her and was like wtf we do then? Straight up nightmare fuel.