The Reel Rejects - THE LAST OF US Episode 9 Season Finale Review & Breakdown | HBO | "Look for the Light"

Episode Date: March 13, 2023

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Starting point is 00:00:57 What a freaking episode. Wow. yeah seriously yeah they uh they did it the best video game adaptation is here people yeah they did it they stuck the landing is interesting bell ramsie said this is going to be a very okay sorry sorry go ahead no no okay i thought i thought i thought this of the surge's name was darrenovsky i got it just really um well obviously i was right that abby wasn't going to be and you said she was so you were wrong um but moron Obviously, too, they kept his face covered because they're obviously going to have a different actor as well.
Starting point is 00:01:36 We don't know that. Yes, I know. I know. We don't know that. But I found Bella Ramsey's comment, too, very interesting. She said last week that this episode's going to be very divisive for people. I don't know if she was trying to throw off, but I mean, at least for gamers, I don't see why this episode would be divisive. It was pretty much in line with exactly what happened in the game for the most part.
Starting point is 00:01:58 in. Obviously, we got a little more expansion on Anna and Marlene's relationship because the only thing we had gotten in the video game from that was when you're searching the hospital in the game, you find some recordings and you get to hear a little bit about that backstory, but actually seeing it play out and, of course, getting to see the great Ashley Johnson, who's got such a distinctive and incredible voice. And watching what she had to go through and then seeing the knife at her neck. I mean, that was so freaking, like, tragic having a pregnant. That's the most tragic way to have, I mean, to have a baby like that. I mean, that's insane.
Starting point is 00:02:30 And I just thought in the limited amount of screen time that Ashley gave us. Imagine doing that with a quicker attacking you on top of a bus. Yeah. That would be more tragic. Yeah, seriously. But.
Starting point is 00:02:40 Use your imagining. Right. No, but I was so glad that they were able to get Ashley Johnson, Troy Baker. And when we got, as Perry, what's his name, Jeffrey Pierce. And that was great to get all three of them in. I'm so glad, unfortunately, they all got, epic deaths of course but yeah no i mean it was great to get the original castback but this episode
Starting point is 00:03:01 i don't know this might be my favorite episode of the season it was it was pretty it was pretty close it's it's damn perfect and notice i know you're going to make some jokes right now saying defending yourself again i didn't complain about a specific action sequence in the tunnel before you know with infected which i freaking love that sequence in the uh the game when you're about to get catch up with the fireflies and you you know you get into that whole water sequence i'm not complaining that that was in here. I actually think that was smart to cut it in this one. It's not action storytelling. It's not character-driven storytelling in terms of the action. Don't mind that they got rid of that there. So that's why last week for the people saying that I was whining and
Starting point is 00:03:39 complaining, including yourself, and you've been texting me, like, you'd stop whining every episode. But I found it interesting that, you know, I had to, like, defend myself a little bit there. There was a specific reason why that bothered me a little. You know, it didn't hinder my love for this show. I still love the show. But in this case, that's a fun action sequence in the game, but I don't, I think it was a smart choice, especially for pacing purposes, that they got rid of that sequence. Would have been cool visually to see, of course, but I didn't mind that they got rid of it here. So, sorry that I disappointed you guys that I didn't wind in that sequence today. Well, Jeremy Johns said the same thing. And I actually understand where you're
Starting point is 00:04:17 coming from. And I think a lot of people actually said the same thing, too. so yeah don't fret man don't fret no jokes for me today i'm gonna be very serious i want jokes not today andrew sorry it's not my style anymore decided that from here on now what people want is a serious gregg yeah and by the way if they if those two don't get nominated which i think it's a it's a guarantee that they will it's criminal oh daddy pedro's gonna get that nomination well both of them i think this was my favorite episode of baby belly yeah i think this was my favorite episode for bella or belly By the way, HBO Max, thank you for what you guys proved that you watched our reactions
Starting point is 00:04:54 because we saw on your Twitter account that you called her belly. So thank you so much. Yeah, yeah, HBO Max. Give credit what credits do. He was the first video, this guy right here was the first one to say it. I don't need credit. I did not find another video where they called her belly. All right.
Starting point is 00:05:11 You can have the name, enjoy, guys. Whatever, HBO Max. Yeah, I mean, I have a couple of things that I thought would have helped enhance this episode a little bit. but before all my commentary is overshadowed by those two little things I will talk about for two minutes I want to talk about what I loved about this first yeah I thought that they absolutely excelled like sure is it shorter than the game yeah but you know this is one of those things where you do kind of have to judge it as a complete package by the end of it all and by the time you get to the end you know I think some of the best storytelling is when you see the completion of an arc and the
Starting point is 00:05:49 completion of how the beginning of the story really mirrors the end of the story and watching the differences and what I really loved that they that they really enhanced more with Joel throughout this show but it especially hammers at home here is that because it is a debate in the game of like did Joel make the right choice people go back and forth with that some people are there some people they don't even bother with the gray side of the question there People are like, he absolutely did. They were going to kill her. And there are other people who are like, actually, I think Joel's the villain of the story.
Starting point is 00:06:26 Because there was a chance they could have had to have a cure, have a vaccine at least produced to help people out, right? So, and to me, I'm always fascinated by both sides here. To me, I think about the character. And I'm like, it makes sense that this character would make this choice. And what I thought that they really, really nailed when it came to Joel, with showing just how destroyed he is and all the psychological trauma he's had to endure that when he's going up the hill
Starting point is 00:06:59 with Ellie at the very end here and talking about like you would have liked Sarah and here's why there was like as touching as it is there was this other quality in my brain and heart I was like there's something also semi-disturbing about this because this guy is so like messed up like so destroyed that he will commit the the most heinous darkest most brutal violent acts
Starting point is 00:07:28 to live in this fantasy of i have a daughter now like she's my daughter and and look we're gonna have this a life of light from here on out and the second she starts to try to open up about like test being on her uh like or something that weighs on ellie it's like no don't think about that you know like no stop i don't you don't just don't feel don't feel in this department things are going to be good like that's a lot of the intent about it so maybe disturbing is too harsh of a word it's just you could see so much of wow a lot of these choices he made is because of unresolved issues that this that this guy really has and and stuff like that carries over with into the second game and thematically wise i think pedro pascal just absolutely killed it here because i find his version of
Starting point is 00:08:15 Joel, you know, like if you compare it to what Troy Baker did, Troy Baker's was perhaps more hardened and tougher. I find what he did here more disturbed. Like this feels like a more, like Joel in the game in still a lot of ways is still like kind of a kind of guy that any guy with emotional pain would love to be that kind of dude. Like, oh, man, I wish you could be that cool of a guy. Even if I had that mess of the law, I would love to be John Wick, like who would want to be, right? and here
Starting point is 00:08:46 like this just feels like a truly disturbed human being like this every every ounce of him is the way they did the parallel of how he had a he had his daughter in his hands at the beginning Sarah
Starting point is 00:08:59 and a gun pointed at him bam the soldier shot at him and killed his daughter and then here the soldier Firefly you know Marlene she lowers her weapon you know gives him the choice and he makes the choice to execute her and he commits this
Starting point is 00:09:14 act of violence in the most cold way but then when he's around alley he's all smiles and open you know and i love it i i think the performance is excellent oh yeah and um watching too like if you remember that second episode when they're looking at what's it called run there in boston the bell tower uh oh uh the capital the capital building yeah and then everything you you hoped it would be when they're looking at the you know they have that nice moment there of course with the giraffe is awesome great to see that adapted but when they're when they're looking at jackson and in that framing we've seen in the show how they have switched roles how joel has become a lot more like huh huh and ellie's a much more contained yeah and then in that moment too
Starting point is 00:10:02 when they are looking at the capital building in the second episode ellie's the one with the hopeful look and where their position in frame is different and then they switch sides here and i love the visual language of how they have switched sides i thought this was expertly done and you know and when you're playing as joel in the game when he's messing up all the firefly soldiers of course i'm there on joel's side i'm not like what am i doing you like i'm like you're gonna kill helly of course this is ridiculous he's lying he was saying what am i doing what am i doing i keep moving forward and pressing x uh when you when you're playing as joel there yeah and here they made it more of a conflict of a choice of
Starting point is 00:10:41 what's happened like they're not glorifying this violence it's not a like go get him Joel it's not a go mess them up and go rescue Ellie moment at least the way some people might still be feeling that way but I think in the way the filmmakers decided to execute that it it just felt like a dissent the entire time and how you were pointing out with like how the music and the sound like things were just getting drowned out and he was just becoming colder as the violence progressed and I loved how it doesn't it doesn't glorify the act it doesn't glorify the violence at that moment it could have easily just been a badass moment with Joel in a lot of ways not that the game does that but an adaptation that goes wrong could have done that but I love how they just
Starting point is 00:11:25 hammered at home like I was so impressed with what they decided to do here I have nothing but praise for this utter than one little thing. What was that one little thing because the the thing that makes the debate of did Joel make the right choice or not very strong
Starting point is 00:11:46 is the fact that when you're in the world of the game at least like here in the show I'm like come on it's pretty obvious man like save L especially because the fireflies are just they're so cold like even they feel colder here in the show than the game than they did in the game even Marlene it's like obvious like I love the choice that they did with I don't know I want to give you a chance to talk about because I love the choice that they did with to bring marlene in the beginning here to make this conflict even harder for her so you see that she's not just a cold heart of bitch about the entire thing right
Starting point is 00:12:18 um but the fire they did they did such a good job on humanizing other camps throughout this series but they just make they just block this into joel's perspective here so you just only see the fireflies as being so cold and the other part is is what makes it so con a such a which i like that choice but what makes it such a conflict is the fact that that when at least in the game every moment even when you go inside a building or whatever you're just afraid a clicker or a infected is around the corner or whatever you just see how at any moment like how necessary the attempt for a cure is and here because of the fact that the the infected was kind of dialed back I would it made it even easier for me to it made it even easier for
Starting point is 00:13:10 me to be swayed to the side of Joel. Yeah, just, yeah, just save Ellie. It doesn't seem like the infected are that big of a problem. Like, they're a problem, but they're not, they're not, they're like, that bad in this world. It seems like that's something they can still get under control in some way. Yeah. That's the thing of why I think
Starting point is 00:13:30 the complaint that some people have about a lack of infected is it just feels like chaos in the game. And it feels there's no way you can prevent this or stop this or contain it. Whereas here, It's like, I feel like there's a way we can figure out how to contain this a little bit, right? Yeah, no, I get what you're saying. You're saying a lot more in the game. It was more, even though, again, we're still on Joel's side.
Starting point is 00:13:49 There's a lot more of a gray area than, oh, no, just it's Joel, save Ellie. Like, it's a lot more, it's a lot more easier of a choice here in terms of, like, because of the effect. It's been, like you said, dialed back so much. So it's a lot more simple choice. And before I continue on, I was technically right. Abby was in this episode, just not that Abby we were thinking of. Look at the cast right there. Look at the nurses.
Starting point is 00:14:12 Do you see a name on there, Greg? Laura Bailey, that is the voice of Abby. Oh, shit. Yeah. So in the comments section, I'm sure people who have not reached this point are going to go crazy in the comments. I said in front of us this whole time. I noticed it after I started, after I finished. I was like, I'm going to let Greg do his whole thing.
Starting point is 00:14:32 And then I'm going to mention this. I'm sure in the comments section, we're going to hear, one of the nurses, that was Abby. Well, clearly you didn't get to this point because now we're mentioning it. It's hard to tell when people are wearing masks to tell them, you know, who the actor or actress is. That's a cameo. Yeah, no. And to put her as a cameo in that scene. In that scene, too, with her with the doctor.
Starting point is 00:14:51 Oh, can we talk spoilers yet or no? No, no spoiler. Okay, okay. But yes, I agree. Putting her in that scene. But it's neat to mirror her in that scene. Yeah, all the scenes. The game, people will play the second game.
Starting point is 00:15:02 No one. Yeah, the people who played, like, that was the perfect scene to put her in. Yeah, we don't need to say one. I'm sure she'll get another cameo too in part two, or in season two, rather. but no I mean I hear what you're saying and it's hard for me to argue because the clickers were so dialed back yeah so I I totally get where you're coming from in regards to that but yeah I mean but still again because the the emotional conflict is is so strong between Pedro Pascal or rather with Joel and Ellie it again it's like he said it's easy to get on the side of but I just thought that it's more of a wish I want to clarify that it's more of a wish that would have enhanced the debate but I'm not
Starting point is 00:15:46 exactly I'm not like bothered I have a feeling though and again I'm sure they knew they had a hit on their show but I do appreciate the fact and that they focused more on the characters than the action beats because if I like I've always said and even in the last episode where
Starting point is 00:16:02 I had my complaining and my whining about that one sequence that was that was gone if I had to make a choice between like nailing the characters or nailing the action sequence it's not even close like i want i want good characters i mean yeah the action sequences are a wish list for me but if you can nail the characters and obviously nail the relationship between joel and ellie they like i mean you heard gregg at the end of the reaction this is the best video game adaptation of all time
Starting point is 00:16:30 at least in our subjective minds so they nailed it from there another video game adaptation would be better like like come on yeah there's no other one i i am thinking though possibly, and again, I'm hoping they continue this trend in season two and I've heard a lot of people saying that Craig Mazen, Mazen, however you say his last name, sorry if I butcher did. He did say that season
Starting point is 00:16:51 two for part two is going to be split up into two seasons is what I've been hearing. I don't know if you've seen those comments out. It makes sense. You can't just know where you can do that shit. Yeah, yeah. The game is forever. So, I mean, I am hoping, again, if I have to choose one, again, still keep nailing the
Starting point is 00:17:09 characters down keep doing what you're doing I am hoping though now that they've seen even though again they knew they had a hit on their hands with this show now they know they're in the stratosphere in terms of hits so I'm hoping that we do get more on the infected side in terms of the action sequences in the next season
Starting point is 00:17:25 just to feel that threat level more to pay off in terms of what you're talking about in terms of like you know it's not all black and white there are some gray areas so I totally understand and you are very validated in my opinion what you're saying in regards to, I still feel the same way even in the game.
Starting point is 00:17:42 I'm still rooting for Joel because my whole thing is this. I mean, obviously, in the video game, everything is from Joel and Ellie's perspective. So, of course, we're going to, I mean, for the most part, you're going to root for Joel. Obviously, there's going to be people inside, well, hey, like, what about everyone else? Like, they deserve to be, you know,
Starting point is 00:18:00 have the vaccine so that they can't get infected from the current infected because you can't cure the people who are already infected, but you can at least protect yourself from being infected in the current world. I get that side of the argument even in the video game But again, we're so invested in these characters in the video game And you know Joel, like he's not losing another daughter That's just that's not happening
Starting point is 00:18:19 So but they do play that interesting question of did Joel make the right decision or not In the game word here again, because it's dialed back It's a lot simpler of a choice is what you're saying so No, I mean I get what you're saying it's I'm trying to find a way to argue with you But because it was dialed back so much But again, I'm still glad of the choice Joel made because again we don't know much about even in the video game
Starting point is 00:18:41 you don't know too much about the fireflies I mean yeah Marlene seems like a good character I mean from what we know and obviously I'm glad they expanded upon her and Anna in the beginning and also too what they didn't show in the video game
Starting point is 00:18:53 after she had Joel escorted it out you didn't get that moment of seeing the pain in her eyes and seeing the tear coming down so I thought that was a great touch that they added here in the show but other than that we really don't know much about them even in the video game so
Starting point is 00:19:05 if they did get that cure in the vaccine who are they, are they going to selectively use it? Are they going to be authoritarians with how they use? Like, we don't know exactly how they would have used it. Yeah. So that's why I was more on the side of Joel, because I have no idea who these people are, what they're going to do with it.
Starting point is 00:19:23 A big part of it also comes down to that they didn't give Ellie a choice. That was the shitty part. Yes. And I mean, they really drive that home even more. From both sides. Yeah, they drive that home here, too, especially. But the fact that they robbed her of a choice. is the messed up part like everyone's deciding for her yes and they're like don't worry she doesn't know
Starting point is 00:19:43 there's no trauma that's good and they they should have let her decide and that becomes a thing that i won't talk about like i just immediately caught myself yeah yeah um yeah they should have give her choice but i i think the the very uh the the introduction to to explain yeah kind of like a blade situation as you pointed out of like why can this vampire why in the day yeah that's that is a great call on what went down uh getting ashly johnson back who you know it's really like ellie's my favorite video game character me too so it's not even close so yeah like to me just like even hearing her even though she's not fully doing the like her voice not too far off from the actually her actual ashley johnson voice it's pretty damn close yeah i i don't
Starting point is 00:20:33 even know if i would say it's entirely different but like like Troy baker's actual voice is very he's definitely doing a Joel voice right yeah for sure um but you know seeing her there and then seeing that the kind of life that Ellie was born into and of course hammering home with marlene that much further does give you that weight of because it's interesting like in the show marlene plays a scene so much colder when she's talking when she's confronting Joel but in the game i don't feel she's as that cold in the actual game but because you got that earlier scene you do see that that connection that she does have of like this is everyone has to make a sacrifice here
Starting point is 00:21:13 for something bigger so I think that was a great opening scene to have and and to know and the way that you like catch up with Ellie in that moment too when it does cut to her it's like like it felt very it felt very purposeful to me when Marlene says cover her ears as if like she's just a baby
Starting point is 00:21:33 like it more like she's a baby she's not going to remember ruining of this you know so she's just bored but but says cover her ears and then bam ellie the baby starts to burst into tears so you do get the sense that there is some type of subconscious resonant like memory that lingers in the back maybe something that Ellie doesn't obviously doesn't clearly remember but has affected her in some way even though it was moments after she was born that this memory is somehow still in her brain somewhere that has defined her along the long yeah and the reason also too I agree with what you said and the reason too i also i mean i've obviously i've praised belly all season long but i think
Starting point is 00:22:13 the reason this episode was one of my favorites and obviously of course they're doing from the video game but what bella ramsie was able to do in this episode just immediately when we see her just showing how traumatized she is by what david by what she had gone through with david and how i mentioned in the last episode like a part of her soul and so much rage has been pent up into ellie which might possibly see later if I don't want to get in spoilers but again just seeing how traumatized she is
Starting point is 00:22:40 because you gotta remember I mean yes it's been dialed back she lives in a world where she is hunted by clickers infected and hunters and raiders and all this stuff I mean she's seen some messed up stuff but it took a preacher dude
Starting point is 00:22:54 that wanted to make her her pet and was a pedophile that really struck a chord with her and like traumatized her like beyond belief and I just saw had Bella Ramsey like, I mean, you can look at these words on a page and see, you're traumatized, the way she was able to moat and express that through her body language, through her facial expressions. I really, I mean, again, just my subjective opinion, she was
Starting point is 00:23:19 fantastic all season. I loved every episode she was in. She just got better every episode. Yeah, but she really stood, like, above the free in this. I mean, Pedro Pascal was so freaking good in this episode, too, but she was on another level for me in this episode. Like, she rose up to Kingdom Come in this episode. She was so freaking good. Like, I just, I felt every second, like, of how traumatized she was. Just from the beginning to just when she couldn't hear Joseph, like, what? Again, I know it's from the game, but again, it's what Bella Ramsey was able to do in her performance in this episode, body language, facial expression-wise, just really impressive.
Starting point is 00:23:58 I'm just so impressed. Well, there's a lot of things about that giraffe scene that I've heard people, I mean, I haven't really heard anyone talk about it. But I could fathom that there's a lot of ways to sort of interpret that moment. And to me, you know, there's such a loss of innocence that has occurred with Ellie based off the events of like what we saw with David and such. And who she's turned into that, you know, you see this childlike innocence come back by looking at something that just seems so pure. Like they're just giraffes being how giraffes are in this really messed up world. they're not looking around the the environment going like what happened to our city and the economy and the world and the people like they're just being giraffes and there's still there's there's still a family of giraffes they're going to live on like there's there's such a purity to it and then it brings out this childlike wonder within ellie like there is an innocence that is regained in that moment and that's what's heartbreaking about it at the same time we're seeing ellie smile because there's so much hurt underneath that smile at the same time you know i Yeah. No, definitely. I also had, too, a weird visual parallel, too. Like, when the infected, when the runners or the stalkers, when they, you know, when the cordyceps come out of their mouth and they're trying to infect you, obviously, you have to stay away from it. But when the giraffe was sticking its tongue out and she was able to actually touch, it was like, I was getting some visual callback. Like, no, this is an innocent animal that you can pet it. You can let it lick you with its tongue. So I thought that was really interesting, that they really focused on that. Because I don't remember then the video game where you actually.
Starting point is 00:25:33 saw the giraffe's tongue come out like that i don't remember the thing in the game about joel trying to unlive himself yeah that i don't remember any of that at all i remember that scene and then i don't remember that conversation happening and i think that that is a that to me is a necessary addition absolutely like that is there's something there's like qualities you know like nice edition um better addition and then there's necessary addition because to me i have always wondered that like how did this guy just not try to attempt this at one point because come on like after everything you've been through it all you're moping around of course this guy would at some point right would have had to have attempted that so i thought like then having a whole detail to that story like
Starting point is 00:26:26 something they did set up one i want to say that third episode um and when she's talking about the scar in his head and then to explain that yeah but there was something that made him flinch that made him go i guess i guess i just have to survive and endure endure and survive right and then he's telling this story to ellie and it's like this is my purpose you this is why i'm still here right i thought it was i thought acknowledging that all that was so to me I'm like, thank you for saying that because this is a conversation I've been like having with myself. Like, how did Joel never attempt this? And in the game, and we can talk about this because it's from the first game, it's not from the second game.
Starting point is 00:27:10 In that moment in the video game, Sarah comes back to life. She does come back to life. Ellie, Ellie gives, Ellie gives Joel a picture that the whole scene was omitted in, you know, so when Joel goes to visit Tommy at the power plant that we didn't get to. see in the show but in the game he shows him the picture because they went back to texas back to their house and he showed him a picture of joel and sarah together where she was playing soccer and they just had a happy moment it was like right before outbreak and we see that Tommy is trying to give joel that picture and he doesn't want it and then we see that ellie snatch it but in the background
Starting point is 00:27:46 she did snatch it and then in that moment in the game she gives it to uh to joel to just make him feel better in the moment but i thought they were going to go that route but i i i And I still would have loved that, but I really like this, too. It was so freaking well done. Like, it was just executed so perfectly. It was such a beautiful addition. And then again, just like you said, the whole line of, like, I did feel that way. And basically in subtext till I met you.
Starting point is 00:28:13 And I just thought the line was so beautifully delivered. And again, the way belly just reacted to it was just like chef's kiss. So perfect. I mean, they're just so good together, those two. Like, you guys got to understand, too. it's more than just actors for the game who do the voice work like they're mocha we keep saying that but they are mocap so it is they are doing the whole performance yeah and those are iconic performances they are they are literally iconic so for them to step into this
Starting point is 00:28:45 different medium of live action and then to make it their own where i just stopped comparing the way delivery is done yeah i just like i don't even think about it Sometimes I'm like, oh, they remember that line from the game. But I'm so invested in what they're doing is very impressive. You know, it's a challenge that a lot of play actors often have. And to see that they've done it here is incredible. I thought they were excellent. I think they both deserve it.
Starting point is 00:29:14 And another thing I don't think is talked about, and like sometimes we point out like something here or there. I think the way this show is shot is great. Like it just looks beautiful. It's a beautiful looking show that doesn't, depending on the episode, sometimes i do decide to go like let's make this look like fucking pop you know but more often than not they just make they they they while there's like a lot of cool visual flourishes they still never lose sight of we want this to feel real at the same time uh i think they did an excellent
Starting point is 00:29:41 job there everything on the technical department and yeah sure once in a while you could see like it's clearly a green screen like the same with the giraffe you're like well the green screen that's going on here um but more often than not i don't even notice it more often than that like i only notice it really when i'm like okay i could see like a little thing here or there that i can tell like or sometimes you're subconscious i can just see it but most of the time like the way they brought a lot of the destruction the overgrown weeds and the grass and then the rubble uh all that is is excellent and then the fact that they've chosen specific key sequences uh for their sets to completely resemble like the hospital like we're gonna
Starting point is 00:30:21 like this look exactly like how it was in the game and but we're not just going to show it off we want there to really be a specific mood and emotion like everything every choice even if it aesthetically hearken back to the game seem like they would put it in there if there was an emotional purpose to serve it and i think that's the best way you can do this adaptation they did it looked at all these who looks like indian people who worked on this uh that's a digital artist for this show they were amazing yeah this is a this is this was uh this is an incredible experience and i'm so happy with it uh they like a lot of times you're like you see this with a lot of marvel shows too where you're like this is good but they man they dropped the like you're the lasting
Starting point is 00:31:07 impression me can mean so much that can mean that can sometimes outweigh the entire experience leading up to it is the but the but if you nail that finale like oh man like they they did it and nine of these episodes to do and uh i could have gone for longer uh i i can't wait for season two the non-controversity season i cannot wait for that shit you guys have you haven't played if you don't know what happens in that game you are not ready for the kind of shit that's coming your way yeah if this faithfulness is anything of a testament to like wow we want to honor the game um i i'm like It was going to be a very different journey
Starting point is 00:31:52 to come of the season two. And again, without getting into spoilers, they have foreshadowed and set the seeds in place that for people who have played the game of part two, we know what's coming. I mean,
Starting point is 00:32:02 obviously, I'm sure they're going to take liberties like they did in this one with expanding certain moments, cutting out certain things, and doing that kind of stuff. Well, they even enhanced, like,
Starting point is 00:32:12 they gave us an extra shot in that hospital thing that we, like, I don't want to point it out. Yes, I know what you're talking about that. But like they lingered on a, a specific dead body for a reason.
Starting point is 00:32:22 Yep. And I was like, man, they are setting it up. Lingered on that shot. Linger is the keyword. So, guys, what did you think about the finale? Have you already bought a last of a shirt? That's the most important thing. Follow Andrew
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