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Why is The Last of Us episode 3 making people act like they're in the Crying Olympics. People in my work's off-topic Slack chat LOVE talking about how emotional they felt watching it. "ALL THE FEELS!" :rolleyes: It was a good episode of TV, okay? I personally didn't cry at all. I still liked it even without showing visible emotion. I know some people do cry easily at stuff, but it makes me feel guilty that I haven't expressed that emotion. Someone else just caught up to that episode again this weekend and everyone it saying all the same things over. I'm not engaging, I'm just here to vent 😅
 
wokeupnew said:
Why is The Last of Us episode 3 making people act like they're in the Crying Olympics. People in my work's off-topic Slack chat LOVE talking about how emotional they felt watching it. "ALL THE FEELS!" :rolleyes: It was a good episode of TV, okay? I personally didn't cry at all. I still liked it even without showing visible emotion. I know some people do cry easily at stuff, but it makes me feel guilty that I haven't expressed that emotion. Someone else just caught up to that episode again this weekend and everyone it saying all the same things over. I'm not engaging, I'm just here to vent 😅
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My current mental state has me crying at the drop of a hat. I hear a song a little sad, or see a tiktok about a sweet story of humanity and it's just water works. I haven't started The Last of Us, but I know how that game goes and I'm avoiding it.
 
wokeupnew said:
I know some people do cry easily at stuff, but it makes me feel guilty that I haven't expressed that emotion.
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Don’t feel guilty, people express emotions differently and that’s okay. I am not a cryer by nature. I would rather laugh uncomfortably than cry. Some folks might be announcing that they cried for brownie points but I don’t worry about that. In a society where toxic masculinity has had men bottle up their emotions for way too long, I appreciate the fact that some now feel comfortable enough to share their emotions about a gay love story with their co-workers, friends and family, but you shouldn’t feel guilty for not crying either. As long as your not purposely holding back tears then there is no shame in not crying either. Ultimately it’s a TV show.
 
I think a great point to be made is that visible displays of emotion do not equate to emotional depth and, likewise, a lack of display does not mean one does not possess a deep emotional reservoir.

Personally, I am outwardly stoic. However, I consider myself pretty in tune with what emotions I am feeling, even if I do not have wild swings or become taken by them. What is stoicism if not a deep understanding of one's emotional state in order to temper them in line with one's rationale?

With that said, I did experience some lip quivers and a couple streams of some still unidentified, yet most likely lachrymal, liquid streaming down my face during that episode. I mean, I''m NOT a monster!
 
The Last of Us - I played a part of this game a long while back. It was great and really cinematic so I can see why they made it into a TV Show. I meant to completely play through it but got distracted and never continued. I have picked it back up again while simultaneously watching the show. Few thing I noticed is the show is very true to the game. Like there are scene by scene reenactments from the game itself / including the dialogue so that's really cool.

The scenery in Boston is much more accurate in the game than the series. Like the locations / signs. It's not perfect but it's good enough. Like for example, it was cool going into the submerged Park Street station. Even though the inside isn't the exact layout, the look and feel of it is like the station. Haven't gotten there in the show yet - so interested in seeing how that looks if that even happens?
Anyways, so far so good! I only watched 2 episodes.
 
wokeupnew said:
Why is The Last of Us episode 3 making people act like they're in the Crying Olympics. People in my work's off-topic Slack chat LOVE talking about how emotional they felt watching it. "ALL THE FEELS!" :rolleyes: It was a good episode of TV, okay? I personally didn't cry at all. I still liked it even without showing visible emotion. I know some people do cry easily at stuff, but it makes me feel guilty that I haven't expressed that emotion. Someone else just caught up to that episode again this weekend and everyone it saying all the same things over. I'm not engaging, I'm just here to vent 😅
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Just finished season 5 of Search Party and what the hell was that? This show jumped the shark about a dozen times in this season, it was like an entirely different show from the first 4 seasons. What did I just watch?
 
wokeupnew said:
Just finished season 5 of Search Party and what the hell was that? This show jumped the shark about a dozen times in this season, it was like an entirely different show from the first 4 seasons. What did I just watch?
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Is that the season dealing with the
kidnapping and escape attempts
? If so, I gave up a few episodes in and I loved the previous seasons.
 
swamp jazz box set said:
Is that the season dealing with the
kidnapping and escape attempts
? If so, I gave up a few episodes in and I loved the previous seasons.
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No, it’s much wilder and weirder and worse than that season


And I loooove Search Party, I appreciate the weird boldness of the final season but I didn’t enjoy it much
 
I’ve owned a copy of The Last of Us for PS3 for like 7 years now and always meant to play it “eventually” (like the majority of the games I bought for it). Finally decided to give it a whirl last week on Wednesday, and found it so addictive that I finished it by Saturday. I’m not big on video games but it was really quite an engaging ride. I just watched the first 3 episodes of the tv show in a row tonight and, as everyone else has been saying, it’s pretty spectacular. Even with the things they’ve left out or changed from the game, it all feels very true to the experience of playing the game and honors the spirit of the characters really well. The cast is incredible and they need to be to capture what made the game so special.

I was very caught off guard by the way that the game ends, though, so I’m interested to see how the show will handle that.

I’d seen everyone’s comments about episode three and for whatever reason, I felt kind of cynical about it (HBO seems to be putting Murray Bartlett in every show they have these days). But they definitely got me in the end. And, about the comments about crying or whatever, I feel so emotionally shutoff towards most things, that I do feel like it’s some kind of event worth announcing if something breaks through and gets me to care enough to shed a tear (or more). But everyone has different triggers.
 
swamp jazz box set said:
Is that the season dealing with the
kidnapping and escape attempts
? If so, I gave up a few episodes in and I loved the previous seasons.
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Bennnnn said:
No, it’s much wilder and weirder and worse than that season


And I loooove Search Party, I appreciate the weird boldness of the final season but I didn’t enjoy it much
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it fell completely flat. Idea-wise it could have been good but the writing and character development was so poor. They didn’t explain things well enough where you’d be confused why something happened. They never explained anything about what happened to Aspen and his whole murdery vibe. Portia poisoning Dory was brushed over way too quickly. Drew deciding to be back on Dory’s side was completely unexpected and irrational. The whole Jesper Society thing was over and done with too quickly. Also what was Chantal’s wife’s whole thing with time travel? All these storylines are way too silly.

The first 4 seasons had plenty of suspense and excitement, but I truly didn’t care about what happened this season. In retrospect it would have been better had Dory died. The whole “Enlightenment” shtick felt so weird and cringy at times. The social media influencers were vapid and lame.

This whole season felt like the writers realizing they had too many loose ends. They probably decided that instead of tying them up in a sensible way, that they’d just create a Zombie apocalypse ending to burn it all down. It’s bold of them to do but it is so, so, so far removed from the rest of the show.
 
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wokeupnew said:
it fell completely flat. Idea-wise it could have been good but the writing and character development was so poor. They didn’t explain things well enough where you’d be confused why something happened. They never explained anything about what happened to Aspen and his whole murdery vibe. Portia poisoning Dory was brushed over way too quickly. Drew deciding to be back on Dory’s side was completely unexpected and irrational. The whole Jesper Society thing was over and done with too quickly. Also what was Chantal’s wife’s whole thing with time travel? All these storylines are way too silly.

The first 4 seasons had plenty of suspense and excitement, but I truly didn’t care about what happened this season. In retrospect it would have been better had Dory died. The whole “Enlightenment” shtick felt so weird and cringy at times. The social media influencers were vapid and lame.

This whole season felt like the writers realizing they had too many loose ends. They probably decided that instead of tying them up in a sensible way, that they’d just create a Zombie apocalypse ending to burn it all down. It’s bold of them to do but it is so, so, so far removed from the rest of the show.
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The sharpness of the first three seasons started to fade a bit in the fourth season. But it was basically gone by the last one. I didn’t expect where it went, but I don’t think it works. Ultimately, it is just kind of stupid. It’s so stupid that it’s kind of funny that this is how it ends. But it’s also just plain stupid because it doesn’t fit in line with what came before.
 
zomgbear said:
The Last of Us - I played a part of this game a long while back. It was great and really cinematic so I can see why they made it into a TV Show. I meant to completely play through it but got distracted and never continued. I have picked it back up again while simultaneously watching the show. Few thing I noticed is the show is very true to the game. Like there are scene by scene reenactments from the game itself / including the dialogue so that's really cool.

The scenery in Boston is much more accurate in the game than the series. Like the locations / signs. It's not perfect but it's good enough. Like for example, it was cool going into the submerged Park Street station. Even though the inside isn't the exact layout, the look and feel of it is like the station. Haven't gotten there in the show yet - so interested in seeing how that looks if that even happens?
Anyways, so far so good! I only watched 2 episodes.
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Yeah, I have heard this a bit about location accuracy..pretty sure our building lobby is not the First Capital Bank of Kansas City - although it looks like a bit of the action we had in downtown Calgary is about to pop off in the next episode!

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Smansmith said:
Yeah, I have heard this a bit about location accuracy..pretty sure our building lobby is not the First Capital Bank of Kansas City - although it looks like a bit of the action we had in downtown Calgary is about to pop off in the next episode!

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Yea I was hoping they'd hit up the subway like they do in the game. But spoiler alert, im caught up and they left the city already. I don't know KC at all but assume they did the city the same since they film in canada
Ericj32 said:
I’ve owned a copy of The Last of Us for PS3 for like 7 years now and always meant to play it “eventually” (like the majority of the games I bought for it). Finally decided to give it a whirl last week on Wednesday, and found it so addictive that I finished it by Saturday. I’m not big on video games but it was really quite an engaging ride. I just watched the first 3 episodes of the tv show in a row tonight and, as everyone else has been saying, it’s pretty spectacular. Even with the things they’ve left out or changed from the game, it all feels very true to the experience of playing the game and honors the spirit of the characters really well. The cast is incredible and they need to be to capture what made the game so special.

I was very caught off guard by the way that the game ends, though, so I’m interested to see how the show will handle that.

I’d seen everyone’s comments about episode three and for whatever reason, I felt kind of cynical about it (HBO seems to be putting Murray Bartlett in every show they have these days). But they definitely got me in the end. And, about the comments about crying or whatever, I feel so emotionally shutoff towards most things, that I do feel like it’s some kind of event worth announcing if something breaks through and gets me to care enough to shed a tear (or more). But everyone has different triggers.
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Same! But struggling to find the time to keep playing. I'll definitely finish this time, or at least go simultaneously with the show.

As for Murray Bartlett I actually don't know him. It thought it was Will Forte at first and was like fuck yeah! Nick Offerman and Nick Forte this episode is going to be amazing. Nick Offerman plays off survivalist Ron Swanson in another life. I thought it was great anyways. They did a great job introducing the characters enough where you'd feel something for them. I didn't think they needed to bring Ellie and Joel there yet, that killed the momentum of the episode. The ending surprised me too because that's different from the game.
 
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