I didn't play the games and just watched the series...
So... What????
That sounds like a horrible "plot twist" to do. I have nothing against game of thrones style killings. But it just doesn't seem to fit the narrative of last of us. There are only two major characters in the series. Killing anyone of them makes the story pretty pointless.
But it just doesn't seem to fit the narrative of last of us.
Yeah for sure, there are no characters the audience cares about who die in TLOU, it's just not that kind of story! It's supposed to be a happy fun time romp across America with our favourite duo. It's not like there are any moments in the first game/season where one of the main characters appears to die, only for the eventual twist that they did survive, it's just not that kind of story!
I mean that's just my opinion. Killing the main character essentially ends the story. Possible but I really don't see a reason for season 2 then and a also don't care about it anymore. Is he killed at the end of season 2? That would be something else.
I honestly think you're pretending to not know about part 2 just to trigger people (which I respect and even admire tbh), but regardless, no, he dies after a random girl he just saved from a snowstorm asks if he is Joel miller and Joel basically doxxes himself, then the girl gets mad because he killed her father and then she beats him up with a golf club for like an hour, then Ellie finds him and sees him get beat up to dead
No not really lol. I am generally just not that interested in movie-like games.
I know that there was some sort of big controversy about the second part. Hard to miss that back in the days. However I thought it was some woke vs anti-woke bullshit.
To kill off the main character in the first hour however is a bold move. And now the controversy makes a lot more sense to me.
As I said. Game of thrones did something like that with Eddard Stark. But they had like a bazillion other characters left alive. If you have only two main characters and the whole story revolves around those two it's a different thing.
The woke anti woke shit happened because Ellie is a lesbian and her girlfriend is Jewish. Also the girl that killed Joel, Abby, is on roids and her storyline is about her protecting a trans child from essentially a tribe of transphobes that want the child to be their spiritual leader or some shit like that I honestly don't remember.
The game goes pretty hard on inclusion and many players felt that the story sucked because of it, but honestly it would have sucked even if every character was a straight white male.
Wow I'm surprised you got upvoted, this sub sucks. I'm all for inclusivity, everyone should be, but I agree that often it makes stories feel forced. TloU2 felt like one of the only storylines where the inclusivity didn't feel forced at all.
This is my first time hearing Dina is Jewish. Is that because the actor is Jewish or did they mention that in the game somewhere?
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u/Soggy_Ad7165 Apr 21 '24
I didn't play the games and just watched the series...
So... What????
That sounds like a horrible "plot twist" to do. I have nothing against game of thrones style killings. But it just doesn't seem to fit the narrative of last of us. There are only two major characters in the series. Killing anyone of them makes the story pretty pointless.