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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

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    1. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 18 Jul 2020

      I think one pertinent element of my analysis of The Last of Us series is that I don't think the "zombie" themes do what they're asserted to do in other fiction about zombies. Furthermore, I don't think the series *is* "about" the Infected.

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    2. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 18 Jul 2020

      I think the function of the cordyceps infection, narratively, across both hands but especially the first (it seems to become increasingly irrelevant in the second except as background) is to set up the idea of human diminishment and extinction and justify the title

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    3. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 18 Jul 2020

      The games have never made combat against Infected "fun". You don't feel guilty for killing them, but they're legitimately scary, they're not acting as a power fantasy of "what if I could kill everyone." Their human characteristics are obscured by the fungus too

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    4. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 18 Jul 2020

      I think you could have told The Last of Us with a pandemic that was just killing people, but that "hey I found this video of an ant dying from zombie fungus, what if that could happen to humans" was a game pitch that was accepted and they went from there

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    5. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 18 Jul 2020

      The point is simply to be post apocalyptic and to have the idea that rebuilding is hampered by an ongoing pandemic - again, a theme I can't see as non-resonant today. And honestly the idea that that makes it somehow implicitly right wing is just bad. It's a bad idea.

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    6. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 18 Jul 2020

      As I've mentioned, it actually allows some of the implicit racism of other types of survival stories like Westerns to be filtered out, because the "frontier" is our world that we have now, or had at a specific moment in 2013, ripped out of time forever

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    7. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 18 Jul 2020

      I guess my point is maybe somewhat personal too in that I actually fcking hate zombies, as a genre, and yet The Last of Us 2 and 1 are my number one and two games of all time, so there's some cognitive dissonance

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    8. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 18 Jul 2020

      I don't hate zombies for ideological reasons though and I think a lot of those critiques are better applied to specific works. I just specifically find the idea of a mindless opponent that doesn't use tactics to be extremely boring for any sort of action-adventure

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    9. TheTinFoilHatter‏ @TinFoilHat13 18 Jul 2020
      Replying to @BootlegGirl

      It’s fun in the context of mixing up the gameplay. You’ve got a co-ordinated faction of enemies to take down one minute, and then you’ve got fast-moving suicidal berserker mutants the next. It’s especially fun and engaging when the two meet up together

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    10. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 18 Jul 2020
      Replying to @TinFoilHat13

      I'm just saying, I think the real reason for "but we are the walking dead!" is that "we" are always more interesting than the walking dead Which TLOU has baked into the title - it's about "Us" not Them

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 18 Jul 2020
      Replying to @BootlegGirl @TinFoilHat13

      I was thinking about the idea of a TLoU prequel/midquel that takes place entirely in the very first years after the outbreak and collapse, sort of an origin story for Joel becoming the ruthless killer he is by TLoU 1 It would be called "The First of Them"

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 18 Jul 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl @TinFoilHat13

          It probably wouldn't be good though

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        3. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 18 Jul 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @TinFoilHat13

          I've discussed this with a friend who's also a big fan of the series, and we're of the opinion that you could do a Left Behind style DLC about whatever the fck Tommy was up to for most of Seattle which would have flashbacks to explain what made him and Joel so fcked up

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        2. BEETLE‏ @beetlefella101 18 Jul 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl @TinFoilHat13

          A "Fear the Walking Dead" to The Last of Us' "The Walking Dead".

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 18 Jul 2020
          Replying to @beetlefella101 @BootlegGirl @TinFoilHat13

          Yes but The Last of Us has a much better title for riffing on

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