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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It's not *just* a theme of survival and resisting death, it's a theme of resisting *change* The Cordyceps/Homo sapiens hybrid is the new dominant species of Earth, it's replacing us, not just killing us off Which I think the Rat King in TLoU 2 is a pretty successful riff on
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The whole "We are the Walking Dead" theme thing where it directly raises the question of whether survival means anything if you don't hold onto your humanity in the process of surviving -- is Joel actually meaningfully different from a Stalker or Clicker at this point
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