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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-13 (Sunday)
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On Apr 14, 2025 at 7:26:01 PM PDT, "Arthur Lipscomb"
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

> On 4/14/2025 6:28 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>  BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>  Apr 14, 2025 1:45:51 PM PDT, Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>:
>>  
>>>>  The Last of Us (HBO) - "Future Days" - Season 2, episode 1.  Things pick
>>>>  up with Joel and Ellie now living in Wyoming and Ellie being annoying.
>>>>  This feels like a show I could dump pretty easily and not miss.
>>  
>>>  For me, it's all about Ellie. She really kills the show for me. And it's not
>>>  the character, it's the actress. She's just off-putting to me for some
>>> reason.
>>>  Same show with a different lead and I'd like it a *lot* more.
>>  
> I suspect you're right.

I forgot to add that the opening scene of Ellie training in the barn, where a
4-foot tall, 90-lb girl (70 pounds of it seems to be her face) defeats a
240-lb muscle-bound adrenaline-fueled man in hand-to-hand combat is taking the
whole grrrl-power trope to a ridiculous degree.

>>>  And because it's been so long between seasons, I've completely forgotten
>>> what
>>>  Joel lied to her about.
>>  
>>  At the hospital in the season finale, didn't they need her brain to make
>>  the cure? I forgot what he told her.
>>  
>>  Didn't Joel kill 30 people or so escaping?
> 
> Something like that, yes.  He had to chose between saving the human 
> species or Ellie and he picked Ellie.  Then he lied to her and said 
> there was no cure or something like that.