Brief The Last of Us HBO Clip Posted Online

So hyped for that! I can't still believe the amount of idiots I've seen after the new images were posted saying "That's not Ellie" like lol at least give it a chance!

"You have no idea what loss is"

He nailed it, really can't wait for this now

@AFCC
I've been saying it's gonna be good for a long time and that HBO was the right choice given their track record. I think this teaser is starting to prove me right.

Neil is not wrong, this shows nothing
Seriously though, that's definitely not a bad first look.
Makes me wonder what people unfamiliar with the games make of it - i mean, you wouldn't even have a clue it's a zombie apocalypse from this teaser.

In the words of Jake Peralta... "Chills! Literal Chills!" (tried to attach the gif and failed xD)
Pedro nailed it!
Super hyped for TLOU.

@jrt87
Can't constructively criticize something you know literally nothing about though. Which is what he was calling out. I always eye roll when people try to s--t on something they have not seen or played as if they have experienced it already before it has even been released.

@AFCC From what I’ve seen, people online are mostly calling Bella Ramsey ‘ugly’ which is pretty dreadful all things considered.

So far so good. Sadly though HBOmax is spiraling downward. They have been dropping shows left and right. They claim its to help with their merger of Discovery+, but many experts refute that. I was about to join to as its 30% off a yearly price. After some research I saw many articles sharing what I stated above. Ill join for a month once the whole show is out.

Does anyone else think it looks rather cheap from a visual standpoint? I feel like a prick judging it too harshly based on like 30 seconds of footage, but the really flat lighting and boring color palette just rubbed me the wrong way. The Last of Us should have a very striking aesthetic, and I didn't get that at all with the bits they showed. It looked like yet another generic TV show.

@RBMango
Most of that teaser was in an abandoned grocery store in a post apocalypse setting with no artificial light sources.

This is shaping up to be the first truly great game adaptation.

......

Other than 1995's Mortal Kombat, of course.

If you look closely, it's not "fungus spores taking over a wall," it's a fungus riddled corpse sticking to a wall.

This is just a remake of a game we'd have had 3 times by the time this releases, just with more realistic graphics

@nessisonett Naw, the only thing I'm worried about is her playing a 14-year old, when she's clearly a couple of years older. But maybe they rewrite her age for the show so it makes a little more sense.

I want to see real ugly characters, give me a Bloater.

Cool, they introduced dragons too.

So were getting retold a ten year old story as a remake of the game for $70 and a show for $45 (10 episodes)?

The quality of the adaptation from game to show looks phenomenal. The creator of the show made Chernobyl and I have very high hopes for this now after seeing this trailer. Pedro Pascal absolutely is Joel spot on.

I honestly hate how quickly the line is delivered compared to the original. But will only know how it fits fully when the show goes live.

I am quite excited to see how they’ve adapted it to a show.

I love how true Pedro Pascal is to the character! He's nailing it.
Bella Ramsey too, I see a lot of negative comments about her online (and admittedly among my own friends which is sad), but I think she's great and can pull off the character really well.

The thing about Ellie is that no 14-year-old can ever pull it off you will always have to choose someone much older. She's got a complex character and if you want her to jump off the screen like she does in the game, you gotta be very meticulous with who choose. Bella Ramsey has shown she has the talent for it.

@Octane Ellie in the original game isn’t written like a 14 year old and is voiced by a then-30 year old woman. I don’t think it was really feasible to have a 14 year old actress playing the part who can carry off that level of unrealistic maturity without having actually lived through a zombie apocalypse.

I don't remember that dragon in The Last Of Us.

Lookin real good in my opinion. Fantastic set choice and lighting in these clips. Gotta say I'm also a fan of Pedro and Bella as Joel and Ellie here, and I have high hopes for the rest of the cast too.

@nessisonett I've been seeing many similar comments and it's really quite sad 😞 people love to jump in with critisms and personal attacks before actually seeing the roles fully fleshed-out on screen. Sometimes adaptations fair much better when they let key characters develop their own space seperate to the source material.

@nessisonett A lot of these will be adult men who had a weird crush on young Ellie, these same men we're disappointed with how grown Ellie looked in the second game so I'm not surprised to see something like this.

Is Pascal unable to grow a full beard? To me he looks exactly as he did when he removed his Mandalorian helmet.

@nessisonett Neil Druckman will even tell you TLoU does not have zombies.

@nessisonett That so sad that you target a young kid and calling her ugly which she is not. Trolls always think they have the right to do whatever they want. You can be critical towards casting but dont make it a personal thing.

@ApostateMage I think thats a stupid thing from HBOmax themselves.

@Voltan it is more accurately a fungal infection apocalypse, the infected are not dead and as such are not Zombies. So much more scary that cordyceps fungi really exist, just hasn't made the leap from arthropods to mamals yet...

Looks promising. Off course the games will always be canon for me regarding how the characters are and how they look. But HBO, the crew and actors deserve a chance, all of them already showed they are capable of creating amazing entertainment. Now give HBO God of War to work on next. Just imagine what they can do with that ip.

A God of War show with the scale and budget of Game of Thrones would indeed be promising.

It's a cash grab! We've seen it all before and putting real actors instead of computer-generated ones changes nothing. I'll watch it when HBO Max drops in price /s.

I like the casting, both really nice, especially Pedro. He was so good in GoT and Mandalorian.

I honestly don't have too much faith in it. But I do have to admit Pascal, or whatever his name is definitely NAILED Joel's voice.

I want this to be great so bad...

@nessisonett Considering the amount of braindead people on this planet, most 14-year-olds have lived through a zombie apocalypse, they just don't know any better.

@nessisonett it's downright stupid and of bad taste. She is so young and seems talented but this will surely take a toll on her

@jrt87 people were only complaining because of her looks. Her acting is great so far, only 1 episode to go. There was no reason to cry like people did it seems.