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The Last of Us has seen The Last of Me
Spoilers ahead. Intentionally.
I watched the first season and was good with it (liked Fallout a lot better; loved Peripheral but it got canceled for being too smart); until Joel went on his shooting spree. I sort of got that, given his own history, etc etc but still. Pretty unredeemable.
Which the second season starts with as the daughter of the doctor he killed swears vengeance.
I’m not a big fan of revenge as a motive. It takes the person seeking revenge to the level of the person they’re going against. Revenge is different than justice.
So we fast forward five years from the end of Season 1. Ellie is still moping about because on some level she knows Joel lied to her. Joel is moping about because she’s moping about and seeing a therapist because he lied but he won’t even tell the drunk therapist, lying on top of the lie, whose husband we find out he killed, the truth (things, apparently, are complicated). And doc daughter finally makes the trek to Jackson from Seattle. Revenge is a dish best served cold. In the middle of winter. Huh?
I hate stupid and implausible in plot. The timing is both.
I mean seriously? Even driven from Seattle to Jackson Hole? Never mind walked. Getting through the Cascades? Then into the Rockies? Give me a break. I did…
