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[Eimran]

According to an insider, HBO's upcoming Last of Us series will adress political issues like the climate change, problematic white men and rape culture.

Ellie would be the protagonist in a heavily female focused plot while men will mostly play antagonists.

Credibility-wise: Ofcourse no official statement is made but in this day and age everything is in danger to be politicized to a certain extent.

What do you think gaffers and most importantly, do you think the game itself will be used as a tool for a political message?

Link: http://archive.is/BI2Bi

 

[SaucyJack]

That sounds really .......



..... shit

 

[Husky]

my insiders tell me the series will have 7.21 TFLOPs

Do you think Ellen Page has been approached to play Ellie yet? And is that Sophia Lillis in the pic? Cuz if she actually played Ellie, I just might hop on the moment the show premieres.

 

[bitbydeath]

I guess the rumour didn’t stick for TLOU2 so now they’re repurposing it for the show?

4Chan Rumor: The Last of Us Part 2 is rumored to be a story of revenge...

https://www.vg247.com/2020/04/12/last-us-part-2-rumor-christian-cult/ The archived plot leak claims The Last of Us 2 will center around a budding romance between protagonist Ellie and love-interest Dina – a plot point that has already been confirmed by the game’s developers. However, this...

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[Hostile_18]

Naughty Dog and HBO two companys that continually put out quality content.

No need to be worried at this point tbh. (Remember all The Witcher TV show early concern threads?).

 

[New Yorks Finest]

Good to know this games for AO only! (Mentally stable and open minded) That's my sweet spot.

 

[turtlepowa]

If they don't call it "The Last of Us (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Ellie)", people will still buy it.

 

[sircaw]

i know rape is a terrible, vile disgusting thing, but feels abit strange to concentrate on that and not gun and knife culture as Ellie and Joel blow and shred hundreds away into the apocalyptic horizon.

 

[Whitecrow]

Druckman just... stay out of my hobby T_T

 

[Psykodad]

It's gonna be shit because you can't get a good casting for Joel and Ellie.
Period.

Make a spin-off with new characters.

 

[Vampire On Titus]

Wtf is sausageroll.com and why does the screen grab purposefully crop out the website's banner?

 

[Kokoloko85]

i know rape is a terrible, vile disgusting thing, but feels abit strange to concentrate on that and not gun and knife culture as Ellie and Joel blow-away and shred hundreds away into the apocalyptic horizon.

Well rape wouldl be a topic in the apocalypse. But climate change lol?

 

[Venom Snake]

I hope we get a plot that doesn't look like SJW-convention.

 

[Shmunter]

Don’t believe a word of it. And hbo would stay away from woke messaging after the Watchmen reception.

 

[UnNamed]

"It's not porn, it's HBO"

 

[The Shepard]

And loose most of your audience after the first episode. I fear for the last of us 2 also, the first one was excellent but I just have a bad feeling there gonna go crazy with the woke politics.

 

[M1chl]

Don’t believe a word of it. And hbo would stay away from woke messaging after the Watchmen reception.

That movie? What happened with it.

 

[Shmunter]

That movie? What happened with it.

No the series released last year. Woke to the max, hbo was betting on it to be their next GOT, probably won’t see a S2 instead.

I watched it, was a bit unpleasant with all the over the top racism.

 

[M1chl]

No the series released last year. Woke to the max, hbo was betting on it to be their next GOT, probably won’t see a S2 instead.

I watched it, was a bit unpleasant with all the over the top racism.

Cool, thanks for the info : ) Will not watch.

 

[Stilton Disco]

Don’t believe a word of it. And hbo would stay away from woke messaging after the Watchmen reception.

You'd certainly hope so, particularly after it played a huge part in killing their GoT golden goose, but you also can't expect cultists to make logical decisions.

 

[Kadve]

Does that mean Joel will also be raped and it's not played for laughs?

Cause that some rape culture i would really want too see a show explore.

 

[New Yorks Finest]

Wtf is sausageroll.com and why does the screen grab purposefully crop out the website's banner?

Sausageroll, ohh my..I didn't even noticed that shit

 

[Shmunter]

You'd certainly hope so, particularly after it played a huge part in killing their GoT golden goose, but you also can't expect cultists to make logical decisions.

It’s a shame. The take was it is Commentary on current politics as was the original during the Cold War. Current politics in the imagination of professional victimhood grifters maybe. Racism, persecution, it’s all real, but to suggest it’s the hottest thing around in a world that has never been further removed from such things is absurd.

 

[The_Mike]

It's gonna be shit because you can't get a good casting for Joel and Ellie.
Period.

Make a spin-off with new characters.

I'd say Gerard Butler for Joel and Ellen Page as Ellie. Hell Ellie is even based on her.

 

[Bergoglio]

Druckman, you're playing with fire with SJW. No one will remember your name if this is ND agenda!

 

[Shmunter]

I'd say Gerard Butler for Joel and Ellen Page as Ellie. Hell Ellie is even based on her.

I like that combo

 

[Geki-D]

Ellen Page is 33 years old. I think the ship has sailed on her playing a barely 13 year old...

 

[HaveButOneLife]

R.I.P. The Last of Us. I knew SJW culture would destroy it, with Druckmann it was only a matter of time.

 

[Moses85]

 

[Oddvintagechap]

Insider?
but only knows the themes. lmaoo.

 

[Filthy Casual]

As long as the game's good I don't give a shit.

 

[Virex]

Rape culture? So it's going to be anti Islam?

 

[a multicultural team of v]

Is this the new low hanging fruit concern trolling? Just make up random SJW shit and attach it to any form of Last of Us media?

 

[hyperbertha]

You'd certainly hope so, particularly after it played a huge part in killing their GoT golden goose, but you also can't expect cultists to make logical decisions.

Wait wokeness messed up got? How so?

 

[Stilton Disco]

Is this the new low hanging fruit concern trolling? Just make up random SJW shit and attach it to any form of Last of Us media?

I think it’s more indicative of what a massive problem woke vandalism is in media currently.

It’s easy to make something like this up that can’t be instantly dismissed as bollocks, because this kind of crap is bloody everywhere right now.

It’s like how last gen you could easily get attention by claiming a series was going to change to chase the Call of Duty audience, and way too often it ended up being entirely true, even if it was probably a coincidence 9 times out of 10.

 

[The_Observer]

So it will involve "new Germans" taking turns with "old German" women who didn't agree to it?

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

Ellie, um, a point of personal privilege. Could you fasten your shivs without using that brand of duct tape? According to the label, it contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause ozone layer damage.

 

[Shmunter]

Wait wokeness messed up got? How so?

No GOT, The Watchmen. The last big HBO production

 

[Germuso]

Lel, some of you really want tlou to fail

 

[NeoGiffer]

 

[Goliathy]

I hope it is not true.

How trustworthy is the insider?

 

[Nickolaidas]

It's almost like someone wants to get a rise out of the GAFers here and makes these sort of 'leaks'.

Not that I really care about the TloU2 at this point … but I don't believe it. Also, amazing how this IP went from 'zombie apocalypse' and 'parenthood' to 'female empowerment'.

 

[Stilton Disco]

Wait wokeness messed up got? How so?

You didn’t notice the weird shift in later series to women being in charge of everything, male characters becoming increasingly dumb and weak willed, identitarian views on anyone not white seeing white people as instinctively hating them, general lack of depth and subtlety in characters that had before hand been subtle, intelligent manipulators with personal interests instead of vague one dimensional archetypes?

Don’t get me wrong, it was no where near as brazen as it is these days, and far from the biggest reason the show shat itself to death in the final series, but I mean Aria’s super human murder spree and completely unearned killing of the Night King alone kind of scream progressive politics getting prioritised over good writing.

 

[FF:Enhanced_Reality]

What exactly do they mean by problematic white men?

 

[-Troid-]

If this true I bet the whole premise is that Global Warming causes the mutation of Cordyceps to start infecting humans......somehow. Also just getting infected causes men to show their true form; rapists! Dun dun dun!

 

[Mato]

What exactly do they mean by problematic white men?

Just, you know, their existence in the northern hemisphere and how problematic it is.

 

[Badlucktroll]

I can see how they would blame climate change for cordyceps mutating and jumping to humans,.

 

[Nankatsu]

Looks like a great shitshow.

And why is Keanu in the photo?

 

[SaucyJack]

I'd say Gerard Butler for Joel and Ellen Page as Ellie. Hell Ellie is even based on her.

Ellen Page 15+ years ago maybe.

Ellie's 14 in TLOU, Ellen Page is 33

 

[Woopah]

You didn’t notice the weird shift in later series to women being in charge of everything, male characters becoming increasingly dumb and weak willed, identitarian views on anyone not white seeing white people as instinctively hating them, general lack of depth and subtlety in characters that had before hand been subtle, intelligent manipulators with personal interests instead of vague one dimensional archetypes?

Don’t get me wrong, it was no where near as brazen as it is these days, and far from the biggest reason the show shat itself to death in the final series, but I mean Aria’s super human murder spree and completely unearned killing of the Night King alone kind of scream progressive politics getting prioritised over good writing.

I think this is really stretching. In no way do women rule everything, Bran ends up ruling most of the kingdoms, the majority of the kingdom's individual rulers are men and John goes back to being in charge of the Free Folks and Watch.

I agree the writing definitely went downhill but there was lots of really dumb things in later seasons that had nothing to do with progressiveness.