re: The Last of Us S1 EP2 Thread - "Infected" - NO GAMER SPOILERS

Haven't read the thread yet, but my initial reaction to last night's episode is that it felt almost like a "boring" episode. So it even the boring episodes of this show are that good, this show is gonna be pretty awesome. This is a good description of it from above:

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The episode last night very much had that early game missions to get you acquainted with game play feel.

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Not much happened obviously outside of losing Tess and learning about the connectivity of the fungus (which was cool). I hate losing Tess this early though...I really like Anna Torv. But it's really cool how shooting one zombie over here can awaken a horde over there if they are connected. It was a little strange that it seemed like the fungus wasn't connected to the zombie until after it was shot, so it still waking the horde up was a little odd. But still cool nonetheless that the fungus is its own living, and seemingly semi-intelligent, organism.

Can't wait for next week.

So it seems we’ve either got some gamers in here or folks who paid more attention than I did lol so I’ve got some question about what I believe y’all are calling the “clickers”?

Are these a certain type of infected / zombies, or in this world, is this how all zombies act? Trying to get a feel for whether it is established / accepted that all zombies in this world are blind and can only hear. This doesn’t seem like it was the case early on when people first turned, but maybe you only become this after you’ve been a zombie for long enough? And so these things are sorta linked or can talk to each other through the vines or whatever.

That Tess ending was narly and genuinely gut-wrenching, even if it was obvious from the moment she came back that she’d been bit. When that zombie dude slowly gave her the kiss of death I was shocked at how much it turned my stomach, both sad for her but also a horrible way to go.

This show is so awesome.

Very much so in most regards. They have cut out quite a few major action sequences even just so far and changed the order of some things. There are some throw-away lines/scene that happen later. They’ve played down some elements and played up some. You can tell they’re streamlining it generally very well though I see some odd choices. Will leave it at that though.

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Woo buddy, talk about a stressful episode.. I imagine the rest of the series will follow suit.

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Yea I watched it late and had to read a book to go to sleep because that had me wired

I will say we’ve already seen there’s a process, right. We’ve seen crazy people running around and we’ve seen clickers with mushroom heads who can’t see and act very weird. They have the same infection, just are in different stages. The people who’ve just turned still have all their organs and can see, hence why we’ve seen they’re easier to kill. It’s only after being infected a long time and the fungus has them at a clicker stage

from what i understand they are a hive mind linked by the vines that go undergrounds but seem to be isolated to a specific area not every single infected in the entire world.

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I took it as once when the zombie hit the ground and not moving, the fungus attached itself to him. Hard to do that if a zombie is moving.

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Right, that's exactly my point.

The zombie was crawling toward them, then Joel shot it, then it dies and the fungus attaches itself to the zombie and the horde awakens.

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I mean I doubt an Indonesian scientist would think just letting everyone in Indonesia die would be a good thing. they wanted to bomb the city to save the rest of the country in theory

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I think it was pretty strongly implied by the scientist's reaction that they were past the point of quarantine. When they said there were 14 other people missing, she knew it was too late to stop it with a quarantine.

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And I assume she included herself in that when she asked to be brought home so she could be with her family. I assumed she lived in the city as well and knew she would be in that number when it was bombed.

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And I assume she included herself in that when she asked to be brought home so she could be with her family. I assumed she lived in the city as well and knew she would be in that number when it was bombed.

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I bet that army guy she told grabbed his wife and kids and skipped out with a quickness.