THE LAST OF US: The Scariest Scene Isn't The One You Think
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The Last Of Us is a terrifying premise, but the excellent prologue scene in the pilot episode is what grounds all the horror in reality, making everything that much scarier. Let's examine how.
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"We lose."
"We'll be back."
I love the interviewer's last quote, partly because it portrays obvious fear and reticence at the idea posed by the scientist, but mostly because it doubles and seems like a blithe optimism that humanity can overcome this, that there's always a return from a great obstacle.
Given the excellent writing so far, it _could_ be both.
Too bad Joel snuffed that opportunity away. :/
@2kPvgst4 _ The doctors could've easily snuffed the opportunity too if they were wrong, hence why Joel acted. No Ellie, no cure.
@@Evin07 not sure if we should even be discussing this under this video, cause its spoilers for the show as of now, but no. Joel acted because he loved Ellie. When Marlene said what's up, Joel said to just find someone else. He wasn't against the prospect of a child dying in an unsure attempt of saving humanity, but instead he was against ELLIE dying. Even if his actions can be debated whether they were justified or not, he did what he did for a selfish reason.
@@hossel_ Saving an innocent child from a pointless death while risking your life is the anti thesis of selfishness.
Even if you aren't familiar with the original games, this show is just as eerie, and easily stands on its own. The writing, acting, editing and direction are all solid across the board.
Completely agree.
Would zombies starve to death after a few weeks if they existed in real life? Like what are they going to eat
@@randomhuman2595 they’re not zombies, it’s a fungus. The fungus eats the body of its host to survive
@@denniscowe3289 So eventually the body would decay into nothing
@@randomhuman2595 in episode 2 there is a scene where u see what happens
John Hannah did such a fantastic job in this scene with his dialogue.
He really did. Funny how the goofy characters from The Mummy and Silicon Valley brought such reverence to a serious and ominous scene.
Big Head!!
He really did crush it. The look on the host and audience faces as they process the information was so effective as well.
Shout out too the Interviewer and the other doctor, who is or was Zor-El on Smallville, and had a role in the council in Twilight.
@@EntertainTheElk In Spartacus was a such great caracter with Quintus...
I love that the person chosen to give us all the foreboding and scary future to us is none other than the happy-go-lucky Johnathan from the Mummy. It reminds me when The Newsroom cast Toby from the Office to give us the grim future of climate change.
Totally! And then to have Big Head from Silicon Valley as the host. Both did a great job.
@@EntertainTheElk absolutely. Victoria Thomas knocked it out of the park with the casting as well!
you mean the Scranton Strangler?
@@AnimatorDemon I stand corrected! Haha
@@AnimatorDemon
He was a copycat strangler.
I am a sucker for well done, dialog-driven scenes. This opener alone had me hooked on the show.
Same here. I was so non interested in a show like this. But the opening hooked me and now I love the concept.
@@alexanderwindh4830 Lol, +1. Wasnt going to watch it despite Pascal. Almost dismissed it thinking it was another cliche trash. Then saw a retro thumbnail somewhere & decided to give it a go. Good watch so far. This scene sold for me. I am s sucker for psy horror.
I was skeptical of this as I generally am of any video game or comic book adaptation but I decided to watch it for two reasons. First HBO has an excellent record with limited series. Secondly, that it was from the same people that did Chernobyl. As you stated the prologue hooked me and the wonderful character of Joel's daughter pulled me the rest of the way in.
Agreed. When done right ; it sets the tone without being outright exposition.
As someone you likes dialogue driven scenes do you even like TLOU? There are many scenes that fee extremely poorly written, and cliché.
The cold open for episode two had such a different vibe, but was equally chilling: “we lose” and “bomb”
Episode 2 opening was one of the scariest scene ever made. It was pure psychological Horror.
I love how he looks at the camera when he talks about “what if the world were to suddenly get warmer”
That was the moment that gabe me goosebumps😂
Slightly warmer…… which is even scarier.
cue final boss music
Yeah him referencing some Propaganda really had me on the edge of my seat dudes lol
@@sas6384 Yep. Literally EVERY single predation climate change scammers have said have been wrong.
I think what makes it even more terrifying is that the first scientist felt like the more rationale one while the second scientist felt a little dismissive at first. You realize after 2 min, however, that the second scientist is probably right. That was eerie.
Molecular biologist here.
This is also a real fear within the scientific community. It’s a rather new realization, but very much real. There’s a good chance that climate change will cause fungi to become more pathogenic to humans. And considering how resilient, prolific, and adaptive they are…yeah, we might get clapped
@@Notlordstark Isn't there a report floating around somewhere saying that there's been an increase in frequency of fungal infections in recent years?
@@Notlordstark are there any papers on this possibility? Would love to read up on this.
@@curryinahurry3730 yes. For one thing, fungal infections are more common than most people know. According to my quick super-scientific google search, about 150 million people get severely sick with fungal infections every year, and about 1.7 million die from fungal infections, and that rate is increasing. We’re also seeing fungal diseases spreading to new areas that we haven’t seen them in before.
@@kennethflores93 almost certainly. Im just a cancer researcher, though, so I wouldn’t know where to find the most relevant ones.
This scene at the opening of the series sent such a chill up my spine that not even the most graphic of horror movies have in years.
Agreed. Zombie stories don't usually stick with me, but that intro scene does for sure.
This was more terrifying scene than any ghost horror movie scenes.
Psychological horror is always more terrifying!
Bc now we know the threat too. We laughed about pandemic horror scenarios, but now we know how real it is
Fr, I legit started thinking about it too much and freaked out a bit lol
John Hannah is criminally underrated.
I grew up with him from The Mummy Movies but Spartacus Blood and Sand is where I became a Die Hard fan of John Hannah.
Yeah I always think of the Mummy films.
Yes!! I loved him as batiatus in Spartacus. He was such a bastard.
Four weddings and a funeral
He was great in Agents of Shield as well.
he was great as batiatus...what an asshole XD
What scares me is the thought that perhaps the people infected by cordyceps fungus might also be hallucinating as if under the effects of a psychedelic fungus like psilocybin.
From my completely novice understanding of the science of them, that IS what cordyceps do to ants. The ants aren't dead when they get infected, they even fight their own colony.
For me, the most chilling thing is that ants figured out the best way to deal with the infection is exile.
Based on our recent response to COVID-19, If cordyceps ever evolves and jumps species to humans?
We are so beyond f@$ked!
Well, to be fair, even though you may not be dead, if the fungus has hijacked your consciousness in such a way by flooding it with mind-altering chemicals that you’re effectively oblivious to what’s happening, YOU MAY AS WELL EFFECTIVELY BE DEAD (in fact, that could be a horrifying fate WORSE than death).
Wouldn’t it be FUCKED if the whole reason’s that Ellie is immune is because her mother turned out to be a massive hippie (or was somehow impervious to the effects of LSD and psilocybin and unknowingly passed this trait down hereditarily to Ellie)?
One thing that differs in The Last of Us from reality is that cordyceps doesn't use hallucinogens (that's psilocybin, a wholly different fungus). Instead cordyceps cells infiltrate the peripheral nervous system and muscles to pupeteer them while leaving the brain intact. Which is actually more horrifying - I don't know what goes through an ant's mind, but imagine being trapped and fully aware while a foreign entity completely controls your every movement.
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Ahhhh I SEE.
That’s even MORE HORRIFYING than I anticipated.
Cordyceps in real life does not infect the brains of ants to enact control; in fact it leaves them almost fully intact, instead invading the muscular system of the ant. It’s likely that the humans in the show are still mostly aware of themselves, if not perceiving the world as though drugged, all while unable to exert control over their fungus-enveloped body.
Honestly, the cold open of the second episode gave me absolute chills. When the professor is asked what they should do and she says "Bomb."
Damn, that got me.
Even more depressing, when she says, she wants to be with her family, making clear, she didn't mean "Let's get out and bomb." but "Bomb this city - with us and our loved ones in it. For us it's already too late, but perhaps there's at least a little hope for mankind.".
Yeaaaaahhhhh…
That part FUCKED ME UP as well (especially when you realize that she was asking to go spend whatever remaining precious moments she had left with her family in the event they followed through on what was essentially her recommendation for SELF-ANNIHILATION).
You know a zombie apocalypse piece of fiction is fucked when it's the scientist going for the nuclear option and the military guy staring in abject horror
Yup, it’s also a subversion of the trope, where the military guy is the one who resorts to a violent way of resolving the issue while the scientist tries to figure out a peaceful way. If she thought it through and bombing is the only solution she came up with, it kinda tells you how incredibly hopeless the situation was once it spread.
Guess bombing didn't work lol
That opening scene made me more tense than anything else in the episode, and that's not even a disservice to how great the horror is later. I'm really glad you're covering it!
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I was very confused when the intro started given that I'm quite familiar with the game. But when it was over I was floored by how effective it was at building tension. And then the rest of the episode just built on that tension more and more. I'm so happy with how this show has turned out and I cannot wait to see the rest of it.
This opening scene established just what we could expect from the show. From the moment John Hannah's dialogue begins, he commanded the scene. It was intelligent and nuanced, while at the same time ominous and foretelling of what could become of the world should this scenario happen. Once he finishes and the host asks about the outcome with a slight tremble in his voice, Hannah's reply of "We lose," felt like the world was then living on borrowed time.
Lol , you know that the fungi exist in real life and indeed , if the temperature get warmer , it "COULD" mutate ( that is the part we are not sure about)... But , once again , the fungi exist in real life
I love that this scene explains the fungus but also explains Ellie, saying “what if for instance, the world were to get warmer, then there is a reason to evolve” and yet this line while teasing the zombies, it also teases Ellie, she was born into this crazy world, humans had to find a way to combat this threat to their survival, and so there is Ellie, naturally immune to the spores
I hadn't caught that implication, but that's certainly an interesting thought. It might be exactly what the writers are going for here, hmmmm.
It is actually not how natural selection/evolution works. If you put a seed in freezing soil it won't adapt to it. The adaptation comes by random chance, which makes the now adapted species multiply easier, leaving more offspring.
Evolve, adapt and overcome are the key for any species to survive. Basically Ellie is a mutant 😬
But that fails to explain why there are so insanely few people that are immune. Ellie is the only one we know about while there are an unspecified number of other kids that were experimented on. The main issue is that we have no idea how her immunity works.
@@Da1337Man evolution isnt something that happens very fast. the fact that in 6 years an immune person was born is wild, evolution is something that usually takes millions of years
I work in healthcare and Fungus is a legitimate threat but not to the world as a whole. They did a very good job with this scene and i love it
Dude I literally never get chills or get scared by movies and stuff anymore. But the one thing that actually sent a chill through me was this exact scene. And it was exactly as you said “something so absolutely absurd that we can laugh off, has now been grounded in reality”. I love it when the makers of a show get that right. Actual thriller material because it doesn’t just seem entirely fictional, like “ah the big purple alien is coming to kill us” it actually has real plausibility in the real world.
No dig on the marvel movies, they have their place but I just think we’re lacking just natural, gritty, raw material like the last of us provides. It doesn’t feel like a “copy, paste” of some other show that you see on Netflix all the time. It’s there to take you on an emotional rollercoaster no matter how high or low, nailing that shock factor without feeling forced, and leaving you genuinely speechless.
Did you like the following zombie flicks:
-28 Days Later...
-28 Weeks Later...
-The Night Eats the World
???
Having not played the game, that opening scene was so chilling and so eerily topical it’s frightening.
This scene has become my favourite of any series, it’s haunting, funny, succinct and manages to perfectly sum up what’s going to happen in such an interesting way. It’s well acted and I could watch it over and over. I love it.
In a “post-covid” world, that opening with an expert giving a well-informed warning only to be dismissed or laughed off genuinely reignited the anxiety I felt in February/March of 2020. Post-covid in quotes because it’s obviously still an ongoing issue.
3:04 I dont know if that was intentional, but for a very brief moment he looks directly into the camera before saying "what if it gets slightly warmer". That directly connects it to us the audience through some 4 wall breaking. Its subtle but its there.
Well, he WAS in a talk show. So, he looked into the talk show camera, which happened to be our camera. And that slight smile and twinkle in his eye....chilling.
@@merrimcarthur7198 true, also I think they intentionally didnt have them look into the camera prior (except the host). I would have to watch it again but he usually was talking to the live audience and only there was looking into the camera.
But yeah, definitely chilling.
This scene reminded me so much of the one from I Am Legend which is why I feel like it affected me so much
the intro of the 2nd episode its also soo so so earie and amazing. Its like a nightmare that you're glad you awaken from but... STILL feels too real.
What is in the intro scenes of eps 2?
Ibu ratna Scientist : there is no medicine there is no vaccine .
Army General : So what we should do madam?
Ibu Ratna scientist : Bomb.. Bomb the whole city and all people inside it.
Army General : 👁️👄👁️ *Surprise Pikachu face*
“What if the world were to get slightly warmer?”
felt really uneasy when I heard that for the first time
Also the final line is "We'll be back..."
He didn't say "after these messages" or something.
Like, "We lose..." "But we'll come back..."
John Hannah should be nominated for his brilliant performance in this opening scene. I know it's just one scene but a handful of actors have won awards for roles just as small.
This scene is my favourite so far , how the casualness slowly dies down as the epidemiologist continues his idea and shows the crowd slowly start to take interest and understand what he’s really saying. Wether this could happen in our world (at the most probably only making fungal infections worse rather then fully controlling its human host) it’s still chilling.
Of course Christopher Heyerdahl would be in the scariest scene of the horror show. Him and John Hannah are always incredible
What are the others film?
This scene was incredible. The very first scene in the very first ep just suckerpunches you in such a understated way.
Great breakdown dude ✨
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
this scene gave me shivers
my fav scene from the whole episode
My father (i as well) was scared as fuck later of this scene, fiction bacame reality in one moment, simply perfect direction and casting
It can be a very real threat. Cordyceps has thousands of species, of which each has evolved to take over a particularly specific insect species. It just takes a certain ideal condition for it to evolve to infect mammals and that just might be the start of a very horrible outcome.
I loved the beginning of the show! It reminds of the sense of impending danger. It reminds me of the beginning of I Am Legend, World War Z, and kinda similarly Godzilla (2014)😂 regardless of your feelings of those movies the opening scenes/credits were great
Agreed. Waiting for society to crumble is always stressful.
World War Z could have been the one, if they followed the book. The intrigue, the politics, etc. But the movie totally butchered the source material, making it a mindless zombie fiasco. It certainly hope that some studios will pick up World War Z and make it a TV series
I mean the book is from the pov of so many different people it would have been hard to adapt that. World War Z is one of my favorite books and it was disappointing as a direct comparison but the movie on its own is still pretty enjoyable
@@onisuryaman408 it was amazing but alr
An excellent book and film exploring similar themes is ‘The Girl with all the Gifts’.
The way he said
“We lose”
Its scary because the thought of it being possible in real life sends shivers down my spine..
As someone who's had debilitating stress & anxiety for over 10yrs & who has regular panic attacks, who's super passionate about climate change & saving the life on the planet from human destruction, this opening actually sent me into an anxiety attack. I will never understand how many different ways we can predict our own downfall & extinction, but still walk right into it... ⌛️☠️
My family always complain when I talk about how unrealistic certain stuff is in fictional worlds, "it's fiction, let it go" and they of course have a point. But in this fictional universe, even though the cordyceps infection is exaggerated the fact that they did their damn best to try and make it seem logical to the average audience member matters a lot to me.
Mental health break: having a break on jan....
The last of us: Not so fast we got something good over here that will increase your dopamine.
After what happened in the pandemic, it was very chilling to hear this speech. We basically lived in our own apocalypse for two and a half years after all.
There's a fungus among us, and now where the last of us. That being said, this PBS style prologue is very chilling.
Wdym there’s a fungus among us
@@AbdulSami-tb3yc the cordyceps that the show and Games are about is real, It actually does "Zombify" insects controlling them and making them spread the Infection and Sprout Shit outta there head, BBC did a Documentary on it 10 years ago ect.
In real life IF and a colossal IF it ever made the species jump to humans (which would be so astronomical of a jump not just cause of human temperature and How complex our brains are) it Would prob result in a real world Last of Us situation where we are all likely fucked.
That's what makes The games and this show so terrifying that this parasitic fungus does actually exist and does this shit to insects, I wouldn't be to worried tho the chances of it making that massive of a species jump in our lifetime is So astronomical
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That’s so true. We were all casual about the prospect of a pandemic before. But now, we know it’s a real possibility. How we’ll do when the next one comes around, who knows 😅. It might not be “better”.
This is one badass fucking scene. Hell of an opener. Hannah nailed it as did the directors, editors and sound designers. Fucking everyone.
This scene is so scary because everything is 100% truth.
Hmmm...... I wouldn't say 100% but there is definitely some truth behind it. Remember evolution takes millions of years. So if cordyceps word to evolve to this point, our grandkids grandkids grandkids wouldn't live long enough to see it.
Unfortunately, cordyceps failed to wipe out the ant population. Rabies is probably more scarier than cordyceps. In fact, I drink crushed cordyceps everyday.
@@LarryWater Yea its used in medicine for long time. My friend used it for better liver function. We make jokes about him when he turn to clicker :).
@@petrpucik Well that's ironic. It's a nightmare for ants but a wonder medicine for us.
Prologues are usually the most interesting part of these kinds of shows
"Nothing spreads faster than fear"
Except wokeness
So episode 1 ended where I stopped playing the game a year ago. Now, after watching it , i resumed my game , cause I just can't wait for the next episode :D
When Quintus Lentulus Batiatus tells you something, you better listen.
I first saw that actor of the doctor in Spartacus as a slave owner. A good series.
Finally! I was wondering why more people weren't talking about that opening scene. That shit scared the fuck outta me. Even the infected themselves paled in comparison to that opening dialogue. 😱
And the scientist was almost right. The only thing that kept cordycepts from wiping us out in the games was the fact that its infestation robbed its victims of their intelligence and humanity, leaving unthinking rabid-like animals that couldn't muster more thought than "see it, eat it." Imagine if the infestation, rather than triggering endless hunger, rage and aggression, instead triggered the parts of the brain that dealt with love, family, and left intelligence intact. You'd be facing a human opponent with all its intelligence and abilities to use technology, that loved the fungus the way parents love their children, or even regarded it as a sort of physical God.
Ooh, right that movie, dude!
“The scariest scene isn’t what you think”
- all about the scene that scared me the most and is one of many reasons TLOU is more horrifying to me than any T-virus, Walking Dead, b movie zombie movie premise ever was.
Did you like the following zombie flicks:
-28 Days Later...
-28 Weeks Later...
-The Night Eats the World
???
This is not a fiction anymore. What's scary is that it is happening right now.
"We lose". Was so Impactful
Got chills when he talked about the earth getting warmer
Did John Hannah so dirty with that thumbnail omg ha
Great video, absolutely love this scene & the way they broke it down in the podcast. Really happy they didnt just go with the ant clip.
Haha. Seemed like an interesting facial expression.
@@EntertainTheElk agree, it's a very "well actually......." expression which just sums up the scene. I also loved the "we lose" - "we'll be back" contrast.
It’s so reminiscent of the opening scene of George Romeros Dawn of the Dead, with panicked news room scrambling to make sense of chaos of the outbreak unfolding around
The intro from ep2 is terrifying and my favourite scene from the show so far
In my idle time I caught myself several thinking back about this exchange as it was a real thing someone had said in the real world. And I had to tell myself “no that’s just a scene in that show it’s not real”. But then there was still a little voice somewhere thinking “is it though? It seemed so plausible”.
This was good but i thought the start of the second episode was creepier, with the scientist saying "bomb" the city, then cried.
Mine was when Joel explained how they thought it started, getting into multiple food source and spreading to the world in days
This scene was perfect, so far my favorite part of the show and i'd dare say from The Last Of US overall. I don't think something will top the horror this provoked in me, and what fascinates me the most is that it is just a concept. To me that's true horror at it's most beautiful form, fuel to our imagination, so it can paint our minds with dreadful possibilities.
For me it was episode 2's opening scene. The realism of how it really begins and how akin it was to what happened recently.
The fact this is a real possibility is what’s terrifying
It isn't. Evolution happens over the course of millions of years and this particular fungus evolved only to target certain species of ants. It's a cool concept though.
No more terrifying than the US government
What scares me is that under the fungi their are living people. Their not dead they still feel things. Imagine living like that its horrid.
Craig Mazin made it his MO in Chernobyl to take horrifyingly relevant topics today and apply them to his themes to make already horrifying scenarios to be far more relatable to the audience of today. In Chernobyl that theme was "What is the cost of lies" at a time when Trump was President and the term "fake news" was so widespread.
Except there were many misrepresentations in the series Chernobyl, he’s either an ideologically driven Globalist Marxist, a paid shill, or utterly clueless.
"What if, for instance, the world were to get slightly warmer." What a chilling line for the audience. It is raising a hypothetical reason for catastrophy, except it is not a hypothetical reason at all.
Translation: if the Cordyceps jump the species barrier we are completely SCREWED
Over the last 100 years the world is getting warmer, human bodies are getting colder, now I’m terrified
When I watched the episode, the prologue ratcheted up my anxiety that I had to stop watching -- I ended up finishing the episode an hour later.
Yeah, the anxiety definitely gets ratcheted up from the very beginning. Sets the tone.
I really hope that some studios would remake World War Z. That would also make a great apocalyptic show. With more emphasis on politics and military.
this breakdown was amazing, I'm definitely subscribing
Fungus is at the edge of species , neither plant neither animal
I wonder what chain of events led to Bighead being a talk show host
2020 - WORLD WORRIED ABOUT VIRUS
2023 - HOLY SH*T THE REAL ISSUE ARE THE FUNGUS
It reminded me of Watchmen 2009 prologue that gave us anxiety from nuclear apocalypse and Doomsday clock. Same vibe
Imagine, now, watching this while knowing something about fungi - how common they are, how widespread, the fact that they were, most likely, the first multicellular organisms on Earth, the fact that the Earth belongs to fungi and everyone and everything simply lives in it.. M
House Batiatus has maintained it's legacy, I see.
Haven’t even watched the show yet-only this scene. And wow.
They really set you up for the fall that you already know is coming.
You forgot to mention the cigarette in his hand. At that time we didn’t know the dangers of tobacco, it was just a normal thing you could do in doors and in restaurants. Makes you think what we think is now normal and not harmful now might kill us in a few years.
My only thing with this warning is that the known cordyceps fungus doesn’t make the insects attack and kill each other. It forces them to find ideal growth conditions and die there
This is "the Cold Open" that set up the vibe so well
Last of us series is going well till now, I mean this small interview at starting is so interesting that it gives us the goosebumps about the upcoming events in the series.
fun fact: In Brazil there is a fungus that already evolved and is able to survive in cats, dogs, rats and even humans.
Reminds me of watching the sci fi tv show expanse . There is a scene where a mad scientist named Dresden says that controlling protomolecule ( virus established in that show ) is the key to human survival . He’s seen as crazy but he foreshadowed the events to come in future seasons .
I for one, welcome our fungal overloards.
- Kent brockmen
Yeah... watching this part gave me chills for sure. It really made me feel like it could really happen to us and it did an amazing job at making it convincing.
Despite being utterly inaccurate, that scene depicts perfectly how the set the foundations for a well-structured horror narrative
I'd be interested in hearing the inaccuracy you're seeing.
@@Tallahassee21 The script takes lots of things for granted. The mention of LSD and penicillin is unrelated to the topic of the parasitic fungi such as the cordyceps, the fungi related to those substances are utterly different, long story short, they're as similar as an elephant to a bird (both animals, yes, but nothing else). Later, in Nepal the Cordyceps is in fact used as traditional medicine, it can't thrive on organisms such as humans and not only because of "body temperature". Also the Cordyceps doesn't spread from host to host, but rather as a wandering seed through spores... And all of this is just the beginning.
@@Tallahassee21 that's being said, I really enjoyed the atmosphere the showrunners created with the intro, it is a great way to structure horror
Absolutely fantastic. Well done Elk
Thank you good sir.
The thing I love about the last line the interviewer has: "We'll be back," is that it plays on our sense of foreboding, knowing that the audience WILL be back. In more ways than one...
You know what else is really crazy? Human body temperatures are dropping and no one knows why (some scientists postulate that it is because humans have gotten more healthier). The standard 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit used to be the average. But now it's around 1 degree less. I live in a tropical region, and before getting COVID my average temperature was 97.5. Today, my temperature has been a consistent 96.7.
This scene boosts the rest of the episode by proximity.
The real danger is when the infection/pandemic is politicized.
when I first watched this I thought "ohh boy... we're about to witness something special"
our current understanding of the cortyceps fungus is that it does not invade the brain of the host, rather surrounds all the host's muscles and directs them like some sort of fungus exoskeleton. The fact that all it can do to ANTS is make them crawl up a plant and onto a leaf, it wont be able to make anything hunt prey like it does in the show.
Remember: the fungus in the show has evolved.
@@mischarowe yeah but you have to look at whether or not somthing needs to evolve. Cordyceps is doing just fine attacking ants it has no need or motive to mutate to target humans.
@@sydneyabney6661 In the show it did. We're not talking about our world. We're talking about in a reality where it did.
Regardless, if things always stayed "as is" there'd be no evolution. The planet is constantly changing and either we - or any other organism - change or die.
This game/show is just a "what if". You don't need to get caught up in semantics to understand it.
I’d like to add that while a cordiceps outbreak on humanity isn’t realistic, it’s entirely possible that an outbreak of parasitic fungi that attack the skin and respiratory tract could be somewhat plausible.
The creative team for the last of us did their homework which is awesome, but it doesn’t mean we should all start panicking about something that couldn’t happen, but instead worry about inevitable things and current issues.
The blending of our real-world knowledge with the in-universe lore is genius. Like, I knew a The Last Of Us scenario *probably* wasn't a concern irl, but I still googled it to be sure, with how real the opening felt.
I wonder how different this would hit pre covid
Great analysis, thanks!