SORRY ABOUT THE WATERMARK AND OPACITY!! It was the only way HBO would let it go through without copyright claiming it for some reason. the other episodes didn't have an issue. Have NO idea why this one was special. 😩😦
Henry and Sam's actors made me fall in love with their characters soooo fast. I liked them in the game also, but the performances in the show are just amazing.
The Infected stages are: Runners = newly infected people Stalkers = halfway between runner and clicker, particularly blind from mushroom growth Clickers = Fully blind from facial spoor growth, infected over a year. Shamblers = halfway between clicker and bloater, only in the west Bloaters = Fully taken over by fungus growth, infected almost 20 years.
Just like with Bill and Frank, Sam was Henry's purpose...and when Sam couldn't survive, Henry couldn't endure. NGL but their deaths on the show hit even harder for me than the game 🥺
@@PopJibberish Speaks to the writing if we get this attached and feel this much for two characters that aren't with you the whole story. I love and hate TLOU for that 😂
I think we are all just desperately wishing they had, so at least sam would survive. I think its really ellie’s fear bc sam cant hear the convo and he would run if ellie signaled to him that they should.
@@PopJibberish someone else commented on another video that stabbing them in the brain stem will kill them which you can get to from the neck. In the game, headshots, stabs to to the head or neck kill them with that action. Shooting them in the body takes 5 or 6 shots depending on gun and what level you're playing on. Shooting a bloater (the big thing) in the body does almost nothing lol. You need multiple bombs or a flamethrower or a whole lot of shotgun shells.
As long as you sever the body from the brain then the clicker should be incapacitated. It seems like Ellie at least knew to get the brain stem so she can jab in the neck and pull it out. Remember, it takes a lot of strength to pull a blade from the scull and she’s a kid with questionable arm strength.
The infected aren't like zombies where they need a head shot. You can stab them, shot them, and if they are runners you can even just beat them up with your fists.
@@PopJibberish Maybe this will help clarify. The fungus is what is controlling the human's body. The person is still alive throughout, but the fungus is controlling them trapping the person in their own body. If an infected gets wounded in any way that would cause the host to die it would not be able to “pilot” that body due to it being dead.
@@SaintBenzoid the crazy part is in the game sometimes if you beat them up with your fist or a weapon the runners would say "Please" or something begging you to stop
@@PopJibberishbasically zombies are already dead and reanimate. Where the infected are just humans who have a fungus that takes over the brain, but still human so you shot them with a bullet strong enough you will kill them even through the heart. They can’t swim or they will die unlike zombies who don’t need to breathe.
This was an incredible episode. Ya'll got to remember that movies and television make you sit through 'establishing shots' to drive you crazy ... and give time for infected to come out o the ground LOL. Also ... Sam's actor IRL was deaf IRL. Other than that, the ending scene played out more or less the same with both Sam and Henry dying ... but here .. Sam was Hanry's first kill ... making it that much more powerful. Keep them tissues close ... they ain't done with ya yet... OH ...the big boy was a Bloater ... and Perry's death ... straight out of the game
Yeah, we know this show is going to be bleak, and have some devastating deaths. I know a BIT about the game [even having not played it], because so many things float around the internet when it's a big deal. So yeah. Shey is innocent though, so I won't spoil anything for her. 🤣🤣
❤❤❤I absolutely love u guys. I just started watching u guys this week starting with ep 1 of The Last of Us. I def subscribed and plan on watching more of your reactions.
A lot of the stops and pauses are for dramatic effect, you want them to keep running but it would be kinda disorienting bc you still want to see characters react to stuff. But I get you it’s still it’s kinda awkward when they just stand there lol
@Pop Jibberish, 50:36 We saw a child Clicker, and we know from Henry that the upper streets of Kansas has been clear of Infected for 15 years! That child's body is frozen in time, so that Bloater (that's the stage after Clicker) likely evolved from an obese person. We learned in the first episode during the cold open that Cordyceps draw nutrients from from its host--they don't eat people because they don't need to; they bite people to inseminate and multiply. We learned in the second episode that the Cordyceps are connected via their mycelial(?) connection to what extent we don't fully know, but we know that they can communicate with one another over long distances. These infected have been huddled together for 15 years underground, and we can see that they were somewhat coordinated in this attack. Joel explained to Ellie in the second episode that most Infected only live a couple of months, probably the time it takes the average infected to burn through the nutrients of a healthy lean host. Joel also told Ellie that there were infected that have been roaming around for 20 years, which I believe is how this series is going to explain Bloaters. How is the child Clicker able to live after all these years despite the fact that its host has far less mass than all the rest? We saw Nana Adler and the Stalker Infected that "kissed" Tess connected with her Cordyceps via the mouth. Can Cordyceps sustain others by sharing substances when one is running low? I think we already know the answer to this? We saw a group of dried out Cordyceps inside the museum in Boston. They all tried to help one another, and they did. They all died together too, but we can see a trail of Cordyceps snacking up and around the museum looking for substances until it eventually dried out and died. We may not get confirmation on this, but our guess are probably accurate. The hints given early on that fueled our theories of Cordyceps spreading in flour was confirmed. And while this show hasn't explicitly stated that amputation can stave off infection, we did see at least three amputees in the Boston QZ and they were shown after poster on the wall of the ER room where the child was wheeled in explaining full Cordyceps infection was shown--that poster wasn't just a fun little fact. And the FEDRA agent asking that child about the bite mark on the knee was an earnest question. Had the Cordyceps reader came back positive, FEDRA likely would have sedated the child and cut off his leg, so that hey could live to see another day. Why does FEDRA always check the neck when checking for infections? Probably because Cordyceps are speeding their way to the host's brain. If they've made it that far, it's already too late. Thanks to the poster in the Boston QZ ER we have a timetable for full Cordyceps infection: -bites to the neck, head and face: 5 to 15 minutes -bites to the torso, shoulder, arm and hand: 2 to 8 hours -bites to the leg and foot: 12 to 24 hours Arms, hands, legs and feet can be amputated, but bites anywhere else on the body would result in the swift execution of that person, at least under FEDRA, anyway. This telling of this chapter of the story was told much better here (having 10 years to improve on a story will do that), but it's also much worse. In the game, Sam kept his bite to himself, and everyone found out the next morning when Ellie went to check on him. The outcome is still the same, but in this telling Ellie knew! This change and tragedy is now the driving force pushing Ellie onward to the medical clinic so Firefly doctors can use her blood to hopefully make a vaccine/cure. But let's be honest, the best they could do is make a vaccine, right? Infected beyond the stage called Runner would be horribly disfigured if not dead without their parasitic relationship to the Cordyceps--Infected that become Clickers had their skull's cracked to give way to the fungal growth that is now their new head. Stalkers, the next stage up from runner, already suffer from fungal growth across their bodies, as the Cordyceps slowly start replacing their hosts flesh with themselves until they look more like the Bloater we saw in this episode. The host is a vehicle and the vehicle only works if the host is still alive, and that's why the Infected aren't called zombies but infected, as they are not reanimated dead people, but living people who are now prisoners in their own bodies. What's left of them is their mind and their brain has a barrier around it, cutting it off from control. Oh! Ellie was able to kill the clickers attacking Henry and Sam because she stopped the blood flowing to the brain by compromising the artery in the neck. Heavy chest trauma should also do the trick since the heart is what feeds the brain. Anyway, this was a very sad, but great story. This team doesn't miss. It's hard to believe that these episodes keep getting better. I cannot wait to see what tomorrow brings. Nice reaction!
I'm sorry but, it was hard to watch this reaction, the whole time complaining about Ellie, her bonding with Sam, her talking to Henry, even falling. henry didn't do anything during the action and you didn't complain. sorry to say that but it left me without a vibe to watch, I know the anxiety was high but try to enjoy each scene to the fullest.
see a lot of people talking about race . the biggest race tone i felt was the first person we actually got connected to was black (joel’s daughter) and she died. the last person we see die in the show is black 😂. never rubbed me the wrong way just interesting, definitely since joel’s daughter wasn’t black in the game 😂
I wish joel would have shot kathleen when she was first telling henry to come out. Then the other bad guys would be distracted by or go towards joel and it would let henry, sam, and ellie run away.
Hey guys I like your commentaries and think you have good insights to the character motivations & narratives, but I do feel like there's too much of the "why don't they just do this" or "why don't they do that". Like you're not in the situation, your a passive viewer in the safety of your own home - you can say they should be making the logical decisions but that is completely divorced from the emotional stakes of the actual situations. E.g. just heard y'all saying "why are they running straight, they should be running into the woods" - Henry literally just said that behind the last house on the street, there's an embankment that leads to the bridge out of the city. If they run to the side, they don't know what's there, they would most likely be cornered and out of sight for Joel to cover with the sniper. And then "why are they hiding (behind the car), they should run" - so the army full of people with assault rifles can just gun them down in full visual sight? Idk I think y'all have a lot of potential to be great commentators but sometimes the commentaries come off like you think you're smarter than the people in the situation, when you'd actually be making wrong decisions anyway. No offense meant, just wanted to provide some constructive feedback
Yeah, totally agree and thought this the whole time. I typically love their reactions otherwise, but especially in this episode, that tendency felt strong, and as a viewer of the channel, it unfortunately made me want to tune out. Hopefully they take this all constructively. I know it may be their natural responses to things, but yeah, from a viewer (and not speaking for others), it's how I felt as well.
@austin_jose Facts, it's the only reason I haven't subscribed. I get that some people watch things with the mindset "why aren't they all making the most logical decisions all the time", but people don't even do that in real life. Everything else about their reactions/commentaries is really enjoyable though
Totally understandable. Although, the reactions we give are genuine reactions. We don't tailor them. If we were watching this on our own time, this is what we'd be saying. We appreciate the comment and criticism, but this is how we react to the show. It's fine if you don't feel the same way in the same situation. That's all part of being different people. This is all in fun and love. These aren't real people in a real situation. It's a fun show. Not to be taken so seriously. Always peace and love.😁😁🤗
@PopJibberish Totally, it's great to see different peoples reactions/insights, it would be super boring if everyone was just the same, so I appreciate y'all being genuine 💕
Oh, ok. I see. I thought he had it with them in the building, but you're right. I think I remembered it incorrectly. I may have connected the camping scene from the previous episode to this scene.
While this is a great show. It does beg the question as to why out of the three child deaths shown, the only two who are black were both shot. And yes, it is, in fact that deep.
i don't know that it was intentional from the creators of the game/show- sarah in the game is white and is also shot and killed, that scene is just as brutal in the game. but yeah, i've seen people criticize both of the games for this before the show was even made because black characters tend to die in TLOU, i think it's a valid point to bring up
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SORRY ABOUT THE WATERMARK AND OPACITY!!
It was the only way HBO would let it go through without copyright claiming it for some reason. the other episodes didn't have an issue. Have NO idea why this one was special.
😩😦
This episode was the most watched since the series began and that causes them to flag it more often than the others
@AndreVeah oh! Ok, yeah, that tracks.
@@PopJibberish Love yall reactions... I'm an instant fan and subscriber
@@RoadToMedical Thank you so much!!🥰
Glad u explain bc it def got in the way of seeing faces at times
Henry and Sam's actors made me fall in love with their characters soooo fast. I liked them in the game also, but the performances in the show are just amazing.
They were sooo good! 😁
I TOTALLY AGREE!!!
Loved those 2 little guys ❤❤
Gone too soon 😢😢🤧
The Infected stages are:
Runners = newly infected people
Stalkers = halfway between runner and clicker, particularly blind from mushroom growth
Clickers = Fully blind from facial spoor growth, infected over a year.
Shamblers = halfway between clicker and bloater, only in the west
Bloaters = Fully taken over by fungus growth, infected almost 20 years.
Thanks! 😅
Just like with Bill and Frank, Sam was Henry's purpose...and when Sam couldn't survive, Henry couldn't endure. NGL but their deaths on the show hit even harder for me than the game 🥺
Yeah, that's what I'm hearing from those that have experienced both. 😔
@@PopJibberish Speaks to the writing if we get this attached and feel this much for two characters that aren't with you the whole story. I love and hate TLOU for that 😂
Personally, I think it's more believable that the kids didn't run...paralyzed by fear and schock
Also they didnt run because they would have been shot by Kathleen and her crew
Maybe.
I think we are all just desperately wishing they had, so at least sam would survive. I think its really ellie’s fear bc sam cant hear the convo and he would run if ellie signaled to him that they should.
Your reaction to the end of this episode was the same as mine. Heartbreaking. 😭
Right?! 😢😭😭
In the game you can sneak up and stab them in the neck so that scene was game accurate
OH! Ok, I keep comparing them to other shows similar to this, but that tracks. Thanks! 😁
@@PopJibberish someone else commented on another video that stabbing them in the brain stem will kill them which you can get to from the neck. In the game, headshots, stabs to to the head or neck kill them with that action. Shooting them in the body takes 5 or 6 shots depending on gun and what level you're playing on. Shooting a bloater (the big thing) in the body does almost nothing lol. You need multiple bombs or a flamethrower or a whole lot of shotgun shells.
They are pretty much still human. So severing their nervous system will stop them.
As long as you sever the body from the brain then the clicker should be incapacitated. It seems like Ellie at least knew to get the brain stem so she can jab in the neck and pull it out. Remember, it takes a lot of strength to pull a blade from the scull and she’s a kid with questionable arm strength.
The infected aren't like zombies where they need a head shot. You can stab them, shot them, and if they are runners you can even just beat them up with your fists.
Gotcha, makes sense. I think. 😁😁
@@PopJibberish Maybe this will help clarify. The fungus is what is controlling the human's body. The person is still alive throughout, but the fungus is controlling them trapping the person in their own body. If an infected gets wounded in any way that would cause the host to die it would not be able to “pilot” that body due to it being dead.
@@SaintBenzoid Gotcha!
@@SaintBenzoid the crazy part is in the game sometimes if you beat them up with your fist or a weapon the runners would say "Please" or something begging you to stop
@@PopJibberishbasically zombies are already dead and reanimate. Where the infected are just humans who have a fungus that takes over the brain, but still human so you shot them with a bullet strong enough you will kill them even through the heart. They can’t swim or they will die unlike zombies who don’t need to breathe.
This was an incredible episode. Ya'll got to remember that movies and television make you sit through 'establishing shots' to drive you crazy ... and give time for infected to come out o the ground LOL. Also ... Sam's actor IRL was deaf IRL. Other than that, the ending scene played out more or less the same with both Sam and Henry dying ... but here .. Sam was Hanry's first kill ... making it that much more powerful.
Keep them tissues close ... they ain't done with ya yet...
OH ...the big boy was a Bloater ... and Perry's death ... straight out of the game
Makes sense!😅
@@joewillsart Yea but I absolutely get your "RUN!!!!!!" cause ... run lmao
Yeah, we know this show is going to be bleak, and have some devastating deaths. I know a BIT about the game [even having not played it], because so many things float around the internet when it's a big deal. So yeah. Shey is innocent though, so I won't spoil anything for her. 🤣🤣
Perry wasn’t in the game. The actor playing him was Tommy in the game and he doesn’t die.
@TheUAProdigy Yeah! He was great!
That was a kick to the nuts. That's what that was.
❤❤❤I absolutely love u guys. I just started watching u guys this week starting with ep 1 of The Last of Us. I def subscribed and plan on watching more of your reactions.
Thank you so much! 🥰
I like how you guys use the firefly emblem on the window for the show. it's a nice touch
Thank you! It's actually always behind the video image, but I don't adjust the opacity to be able to see it until HBO decides to claim the video. 😅
A lot of the stops and pauses are for dramatic effect, you want them to keep running but it would be kinda disorienting bc you still want to see characters react to stuff. But I get you it’s still it’s kinda awkward when they just stand there lol
Yeah, that makes sense. TV/Movie storytelling.
Y’all anxiety don’t let y’all enjoy the show lol.
🤣🤣
Right! It made watching their reaction to this episode a bit cringy.
@Pop Jibberish,
50:36 We saw a child Clicker, and we know from Henry that the upper streets of Kansas has been clear of Infected for 15 years! That child's body is frozen in time, so that Bloater (that's the stage after Clicker) likely evolved from an obese person. We learned in the first episode during the cold open that Cordyceps draw nutrients from from its host--they don't eat people because they don't need to; they bite people to inseminate and multiply.
We learned in the second episode that the Cordyceps are connected via their mycelial(?) connection to what extent we don't fully know, but we know that they can communicate with one another over long distances. These infected have been huddled together for 15 years underground, and we can see that they were somewhat coordinated in this attack. Joel explained to Ellie in the second episode that most Infected only live a couple of months, probably the time it takes the average infected to burn through the nutrients of a healthy lean host. Joel also told Ellie that there were infected that have been roaming around for 20 years, which I believe is how this series is going to explain Bloaters.
How is the child Clicker able to live after all these years despite the fact that its host has far less mass than all the rest? We saw Nana Adler and the Stalker Infected that "kissed" Tess connected with her Cordyceps via the mouth. Can Cordyceps sustain others by sharing substances when one is running low? I think we already know the answer to this? We saw a group of dried out Cordyceps inside the museum in Boston. They all tried to help one another, and they did. They all died together too, but we can see a trail of Cordyceps snacking up and around the museum looking for substances until it eventually dried out and died.
We may not get confirmation on this, but our guess are probably accurate. The hints given early on that fueled our theories of Cordyceps spreading in flour was confirmed. And while this show hasn't explicitly stated that amputation can stave off infection, we did see at least three amputees in the Boston QZ and they were shown after poster on the wall of the ER room where the child was wheeled in explaining full Cordyceps infection was shown--that poster wasn't just a fun little fact. And the FEDRA agent asking that child about the bite mark on the knee was an earnest question. Had the Cordyceps reader came back positive, FEDRA likely would have sedated the child and cut off his leg, so that hey could live to see another day. Why does FEDRA always check the neck when checking for infections? Probably because Cordyceps are speeding their way to the host's brain. If they've made it that far, it's already too late. Thanks to the poster in the Boston QZ ER we have a timetable for full Cordyceps infection:
-bites to the neck, head and face: 5 to 15 minutes
-bites to the torso, shoulder, arm and hand: 2 to 8 hours
-bites to the leg and foot: 12 to 24 hours
Arms, hands, legs and feet can be amputated, but bites anywhere else on the body would result in the swift execution of that person, at least under FEDRA, anyway. This telling of this chapter of the story was told much better here (having 10 years to improve on a story will do that), but it's also much worse. In the game, Sam kept his bite to himself, and everyone found out the next morning when Ellie went to check on him. The outcome is still the same, but in this telling Ellie knew! This change and tragedy is now the driving force pushing Ellie onward to the medical clinic so Firefly doctors can use her blood to hopefully make a vaccine/cure. But let's be honest, the best they could do is make a vaccine, right? Infected beyond the stage called Runner would be horribly disfigured if not dead without their parasitic relationship to the Cordyceps--Infected that become Clickers had their skull's cracked to give way to the fungal growth that is now their new head. Stalkers, the next stage up from runner, already suffer from fungal growth across their bodies, as the Cordyceps slowly start replacing their hosts flesh with themselves until they look more like the Bloater we saw in this episode. The host is a vehicle and the vehicle only works if the host is still alive, and that's why the Infected aren't called zombies but infected, as they are not reanimated dead people, but living people who are now prisoners in their own bodies. What's left of them is their mind and their brain has a barrier around it, cutting it off from control. Oh! Ellie was able to kill the clickers attacking Henry and Sam because she stopped the blood flowing to the brain by compromising the artery in the neck. Heavy chest trauma should also do the trick since the heart is what feeds the brain.
Anyway, this was a very sad, but great story. This team doesn't miss. It's hard to believe that these episodes keep getting better. I cannot wait to see what tomorrow brings. Nice reaction!
This was a great breakdown! Thank you for being so thorough! ❤❤
I'm sorry but, it was hard to watch this reaction, the whole time complaining about Ellie, her bonding with Sam, her talking to Henry, even falling. henry didn't do anything during the action and you didn't complain. sorry to say that but it left me without a vibe to watch, I know the anxiety was high but try to enjoy each scene to the fullest.
gotcha.
see a lot of people talking about race . the biggest race tone i felt was the first person we actually got connected to was black (joel’s daughter) and she died. the last person we see die in the show is black 😂. never rubbed me the wrong way just interesting, definitely since joel’s daughter wasn’t black in the game 😂
I wish joel would have shot kathleen when she was first telling henry to come out. Then the other bad guys would be distracted by or go towards joel and it would let henry, sam, and ellie run away.
First of all, sociology tells us race always plays a part. Secondly there were too many times where they should’ve just ran. 😂
Right!! That part! 😆😆
Hey guys I like your commentaries and think you have good insights to the character motivations & narratives, but I do feel like there's too much of the "why don't they just do this" or "why don't they do that". Like you're not in the situation, your a passive viewer in the safety of your own home - you can say they should be making the logical decisions but that is completely divorced from the emotional stakes of the actual situations.
E.g. just heard y'all saying "why are they running straight, they should be running into the woods" - Henry literally just said that behind the last house on the street, there's an embankment that leads to the bridge out of the city. If they run to the side, they don't know what's there, they would most likely be cornered and out of sight for Joel to cover with the sniper.
And then "why are they hiding (behind the car), they should run" - so the army full of people with assault rifles can just gun them down in full visual sight?
Idk I think y'all have a lot of potential to be great commentators but sometimes the commentaries come off like you think you're smarter than the people in the situation, when you'd actually be making wrong decisions anyway. No offense meant, just wanted to provide some constructive feedback
Yeah, totally agree and thought this the whole time. I typically love their reactions otherwise, but especially in this episode, that tendency felt strong, and as a viewer of the channel, it unfortunately made me want to tune out. Hopefully they take this all constructively. I know it may be their natural responses to things, but yeah, from a viewer (and not speaking for others), it's how I felt as well.
@austin_jose Facts, it's the only reason I haven't subscribed. I get that some people watch things with the mindset "why aren't they all making the most logical decisions all the time", but people don't even do that in real life. Everything else about their reactions/commentaries is really enjoyable though
Totally understandable. Although, the reactions we give are genuine reactions. We don't tailor them. If we were watching this on our own time, this is what we'd be saying. We appreciate the comment and criticism, but this is how we react to the show. It's fine if you don't feel the same way in the same situation. That's all part of being different people. This is all in fun and love. These aren't real people in a real situation. It's a fun show. Not to be taken so seriously. Always peace and love.😁😁🤗
@PopJibberish Totally, it's great to see different peoples reactions/insights, it would be super boring if everyone was just the same, so I appreciate y'all being genuine 💕
Didn't bother me at all
Joel lost the rifle in fight with Bryan it jammed and im guessing was unusable
Oh, ok. I see. I thought he had it with them in the building, but you're right. I think I remembered it incorrectly. I may have connected the camping scene from the previous episode to this scene.
Had something been there they would have been caught or attacked already. Calm down lol……. Geez!
Right !?? This was so....
😅
While this is a great show. It does beg the question as to why out of the three child deaths shown, the only two who are black were both shot. And yes, it is, in fact that deep.
That's true. 🤔
youre just bringing random shit into the mix tbh
@@ishitani maybe.
i don't know that it was intentional from the creators of the game/show- sarah in the game is white and is also shot and killed, that scene is just as brutal in the game. but yeah, i've seen people criticize both of the games for this before the show was even made because black characters tend to die in TLOU, i think it's a valid point to bring up
No its not 🤡