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It’s such a comparatively small detail, but I keep coming back to the physicality of the infected dude who chases Joel and Sarah—how completely that actor hurled himself into it, how it gives the sense that this man no longer has care or control of his faculties, has nothing but the hunger as he bangs off of objects and skitters back to his feet. It’s so mind-numbingly terrifying to imagine that coming after you in the dark.

#the last of us hbo #the last of us spoilers #the actors are obviously all absolutely perfect #Sarah broke my heart. Tess is properly badass. Ellie and Joel stepped off the game screen. I want to spend hours with Marlene.#but in a way it’s the sheer horror of the infected’s MOTION that gets me most #to imagine living in this particular kind of zombie apocalypse #when normally I don’t care for this genre much at all #it’s so well done #and it leads to such a different kind of terror—to imagine what humans must become to cope with those things lurking around every corner #how horrific we must be to survive something so devoted to hunting us. to spreading.#and how it explains the worst of Joel and Ellie’s impulses across the games #it’s SUCH a good story. and it begins with something as simple as speedy ragdoll sprint-and-spring behavior

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