Bella did well to learn the American accent in a short amount of time, but I love how on a couple of lines it's just unmitigated British with barely a hint of American.
Pretty cool perspective regarding the introduction scene in Jakarta. Didn't realize the actress and actor were so accomplished, the show not kidding around:
Don’t even get me started on the restaurant where Ibu Ratna, the RATU herself Christine Hakim, was eating in. People wearing batik? People smoking on the tables? Plastic on the tables so people don’t spill food on the actual table? The plastic bendable chairs that I fell off when I was 11 because I went all the way back to test its bend-ability and actually bent it the #### back and I fell backwards? The menu with LEMPER AYAM!!!! The condiment bottle with probably kecap manis or saos tomat pepaya bosok that would go so well with meatball bakso soup (which the menu doesn’t seem to have, sadly)!!!!!!!
Thank you for not making just another pre-pandemic prologue and actually taking the time to perfect it and making it ####ing terrifying. Most importantly, despite the brief 8 minutes, I thank you for the care that was given in representing Jakarta in a way that made my parents message my aunties and uncles and family friends about the show, which is 1. something that they rarely do and 2. it just shows how excited they were in seeing our country looking like our country on screen.
This was covered in an interview with the show runners. The only reason the infected attack people is to subdue them to spread the fungus. Tess was already infected and she was losing control of her body, so there was no reason for the zombie dude to attack her. Transferring the tendrils through the "kiss" was simply the most efficient way to speed up the process and connect a new body to the network
That’s how I took it…she was already almost one of them. It was like she couldn’t resist the kiss, while fighting to light the fire. Very dramatic
I think she was a) losing control of her motor functions and b) trying to focus what control she had left on lighting the fire. I don't think it was a matter of not being able to resist, she was clearly terrified and overcoming it.
The issue for me is that I cannot imagine that being an evolved behaviour. Just didn't seem to fit the way the infected generally behave.
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As someone who has owned a few Zippos in my time I was really disappointed in the flagrant flouting of the reality of the situation in that scene.
If you're trying to light it and all you're getting is sparks off the flint, its empty. Its over. Its not going to light until you re-fill it regardless of how many times you spark it.
Its fuel and ignition, not magic. If you dont have both your pooch is screwed.
1/10. Would not ignite. I'm being 1000% sarcastic, I understand dramatic effect.
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As someone who has owned a few Zippos in my time I was really disappointed in the flagrant flouting of the reality of the situation in that scene.
If you're trying to light it and all you're getting is sparks off the flint, its empty. Its over. Its not going to light until you re-fill it regardless of how many times you spark it.
Its fuel and ignition, not magic. If you dont have both your pooch is screwed.
1/10. Would not ignite. I'm being 1000% sarcastic, I understand dramatic effect.
She was also standing in a giant pool of fuel. I have no idea why she didn't just hold the spark close to the fuel on the ground.
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As someone who has never played the game and has now watched the first two episodes, first thing that popped into my head was - why not create a toxic mist that kills all living organisms (or at least those without protective breathing apparatuses)? Would get into every nook and cranny, which seems necessary for a virus like this.
As someone who has never played the game and has now watched the first two episodes, first thing that popped into my head was - why not create a toxic mist that kills all living organisms (or at least those without protective breathing apparatuses)? Would get into every nook and cranny, which seems necessary for a virus like this.
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If I recall, in game the organism transmits by spores (just like in real life), but on TV, they didn't want the actors to be wearing gas masks all the time and hiding their faces. Still pretty cool they found a way in the TV series that was grounded in science with the tendrils/fungal network
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I think she was a) losing control of her motor functions and b) trying to focus what control she had left on lighting the fire. I don't think it was a matter of not being able to resist, she was clearly terrified and overcoming it.
The issue for me is that I cannot imagine that being an evolved behaviour. Just didn't seem to fit the way the infected generally behave.
If you are tying this back to the game, you may as well forget it. The infected behave how we've seen in episode 1 and 2, that's all the reference you have, since they have changed it. So what from episode 1 and 2 go against this behaviour?
I think if you've played the game and are watching the show there are some obvious deviations, as well as a bit of a different order in the way this is being laid out (including expanded back story). This makes it safe to say that any video game talk could potentially spoil something coming down the road (pun intended). Probably best to just leave all game talk out of the thread and focus it purely on the content of the show.
Obviously this has been a battle in previous book/show threads, and I am far from innocent in this area, but there is a lot of positivity in here and excitement around the landscape comparisons to Calgary and just how well the show is overall. This is a rare thing in CPuck threads these days, lets not ruin it for each other.
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If you are tying this back to the game, you may as well forget it. The infected behave how we've seen in episode 1 and 2, that's all the reference you have, since they have changed it. So what from episode 1 and 2 go against this behaviour?
The extremely violent, almost desperate way they attack - which makes sense. I'm not tying anything to the game, I'm saying in terms of evolutionary biology and what would be the efficient evolved behaviour. It doesn't matter what the target host does or if it fights back, if the goal is to spread the infection, they should be going all out, all the time as soon as they see a target. Immediate swarm. That would be the best way to ensure spread - in fact multiple infected should trying to bite her immediately. So the explanation doesn't really work for me. But it's a minor gripe.
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