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Roook36 t1_jcy1yqd wrote

I stopped watching The Walking Dead because it felt so hopeless. Just death after death. No hope for a cure. The world was ugly and grotesque and lacked any beauty or compassion

The Last of Us is a post apocalypse zombie story with an overall theme of "Love". Love between siblings, between mother and child, between father and daughter (adopted or otherwise) between men, between women. All of it. The beauty, the tragedy, the heartbreak, betrayal, forgiveness, sacrifice.

It focused on the humanity and compassion that people can show even when the world has ended for them (physically or figuratively) it was about hope overcoming despair and the beauty of the world peeking through the ugliness of death and violence.

As someone who was burned out by generic zombie shows loaded with intestines being pulled out of people's guts and brains being splattered onto walls, it was a breath of fresh air for me.

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dantemanjones t1_jcxtf9w wrote

The biggest differences are budget and number of episodes. TWD really had to cut corners, especially after season 1, and they were hampered in the number of locations they could use and what they could do. Also, TWD ran for a long time and had a few creative valleys in there. I rank the best few peaks of TWD way above TLOU, but the low points of TWD probably are making you forget how great it could be.

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