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In the middle of a devastating Season 1 finale full of deaths and impossible decisions, The Last of Us grants us a blissful moment of peace. That’s right: It’s the giraffe scene.
Upon The Last of Us‘s release in 2013, everyone agreed “the giraffe scene” was a brilliant addition to the game. IGN even referred to it as “the most important moment in The Last of Us.” Now, the TV show translates this famed sequence to live action.
So, what happens in the giraffe scene? Is there a giraffe Clicker attack? Do Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) learn some major information about the Fireflies? Not exactly. The pair have just reached Salt Lake City and are scouting the area when Ellie spies something delightful: a happy, healthy giraffe eating leaves that have grown up a bombed-out building. She and Joel approach, feeding and petting the giraffe and later observing a giraffe herd roaming through the city.
That’s it — just a lovely moment between Joel, Ellie, and a giraffe. No earth-shattering revelations, no adrenaline-fueled action set piece. But the peace and quiet of the scene is a necessary part of its beauty, along with its placement in the larger scope of The Last of Us.
When we first see her in the season finale, Ellie is withdrawn and quiet, traumatized after her horrifying encounter with David (Scott Shepherd). Yet when she sees the giraffe, all that sadness falls away, replaced with a sense of wonder. As she feeds the giraffe and whispers to it, Ellie gets to be a carefree child again, even for just a moment. Joel watches her, and you can tell by the look on his face how much he cares for her and how important it is for him to see her happy.
The simple calm of the giraffe scene is also a welcome respite from the doom and gloom of the rest of the show. In episode 8 alone, we were subjected to cannibals, fires, and child predators — and that’s only the tip of the heartbreak iceberg. A quick break with the giraffes is a great opportunity to reset and experience some joy along with our characters (who could, quite frankly, use a lot of it).
Along with cheering up Ellie, the giraffe herd also signals a larger kind of hope for the world. Just like with released lab monkeys we saw in episode 6, these giraffes appear to be thriving in this post-Cordyceps era. The world hasn’t completely ended: Like we saw with Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett) in episode 3, it is fully possible to create a fulfilling life in the apocalypse. Clearly, the same goes for the packs of animals who have managed to endure for 20 years without getting wiped out by hordes of the Infected. If there’s hope for them, maybe there’s hope for Joel and Ellie and humanity… Oh great, I’m getting teary-eyed over a giraffe again.
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Adapting any story from one medium to another is always going to be fraught–there will always be changes to make the story work in another medium. But while some adaptations work, others don’t, and Cowboy Bebop director Shinichioro Watanabe said that Netflix’s adaptation of his legendary anime just doesn’t work in a new interview with Forbes.
“For the new Netflix live-action adaptation, they sent me a video to review and check,” Watanabe said. “It started with a scene in a casino, which made it very tough for me to continue. I stopped there and so only saw that opening scene.”
“It was clearly not Cowboy Bebop,” he continued. “I realized at that point that if I wasn’t involved, it would not be Cowboy Bebop. I felt that maybe I should have done this. Although the value of the original anime is somehow far higher now.”
WINTERWATCH fans were left viewing open-mouthed as an X-rated display unfolded on their screens.
The gentle nature show turned rather more sexual than the presenters were bargaining for – as a group of badgers engaged in a ‘threesome’.
But the black and white beasts turned the airwaves blue[/caption]
Viewers were watching the badgers in Love Island-style night vision on the BBC Two evening show.
The black and white creatures, who live in dens called setts, then turned away from one another and rubbed their bums together.
It fell to Winterwatch host Gillian Burke to explain what was going on, saying: “They’re scent marking each other.
“A more descriptive word would be ‘anal rubbing’.”
The nature expert, 47, added: “Now we do like a little bit of anal rubbing on the watches here so yes, this is what they do.”
Viewers quickly piled in on social media after the broadcast, which was broadcast live from Edinburgh Zoo.
One remarked, referring to an earlier comment about a large rodent who had appeared in shot: “Anal rubbing, and the beaver is out! Only on #winterwatch.”
Another called it a “Hall of Fame live TV presenting moment”.
A third tweeted with an air of disdain: “Those badgers are manky b***ards.”
Gillian who was co-presenting alongside Iolo Williams while Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan were at a different shoot in Norfolk.
The animals popped up earlier than expected with the host explaining: “This is more like it, this is eight individuals.
“We think there’s up to ten in this clan. And they’re really active when they first emerge.”
Nightvision camera footage showed the badgers coming out at night[/caption]