We knew this present day was coming. It’s a day of reckoning. It’s the day after I choose my favourite apocalypse lead character, and it’s a troublesome selection however…
Okay, it’s actually not a troublesome selection, however we’ll get into that in only a bit.
If you recognize me, you recognize I like zombies. I’m the epitome of a zombie lady. I like the greatest apocalypse motion pictures and TV reveals, and naturally, two of them occur to be The Strolling Lifeless and The Final of Us.
However each of these occur to have lead males who’ve additionally survived for fairly a very long time in two very totally different zombie worlds. As a woman who actually journeys on her personal two ft to go to the fridge to seize water, I will surely want one in every of them to have a single likelihood of survival. There’s a transparent choose, so let’s get into it.
I Love Each Exhibits So A lot, And Each Imply So A lot To Me
My credentials for making this choose are solely based mostly on the truth that I devoted half of my mind to each The Final of Us and The Strolling Lifeless. At this price, I’m fairly certain I’m half-zombie.
Jokes apart, I actually do love these reveals. As a lot as I harp on it, I get pleasure from The Strolling Lifeless universe, and, as a die-hard fan, I’ve watched the entire spinoffs to this point and loved each second of them. I can’t anticipate the next seasons. Heck, I’m eagerly awaiting The Strolling Lifeless: Daryl Dixon Season 2 – even when they did kill off a most important character in a approach I discover so annoying, however no matter.
The identical goes for The Final of Us. I’ve gone on at size in different articles about what these video games imply to me and the present, so I received’t do it right here. Nevertheless, simply know that I’ve a calendar that has been actively counting down the times of the 2025 TV schedule till The Final of Us Season 2 comes out.
I like these reveals and their most important characters, Rick and Joel. Granted, you possibly can say that Ellie can also be the principle character of The Final of Us, however for the sake of this, we’re specializing in the lead survivors, i.e. those who carry within the huge weapons, those who will legit do something to guard the individuals they love. Who would I choose?
Yeah, sorry, it’s not even a competitors.
Each Rick And Joel Are Nice Survivors, However I Have To Give The Lead To Joel
Rick Grimes is a personality that has been in zombie popular culture for a very long time. Joel was large in gaming and clearly blew up with the discharge of the TV present on Max. However to me, the reply is clearly Joel for many causes.
The most important is that The Final of Us world has expanded longer than The Strolling Lifeless timeline. Whereas TWD is undoubtedly getting up there in years, we aren’t on the twenty-year mark fairly but throughout the canon of the reveals. The Final of Us is already there, which implies that probabilities of survival with somebody at that time who has made it that far are fairly excessive.
Nevertheless, the largest motive that I level out is that Joel’s world is far scarier. His zombies are legitimately terrifying.
Whereas The Strolling Lifeless has definitely made strides over the previous few years to create totally different sorts of zombies, they’re all comparatively gradual. We haven’t seen any (other than a couple of experiments in The Strolling Lifeless: Daryl Dixon) that create walkers that may run at you want those in The Final of Us or who’re as terrifying because the clickers within the HBO present.
The Final of Us, alternatively, provides us a number of totally different sorts of zombies – runners, stalkers, clickers and (in fact) bloaters. All of them are terrifying of their approach, and when you can survive these, you then’re golden. Joel has confirmed time and time once more how he survives them and extra.
Rick is an effective chief and nice at maintaining individuals collectively, however by way of sustaining somebody by my aspect, Joel is the one I might all the time choose – and if he occurs to appear like Pedro Pascal, that’s simply further.
Both Manner, They’re Each Nice Exhibits – And Make Me Very Completely happy I Don’t Reside In Both Of Them
Look, each of those reveals are nice. I like ‘em to loss of life and I’m simply pleased that I don’t stay in both of those worlds. I might die comparatively rapidly if I didn’t have somebody by my aspect.
However all I’m saying is that Joel might simply survive in TWD, however Rick would most likely chew the bullet in The Final of Us until he someway discovered a clan to guide. That’s what he’s good at: getting individuals collectively to battle. I nonetheless love him – and would love one other season of The Strolling Lifeless: The Ones Who Reside – however Joel is top-tier.
The Final of Us Season 2 is actually across the nook, and I’m desperate to see extra of Joel (for so long as I can, as a recreation lady who is aware of his story in Half 2). Till then, I’ll be having fun with my rewatch of the sequence and recommending The Final of Us to all who have to find out about him and my love of the well-known survivor.