Welcome to Savage Starlight, the officially unofficial podcast for the last of us on HBO. I'm Jim, I'm Aaron and today we're back with another season one episode five endure and survive podcast this week it's the feet or this time it's the feedback episode Aaron.

I know about you, but it feels like it's been at least three and a half months since we've had an episode of the last of us air. I don't know what's going on this week, but the two days difference has thrown me completely off.

Yeah, it's weird like I don't know of Einstein had a theory on the relativity of time passage when you advance a television series two days play a Super Bowl and, you know, I know yeah, but it does feel like

the whole episode of the cards launch since then like things have happened shit has come the light. Yeah, it is remarkable.

So I don't know how much feedback we got. Hopefully everybody else is sending stuff in before they've forgotten that the last of us exists, but we got a lot. It felt like, you know, someone drove a flaming truck through the feedback section and just infected emails just came out high pressure and I was just trying to service as many of them as I could.

The only thing that helped the only to help is a lot of people had the same kind of sentiments like why how the fuck do these bloaters work or, you know, like this is very, very so like a lot of it was able to compress down to just one or two, but still we have a nice girthy bloaterish feedback feedback.

It's just unusually mighty to the wrestle to wrangle. If you like to send some high pressure, in fact, the emails yourself, tealoo at baldmove.com is where you want to do that T L O U the last of us is what it stands for at baldmove.com.

First up is Scott. He says I was just listening to the main show for episode five and note you discussing the CGI bloater. I'm sure I won't be the only one pointing this out, but there's quite a lot of footage online at the practical suit they made for actor Adam Basel.

You can see photos on his Instagram account at Adam Dot Basil and on the account of the FX team at Barry Gower on Instagram.

Barry describes as a happy marriage or practical and digital effects. It does look like quite a lot of extensive and pretty expensive looking practical effects were used all credit to the team. It's great work.

Did you see any of these pictures?

I've seen video and stuff of that scene. Sure, but no, I was shocked that this suit. I mean, obviously there's some scenes where it was climbing out of the ground. I think are purely CG.

But I was kind of shocked at how much of the bloater was practical, especially when it's like long distance, you know, you're seeing it.

And the suit just looks amazing like it's so funny to see the bloater standing there with like cruise arms around it, you know, and it's just there's like having a beer or something.

So yeah, again, shocked to see how amazing the practical effects are in this show.

Yeah, I imagine it saves money. You mentioned it being pretty expensive looking practical effects. I assume practical effects save money.

I wonder how true that is now.

Yeah, I definitely can composite would save you money. Maybe.

Yeah, I'm not sure probably probably don't have to composite, but I don't know yet. I don't know. I don't know either.

I assume that this all saves money because if it didn't, you would just still do models and stuff.

Unless there's some things you just literally couldn't. I guess that's the reason for not using models.

It's like there's so many kinetic things going on in modern effect shots, but I don't even know if you're going for a certain look or feel.

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