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Welcome to Film Theory, the fun guy who's here to talk about Fungi.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's that time again. Time for the Transmedia landscape to result in us talking about video games here on the film and TV channel.

That's because The Last of Us, just like Sonic, League of Legends, and Pokemon before it, is the latest in the line of games that's been turned into a fantastic movie or TV show.

Take that game theory! That's another piece from your toy box. That's ours now.

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Wait, am I laughing at myself with this joke?

I'm in charge of all of these channels.

In case you're not elite gamer like all of us over here, let me catch you up. The Last of Us started its life in 2013 as a video game that set a new benchmark for cinematic storytelling in the medium.

This story of a wounded man and his surrogate daughter trying to survive a world devastated by a zombie apocalypse

immediately cemented itself as a pivotal piece of gaming history.

The moment that gaming stood up and shouted, yes, we too can have emotional movie quality stories.

Now, to be completely honest, gaming had already had plenty of other amazing stories in the past,

but this was the moment when the visuals and the story both reached a point where no one could deny

gaming's artistic properties anymore.

The game was so good that Sony just had to release it on the PS3, and the PS4, and the PS5 again. All in

under 10 years, no less. And here we thought rebooting movies happened quickly. Now, as you

might have guessed at this point, the zombies in The Last of Us function a bit differently from

your usual apocalyptic scenario. In most media, you're dealing with a blood-borne virus that's

spread through bites. But not so much here. What makes The Last of Us so interesting is that it's all a fungus.

In fact, the show spends its entire opening scene

laying out why a fungal pandemic would be terrifying,

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