The Last of Us HBO '10 Miles West of Boston' Gets the Meme Treatment

I was more thrown off by fedra being a private militia with signage a few days after the outbreak lol

"the vista depicted in the title card looks far more like Canada or Northern California. Considering that The Last of Us was reportedly shot in Calgary, it's probably safe to assume that the frame in question depicts the latter."

Former.

@Pleasance Got too clever for my own good. Updated

I immediately pointed that out to my wife, laughed and said “that’s nowhere near Boston.” 🤣

So for us Brits this is a bit like, '10 miles north of Liverpool' and shows the Cairngorms National Park.

Bill's arsenal, and mini-town run by himself is less believable than that but okay, let's draw attention to asinine points to make the internet talk more for a day

Come on guys, I mean it's the post-apocalypse. No one really knows what "a mile" is any more , or "West" for that matter

@ApostateMage if you wanted to make it particualrly ridiculous, you could say it's 10 miles west of liverpool

@LN78 I'm currently watching through Vikings (partly because I'm also playing through AC Valhalla and they compliment each other quite nicely, especially as I had no idea who Ragnar Lothbrok was a few months ago, so now I understand the references) and yeah, I find it quite funny when people travel between Northumbria and Wessex like it's nothing more than a few hours' journey when they're opposite ends of the country! I get it though, travel time is condensed because otherwise it'd be a bit dull - and to be fair, in American terms, Wessex was practically on Northumbria's doorstep

I did laugh at that moment, as a few years back, I went on a US/Canadian road trip and went past the outskirts of Boston & also travelled through Alberta (Jasper, Banff, Canmore, Calgary) therefore can vouch 100% this was very clearly not "10 miles outside of Boston" xD

@Ludacritz Not only having signage - the sign looked really old and weathered, despite being brand new lol

So let me get this straight. I’m 10 miles outside of Boston. I’m seeing freaking California. And…oh yeah, I’m talking in memes. Yeah okay, that’s something I do now. I’ll probably buy an Xbox next.

I'm not from around that area and but I did kind of wonder just how accurate that scene really was.

At least it looked pretty!😄

I really couldn’t believe how many Dunkin Donuts were in Boston. It seemed like every corner there was another one.

@Ludacritz I thought that too! I'm like how did that happen? Impossible.

And regarding Boston, immediately said to myself that image was absurd and literally laughed out loud.

That is a Rocky Mountain landscape. Boston is on a coastal plain.

I was obsessed with geography as a kid and actually went to the state finals.

LOL! the internet is a very funny place.....

Good thing I don't live in the US lol. Didn't make anything of it

TEN MILES NORTH OF BOSTON

@BoldAndBrash You don't need to live here to know some basic topography.

If they said "10 miles outside of London" I'd laugh just as much.

Haha, yeah these kind of things grate on me in movies and TV shows. I tend to over analyze probably, but aren’t there dozens if not hundreds of people on the production crew? Didn’t someone think to say, “Hey guys, let’s not use this shot. This looks nothing like the Boston area.”

It’s the same with the nonsensical science, math, engineering, and basic logic that most shows have. I have to just suspend my disbelief commonly so I don’t get pulled out of the narrative.

TLoU is full of them. The whole sequence with the Indonesian scientist was all a bit hokey, actually. The way she interacted with the body didn’t seem like the way a scientist would react and the knee jerk conclusions are really far-fetched from reality. And yeah, how is Bill running his generator 20 years later? Surely the fossil fuels are all used up in the areas by now. Does he have solar panels? And he’s got gasoline for the truck too.

To be fair, not that we should be this is all rather funny, you can go 10 miles west of Boston and be in some wooded areas with water. It's like not 10 miles west of Boston is all skyscrapers and apartment buildings.

Thoreau's Walden Pond is almost exactly 10 miles west of Boston. Not sure about outside of the US but that's a thing we read about in university here. No, no mountains, but if you read Thoreau you'll immediately think "nature" when you see or hear the words Walden Pond.

And that's the end of my Ted Talk. 😁

Pretty sure they meant the Boston in the UK

I can’t even recall how many times a U.S. movie or TV show pretends they are showing scenes playing in Amsterdam while the scene actually plays in a completely different Dutch city or not even in the Netherlands at all. I would say get a life.

Just looked on Google Earth and all I see 10 miles west of Boston are a couple of golf courses 😄

The show also messed up the Massachusetts State House in episode 2 - it wasn't the right dome, and there's no street that approaches from head on like that. It's just fairly strange because the game pretty much nailed the State House - it is accurately positioned across from Boston Common. As someone who grew up roughly 10 miles NORTH of Boston, I remember being pleasantly surprised when I first played through that section of the game.

@GreatAuk
Lol an American lecturing me about geography.
I'm not even from the UK and I've never been there.
Everyone knows what London looks like. It's one of the biggest cities in the world.
Boston and all the little crap cities and states and landscapes is all over the place. Who the fk would know what Boston looks like. Who'd even care?
I know a lot about the States, but who cares about Boston lol. You can show a bit of nature and tell me it's 10 miles from Boston and I'd eat it up. Apparently it's not even that farfetched as the showrunners thought so too

@BoldAndBrash

The show runners are stupid if they thought people would not notice that scene LOOKS NOTHING LIKE THE BOSTON AREA.

As you see from the fact that this article even exists, it became a meme for a reason. And as the show is primarily made by Americans for an American audience, it's an ugly oversight on the part of the show creators.

Try not to use ugly stereotypes in the future by the way, they are usually just a crutch for your own personal shortcomings. Its not very nice.

@Ludacritz which part? Because we never see a few days after the outbreak we only see up until Sarah's death and then it cuts 20 years into the future.

@Bez87 They show a few days after the outbreak started when they introduce Bill