To each his own. I think it actually is interesting that they went through the effort of getting vintage jeans that makes sense for the setting, rather then just buying modern stuff with an attitude of “who’s going to notice jeans when we have an important lesbians during the post apocalypse story to tell?”
The Last of Us is making a jagged little joke about Y2K trends and the brainwashing they caused about thinness, sexiness, and power. By forcing kickass characters like Ellie into the same style of pants, The Last of Us also subverts the silhouette of oversexed, underpowered teenage girls. These young women and their zombie counterparts don’t seduce men, they murder them. And they do it in the same thong-flashing jeans.
To each his own. I think it actually is interesting that they went through the effort of getting vintage jeans that makes sense for the setting, rather then just buying modern stuff with an attitude of “who’s going to notice jeans when we have an important lesbians during the post apocalypse story to tell?”
Maybe they learned from The Walking Dead when people kept asking who was mowing all the grass in the backgrounds of residential areas.
From the article
It hurts to even read that.