The Last of Us (HBO series - spoilers within)

Zack Lee said
please file this under how the hell did I miss it. I can't imagine its a spoiler since I watched the whole series without knowing but last night I finally started "The Making of" How many knew the fungus was real? The only thing they made up was that it can affect humans. It takes over ants and makes them walking spore incubators. It even makes them kill their colony. This has to be what keeps ants up at night
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and the mycelia network that they talked about in the show is also "real". The game ignored that, but the show threw it in. It's even the whole basis of the Star Trek Discovery show. The network extends throughout the universe and the ship has an engine that allows it to travel along the network to any point along it. I recommend some Paul Stamets videos if you want to learn more about fungus.