Next you’re going to tell me he wasn’t old, she wasn’t a girl, and it wasn’t a post-apocalypse. Seems to me being thrown out of a tribe makes you pretty cynical about that tribe, but I guess he could have had a rosy outlook on everything else and their relationship is in no way comparable to Last of Us. Good point!
I don’t know what it is that makes you guys chafe so much at the very obvious point that Horizon is derivative, but cherry-picking single elements from the overall point doesn’t make much of a case. “West Side Story wasn’t based on Romeo and Juliet because it’s not set in Verona!”
-Tom