re: 'The Last of Us' Episode 3 Gamers Thread: Spoilers!! Complaints, Part 2 talk allowed

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Phenomenal acting by Nick Offerman.

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So was the white lotus actor from season 1. Now we have the groundwork of why Joel will go the extra step to protect Ellie. Looking forward to more action next week.

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So sick of all the damn phaggotry all the frickin time all over the frickin place. Can't even enjoy television anymore. arse fricking homos.

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Welp, I'm out also. What percentage of the population packs fudge? 5%? frick, I don't know.

I think most of us are so tired of the normalizing and constant barrage by Hollywood to force feed us this nonsense. This shite isn't normal and I don't want a society that views queers as normal happenstance.

frick this shite.

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Welp, I'm out also. What percentage of the population packs fudge? 5%? frick, I don't know.

I think most of us are so tired of the normalizing and constant barrage by Hollywood to force feed us this nonsense. This shite isn't normal and I don't want a society that views queers as normal happenstance.

frick this shite.

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That is a championship melt

I could care less about it being a gay relationship. I’d be complaining all the same if it was hetero. You don’t need 60 minutes of backstory on a character that doesn’t even make it to the next episode to give Joel the same drive to protect Ellie. Could’ve been done in a 15 minute flashback if they wanted to explore that. It’s just a waste of screen time.

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He would need to fill the whole back of the truck up with gas cans for a cross-country trip. Are there gas stations on the way? Doesn't seem like there's refineries other than what the military has.

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I mean, they don’t make it very far in that truck…

That being said I don’t recall getting a ton of info about gas availability. I think there would be enough gas available between other vehicles and gas stations to make it possible (albeit difficult). You don’t need the gas stations to have power, just need a hand pump and a hose.

Which reminds me.. I did enjoy the line about the truck:

“It’s like a spaceship!”

“No, it’s a shitty S-10. But it will get us there. Hopefully.”

It’s some of the reactions to that episode that make you realize why sterile, mindless shlock like Marvel is so successful.

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OD at the end

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That’s what happened to them on the show?? That’s quite the departure from the game, where Frank hates Bill, lives across town, steals Bill’s stuff and hangs himself after getting infected.

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I wonder how much of,the production budget that virtue signal cost

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I imagine it’s the other way around. They likely kept the budget down to next to nothing for this episode so that they could afford the sets and inflated budgets for future episodes.

I bet this was the cheapest episode for them to film, by far.

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(Multiple paraquote) In the game, he was gay.

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Not true. It's hinted at, sure. That's it.

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The show was always going to have to expand on the backstory of characters at some point.

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Fine. Dive into Ellie and give us some reasons why she is so caustic (perhaps how her parents/siblings(?) were lost). Or go into Joel's life just after the death of his daughter and how he goes medieval on the infected - and perhaps even a few of the not-so-infected. Heck they could even dedicate some interesting dystopian time on the government's response and motivations.

Any of those kind of backstory details progress the story and move it along, even though it's events that occurred in the past. Bill was a small, though interesting, part of the journey. Frank was already dead. Their relationship, whatever that might have been, had nothing to do with the story. What a waste of nice opportunity to fill in some intriguing world building.