re: The Last of Us S1 EP3 Thread - “Long Long Time” - NO GAMER SPOILERS

Agreed. When they first got in bed it was getting to be a little too much but as it went on they brought it together very well. Great performances by both of them. To stretch this into a series you need filler and some character depth.

The first game easily could of been a 2 and a half hour movie but i think this is way better

The letter at the end really drove it home. Great episode.

They expanded on a backstory of a character in the game that people were intrigued about. Maybe propagandish but it was stellar acting and well directed. If you do something well, I'll watch. He was a character that happened to be gay. Not a character put there because he was gay.

Also I didn’t realize that was Armand from White Lotus

Just finished the episode. Definitely not what I thought the episode was going to be about

Definitely a filler episode that didnt advance the plot in any way that an 80 minute episode should. Not a fan of gay sex but it's pretty easy to fast forward through that. Well acted episode fore sure. The White Lotus guy is just a great actor. Glad they are one and done characters though.

Worst part of the episode was Bill standing in the dead center of the street taking fire from numerous people. Made no sense for a survivalist of his level to do that.

The agenda pushing didn’t exist just people triggered by gays, overall this was an expansion on a character that was a small part of the game that did a bit of world building as well as character building. The note Bill left Joel will likely have an impact of the development of Joel’s character also Bill is now an example of the man Joel could be, one that opens up to others such as Ellie rather than one that closes himself off to the world like we’ve seen so far

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if you didn’t get or like it that’s fine.

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Didn’t get what? What was there to get? The show runners admitted to changing the story and deviating from the game just to have this boring love story that added nothing to the show. The best parts of the episode were Ellie and Joel.

I thought Bill was supposed to be some amazing entertaining character. Instead we got two old guys that did nothing then killed themselves.

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My main gripe with the episode was Frank the “survivalist” coming out of cover into the middle of the street to engage multiple hostiles.

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How many years have they been getting that town ready to defend? He should’ve had fortified sniper nests set up in two dozen different places. And instead, he stands in the middle of a damned (lighted) street with a deer rifle.

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This is by far the biggest issue with the episode

*ETA: if you're going to be in the street with a rifle, don't use a fricking bolt action

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Spending an hour on a gay relationship for no other reason than normalizing gay relationships is gay propaganda.

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You think that was the ONLY reason?

I imagine the potential loving-romantic relationships options the game presents may be limited, no?

That’s y’all’s biggest concern?

So edgy.


But the cannon set up he was gay so it makes logical since he was stupid enough to use bolt action rifle in the middle of the street.
Plus the gayness would create a force field around him so bullets wouldn’t hit him.

My biggest concern was that Frank couldn’t get his aids medicine because FEDRA forces are homophobic and didn’t think aids medicine was worth producing.

Also I am upset they didn’t canonically address the male diaper situation. Did Joel and Tess trade them diapers for guns? Is that why Frank likes Joel so much?
Diapers were critical for the anal seepage the two had because of the beautiful love making act of shoving their penis into the other arse.


* if this offended you I’m sorry but just highlight the beauty truths of gay sex/lifestyle. Which is amazing and should be pushed in every form of entertainment so kids see