Liked it, but I do have a question, why didn't Joel and Tommy both agree to go from the beginning? Considering how important it is Ellie stays alive and makes it to her destination.
A friend of mine I watch the show with who has played the game said you can fight the monkeys, so I was kinda expecting that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/opinion/the-last-of-us-conservative.html
At least so far — I’ve seen only the first four episodes — “The Last of Us” generally hews to the right-wing assumptions of the genre, especially in Episode 3. Bill may have been wrong to think he didn’t need love, but he’s right about basically everything else. His neighbors who agree to go to the quarantine zone end up in a mass grave. During one domestic spat, Frank says, “You live in a psycho bunker where 9/11 was an inside job and the government are all Nazis.” An exasperated Bill yells back, sensibly, “The government are all Nazis!” When, after their death, the show’s teenage heroine enters Bill’s basement lair, full of weapons and surveillance equipment, she’s awed: “This guy was a genius!”But it’s not just Bill’s vindication that makes the show conservative. It’s the golden light it casts on Bill and Frank’s private paradise. Bill doesn’t just wall off his house; he fences in the whole neighborhood, shops included. With their armaments and their land, the couple can fend off intruders and live a quiet life of farm-to-table cuisine, hot showers and red wine, owing nothing to the disintegrating society beyond. (Even if Frank aspires to have friends they can invite over.) If they weren’t queer, I suspect it would be obvious that this is an upscale suburban version of a right-wing fantasy. And it’s one embedded in a show in which the government’s pandemic response leads to an incompetent but brutal brand of fascism.
I don’t mean this as an argument against “The Last of Us”; I enjoy the show quite a bit and found the third episode truly moving. But I’ve been surprised that its conservative politics have been so obscured by the conversation about representation. Some right-wingers were infuriated when, in an interview, the episode’s director spoke of having to “sort of trick” straight viewers into investing in a gay love story. It’s “more proof that these modern-day entertainers see themselves as would-be priests of modernity,” Brandon Morse wrote in RedState.
But “The Last of Us” has also sort of tricked sentimental liberals into rooting for a resource-hoarding gun nut defying evil pandemic authorities. If the right hadn’t worked itself into such a panic about homosexuality, it might be able to take the win.
Originally posted by Robtard
Was Ellie gay or gay-curious in the game?Cos the usual suspects are freaking out again. "I watch this show with muh kids!". Which is just the strangest complaint considering the show has people being brutal and murdering each other. Yet that's not the point of concern.
She's gay in the 2nd game. She has a relationship with the girl you see looking at her when she's eating in Jackson that Ellie shouts at for looking at her.