Drinker's Chasers - Our Thoughts On The Last of Us Episode 3 

If, in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, someone gifted me a town with a bunker, a cache of weapons, traps, an electric fence, electricity, a garden, and hot, running water, I would be extremely hard-pressed to continue on whatever mission I had.

Why did Joel leave all of Bill’s rifles when he is about to travel thousands of miles through dangerous territory to protect a very important person?

Killing off Bill and Frank early robbed Joel of a lesson learned. Bill is Joel’s foil, a warning from the future about where Joel’s path of emotional isolation will lead. Bill ended up pushing everyone he cared about out of his life, dooming himself to “surviving” alone, bitter and sad. Turning Bill’s tragedy into a happy ending betray’s the original message. Also, the romanticizing of assisted suicide doesn’t vibe with the ending the game gave us, but it matches perfectly with TLoU part 2’s interpretation of the ending. I think it’s gonna be all downhill from here.

They ask actors not to check the source material so they can avoid a Cavill situation where the actor cares more about the source material than they do.

I don't know why anyone would give modern entertainment the benefit of the doubt these days. Either they're upfront with their intentions to destroy what you love, or they're going to pull a bait-and-switch once they think they've gotten you hooked.

Really enjoyed Eric July/ YoungRippa59’s opinions on this episode, think he nailed it on the head for this one 👏

Rob is wrong sbout Ellie, she has been in boarding school all her life and occasionally sneaks out. Yes she probably seen stuff but nothing really of what lies out there. The others are right about the actress playing Ellie. They have made her character to strong minded. Her spiky attitude in the game comes from covering up her innocence. Things like playing with fireflies for the first time, not being able to swim, reading jokes to Joel, first time seeing a giraffe, a horse, her arcade machine excitement, teen movie poster on the wall excitement . These child like moments are the things that chip away at Joel's barrier and ours to let him become a father again. The games Ellie does it in such away that she is so charming, you can see why you would be become her protector. Hopefully the actress can pull this off but time is running out.

Noticed that Eric didn't say anything in this video but it doesn't surprise me. Since he's like me and tweeted about it not to long ago that he doesn't consume modern content from companies and people that hate you.

What's divisive about it isn't the content, it's that they left out key elements of character development and interaction between Joel, Ellie, and Bill. At that point in the games, Ellie actively has to prove she is capable of dealing with both infected and other humans that aren't enemies, but also don't give a shit about her. It's one of her key tests to see how the rest of her journey is going to go. It also gives Joel the platform to show how good of a smuggler and survivor he really was / is and how good of a survivalist Bill was. By giving Bill a different ending, it removes further barriers for Ellie to overcome and it doesn't display that Joel is very, very capable and brutal. It also misses the chance to further escalate danger because Joel and Ellie make it to Bill / Frank's unopposed and just walk right in, which was very much not the case otherwise. Would've been better if they kept the best elements of Episode 3 between Frank and Bill, but then brought the game scenario for Bill, Ellie, Joel. It would've hit WAY harder.

As a straight person I've never enjoyed watching gay content on TV and I think the reason for that is that they tend to always show gays as stereotypes and fixate on CONSTANT public displays of affection. They probably think that we wont know someone is gay if they're not flamboyantly over the top or kissing all the time. The comic industry has gone all in on that disrespectful style of representation. But as these guys say about this episode, it is just two people who happen to be together in a relationship and act like a normal couple.

I miss the grittiness of the game. The world of the game feels a lot more brutal than this one. They've really clipped a lot of the violence and gore, and taking Bill from a crusty, cynical, and morally vague individual into a soft and caring lover really contributes to watering down the vibe of the show. I'm not saying it's bad, but the game feels more like an apocalypse than the show.

Having a filler episode, regardless of quality, be the third episode is a huge red flag. Also, anyone giving Druckman the benefit of the doubt is just asking for disappointment.

I liked the episode right until Bill killed himself and we were robbed of that amazing interaction between Ellie, Bill and Joel. And when you realize that the interaction was robbed, the question now is what was the purpose of that episode? In isolation, fantastic acting and an engaging character study. But what did it add to our protagonists journey or development? Nothing. In fact all they contributed as ruined ellie by making her bloodlust hungry

I never played the game. not knowing the two characters I didn’t enjoy what felt like a filler episode for two characters or place we’ll never see again felt like a giant waste.

It's a shame that Bill and Ellie never got to meet.

It was a well done episode. That said it deviated from the game completely for the Bill story. In the game the lesson of Bill was that no matter how hard you prepared and tried to keep people you love safe you can't. And if you try too much you can actually drive those you love away, even until death. The TV show was the exact opposite. It makes me a bit nervous about how the show will end.

Bill in the game was gay, and it's just not a big deal at all, it barely comes up at all and I thought it was nice that a character is gay without it being his fucking personality. Otherwise his character is quite similar. In the game each chapter is a different season, and looks at a different aspect of humanity. 'The last of us' is a nod to the last of humanity in this broken world. Bill in the game is a prepper. The town he lives in is huge and infested with infected. His character I loved. He's such an asshole, but he's very prepared. He's fat for a start which shows he has food resources, good in a fight, has traps everywhere, shitloads of supplies. But he's cold, untrusting. First thing he does in handcuff Ellie to a pipe and hold Joel at gunpoint before agreeing to help. You go through the entire town to get a car battery. You succeed, but at the end you find Frank. He's hung himself, and left a note for Bill calling him a peace of shit, and he'd rather try and survive alone than put up with his shit anymore. Before you and Ellie leave town, Joel thanks Bill and wishes him well, and Bill tells him to get the fuck out if his town, and Joel looks uncharacteristically hurt. Bill has everything materialist he could need. He's the ultimate survivor. He has the first 2 points of maslows triangle down. But he has no reason to live. Frank was the only spark of humanity he had, and he pushed him away because he had become so obsessed with surviving. Its really tragic but well done.

you aren't allowed to say anything bad about it online. people are writing articles saying its a masterpiece.

The problem with the episode is that it has nothing to do with the plot. Drinker, as a writer, I figured you would hate it for that reason.

For Mauler @ 17:30 , regarding the "green screens" of the city - those are actual shots of the city / buildings (city I live in , Calgary AB for most of this), but they CGI'd onto the building/cityscape to make them look dilapidated / taken over by nature. (aside from the toppled buildings, obviously ;) ). It's super surreal to see the city I live in , and the buildings I see on my drive into work down looking like that on the show

@06:16 Although I agree with point of trying to find light in a dark age, that role wasn't for Bill and Frank. That role was for Ellie, which led to influencing Joel. Bill and Frank's story in the show could have been a romantic story which ended tragically to expand upon the characters and follow the rhythm of the games. If they really wanted, they could have even had Bill go out feeling bad he Pushed the one person that loved him away.

The fact that Bill and frank made such a utopia instead of fighting for survival undermines Joel's choice at the end of the game. Clearly you don't need a cure, civilisation can blossom in remote areas and the biggest threat is humans, not infected

Another thing I didn’t like was that Ellie stole the gun. Joel finally trusting her with the rifle was such a good moment in the game, and it looks like we’re not going to get that scene.

I find it disappointing that fans of the franchise cannot be unhappy with this episode without being labeled. Episode 3 wasn't necessary in the way it was portrayed.

Critical Drinker likes the MESSAGEEEE!!! hahaha

I luv when 2 dudes get off on each other in the Apocalypse

Frank hated Bill in the game and left him a very spiteful letter. In this, they tried to make a sicky sweet "perfect' relationship to push an agenda. Their toxic relationship in the game was way more interesting.

I genuinely shocked that the drinker enjoyed this Hallmark melodrama. If Bills' storyline was like this in the game, it would have been universally mocked.

It feels like it kinda takes away some suspension and realism by having frank and bill survive for so long without one of the other dying, plus the relationship had a fallout in the game too which led to an even more heartbreaking moment when finding frank hanging himself after being bitten and the letter being given to him afterwards, and the quest to get the truck back for Joel and Ellie by luck they had a fully functioning vehicle on hand only 2 weeks after dying.

Eric July was the only reasonable one in this.

They 'agendified' a gay relationship. Not brave enough to portray as originally written. What they did with it was well acted it has to be said but overall it did not work for me. I felt I should have been more emotionally involved and after hearing the hype I was kind of disappointed that I wasn't. Frank and Bills relationship felt too contrived, too rushed and there were other incongruities like Raiders leaving them alone for 10 YEARS after the first attack. Ehh? Enjoying the series overall but agree that Bella Ramsey (or rather how she's being directed) is a weak point.

Man I am shocked you guys liked episode 3. I gotta side with Az on this the entire episode was a complete betrayal of the characters of Bill and Frank and it portrayed the relationship so idealized that it bordered on fantasy. As if living in isolation wouldn’t breed contempt or arguments. Hell the fact that Bill is blue collar and Frank is clearly a white collar guy in the episode should’ve bred tons of clashes just on how they deal with things alone. Yes in isolation it’s a moderately entertaining story about love in a horrific time. Yes the acting from the two leads is stellar and yes the cinematography was beautiful. But was this Bill and Frank from the Last of us? No. Does this show us how horrific the apocalypse is through how a relationship fell apart and got someone killed? No. Does it show the regrets of not holding onto someone you loved and trying to do more than just exist behind a wall? No. Does this in any way shape or form effect Joel by showing him what being so cold and pragmatic will eventually lead to? No. Does this add anything to the goddamn story? No. And there’s the problem. The entire episode was a waste of time and did nothing but show an event that had nothing to do with the main characters or even effect them. This isn’t a series of vignettes. It’s a cohesive narrative with a central character going on a journey both to a location and on a metaphorical journey of rediscovering his humanity. I mean like what you like. Im certainly not one of those people that thinks you need to constantly agree with me or validate my opinions. Still a huge fan. Just shocked that this one worked for ya. Either way still interested in your takes on the coming episodes and hoping that we’re all wrong about where we all think this is gonna go before the T-off comes in season 2. That’s all I got for today. Going away now.

Love or Hate ep 3 .. this is one of the best and most difficult bits of acting Nick Offerman has ever done .. I expect he will get some big roles after this

It was boring AF didn't move the plot 😒

Waiting for drinker to just be drinker and say what’s really on his mind.

I'm intellectually willing to admit that it was a well enough written episode. They at least know how to write a decent script. The problem for me is the game was simply better. They used Bill to foreshadow Joel's eventual lowering of his walls. Even the hard edged survivors feel something and all that. Bill was a cool character that you knew would survive. Hell, they almost entirely removed the debate between being absolute loners vs having friends and living in a community. They boiled it down till it meant literally nothing more than a gay romance. That's why people are upset with the episode. It was shit in comparison to the game's portrayal.

YoungRippa said enough plenty by is vote of silence 🤣

Why did they pick that odd looking girl to play Ellie??

I can't believe the drinker likes this. I agree this was a a good stand alone episode but one hour fifteen minutes of two characters that only have a purpose to give Joel a working vehicle is ridiculous when it's real purpose is to a have a partial sex scene between two men on screen

Ppl seem to refuse to see how many plot holes and inconsistencies this show already has.....

In bed: "I'm gonna start with the simple things...". Thank you for sparing us from the advanced things in the dungeon😆

Absolutely adored the episode, and don’t give a fuck who didn’t. I HATE modern Hollywood and Twitter agendas/tropes, but there is a point where good movies/episodes really separate the wheat from the chaff aka the actual humans vs the pure haters.

Funniest thing is they portrait frank as a nurturing housewife. Bill actually says to Joe that he has to "protect" what he loves. So yeah if it's a gay man you can make him a damsel in distress.

Didnt really mind the episode. My main issue with the show thus far is Ellie. Tv Ellie is a bully and a total weirdo. There’s nothing endearing about her.

"But, how did it make you... feel?" -Bilbo Baggins

Staying true to the lore is applied very selectively. When it comes to color or sexuality we have to not only stay true but really elaborate on the lore. When it comes to anything else well.. "it's a fictional story and why are you taking it so seriously"

No talk about how in the game Bill's character was totally different, his relationship with Frank was a disaster, and Frank died telling Bill that he hated him. They completely changed all that, making their relationship perfect, so as not to offend the Alphabet mafia.

Don't know how people missed that Craig Mazin saw and stared in one of the two Mythic Quest episodes where the show runners devote an entire episode to a single bottle/emotional back story. He saw the hits that got and hits get close to that target

I don't really care if there are really gay characters in a show as long as it makes sense to the plot and story and not just put in there to tick a box!

Im finding this main girl to be insufferably annoying. Didn't find a gay love story filler episode to be necessary when they still haven't developed any characters to be connected to. Joel is a bump on a log and Ellie is just annoying. The rest is generic zombie stuff

I didn't like it very much they could have excluded the gratutious intimacy and just hinted at it, honestly this back story should have been 10 minutes max, we are here for Elle and Joel not "Brave TV"

Good or poorly executed single episode aside. The story told in it wasn’t relevant or a better version of the events in the game. It actually robbed some of the best interactions in the game from the show. My takeaway is that bill was a highlight of the game. He shouldn’t have died in the show and instead lived like in the game. Take bills story and expand upon it if you want because he’s an interesting asshole of a character that’s just fun to watch. Just don’t do it in Joel and Ellis story because it’s not relevant. Joel shows up after frank had already dipped and has zero knowledge of him (like us the audience) and bills relationship. Joel gets the car and leaves bill behind to deal with his own business. So why spend so much time and focus on this aspect that was never part of the tlou’s story?

are you kidding me?? a closeted gay manages to catch the one uninfected good looking gay in a hole wandering in the suburbs? this is forced AF.

My biggest complaint is that the tone of the scene when they kissed was a bit off. Didn't play the games so I didn't know about the characters. Perhaps I've seen too many bleak depictions of an apocalypse. But I was expecting the guy to get his head blown off once he lowered his guard to play the piano... I mean he did end up getting his head blown but not in the way I expected lmao. Actually laughed out loud because it seemed so out of nowhere.

I don't care how good this show starts, the games started great too. Never giving these people a dime of my money or a seconds worth of time.

What did this episode have to do with forwarding the plot? The characters are in the game, yes. But in a different way. Plus the game didn't focus too much on the characters. They were a catalyst for Joel to get a truck and some supplies. Other than that, the episode was about 45 minutes too long. Besides, when in a zombie apocalypse, 2 men finding "love" with each other or 2 women, are not going to save the human race.

It would have been fine if they showed a little bit of bill and Frank's relationship, but Jesus, the entire episode of them!! It was just too much

While I don't mind the episode per se, I feel that they are glancing over some of the more important aspects of the story. I know that it's not to late and I may be over thinking it. One aspect is the scarcity of items. The original story placed a huge emphasis on battle and the growth of Ellie in her survival skills. The battle in town to get the battery and how Ellie supported Joel is one step that Joel trusts Ellie with a gun and begins to lean on her to not do it all alone. Now, they (Ellie and Joel) suddenly gets a car and supplies. They didn't even cook and get something to eat but they have time to take showers and change clothes. Even the car looks almost brand new in comparison to the surrounding houses. Frank is younger and they even said that Bill might die before Frank. During the raid, Bill was shot in the stomach while Frank was uninjured. Yet, Frank becomes invalid and dying (from an illness that they don't explain but they get pills for). Fanfiction speculate from the strawberry. They do all this backstory but leave out an important fact. It's this pacing that they introduce new backstory (origin of virus and Bill & Frank) but never fully explain, that I thought they would end season 1 at the point that Joel gets injured and Ellie gets captured. Or even the aftermath of that since there is a time skip where Joel needs to heal and Ellie learns to hunt. However, they hinted season 2 would be TLOU part 2. Maybe?????

I remember that Bill being gay was hinted at in the game, but nothing more - even that was just a passing suggestion because of the gay magazines, that's what I remember, at least. And for all we knew, maybe he just collected shit to collect it or to use as potential trades, though I admit that's unlikely because he was anti-visitors ;D I haven't been watching the show because I do my best to not tolerate, nevermind indulge, racist hiring practices and policies in media. In any case, because I haven't seen it, it's hard to know for sure all of what is going on but it seems *weird* to me that they, apparently, took this one (great) side character and fleshed out his entire story during the apocalypse but then skips his involvement in the actual story of the game by having him dead already? Before Joel and Ellie get there. What the hell kind of sense does that make? What does he do, leave notes or letters or journals for them to read or do they just not interact at all? Anyway, it's all a moot point to me because these adaptations have to deal with the same shit the Game of Thrones on HBO has to deal with in that if you know how the whole thing ends is shit - at least two seasons of shit - why on earth would you ever go and engage with the series again? Unless you stop at season 5 or 6 - but then, you're just lying to yourself because unless they completely sidestep essentially everything about Part 2, that's the end game. And, really, why would anyone even begin to hope that they skip the terrible story and narrative of Part 2 when it went *precisely* in the direction that weirdo leftists want things to go? That shit is the bread and butter of modern entertainment, so don't kid yourself. Don't hold your breath.

It's been a very good show so far...this episode was very good(I'm comfortable enough in my sexuality to acknowledge a well done story regardless of their sexuality, it's not an episode of will and grace). My problems were the propaganda lines, like when the girl says the bit about a government was to stupid to properly prepare for pandemics....like the WHO and Mr Gates that want a pandemic preparedness treaty that delegates vast authority to a supranational entity that can override national sovereignty and rights. Stuff like that can kick rocks. My concern with this show is that it will be wildly successful and like Walking Dead turn into murder pron. The infected are fast, tough, and dangerous. It's tense and it needs to keep that.

Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb won't even let you post a negative review on the show. What a joke!

If I want a gay romance...I would rather read "my brother's husband." It's actually written by a gay man.

Making Ellie such an unlikeable brat is a baffling move. And Joel is just blah. How are they going to properly develop this relationship to where it has an impact? I really don't know.

The message!

I don't care much about the gay aspect, but what bothers me is that the situation was forced and didn't feel naturally. First of all, Bill made many deadly traps around his property, but when Frank fell into the trap, he wasn't injured. Shouldn't there have been spikes at the bottom of the pit? It's too much coincidence that Frank managed to fall in a trap that wasn't deadly. And then they fall in love just by playing a song on a piano, that was way too quick. In the end, Frank was very selfish. He's been pampered for many years by Bill, but then one day Frank is like "I want this to be my last day, and you must do great effort to make it the best day of my life."

Hate the Ellie casting, it seems like I’m seeing her GoT performance. Really hopes she gets better

Loved Chernobyl until I found out the woman nuclear physicist played by Emily Watson..a complete Mary Sue...DID NOT exist. She was a amalgamation of other people.

WEF: “You will live in zee pods, eat zee bugs, wear zee mask, own nossink, and watch zee gay people make out, and you vill be happy.

Wake me up when they do the same sort of carefully thought out and well written story about a hetro couple having a long, loving relationship in this same phucked up apocalyptical world.

"I've never been ratioed on YT." "My video got more comments than likes." The literal definition of ratio.

I agree with Rippa!!!

I just don't want an hour-long gay romance diversion from the main plot. It didn't contribute to the main story and characters, and was clearly an insert episode to hit their gay quota. If you want to make a gay story, go ahead. But this is just shoehorned. There's no conflict. No zombies. No stakes. They're just living until they die. They can't reproduce (duh) so there aren't even interesting moral questions about the necessity of continuing on in the first place.

Isn't Ellie a sort of sweet person in the game at first because she was extremely sheltered from the Apocalypse for the majority of her upbringing? She wasn't just some cabbage patch kid that popped up. Even a life of military school for youths is extremely sheltered compared to the people outside. Also, the outrage is not because of "the big gay", they were very much gay in the games too. The difference is their plot was better, while having an integral part in Joel and Ellie's character development. Here it is an okay standalone story, that basically just leaves loot for Joel to find(and leave most of it behind lol).

i think, for me, the thing to consider is that ashley johnson has such an underrated range of acting. when you couple that with the fact that she’s an adult actress that can channel life lessons of pain, awe, and trauma, with just an overall better acting range, you have a better video game ellie than anything we can expect from bella ramsey

that wasn't bill that was my problem.....use this story in some other show don't ruin a good character and an already good story.

I question how anybody who is a fan of the game would pick _that hacky gay romance_ over the being caught upside down sequence, or their first fight with a bloater. How is this an improvement? It's not.

I thought the story they told was great! BUT I’m pretty pissed that in the game there’s some unknown story about what Joel did that Bill was so indebted to him that he had to help Joel get a car. A missed opportunity to reward players of the game with that moment. I also think the story they told would have been more sad and tragic (because let’s be honest PART 1 and 2 are stories of tragedy) if they eventually brought it in line with the game. As in *spoiler warning* Frank and Bill get in a fight, Frank runs away and gets bit, and they later find that he hung himself before he could turn. We also could have gotten to meet a new enemy type, the bloater, if they had followed the story line of the task to find a car battery. Sigh. So the story was good, but not anything like the game and personally not what I wanted to sre

Sounds like THE MESSAGE is starting to make some people cave, never would have expected it from some of the people on this panel

1) "-phobe" also means repelled by. 2)"phobic" means EXTREME fear. The kind that will likely have someone either freezing or fleeing. The suffix has been misused in this context. 3)Homodisgusted is a more accurate description of people who were repelled by this episode ( and similar stuff).

I, personally, am amped to see Pedro get Andrew Ryaned. Hope they stay true to the source material.

I think the issue with this episode, for me, is that while it was a great episode that told a great story very well... it kind of didn't matter because in the timeline of the show they're already dead. I think if they'd combined this story they wanted to tell, have Bill NOT kill himself, and then have the story of the game where Bill, Joel, and Ellie go on this adventure together before Bill eventually meets his demise would have been powerful. There's a lot of story in this game to turn into show and taking an entire episode to tell a story that really doesn't matter or advance anything seems wasteful.

I wish Frank and Bill at least knew each other or knew of each other prior to the outbreak. Would have made it more believable for Bill letting him in.

The Chernobyl comment from Robert is interesting. It was a thrilling/entertaining series that was absolutely horrendous from a scientific standpoint, to the point of it feeling strangely propagandic. Like they had to intentionally ignore scientific advisors to craft the story.

I normally hate shows that try and push “THE MESSAGE” but I got heavily invested in their story it was well acted and not pushy and I enjoyed it. Just hope they don’t have to rush any other episodes because of the time taken in this one.

Did they extrapolate on what was in the game or did they "Trick TLOU fans into watching a gay romance" as per Neil Cuckman? Cause if they were to extrapolate from the game I would have at least expected some of the interactions with Ellie to make it into the episode... but it didn't. It was all about how Bill and Frank were totally gay for each other, literally speaking here, and how they loved each other. Something they also didn't extrapolate from the game.... that being stuck with each other in the post apocalypse takes a toll on any relationship.

If this show came out few years ago, before so many properties got tarnished, before batwoman, captain marvel, mcu phase 4, latest doctor who and star trek I think it might have gone through rather well. Thing is, many of us are very allergic to "the message" being pushed down on us, that often even a hint of it results in an anaphylactic shock and viewers tuning out

Where can I find the original stream? Sorry if I'm being dumb, but when I search for it, all I get is 'After Hours'

That great feeling when you decide not to watch a show and save a lot of time and energy😊😊. Yes, i am boasting.

I hear Brokeback Mountain was also shot, written, and executed well. Issue is they've only got 9 episodes and chose to burn an entire one on a gay romance that was only alluded to in the game. I'll shut up if they burn an entire episode on Joel and his brother's bond or Tess or the daughter. We all know why they chose this to focus on.

uh huh, when i give my dad a copy of the whole thing episode 3 will somehow strangely be missing

What stream do these come from?? I want the full thing

*Eric July spacing out* "Oh shit, better nod like I still know what's going on.."

Hollywood thinks no 2 men can be close friends without becoming gay for each other.

I knew the moment they changed Tess’s death (which was incredibly insulting to the character. Tess’s original death was defiant, even though she was infected she still took control of her fate and went down fighting, killing two trained military personnel when she was outmatched six to one) that something was wrong with the direction they were taking some creative liberties in. I’m actually really concerned over how they’re gonna treat Henry and Sam once we get to them, aside from Tess those two are my favorite characters that Joel and Ellie meet.

This episode was awful. It felt like a filler episode from a late season of TWD. It was well acted but completely out of place as a third episode and making them both die at the end made the whole story pointless to the overall storyline. It wouldn't have been so bad if Bill had lived and would make further appearances in the show because then it would have been just a backstory, even though it was far too long overall. The only reason people are calling this a masterpeice is because it featured a gay couple, if this was a love story between a man and a women this would be getting slated as the pointless filler it was.

Let's just take the time appricate the the FANS tricked the Directors into giving two straight white male actors over an hour of screen time in a 2023 TV show 🙌🏻💯ima glass half full kinda guy 😌🍿

I'm surprised not a lot of people are talking about how they are downplaying a lot of the gun use...Joel stashing his M4 because of hard to find ammo? Uhh, wouldn't really be a problem as that's the most common used bullet. And finding that gun cache and they still didn't take a lot of stuff before moving on. Walking around in an apocalypse all he likes to carry is a pistol ..the hell outta here. It's almost as if they don't want guns being seen as much...so weird

My problem with third episode was that it was mayor distraction from main storyline, almost a filler. I was almost scared they'll start soap opera style of parallel storylines. But yeah, it built itself pretty fine into a main structure towards the end.

So they can change the entire tone of the dynamic of a couple of side characters as long as it makes you feel good? Right.

Drinker: woke Hollywood is destroying film and movies! Also Drinker: andor, house of the dragon and the last of us are the best!