Not only do a lot of shows not show it - its even more true when it is two men who look like these men (don't get me wrong - both attractive men but not either lesbian characters shot for male gaze or stereotypical super fit and young gay men). As an older, squishier, bearded queer person I'm honestly struggling trying to think of something where people looked like this and it was portrayed as valid and loving.
I wish TV shows and movies will have more diversity both in physical appearance and personality and interest of queer folks because that is reality. We are all different.
I swear this might be the most beautiful episode of television I've ever seen. The love story is SO compelling, and you said it perfectly about how the show sat in the moments. It never rushed, never was in a hurry to move on. It lingered in all the most perfect ways. Absolutely phenomenal.
I've been a fan of Nick Offerman's for years but never knew he had these kinds of chops for drama. Despite being an action fan this might be my favorite episode so far. I hope awards season shows him some love.
In the game, their story is very different. Frank is already dead when you get there but Bill is still alive. After a FEDRA convoy arrived and were killed, Frank decided to leave Bill because he pretty much hated him by that point. He tried to go out and get some necessary car parts from the convoy and was bitten while doing so. He hung himself in a different house before he could turn and left a pretty awful letter for Bill that you find as you're exploring. Also their town is filled with infected, unlike this idyllic town the show Bill and Frank live in. I honestly liked this so much more and am really happy they changed it
It took me seeing some reactions to realize the purpose of the radio message being "Danger". that was Bill essentially leaving a message for Joel and Tess to come "help", but when they got there they'd find all the weapons and things they ever needed to protect themselves. It's Bill leaving behind for his "friends" what he could. And when Joel comes in, the door slams shut. Bill can finally go.
At the end of the day we all want to feel and live out our lives the same way Bill & Frank did. With the ones we love and in our own terms. That is why this episode resonated with so many people. We all want to love & be loved.
To answer a few of your questions -you play as Joel for most of the game but there are small sections where you control Ellie. There’s also a small chapter where you fully play as her towards the end of the game. -the flour, sugar, etc being contaminated and getting people sick wasn’t in the game! I don’t think they ever explain how the outbreak started. This is all new lore. - Frank and Bill’s story is complete different. Joel and Ellie team up with Bill to find a car in his town to get to Tommy’s. On their way there, they end up going into a random house and find Frank’s dead body. He hung himself after getting bitten and leaves Bill a letter saying he’d rather be dead than spend another day with him, so safe to say their relationship wasn’t as sweet as it was portrayed in the show. We also don’t get any other backstory for either of them other than Joel mentioning Bill owed him a favor. This was definitely my favorite episode so far even though I was crying the whole way through. It makes me excited to see how they will keep changing things. The game was already pretty emotional and brutal but this show is definitely cranking it up and I love it.
If this is what you were alluding to on twitter don't worry we were all crying we just had the benefit of being cameraless haha. Also RIP to Tess's original voice actor who passed away due to cancer yesterday thoughts & love go out to her family.
@@sp0ngeb00b7 Fair point I should have went with the more holistic term (i was more concerned if I said original actor that people might have thought I meant anna torv if they weren't aware)
Don’t need to apologies for crying, that was really fucking sad. It’s also the thing that makes this worth watching--genuine engagement with characters who are believable.
In the game frank kills himself after being bitten after having a fight with bill he leaves a note after killing himself saying he blames and hate bill,this a way happier sad ending
The contaminated flour and grain was mentioned and establish in the first 10 mins of the 2nd episode, which ties in all of what happened in the 1st episode. If i knew you missed all of that i wouldn't of said anything, Last thing i want is to ruin a surprise for someone, I apologize. It wasn't a spoiler tho, I take spoilers very seriously and its all new lore btw none of that was in the game. Thanks for the reaction!
Bread thing was not a spoiler. They mentioned it the episode before when they said that that the first attack happened at a bread and grain factory in Indonesia.
This episode is very different from the game but it is made better by it. In the game you just find out Frank got bit and hung himself and Bill is still alive living on his own depressed like. Very very minimal part of the story in game but they did amazing with this extension of it, REALLY showed Bills other side. Joel does not meet Frank in the game either,
This is the essence of The Last of Us, I love that they're expanding on characters that we get glimpses of. I hope we get the same treatment with Owen later in the series.. He's the GOAT imo.
In the first game you mostly play as Joel. In the opening section you actually played as Joel's daughter Sarah. And there is a portion in the game where you get to play as Ellie. But you don't get to like switch between them or anything.
Same, way better ending for bill as well. Shows how you can elevate source materiel without ruining the whole story when it’s done right. unbelievable acting and unmatched writing ! What an episode
Love your reaction, your curiosity with the show and comparison. We all cried no worries. This episode was in my head whole week. Also bring tissues till the end of the show. Next ep will be probably only one without tears haha
Remember that shit went down in 2003 so gay marriage was never legalized in 2015 so their ceremony is extra special. Also in the game it is quite different. You barely get insight in their relationship but at the end they fell apart and you only find Bill at first and he helps you find the battery. (their situation was way different. The town was overrun with clickers, raiders, less resources etc) You do find Frank (he hangs himself after being bitten trying to escape) and leaves a letter to Bill saying how he hated him for not changing because Bill only goal is to survive So the show is way better and it was co-written by the gamer writer and since you don't need to add the extra danger element you can actually focus on their story. The only thing that was better in the game is that Bill and Ellie hate each other on site and they spend every second insulting each other. (there is a click on how they met and it is hilarious)
The way the infection spread has not really been spoiled for you, I don't think. They alluded to that on the second episode at the beginning about the flour factory in that country overseas, where they grab that doctor from her lunch and took her to the lab. And remember in the first episode nobody ate anything with flour. No pancake mix, no cake, no biscuits.
Yeah I was just thinking about that. I think the lady got bitten by someone and then 14 other people didn't show up to work again so I figured that was one of the epicenters
aside from the fact that this episode wrecked my heart entirely, on top of annie wersching's death (rest her soul), just to make sure the clickers were explained, the show had already explained them a bit during their introduction. i'm sure that you were just freaking out over the exposition lol. runners are the initial infected, stalkers are like the one that kissed tess (the stems of the fungi, literal stalks, coming out of their head), and then we're at clickers, the fungus having opened their skulls and removing all use of their eyes. joel had explained it as them not being able to see, but definitely being able to hear - their clicking noises are used as echolocation. this has its own basis in reality too. there may be other examples, but one teenager, ben underwood, was blinded by cancer as a baby (eventually dying at 16 because of cancer, rest his soul), but had popularly been noted to use clicking noises to see, being able to skate and bike and live his own life.
I don't think the cause of the infection was a spoiler since it was never said what started it in the game, I'm pretty sure. It was inferred it was contaminated grains since it did start in a grain factory. It could have been inferred it was mutated fungi in the food. Also for clarification, if it's a flashback, it was most likely not in the game, at least not us experiencing it. It would be though conversation and whatnot. There is one flashback we get that was part of the GA. E though. I'm loving the changes they made to the game and this bottle episode was what I wanted to see when we got news of TV adaptation; How the rest of the world handled the outbreak and how people were dealing with it. Personal stories like this one. Because in the game all we get are Joel and Ellies perspective.
1) Thanks for making me laugh when Ellie went in the hole. 2) The word on the street is that you turned off the camera on purpose to get a calculator for your maths (kidding) 3) That was one of the most romantic episode i've seen and really well acted episode. I really enjoyed it even if there was a lack of action. Like you said, they made you sit in the sad moments and it made it powerful and emotional. Excellent reaction. 3rd Tv Show you are reacting that i enjoy (The Boys and HOTD). Keep it going!
4:11 On the first game, you're him for the most part. But there are a few times you're Ellie as well And on the second Game, for the most part you're Ellie
I wasn't surprised that I cried at an episode of The Last of Us. I was surprised that it was THIS sort of story in a series about a zombie apocalypse. (And say what you want, they're zombies! heh. I mean, the fungus infecting ants? It's nicknamed the zombie fungus, even...)
Such a beautifully written episode a lot of tears man i didn't think Nick Offerman had this performance in him And it's so cool how the show is sticking so close to the source material because in the game we knew Bill and Frank were a gay couple but we never got to see their backstory and i someone who has played the game multiple times and love the story more than anything i appreciate how the show really fleshed out their story it was truly amazing to watch
I feel this reaction! Still crying… Btw, I really think you should watch Lockwood & Co., a new Netflix series, with super interesting plot and world building and a chaotic trio with great chemistry
AHH this episode was so so so good, i cried so much for like 20minutes istg. This episode got so much hate from the audience which makes me really sad because i saw at least 30 comments on ''50minutes of my life wasted'' or ''I didn't need to see a soft gay p0rn'' and similar stuff, but with more 'violent'. It honestly makes me sad how people hate on the actors and the job they're doing..but apart from that i loved your video as always, an amazing commentary !! :DDD
I mean to be fair the bread thing was only a theory until the show actually came out and proved it within the first episode thus solidifying the theory. It was never stated how it actually fully became a global pandemic until this series so everyone was speculating and no one would technically have known that it was a spoiler until this episode.
Since you wanted to know the differences btwn the game and the show, they did this story differently and expanded it for the show. In the game, Joel and Ellie got to Bill’s place and bill is still there but he’s by himself. They actually go on a quest to find a battery for the car that Joel and Ellie take. On their quest they find frank in a house and he’s h*ng himself. Their relationship is revealed by joel finding his suicide note and giving it to Bill. Frank did that to himself because he was bitten and didn’t want to turn into an infect and hurt bill.
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Are those two phrases in the intro a philipino greeting or something? I've been wondering since I clicked on your first video. At first I assumed it was your name in a native language
So, I fucking LOVED this episode, as a queer person. Jessie Gender released a wonderful breakdown of Ep.3 from a queer perspective with Aranock. I cite this because they gave me the perfect way of articulating my thoughts. I highly recommend waatching it. But oof, I'm gonna tell you the story of the game. So, Bill and Frank (to a much lesser extent) are in the game, but their storyline is a lot different from this one. In it, Bill lives, and he's terribly sad because he lost Frank some time ago to suicide. Bill didn't grow like he did in this story - he remained a survivalist and utilitarian (and probably a far right conspiracy theorist) to the end, and Frank didn't have it. So, in the game, Ellie and Joel run across a body, hanging from a noose, we never see the face, and there's a crumpled-up suicide note to Bill. This is all we see of Frank in the game. Queer people made a stink about it, back in the day. So here comes this episode, and I (and apparently every other queer person who knows what happened in the game) was getting myself ready for a trainwreck of an episode that never came. They heard us. Holy shit, THEY HEARD US. They said, "Nah, we've already made this mistake. We're the kind of people who don't repeat mistakes. So now, get ready queer community, for something you've never seen before. A gay couple who will survive, grow, and age together, and dammit, they're gonna die, but they're gonna die peacefully." So that's fucking beautiful. And I love how it adds to the messages each individual episode communicates. Ep. 1 said, "HEY PAY ATTENTION, BECAUSE THERE'S STUFF THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE." Ep. 2 said, "But it might be too late now?" Ep. 3 said, to me, "Good thing we have you paying attention now, because even if we're in the deep end of shit now, you can still survive, and life will still be worth living." And that's wonderfully hopeful and beautiful.
3:25, but that is the point - you are a grown woman with military training. Ellie is a kid with impulse control. I don't blame Joel for not handing her a gun. Maybe once he sees that she can handle herself he won't be as apprehensive.
Masterpiece of an episode everybody did a beautiful job in this episode way better than the game version of Bill and Frank's story I prefer this over the game version The TV show versions way better❤
I’ve heard there are 6! Apparently there’s a bloating stage? But I’m not an expert at all so I’m just going off what the comments under my previous video were saying😭
In defense of the "Spoilers" - the hints about the flour/grain connection were in the first episode, and the prologue of the second kinda confirms it...
Sorry ppl spoiled cause of apocalypse for u…its such a risk reading comments. Something big in part 2 (of video game) was spoiled for me in a comment and now im annoyed and not that excited for season 2.
Didn't enjoy this episode it completely deviated from the storyline and sure the series isn't going to be an absolute copy but this was a major change. It honestly felt like a waste of time. It really had nothing to do with the plot of the story they could've done far better.
You are dumb as shit mate, no offense. This relationship was VERY CLEARLY hinted at in the game already. Also Ellie is a lesbian in the game, so if you have an issue with homosexual relationships idek how you got through the game. How is the show woke? What a weirdo.
The fit is cute you lit look like a game avatar 🤌Was I the only one that was sus when Bill was playing the piano and Frank was just behind him like 😭😭 I am glad it had that outcome I think we also need a bit of romantic vibes among all the tension
