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As soon as the music from Arrival started my husband went "oh god it's that song..."

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We figured Ellie and Joel would arrive towards the end so had to fast-forward to that bit. I'd wondered if one of them would die, leaving the other to commit suicide, with Joel and Ellie arriving at just the right time, but that would have been contrived. The letter she read out almost set me off again.
 
MissMissMissy said:
I loved ep. 3. I thought it was a great piece of TV! Can anyone summarise what the differences are (regarding this particular storyline Frank/Bill) in relation to the game? I’m new to it so don’t have a clue how things will play out. I only started watching on a whim and so glad I did!
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I haven't seen the episode yet (I save it for Thursdays to watch with my sister). But in the game Bill references a "partner" - someone he had to look after to Joel as he is advising Joel to get rid of Ellie as taking care of someone is a good way to get you killed.
Then later they arrive in a house to find Frank hanging, with bites, so he did it to prevent turning. We never see or meet him alive.
In the house you can find a note to Bill from Frank which is pretty bitter - and you can choose to give it to Bill or not.
Also later Ellie has a stack of loot lifted from Bills which has some more references but I'm kinda hoping they have that scene (in some form) in E4 because its absolutely 🤌🏻

I'm looking forward to seeing the episode, it seems to have divided opinion! 😂 It's certainly brought out the homophobes and the ignorant ones, who insist Bill wasn't gay in the game and the "woke army" have taken over.
Bollocks because, he was, and The Last of Us has multiple characters who are LGBTQ if you pay any attention to the story at all.

There are multiple playthroughs of the game on YouTube if you're hooked but don't play, it's really fun to compare and contrast 🙂
 
Bubblemamaa22 said:
I haven't seen the episode yet (I save it for Thursdays to watch with my sister). But in the game Bill references a "partner" - someone he had to look after to Joel as he is advising Joel to get rid of Ellie as taking care of someone is a good way to get you killed.
Then later they arrive in a house to find Frank hanging, with bites, so he did it to prevent turning. We never see or meet him alive.
In the house you can find a note to Bill from Frank which is pretty bitter - and you can choose to give it to Bill or not.
Also later Ellie has a stack of loot lifted from Bills which has some more references but I'm kinda hoping they have that scene (in some form) in E4 because its absolutely 🤌🏻

I'm looking forward to seeing the episode, it seems to have divided opinion! 😂 It's certainly brought out the homophobes and the ignorant ones, who insist Bill wasn't gay in the game and the "woke army" have taken over.
Bollocks because, he was, and The Last of Us has multiple characters who are LGBTQ if you pay any attention to the story at all.

There are multiple playthroughs of the game on YouTube if you're hooked but don't play, it's really fun to compare and contrast 🙂
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Thank you @Bubblemamaa22 thats really interesting! I’m definitely going to read up on it. My sons got a PS5 for Christmas and haven’t played the game yet but they want to- I can watch them a bit I guess!!
 
Bubblemamaa22 said:
I'm looking forward to seeing the episode, it seems to have divided opinion! 😂 It's certainly brought out the homophobes and the ignorant ones, who insist Bill wasn't gay in the game and the "woke army" have taken over.
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I'm just shocked MAGA gun-nuts and conspiracy theorists also play the piano and enjoy picking strawberrys with their same-sex partner! Quite the revelation for me. I guess I need to get out more ... so to speak. 😬
 
I think the beauty of the show though is having more space to expand upon the story in the game, and to take those extra liberties. ESPECIALLY when it's being done by one of the game creators, it's still true to the game in a way but special.

I've actually been watching after it airs and then again on the weekend with my husband, but I haven't been telling my husband that lol. We have a 3 year old so we never have time to watch TV during the week together and I simply can not wait until the weekend!
 
Honestly cannot stop thinking about episode 3 ❤️ and to hear my boyfriend telling all his friends to watch it and that it’s the best TV performance he’s seen for years makes me so pleased that on the whole it’s been well received by the game players and straight men.

I follow Nick Offerman and he hasn’t posted about it but people have obviously been using his last post as a place to give feedback. Luckily the majority is great but there are the few homophobic comments 😡
 
it was absolutely beautiful. I don’t mind they deviated from the game. It was lovely to see their relationship because we didn’t get to see it in the game. Little disappointed we didn’t get to see Bill and Ellie’s scenes though. They done a beautiful job. I absolutely cried my eyes out. Murray Bartlett is absolutely gorgeous. I watched the White Lotus and I actually never appreciated how good looking he is until he played Frank. Nick Offerman was amazing. It was one of the most beautiful episodes of tv I’ve ever watched. If it was a story about a man finding a woman or vice versa it wouldn’t have worked as well i think.
 
I absolutely agree. It was so hard hitting (for me at least) when Nick Offerman's character said yes it was his first time. I don't think it would have been as impactful if it was a male/female relationship.
The homophobes complaining on Nick Offerman's instagram completely missed the point of this story arc.
 
It was so nice to see a story of love between older gay men that didn’t have an underlying theme of homophobia and lust. Obviously it was incredibly sad but in a weird way, it felt like the closest characters could get to a happy ending in that world, which you don’t often see in media about men in relationships with other men

I found so much of it really poetic, not even just for a zombie drama but for TV overall. The domestic details, seeing pollen at dusk, being genuinely joyous at eating a good meal, and especially the shot of the window at the end…all the tiny things they appreciated about life despite everything! it was just so good 😢
 
Just finished Ep3, it was amazing and heartbreaking, I loved it. Have a question though, near the beginning of the episode Joel and Ellie are at the farmhouse and Ellie goes into that underground part. What was the blue box she took from there? Is it significant?
 
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