Holy. Effing. Crap...
My friends, this is by far the best TV episode to be televised in a very, very long time.
I'll tell you right now, this episode legitimately made me cry. And I don't say that lightly. It did. This episode gave me chills, man. Like holy cow.
If you have a love and appreciation for the games like myself, this episode will hit you in a way that you didn't think possible. Because this episode exquisitely sums up what the LAST OF US is truly about at its core, and the very reason why millions of fans love the game so much.
The LAST OF US is about love. Not the sappy sort of love, but that light in the darkness type of love.
Bill and Frank's love story is very much a microcosm of Joel and Ellie's story that takes place over the course of THE LAST OF US.
I mean... just look at the juxtaposes here, man! They're everywhere!
So many viewers are downvoting this episode, calling it a pointless gay lovers affair or a love story filler episode. But I feel like a LOT of these viewers, especially those who played the game, are inadvertently hating the very thing that made the games so memorable and emotional hard hitting for them.
Ellie and Joel's story was never about fighting infected, brutally killing bad guys and surviving. It was about the two of them slowly loving one another in a dark, bleak world where love is more precious than oxygen. THAT is and has always been the point of THE LAST OF US.
And it's crazy how a SINGLE episode summed up that bond between Joel and Ellie in such a manner. This episode is gold standard storytelling.
The homophobes will say one thing.
The "it's filler episode" people will have their say as well.
But this was truly a work of art. Something very special indeed.
My friends, this is by far the best TV episode to be televised in a very, very long time.
I'll tell you right now, this episode legitimately made me cry. And I don't say that lightly. It did. This episode gave me chills, man. Like holy cow.
If you have a love and appreciation for the games like myself, this episode will hit you in a way that you didn't think possible. Because this episode exquisitely sums up what the LAST OF US is truly about at its core, and the very reason why millions of fans love the game so much.
The LAST OF US is about love. Not the sappy sort of love, but that light in the darkness type of love.
Bill and Frank's love story is very much a microcosm of Joel and Ellie's story that takes place over the course of THE LAST OF US.
I mean... just look at the juxtaposes here, man! They're everywhere!
So many viewers are downvoting this episode, calling it a pointless gay lovers affair or a love story filler episode. But I feel like a LOT of these viewers, especially those who played the game, are inadvertently hating the very thing that made the games so memorable and emotional hard hitting for them.
Ellie and Joel's story was never about fighting infected, brutally killing bad guys and surviving. It was about the two of them slowly loving one another in a dark, bleak world where love is more precious than oxygen. THAT is and has always been the point of THE LAST OF US.
And it's crazy how a SINGLE episode summed up that bond between Joel and Ellie in such a manner. This episode is gold standard storytelling.
The homophobes will say one thing.
The "it's filler episode" people will have their say as well.
But this was truly a work of art. Something very special indeed.