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Was so pumped for ep 3, got beer and pizza and had friends over and then we sat in teary silence the whole time 😢
this was up there with the season 2 episode of Westworld "Kiksuya", a punch in your feels that comes out of nowhere and knocks the wind out of you.
Wine is so perfect for this episode
This was an amazing episode. Great job to the writers and the actors of Murray Bartlett as Frank and Nick Offerman as Bill. The like the Bill focus of this episode. I like the change from what you get in this show of Bill than the one in the in the video game. I liked that Bill's passing has caused Joel to be a little more open with Ellie. But anyway great reactioncommentary to the episode Abi. And I know this episode had got to you. But I hope the rest of your day is lovely. Stay safe, take care and lastly stay amazing.
Bill taught Frank how to survive, and Frank taught Bill how to live. In the game Frank ends up leaving to see the world because he's too extroverted, gets infected, and hangs himself before turning. So Bill is a lot more bitter about the one person he trusted leaving him.
Either way Bill serves to show Joel the difference between surviving, and living. Bill is a survival expert, but what does he know about living until he opens up? In the game he shows Joel how bad he can become if he doesn't trust people or open up, in the show he shows Joel how good it can become and what he could've had with Tess. So either way Joel starts to open up.
That's the major theme in the Last of Us. Surviving vs Living.
The stone pile is called a cairn.
Bill and Frank's story really touched me. In the real world, same sex marriage wouldn't be legal in Massachusetts until 2004. Here, the world fell apart in 2003, before any of that could happen for these two. Seeing as they met in middle-ish age in the mid-2000s, they were around to witness the AIDS crisis just a couple decades earlier, and likely lost friends during that period. Survival for people like them was never guaranteed in the "normal world", so for them to survive another epidemic, find love, and build a home in the ruins of a devastated community is a perfect example of "winning" the apocalypse.
I listened to the podcast and they said he either has als or ms. They didn't want to specify so that way viewers could kind of fill in the blanks.
Honestly I loved the huge changes they made to Bill and Frank’s story but I’m kinda sad we didn’t get to see Bill and Ellie interact (Bill is alive in the game) because they were constantly at each other’s throats roasting one another in constant verbal slapfights and those scenes were fucking hilarious.
Infected can only alert each other at a distance if they're connected by mycelium, a network of tendrils that kind of acts like a fungi nervous system. In episode 2 you could see tendrils wrapping around the one they killed, which then alerted the horde they passed earlier that were already interconnected.
The stacked stones are called a burial cairn. Cairns in general have many uses and not every culture used them the same way but they've been found world wide.
There has to be mycelium network underground for the host to connect too to alert others near by.
It's implied that Frank has MS or something similar to it.
I've seen comments saying they don't like the episode because "this deviation has nothing to do with the actual story and main characters of Last of Us so this was just a waste of an episode". I haven't even played the games and I understood instantly that what is shown in Bill and Franks story is the overall message of TLOU? Bill realizing that surviving on it's own is useless unless you have something to survive for. And further more; Joel's relationship with Bill, and Bill's words for Joel in the letter is fundamental for Joel's character arc and motivation. But who am I kidding, those people probably just don't like the episode because of the scary gays lol
Haha is like you picked that outfit just for the episode.
(Iirc) in the show canon, the cordyceps has to be exposed and connected to an underground network. The impact from the infected body landing on the patch of cordyceps is what caused the mass attack last episode, not so much that the infected was attacked. She's super sassy in the game. In fact, what a lot of fans were waiting for this episode was the interaction between Ellie and Bill—specifically because it's a clash of assholes trading barbs. I personally liked the way their story was written for the show, given that Bill was more of a side character in the game, Frank was just a corpse, and their relationship was just a suicide note and a sticky magazine.
I can't stop thinking about Bill/Nick Offermans version of the song I just keep humming it/singing first part of the song I so badly want a full version on spotify this episode is beautiful
Man how Joel is keeping up himself after all the losses he is bearing in 5-10 days is so emotional
"When does it start going to hell?" Never. It never went to hell except in the same way it must for all of us eventually. What a refreshing way to portray a gay couple in genre television. This episode is a far cry from the "bring out your gays" trope where homosexuality is a fatal plot illness and just as far removed from impossibly idealised, perfect and pristine ubergays. They were just a couple of regular dudes who wanted to make it through the apocalypse together and did just about as well at it as anyone could.
It's not just the cookies. Sarah was also going to make pancakes and didn't, Joel was supposed to bring home a birthday cake, and didn't, and Joel claimed he was on Atkins, a "no carb" diet. Jakarta is the sight of the world's largest flour processing plant, the Bogasari Flour Mills. PS: Also, it interesting that when Joel and Bill are talking, Joel still can't refer to Tess as his "girlfriend" or by any other term.
I think its more so just the surroundings, if you walk over a patch of green and it has cordyceps growing within it and its connected to a group laying on patch on cordyceps somewhere else they will pick up the signal that someone is over there (EP2 the Infected guy got shot and crawled onto a patch of cordyceps which was connected to the patch the horde was laying on earlier in the episode).
Quick edit: The rest of your reaction earned you a like, anyone who gets this emotional over this love story is a good person at heart. However, my words still stand! I encourage everyone to learn survival skills, even if only for camping or at home. Food preservation like jams, jellies and pickled foods are incredible. Just knowing how to make a fire without a lighter or other expedited alternatives is far better than just "hoping" the government will keep their word…which they have no reason whatsoever to do…especially when something like this happens. You will be treated like the Germans treated folks in the second world war. Not that I hate Germans, being of some German decent myself, but things happened in history and they can and will be repeated in difficult times.
I enjoyed your reaction but you don't get a like. You were doing fine until your comment about the "don't tread on me" flag. Bill lasted 20 years and I give you maybe an hour after the outbreak so remember that. Not being able to survive does not make you virtuous just because you have, what you consider to be, the "correct" morality or opinion. Sorry but that's as ignorant as anything that you would "guess" a republican or libertarian would say.
Anyone who comes after me just know that I respect your beliefs as a leftist or liberal or anyone and I found Bill and Frank's story beautiful and I cried, but y'all want more government support and intervention. Most of you folks are soft, have zero survival skills and in this world the government is the one mass murdering people soooooo…deal with that…whatever "excuses" y'all come up with will probably get the same laugh that Bill gave in the letter. Hehehehehehehehe! Not today you New World Order jackboot f*cks!
WokeAF Democrat with a bunker checking in. Join us.
The stacked stones are called a cairn.
Frank probably had ALS or MS, neurological diseases that impair motor function as you get older. He felt it was his time to go once he could no longer paint Bill properly.
This episode got me in all type of ways. Playing both games I didn’t see this coming. They did a good ass job
I swear old frank looks like Steven Ogg
Hey, Abi! This installment radically differed from the game.
In the game, you never meet Frank and his relationship with Bill is open to interpretation.
Joel has never met Bill before and only knows him through Tess.
The sequence is action heavy starting with Joel getting ensnared by one of Bill's traps, a tense effort to push a pick-up truck into jumpstarting without attracting attention from the infected and navigating an abandoned school where you encounter a spore-spewing bloater in the gymnasium!
At a garage, you find Frank's hung body with a note explaining he tried to leave because he was fed up with Bill's misanthropy but got bitten and killed himself rather than turn.
Bill and Ellie are oil and water needling each other throughout. Bill urges Joel to dump her because looking after the weak is the surest way to die.
The episode is the opposite in that it's character-driven, focused on the side characters, specific about their relationship and has Bill convincing Joel to protect Ellie posthumously.
It works for the show with two great performances by Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett.
We also get another flashback to pandemic mass executions by the military.
Bill had a sweet little spread all to himself! For him, the apocalypse was paradise! Lol.
Many people have found this to be one of the most profoundly emotional episodes of television they've ever seen and are praising and praying for it to win awards.
When you consider too that in this universe, gay marriage was never legalized, making it all the more beautiful that in the midst of the mushroom apocalypse, these two got to grow old together and go out on their own terms.
oh ellie is even sassier
I'm so glad they deviated from the game's story in this way. Bill and Frank's characters were treated with much more love here, I think.
Nope sorry I love you, but I have already had my heart broken by this episode 4 times and cant take more lol
This show is so good, it really hits hard!
I still have not recovered 😢😢😢😢
I 100% blame Frank for calling Bill’s name and getting him shot
I was enjoying your reaction video until you exhibited your deep seated bigotry and prejudice against “Republicans” and your statement “they don’t deserve encouragement”. Have you ever met any real Americans who vote Republican or do you just believe the stereotype propagated by those inside the echochamber that defines your world view of what a “Republican” is? You know that is the very definition of prejudice and bigotry?
I agree, this was a beautiful and very unexpected episode from a Zombie/infected, surviving the apocalypse type show.
I'm not a game player either so I come in with no specific expectations for characters and plot.
I love the different ways the show allow us to explore this world. In the video game, we're stuck with Joel, so we're constantly seeing the world through his eyes.
In the show, we can have flashbacks like the one in Jakarta and almost this entire episode. What I love the most about post-apocalyptic stories is the different ways humans survive, consider one another and so on.
Also, I love the fact that they picked the most hyper masculine gruffy gun toting character and gave him a lovely story with Frank (I have a feeling that, because a certain part of the audience could project themselves into Bill, it personally offended them when he turned out to be gay).
Give a good rating to the show on IMDb and all if you can, because homophobes are trying to tank the episode u_u.
Bill is literally in an apocalypse and found someone,what does he have that I don't? 😭
Frank's actor also appears in The White Lotus season 1, he's great there (and it's a very different role from Frank).
2:32 She is pretty sassy in the game as well…I do not know if you are aware of this? However Ellie in the game is voiced by Ashley Jonson AKA Pike from Critical Role. She won an award for her voice acting in that role. So I hope that she gets to play a role in the show. A doctor maybe…
Now I have seen a lot of reaction to this episode…Every single one done by a woman have so far ended in tears. I do not mean that in a condescending way at all. It just seems like the way this episode displays a loving relationship really hits home, especially for the ladies
What fun seeing your reaction to this. Beautiful. And thank you for being so cool and not one of the horrible people who are complaining about the love between Bill and Frank.