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[alicemichelle297]

You're going to cry for a "Long, Long Time" after this one - The Last of Us episode 3 recap

I don't think I have as much to say about this episode as I have the previous couple weeks. What I do have to say is positive, though.

This episode takes a bit of a risk by barely featuring our lead characters in it at all. There's a short intro with Joel and Ellie scavenging supplies from one of Joel and Tess' drop locations and a very messy explanation of the scale of destruction in the country.

We see the military rounding up civilians to take them to a quarantine site, only to kill them gang execution style when the QZ is already full. Which again, only makes sense in George Bush's America, so thanks for plugging that plothole, HBO.

Our hero for this episode, Bill, is a prepper who of course didn't go with the government when shit hit the fan and as a result he survived the roundup and was able to claim a whole town for his own.

Nick Offerman could easily be critiqued for just playing Ron Swanson again in this episode, but I think Bill's character really is just a gay Ron Swanson with a dash more paranoia, so you really can't blame the guy or HBO for casting him.

Anyway, life is good for Bill. He's secure, he has food, guns and freedom: everything an American man needs. Then one day, a lone man, Frank, stumbles into one of his traps.

Despite his better instincts, Bill takes Frank in and feeds him, clothes him, and of course sleeps with him.

Over the course of the episode, we see Bill and Frank's entire love story and it's beautiful. The way Bill opens up to Frank is heartwarming and both actors put their whole foot in these performances.

Beyond that, the show continues to impress me with how much smarter of a take it's trying to be on post-apocalyptic fiction. While I do think the military dictatorship is a bit of a stretch, Bill's doomsday preparations are detailed and realistic, and the episode's rumination on euthanasia was a surprise.

It was nice to see how Bill actually met Joel and Tess, and giving Frank some actual screentime enhances their stories greatly. In the game, we meet Frank after he's already killed himself and we find a much less tasteful suicide note left for Bill instead of Joel.

Come to think of it, Bill is still alive in the game version, so he really got the raw deal in this episode.

As a member of the LGBT community, I have to give the show props for portraying a gay romance without being preachy for even a second. It's shown exactly as it should be: a normal love story. In fact, what's highlighted as more unusual in this episode is the relationship between Joel and Tess being questionably romantic compared to our settled down gay couple.

[the-heart-of-a-monster]

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[claraoswalds]

I'm just... post-bi-generation. Ah, it's more than that.

DOCTOR WHO The Giggle

[hyakunana]

What do you mean the construction worker never used the construction buckle????

[kawareo]

I have drawn these gross old men so much in the last year oh god

[jq37]

In January 2024 y'all are gonna see how much I HAVEN'T CHANGED AT ALL. JUNIOR YEAR LET'S GOOOOOO HOOT GROWL BITCHES!!!!

[aprilblossomgirl]

MY DRAMAVERSE 2024 - Favorite Supporting Performance: Ciize Rutricha Phapakithi

1. Beauty Newbie (2024) - as Milin (Guest Role) 2. 23.5 (2024) - as Alpha 3. We Are (2024) - as Fai 4. Peaceful Property (2024) - as Rak (Guest Role) 5. Pluto (2024-2025) - as Pang 6. ThamePo Heart That Skips a Beat (2024-2025) - as Baifern

[lonelymoonrambles]

I've just finished season 6 of deep space nine as a first time viewer and here are my thoughts:

- did Dukat grow out his hair

- Garak is so bitchy with Julian about his augmentation... is this foreplay

- did Garak grow out his hair

- Worf being a bad father does not surprise me AT ALL (#justice4Alexander)

- General Martok is a good daddy! I mean father!

- ziyal is being willfully ignorant...sorry ur dad sucks and you're in love with a gay guy

- as usual, Quark B plot goes hard

- y'all were right, I love Weyoun!!! What a bitch!

- now why do I kinda wanna write a damar/quark fic...

- Rom is A MAN. 🤤👍🙏🤪

- omg ziyal! sorry about what I said before, I actually liked your gentle energy :'(

- Jadzia's wedding dress :') i love her sm

- mirror!Bareil was only marginally less boring than regular Bareil

- love Julian meeting other autistic people and becoming even more powerful

- only thing harder than a quark B plot than a quark A plot! Magnificent Ferengi was so good lol

- they're really trying to make Dukat unredeemable but it won't work on me! I listen to Lana Del Rey! Bad guys forever! 😘

- Are there so many Quark episodes to cut the war stuff or am I just super into Quark.

- ps. My non-trekkie roommate said Quark has "something" and she "totally gets it" GIRL welcome to the club

- honey, i shrunk the ship

- Ok, dont love that dukat/kira's mom situation but my biggest question this ep was: can Bajorans time travel at any time???

- Sloan wants Julian carnally

- "So I lied. I cheated. I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. I ate and left no crumbs in this episode."

-- Vic Fontaine...I don't understand you but I like your singing. Duet with Gaga when

- QUARK IN DRAG. FEMME QUARK. TRANS ICON QUARK.

- yay Keiko's back! But what is this episode (the feral Molly one) 🙃

- please no one speak to me about Jadzia ever again, I can't handle it, I miss her more than Worf does

Final thoughts: Quark has become my favourite character! Xoxoxo

And gimme more garashir you cowards!

[moonchild-in-blue]

The Group Photo feat. Sam and Adam 🥹💙

All of my fav boys in one place 🥹

[savebylou]

Zayn in London night I [26.11.24]

[alicemichelle297]

"Hold To My Hand" - The Last of Us episode 4 recap

Joel and Ellie make a pit stop to siphon off some gas for Bill's truck and to practice gunplay.

Joel actually addresses something in apocalypse fiction that bothers me: gasoline breaks down over time and wouldn't be usable this long into the apocalypse. The show presents this as a reason to need to siphon off gas often, which is better than not acknowledging the problem at all.

HBO continues to faithfully adapt its source material, keeping in Ellie's pun book and lifting the scene wholesale where Ellie finds a pornographic magazine from Bill's place. It's actually an interesting case study in how two different actors can interpret the exact same script completely differently as Bella Ramsey's tone in the scene is completely different from Ashley Johnson's version.

When the duo stops for the night to camp, Joel mentions the threat of uninfected humans outside the quarantine zones again, saying they'd have "way more in mind" than robbing them. This nicely connects to the prevalence of slavers in the second game and with the ambush they'll face later in this same episode. And we get a nice moment showing Joel's addiction to coffee, which is brought up in The Last of Us Part II as well.

When Joel and Ellie reach Kansas City, they're met with roadblocks and notice that the QZ has been abandoned and left wide open. With no military presence here, the city is home to bandits and other dangers.

A man stands in the middle of the road, in need of help. Instead of stopping, Joel hits the gas. It was a trap meant to trick them into stopping the car to help him, but when Joel doesn't fall for it, they resort to shooting to get what they want. Joel is able to dispatch most of them on his own, but when one sneaks up on him, Ellie is forced to step in.

We see Ellie shoot a man for the first time, on screen, but we learn later that she has shot someone before. Joel is stuck saying that it isn't easy for a child to have to do violent things, which Ellie mocks by asking if it's easier when you're older. That was such a dark line for her, but it really expresses her worldview in as few words as possible.

Kansas City is being run by a woman named Kathleen and her militia. It's not immediately clear what their goals are, only that Kathleen is looking for Sam and Henry and that she's keeping some kind of secret in a warehouse which I assume is some kind of infected like a Bloater or something.

Kathleen is a bit too comic book villain for this series, from what we've seen so far. She holds a doctor at gun point demanding information and then later walks in and shoots him down seemingly for no reason other than to make herself feel better. Nothing against the actor, I just think this is bad material to work with. It doesn't lead me to care about this place or these people, it makes me hope Joel and Ellie get out of here as soon as possible so I don't have to see this storyline for much longer.

They literally bring one dead man to her doorstep and Kathleen blames it on Sam and demands that her people go forth and kill everyone they can find. Like what is going on?

Joel and Ellie spend the rest of the episode sneaking through town and trying to find a safe place to lie low.

Ellie reveals that Joel has hearing loss in his right ear, which leads to them being ambushed in the night when Joel rolls over onto his side and isn't able to hear them coming.

The episode cuts with Joel at gunpoint.

[hoolyelina]

ladybug redesign bc i fucking hate this show but also love it dearly , and i despise boring ass body suits ( `−ㅿ−´)

[mayvora]

give me six thing I got from my friends. 5th one is my partners ( @melnotfound ) character! he said I should draw him so I did lol.

I'm trying my best here!! learning how to draw!! yayyy

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[peridotite]

guys shin is still a twink thank god

[milkcurdles]

Warm down doodle!

[accio-victuuri]

WANG YIBO, YOU MEAN THE MATCHING HOT SEARCH YOU HAVE AND THE USE OF THE WORD COOL TO DESCRIBE YOU BOTH?!!!!!