To nobody’s surprise, the latest episode of HBO’s 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us is getting 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:review-bombed. Again. Episode🥃 seven, titled Left Behind, is based on the DLC expansion of the same name, and chronicles the events that trigger the game’s main plotline. Left Behind features Ellie and her friend Riley, who ran away weeks earlier to join the Fireflies. Ellie is furious at Riley for leaving her alone for such a long time, so Riley brings her to an abandoned mall to show her the ‘wonders’ of this relic of American consumerism – in other words, arcades, a photo booth, a carousel and an escalator.
Spoilers follow for The Last of Us episode seven
It turns out the Fireflies are moving Riley to the Atlanta Quarantine Zone and this is her way of saying goodbye to Ellie. Ellie storms out, but returns, begs her not to leave, and Riley agrees. They kiss, then are attacked by an infected, both are bitten, and they spend whatever time they have left together. Because we know that Ellie survived this encounter wit🌺hout getting infected and that she also had to kill before she met Joel, it’s pretty obvious that she later had to shoot Riley to save herself.
It’s a touching, poignant story, one that was critically praised across the board when it was first told in the original DLC. It makes sense that they’d choose to adapt it for the television show, especially when itꦇ tells an integral part of Ellie’s story. And yet, at the time of writing, this episode has a 7.8 user rating on , ཧwith the majority of ratings, about 37 percent, being 10 stars and about 11 percent being 1 star. Weird spread, huh?
Naturally, the only two episodes of The Last of Us that have been review-bombed are – you guessed it! – gay as hell. Episode three, Long, Long Time, has an even wider spread of ratings; at the time of writing, over half of ratings are 10 stars, and just over a quarter are 1 star. Some reviewers expressed anger that the episode was ‘too woke’ and that the show wasn’t sticking closely enough to the game. I’ve 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:written about this already, but I have to add – though Bill and Frank’s relationsh♏ip was more subtextual and discoverable than explicit, it was definitely canon. It was just given more coverage and reframed in the show.
I can’t imagine how you could have the same argument about Left Behind. It is, almost beat for beat, exactly the same as the game’s DLC. There is no more false outrage over the show ‘changing too much’ about the game to hide behind here, no way to say ‘the game was better’ in an attempt to hide what this is really about, which is blatant homophobia. And honestly, if that’s the case, why even watch the show? Ellie is, as made canon by the DLC and The Last of Us Part 2, a lesbian. In the second game, her relationship with Dina is a major part of the plot. There is a trans person in the second game, too. There’s no running from it: the series is queer. If that’s a problem for you, Bella Ramsey themself said it best: 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:“Get used to it.”
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