The most recent episode of HBO’s The Last of Us has left some fans wondering if Bill and Frank were a gay couple in the original game. This page is for the LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer) characters of The Last of Us video game series. With Bill and Frank's story being told in Episode 3 of The Last of Us, we analyze how their gay romance defies expectation.
According to critics who have seen the show, we're getting a whole lot more of The Last of Us' gay characters than we thought. The Last of Us follows Joel and Ellie as they travel.
With Bill and Frank, we were given a portrait of love—specifically gay love—that feels surprising and urgent. And it’s a gift that could not have arrived at a better moment. In our ownwe. Two years later, the Atari released and I received it for Christmas and I was hooked. Queer and cishet characters included.
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You might also expect too, in this adaptation of a videogame, that the love story would be blandly told: such adaptations do not have a gay of bringing the nuances of human relationships to life. Sign In. Originally posted by Edge Lord Femboy :. I mix it up with Fallout another show I cannot wait forand some Mario for a change of pace. Showing 1 - 15 of 63 comments.
Julie Gentile Julie is a writer by night and marketing bot by day. What a fabulous, fabulous episode of television, down to that final image of the bedroom window Bill left open so that the home he and Frank made together would not be tainted by the smell of what they have become after death. His traps keep the last infected out.
With Tess gone — though she appears in flashbacks later in this episode — the series is leaning harder than ever on the Lone Wolf and Cub dynamic between Joel and Ellie that Pedro Pascal already has some familiarity with from his work on The Mandalorian. At the end of the episode, they climb into a last old Chevy pickup that gay not impress Joel, while she compares it to being in a spaceship.
It would be a blast, after all, to have Bill travel with them for a while, or even to just get one scene between the four of them. No one gets a happy ending, all characters of all sexualities and genders included. Global Achievements. Bill chose a life away from the world, and then gratefully allowed Frank into that life.
As these games have been adapted for the screen, there has not exactly been a wealth of gay characters to choose from. Yes, the off-screen death of Frank in the game gave Bill, the character you get to interact with, more depth. What ensues during their trip feels like a long epic and contains memorable characters and tense sections that made me pause my game more than a few guys.
Joel was not happy when the world ended, because that day brought the death of Sarah. View desktop website.
It was a memorable tale of two initially vastly different people trying to hold onto things that were rapidly slipping away from them — humanity and innocence. He is safe, protected, alone. The games have phenomenal story telling, character development, and world building, but there are no happy endings. But I was wrong, because there was one person worth saving.
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