Spoilers for H🌳BO’s The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part 2 ahead.The second season of HBO’s has been taking a lot of liberties with… well, everything. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Jackson’s community plays a much larger part in the story. Abby exposition dumps her whole life story in the first few e❀pisodes. Ellie and Dina feel more l꧟ike rebellious teenagers than young adults. Some key, pivotal moments have been replicated, like Dina and Ellie’s kiss, but others like Dina and Ellie sparking up, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:have been removed.
I’ve generally tried to give the show grace when it comes to how it’s rewriting the story and characters. After all, every change is deliberate, and will have cascading consequences over the course of the sh♐ow’s upcoming episodes and seasons.
The television series is exploring ideas and themes that were 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:less present in the original games, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s an adaptation, not a shot for shot recreation of , and I’d argue it’s more interesting that the show seems to be in conversation with its sourcဣe material instead of copying it.
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But I’m pretty concerned about the way Dina is being framed so far. Over the last few episodes, we’ve seen Dina presented as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a bit of a surrogate daughter to Joel, someone who lovꦑes him as much as Ellie does and has her own separate relationship with him.
The absence of Ellie aᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚnd Dina’s smoking scene in episode two was because Dina was with Joel when he was murdered instead of Tommy, who was back at Jackson trying to prevent the Infected from destroying the town. As a result of this omission and Dina’s fleshed out relationship with Joel, Dina and Ellie never solidify their romantic relationship, and Dina has her own reasons for wanting to purs🎉ue Abby and her friends.
Episode three shows us Ellie recuperating from her physical and emotional wounds, and Dina being the main driver of their revenge quest. It’s Dina who plans their journey, sorts out the logistics, and gathers supplies, weapons, and their horse. It’s Dina who thinks things through so that ⛦Ellie, impetuous and impulsive as she is, doesn’t get herself into trouble. They are two sides of the same, angry coin.
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But these interesting changes also come with a strange narrative choice – Ellie and Dina still have not affirmed their feelings for each other. In fact, their relationship, one of gaming’s most important and well-known sapphic love stories, has been significantly altered. Where the game’s version of Dina only goes on this quest because she’s in love with Ellie, setting off immediately and just as recklessly so Ellie is not alone while she grieves, the show’s Dina is still playing coy. She tells Ellie, “You’re gay, I’m not.” She says she’s gotten back t🐈ogether with Jesse. She plays off the kiss as being meaningless.
There are valid reasons to interpret this as the show writing out Ellie and Dina’s romance, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:as many fans have complained. As a bisexual myself, I balked at the idea that the iconic moment the two knew they were into each other was instead written as the bicurious exploration of a straight girl. Dina doesn’t need to be in love with Ellie in this version of the story, because she’s been given her own reasons to want 🙈revenge, so the show could, in theory, write it out entirely.
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I don’t think this is necessarily the case. What we’re more likely seeing is a slow burn romance, where Dina comes to terms with her sexuality over time. It would certainly be more in line with the slower pacing of a television show, where romance can be developed over the co🐽urse of a season and we’d have the opportunity to watch a very familiar (to many queer people) story play out – someone realising sh🅘e’s bisexual and overcoming comphet.
This isn’t inherently a bad thing. There should be room for this 💯kind of story in prestige media, and to immediately cry biphobia is a mistake. We’re probably going to see a different Dina, one who isn’t quite sure of her sexuality, but whose love is just as valid even if it isn’t immediate.
But it’s also not the Dina we know. The game’s Dina is not just a love interest ♐or a side character, but a symbol of morality. She tries to nudge Ellie onto 🍨a ‘better’ path, one that seeks justice instead of revenge. Her pregnancy makes her a burden, not just physically, but morally – if something bad happens to her and her unborn child, it becomes Ellie’s fault, because Dina is only there because of her.
This Dina isn’t a moral compass. She’s not a symbol of love, or a better way forward, at least not now – if she chooses a different path from Ellie down the line, this reading m๊ight still work, but right now she’s characterised as being just as angry as Ellie. The show’s Dina is a woman on her own quest for revenge, and her not being in love with Ellie is just a symptom of that.
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