168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us Part 2 is a very queer game. The main protagonist is a lesbian who spends most of the game protecting her pregnant bisexual girlfriend from danger, while the second protagonist ends up as the found family of a trans boy cast out𒉰 by his religious society.
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The Last of Us is mainly discussed by gaming fans analysing similarities, andꦬ that's no way to watch television.
The show is keeping this energy thus far. Ellie and Dina are stilꦚl canonically and explicitly in a relationship, shown kissing in the recent premiere. And, just like in the game, one of the older members of the Jackson community shouts a homophobic slur at them, causing Joel to attack him. It sets up an interesting world, but the game fumbles this world building.ꦑ I'm hoping the show doesn't do the same.
Ellie And Dina Exploring Seattle Is The Heart Of The Last Of Us
For all the game's most controversial plot points and massive spectacles, I have always felt like Seattle - Day 1, Ellie is the hardest part of the game to adapt. In the game, it carries a lot of weight. It's the first moment you're let off the very linear leash, and get to see both how you want to play Ellie, and how she interacts with Dina. It features the scene at the synagogue, one of my favourite moments in the game, which will likely 𒉰be cut now with Dina's character twea🎐ked slightly.
As a TV show, it's hard to make 'explore a big open space looking for gas and other miscellaneous items' interesting. It will need to be thinned down to its more narrative moments, with the closeness between Ellie and Dina needing to be highlighted to the audience in a shorter space of time. This is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a natural part of﷽ adap🍸ting to the screen. It probably also won't h𒀰ave a section where Ellie dies multiple times, freezes in place while some omniscient god controlling her goes to make a coffee, then springs back to life with the enemies seemingly easier to kill, despite this being a very memorable part of my own experience of The Last of Us.
But if this section is thinned down, one crucial part needs to stay - especially if the synagogue is cut. While wandering deeper into Seattle, Ellie and Dina find a queer book store and wander inside, marvelling at its wares. For a lot of players, queer players especially, this is their favourite moment of the game, one that they can identify with and one that♐ humanises Ellie and Dina beyond the game's gun toting violence. Ho🤪wever, it has always felt like a colossal misstep to me, and the show has a chance to put that right.
Ellie And Dina Need To Visit The Gay Bookstore Again
This all goes back to Joel's confrontation with the ♋homophobe at the dance. This is a crucial moment for The Last of Us, and not just because it highlights Ellie and Joel's rift through her reaction to his 'heroics'. It tells us, as the game does repeatedly, that there is no happy ending. Ellie has a comfo🔜rtable, safe life with a woman she loves, but there is always something threatening to puncture it. It also tells us this is not a utopian society that has left the old world behind. They're just people, same as us, who have endured and survived.
We see this connection to the old world elsewhere too. Joel plays Pearl Jam songs. He remembers 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Jurassic Park. Ellie has access to enough factual material to research Yuri Gagarin, even if she can't 💝pronounce his name. And yet when Ellie and Dina see the Pride flag, they have no idea what it is or what it means. Their innocent reaction at the slightly smutty books ("they're like us", they say at the covers of girls kissing at slumber parties) is in character and endearing, but having no knowledge of the fact that they are in a queer space, or that queer spaces are even a thing that can exist, has always been baffling.
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Ellie and Dina live in a well-populated commune that is highly in touch with popular culture, and both come from different backgrounds, where Joel is confirmed to have had 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:at least two gaꦦꦰy friends in Bill and Frank, while Ellie had 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a girlfriend before Dina in Riley. At no point in either of their lives has any influential figure let them know that gay people existed and had specific communities and symbols and hist🎀ory? They were too busy playing classic rock at them?
In a way, the scene loses the magic if you take away an element of discovery. But with that element dialled to the max, it stops being grounded in the world, which is the crucial thematic role Seattle - Day 1 plays. That first day is, in its own way, another mini Before Time for Ellie and Dina. Having them recognise what the store represents but having it be their first time experiencing it, like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ellie at the space museum, would keep that feeling 𓄧while offeri🐭ng a greater sense of belonging.
For a game both so queer and rich in world-building, it's at the world's queerest moment where this starts to rip at the seams a little. The show, which will c♊hoose its moments more precisely and examine them more deeply, has a chance to elevate this moment by making it feel real. Ellie and Dina know themselves as queer. They should know the world before as queer too.
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