The most recent episo of HBO’s The Last of Us has left some fans wonrg if Bill and Frank were a gay uple the origal game.
Contents:
- HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
- HBO’S THE LAST OF US GETS REVIEW BOMBED AFTER HISTORIC GAY EPISO
- ARE BILL AND FRANK GAY THE LAST OF US? WHAT’S THEIR RELATNSHIP?
- HBO’S ‘THE LAST OF US’ DIRECTOR SAYS YOU NEED TO ‘TRICK’ VIEWERS TO WATCHG A GAY LOVE STORY
- THE LAST OF US’S GAY LOVE STORY BREAKS NEW GROUND FOR AN ENTIRE GENRE
- THE LAST OF US EPISO 3 REVIEW BOMBED BEE GAYS EXIST
- WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? RELATNSHIP WH FRANK EXPLAED
- GAMER EXPLAS WHY BILL AND FRANK TOTALLY WEREN’T GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAME, YOU GUYS
- ‘THE LAST OF US’ DIRECTOR SAYS HE WANTED TO ‘TRICK’ AUDIENCE INTO WATCHG GAY LOVE STORY
- WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME?
- THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
- ‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
- THE LAST OF US PART 2 BURI ITS GAYS BEFORE RELEASE (AND MAYBE THAT’S OKAY)
- THE LAST OF US LETS GAY LOVE FLOURISH THE APOLYPSE
- ‘THE LAST OF US’ PRENTS AN ACHGLY BETIFUL GAY LOVE STORY
- WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? EXPLAED
HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
HBO's h vio-game adaptatn seri The Last of Us took an unexpected tour to gay terrory s most recent episo. The episo director has said viewers sometim need to be tricked to watchg a gay love story. * two gay guys the last of us *
Bill is gay the game, but ’s referenced so vaguely that plenty of players missed . The cisn to keep muted, hted at a sgle le of dialogue and a hidn letter, was both praised and cricized — was easy to overlook, but also avoid a lot of gay-character trop, and allowed Bill to be a human and not “a maniftatn of sexualy, ” as Polygon’s Danielle Rien put at the time. The game’s storyle don’t avoid trop altogether, though: It was cricized for “buryg s gays.
And bee of this gay reprentatn on-screen, a ntgent of largely homophobic dience members have been quick to share s vrl.
HBO’S THE LAST OF US GETS REVIEW BOMBED AFTER HISTORIC GAY EPISO
Episo 3 of The Last Of Us explored Bill and Frank's heartwrenchg relatnship but fans have been askg if Bill was gay the game. * two gay guys the last of us *
Bill n’t exist whout beg gay Frank’s arms. Apparently the wrers thk Bill and Frank’s inty was jt that they were gay, nothg more than that.
ARE BILL AND FRANK GAY THE LAST OF US? WHAT’S THEIR RELATNSHIP?
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Oh and that person jt happens to also be gay?
HBO’S ‘THE LAST OF US’ DIRECTOR SAYS YOU NEED TO ‘TRICK’ VIEWERS TO WATCHG A GAY LOVE STORY
"And jeroen-10631 even lled out the episo's haters, sayg review bombers should "be ashamed of themselv" and that "clearly the story of two gay men ma you so unfortable:""Some of the people mentg about “polil propaganda” and 'checkg off liberal box' should be ashamed of themselv. Clearly the story of two gay men ma you so unfortable that you only subnscly realized you are so behd the tim and been raised rigid and immature while htg that '1 star' button. All tak is a simple Google search to figure out that this is simply the act of homophobic ter trolls.
THE LAST OF US’S GAY LOVE STORY BREAKS NEW GROUND FOR AN ENTIRE GENRE
In the game, while not overtly shown, Bill is gay. The show is already garnerg high praise for s third episo, which lved ep to a si story wh two gay characters at s re. Several more gay characters are sttered among the game’s st, and future episos — and seasons — will see the h characters realized live-actn for the first time.
THE LAST OF US EPISO 3 REVIEW BOMBED BEE GAYS EXIST
Ellie Image via Nghty Dog That’s right, the lead character The Last of Us is part of the gay muny. The character’s sexualy is hted at the Last of Us gam, and many players termed that he was gay, but players didn’t get nearly the romance the origal that HBO livered wh “Long Long Time.
If you are wonrg whether Frank and Bill are gay the show and the 2013 Nghty Dog vio game is based on, we got you vered. It gradually be apparent to the men that they both are gay. It is que apparent that Frank was openly gay the world before the outbreak, whereas Bill had never been wh a man before Frank.
“Frank’s an out and proud gay man, but Bill is Bill, ” Peter Hoar, the director of the episo, told Variety. “Even though I’m not a middle-aged, married gay man, I’m a middle-aged, married man, ” he stated. HBO’s h vio-game adaptatn seri The Last of Us took an unexpected tour to gay terrory s most recent episo, focg on a buddg romance between the characters played by actors Nick Offerman and Murry Bartlett.
WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? RELATNSHIP WH FRANK EXPLAED
In a recent terview, the episo director said viewers sometim need to be tricked to watchg a gay love story.
Director Peter Hoar, who is openly gay, spoke to the science-foced se Inverse about makg the show. Hoar directed the recent Brish miseri It’s a S, which followed the liv of a group of gay men at the height of the AIDS epimic. After wng turns Lookg, Tal of the Cy and The Whe Lot, he’s fast beg one of the medium’s most proment gay the episo nears s end, and Frank be curably sick, the uple’s last scen together are profoundly movg.
GAMER EXPLAS WHY BILL AND FRANK TOTALLY WEREN’T GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAME, YOU GUYS
The episo is, among other thgs, a subversn of the much-cricised “bury your gays” trope. Here, y, are two gay characters who die. When lookg closer at the one-star ratgs, many brg up the fact that Bill is gay, dubbg the episo a "borg" romance.
‘THE LAST OF US’ DIRECTOR SAYS HE WANTED TO ‘TRICK’ AUDIENCE INTO WATCHG GAY LOVE STORY
Other one-star reviews are angry that a gay man met a gay man, dubbg pletely unlikely, while the same breath mentng a girl who is somehow immune to a vis that has torn down the walls of society as we know . It's fairly obv what the mon thread is across this sudn flux of negative reviews - a gay uple dared exist. Another tertg plat levied at this episo is that 's a disservice to the game, spe beg an episo that revolv entirely around buildg on clu given the game while also makg up for s pfalls reprentatn, namely fallg to the Bury Your Gays trope.
Bury Your Gays, if you're unaware, is a trope which gay upl disproportnately break apart due to ath. It was a gay story that wasn't mired trma, but bee of the "lack of actn", apparently wasn't worth tellg.
WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME?
Gay people existg is polil, apparently, and so TLOU even darg to show two gay people livg their liv together is to make some grand statement, spe the show already beg heavily polil given that the US ernment turn to psdo-Nazis that fd easier to burn people alive than take re of them. Gay people exist, the ter gets mad, review bomb ensu.
Acrdg to crics who have seen the show, we're gettg 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 across a post-apolyptic Ameri tryg to avoid fung-fected zombi.
*WARNING: Spoilers ahead for The Last Of Us*The story of Bill and Frank is only briefly touched upon The Last Of Us vio game, but episo 3 of HBO’s adaptatn has dramatilly expand on their relatnship what is a notable viatn om the source enthrallg episo is filled wh tensn, joy and heartbreak as tells the pair’s story over almost two s, begng wh their first meetg after Frank fell to one of Bill’s follows is a betiful love story that has left fans wh a number of qutns, wh some askg whether Bill was gay The Last Of Us game self. TERMINAL ILLNESS: FRANK’S FATE IN THE LAST OF US SERIES IS A HUGE DEPARTURE FROM ORIGINAL GAME© HBO | Liane HentscherWas Bill gay The Last Of Us game? Y, Bill is nfirmed to be gay The Last Of Us vio game.
THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
Speakg The Last Of Us podst, Craig Maz reerated this pot, sayg: “This wasn’t a new ncept that Bill was gay, that’s the game. Like, what’s gay about a zombie apolypse?
I mean, I’ve only played The Last of Us Part One, but I’m pretty sure there aren’t ANY gay characters. I’ve even played the Left Behd DLC, and the libs like to say ’s gay, but ’s so totally not.
Boys don’t though, e that’s gay. Nothg gay about science.
‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
This is why Bill And Frank are f NOT gay the game Don’t believe the hype, bro.
There are SO MANY reasons why Bill and Frank aren’t gay the game. ” But fely NOT a gay way.
THE LAST OF US PART 2 BURI ITS GAYS BEFORE RELEASE (AND MAYBE THAT’S OKAY)
It’s fely not gay to dance wh your bros when there aren’t any girls around. And sometim when he dips me and I look to his ep green ey they remd me of soft, rollg fields of grass that I jt want to stretch out naked on wh him while the sun warms our glisteng bodi—but totally NOT a gay way.
I thk I need to tell Kyle somethg … that I love him … forever … But TOTALLY not a gay way.
THE LAST OF US LETS GAY LOVE FLOURISH THE APOLYPSE
And by all means, there are homophobics that hate this game bee they heard Ellie is gay. The are the type of people that reviewed the game before was lnched and the on that jt review bombed metacric by sayg, "I hate the gays". So they ma Ellie gay and add a transgenr character so they n get more sal om the LGBTQ+ muny.
‘THE LAST OF US’ PRENTS AN ACHGLY BETIFUL GAY LOVE STORY
People that tried to nstctively cricize the game are beg brand as homophobic, so Nghty Dog beme partially immune bee the reviewer was biased and homophobic. “The Last of Us” director Peter Hoar said he wanted to “trick” his dience to watchg a gay love story an episo of HBO Max’s new apolyptic, who is gay and is known for his work on the Brish LGBT+ miseri, “It’s a S, ” said that he wanted the viewers to see that was the “same love” as straight people, but jt between two guys, Inpennt UK reported. The most recent episo of HBO’s The Last of Us has left some fans wonrg if Bill and Frank were a gay uple the origal game.
WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? EXPLAED
Wh such drastic chang, pecially when to Bill and Frank’s relatnship, some are left askg if Bill was really gay The Last of Us vio game. The biggt hts towards Bill beg a gay man are his relatnship to Frank and a certa magaze that Ellie steals om his stash the church basement, both of which n be missed by players not engagg optnal ntent or not payg close enough attentn.