What Happened To The Last of Us???
What. Was. The. Point? I mean seriously, can we please get good entertainment without toxic agenda? The Last of Us offered up some of the best episodes of television I’ve seen in a very, very long time. But the third episode just derailed all the good fan support and accolades it had only just gotten. How could such a good show go so bad so quickly?
The third episode of The Last of Us is out and it was exactly what I feared would happen. They turned a very intense section of the game into a rainbow flag flaunting episode! The episode begins innocently enough with Joel and Ellie beginning their trek out west. They hit up one of Joel’s weapons and supply stashes. I thought this was a nice touch that reflected the game quite well. I did enjoy scavenging for supplies throughout the wasteland when I played the game. They continue onward and stumble upon a mass grave. Though this one was not filled with infected but by regular, everyday people that didn’t fit into the quarantine zone. Showing the human element of the apocalypse is often overlooked or washed over in other end of the world shows. Joel mentioning the threat of raiders was a good nod to that.
Upon seeing the mass grave, we get a flashback to the outbreak where we meet Bill, a doomsday prepper in his sub-basement and his arsenal. He begins to build a life for himself after the end of the world, picking up supplies at Home Depot, turning the gas back on himself, and setting up the booby traps which made his character in the game so great. Then he encounters Frank and this is where the episode goes off the rails completely. While it would have been cool to see a friendship develop between these characters in a natural, normal manner, this is not what we get.
The producers decided to shoehorn in the alphabet soup mafia agenda straight down our collective throats. If you want to write Brokeback Massachusetts, have at it, all the more power to you, I fully support you doing that. Write a good story about alternative lifestyles and have it stands on its own merits, by all means. But when you rewrite established characters and narrative to fit your narrowminded narcissistic agenda, that shows me one thing. You can’t write well. If you wrote well, you would establish your own franchise and build a whole universe with its own, unique message, much in the same way as JRR Tolkien did with The Lord of the Rings.
But writers these days are not as talented as Tolkien. They’re a far cry from literary excellence. This is the generation of writers that aim to destroy everything that was established before. They do this to advance their narcissistic, nihilistic, and bleak view of the world. It’s actually quite sad. These are sad individuals. And they’re ruining it for everyone.
What made the first two episodes of The Last of Us so good, was that they followed the game almost frame by frame. There were some changes here and there. But those changes did not affect the tone, setting, narrative, or overall feel of the story we all know and love. This was the first time the changes were just too much. I thought it was cool when I heard they were going to flesh out the story of Bill and Frank, but this might as well have been a totally different character in a totally different series. This was nothing at all like Bill in the game and the fact that he gets no scenes with Ellie and Joel is a huge letdown. Some of the best interactions in the game were those between Bill and Ellie.
If you have to shoehorn in this agenda, at least do it well. There are several instances where Bill makes very egregious mistakes that a libertarian doomsday prepper wouldn’t make. Going out with a sniper rifle and not taking cover is the epitome of stupidity. We see he gets shot almost immediately. He takes a gut shot, which, without professional medical care is absolutely deadly. But oh no, here comes the Mary Sue character that just knows everything. Frank removing the bullet from Bill’s belly is laughably ludicrous. The 1999 movie Three Kings about a group of American soldiers in the first Gulf War depicts the gut shot in a much more believable way. You can’t just field remedy an injury like this. But the woke agenda states that oppressed groups are already completely infallible and magically awesome at everything they do.
They absolutely ruined Bill and Frank’s story with their blatant shoehorning of diversity and inclusion. This show is supposed to be a bleak apocalypse, not a love story, and especially not the alphabet soup flavor. You would think that such character traits would be even larger liabilities during an apocalypse but these writers and producers are allergic to logic and reason. It just felt completely forced. I had to fast forward through some of that crap because I’m absolutely sick of this garbage being rammed down my throat. Whatever happened to “no means no?”
The majority of the population is absolutely sick and tired of the woke agenda and everything that it encompasses. You can see it in the extreme decline in NFL ratings and cratered box office profits. For example, the movie Bros absolutely tanked, gee I wonder why. I’ve never seen a movie go straight to video so quick. It’s because this segment of the population is so minute and small, perhaps less than a tenth of a percent of the population, however it’s much louder than 99% of society and that’s why we hear so much about it. Everyone knows it but they’re too afraid to speak out about it. To give it a name.
The Tyranny of the Hyperminority has been going on since at least 2015 and perhaps a bit before that as Twitter became more and more ubiquitous. The virtualization that has been going on over the last two decades is not representative of the real world. It’s not a real world sample. And this virtualization, as Jordan Peterson points out, enables psychopathy. This becomes a problem because when the psychopaths multiply enough, they take the whole society out. Therein lies the problem with modern entertainment media. The nihilistic narcissists have multiplied out of control through the advent of social media. This is why we get the shows and movies that we get.
We got two masterpiece episodes of TV in the first two episodes of The Last of Us. Then it all fell apart in the third episode because the agenda must be rammed down everyone’s throats. The third episode destroyed all the positive feeling audiences had grown toward the show. I am a fan of the game, I do want to see the rest of this mini series, but if they keep shoving in messaging that doesn’t belong in the story, I won’t be able to continue watching and neither will a whole lot of other people. And that would be a shame because it would be a wasted opportunity to make some of the best television so far this century.
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