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tunaburn t1_jcbu3eq wrote

Reply to comment by MisterCatLady in [OC] "The Last of Us" S1 episodes rating by IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes by Probio

I took it the other way. The IMDB scores on 2 episodes (3 and 7) are way lower because they had gay characters in them and the review section is flooded with low reviews crying about the showing "being woke" and how disgusted they are with it.

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sim21521 t1_jcbw9tj wrote

3 was fine, actually maybe one of my favorite episodes of the season, 7 was a pace killer and not a very good episode, easily the worst of the season for me.

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tunaburn t1_jcbwif0 wrote

3 was amazing. I agree that 7 was too slow. I told my wife after I wish they had cut back and forth with current day during the episode or had the flashback only be half of it.

But even the worst episode of this show was better than 95% of television shows.

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sim21521 t1_jcbyl1h wrote

I felt so too, they didn't map the old story with the new events much. It just felt like two running stories with little to tie the two together.

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InsuranceToTheRescue t1_jccgmin wrote

Some guy at the bar I tend for episodes 1 & 2 was going on and on and on about how great the show was. I loved it, especially seeing that it's one of the few video game to tv/movie conversions that's been done really well.

I came in the week episode 3 aired and he refused to talk about it. Refused to even continue watching the show. He was just so angry about it. He is going to deny himself an entire story, one of the best ever told in the modern day, because a couple of minor characters are gay.

I didn't have the heart to tell him about Ellie.

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Throwawaydontmsgme t1_jccl1u7 wrote

I’m not into the naughtydogverse anymore after the cuckmann debacle where he shat on the fans by lumping the homophobic trolls with people who generally disliked how the second games story was handled, but shitting on it just for sexual orientation well his loss, tlou1 is still in my best of it’s time category, and it had a very emotional and human story at its core, at this point in time stories like knock at the cabin which i liked and the whale which i loved having the characters being shown as human first is an amazing move forward, imo lesbian porn should have been banned for straight people, if u can’t like gay guys, maybe u shouldn’t watch gay chicks either heh

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pocketdare t1_jcbyyx7 wrote

I agree completely. The negative "woke" scores probably do factor significantly in the low ratings on IMDB. Especially since RT comprise critics scores that are likely more focused on story and mechanics while viewers that influence IMDB scores have become much more politicized.

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