Yes, the series' commitment to being edgy can sometimes come across as a touch goofy, but that often adds to its charm in a way that many lesser series have failed to replicate. Anime fans might have made a meme out of Light's infamous potato chip scene, but it's a brilliant little moment that uses strong direction and sound design to suck viewers into Light's twisted perspective. The art design and direction are what make this anime series truly stand out though. Related: Death Note's Artist Puts His Spin on Comedy in New Manga Show-Ha Shoten! Few other series make a psychological game of cat and mouse as fascinating as Death Note. Far from the high-octane battles of a series like Naruto or Dragon Ball Z, Death Note's 'battles' are far more cerebral. It’s myopic to dismiss this, the third episode of a new show, because the characters from the first two episodes didn’t have as much screen time.It's no understatement to say that Death Note completely rewrote the book on what was possible in a shonen series. Even if you think the show needs to abide by some strict adherence to Joel, consider what it means for him to have known Bill and Frank and what impact their suicide will have on him. Long, Long Time adds texture to the world, establishes a tone of the series, and provides hope in the face of nihilism - something the game has often lacked and been frequently criticized for. But the shortest route to the destination isn’t inherently the best one in any story. Joel could have found a truck on the side of the road instead of taking Bill’s, or he could have found the empty house without us needing to see their entire relationship unfold. ![]() Are they filler scenes, or are you just mad because gay? Neither of those sequences have anything to do with Joel and Ellie’s journey. ![]() In just the first two episodes we’ve seen a 1968 talk show describing a hypothetical virus, and a cold open depicting how the outbreak first started in Jakarta, and I didn’t hear anyone complain about either of those scenes for breaking from the source material. This is the most the show has strayed away from Joel’s point of view, but it isn’t the first time. ‘Filler’ is not the right term, but I recognize people are using it to criticize the episode because it doesn’t strictly follow Ellie and Joel’s journey the way the game does. The first season is made up of nine episodes of varying length (this ‘filler episode’ is 23 minutes longer than the previous one) that fit together to tell the story Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann want to tell. The Last of Us, like all modern HBO shows, is as long as its creators have decided it needs to be. The Last of Us is not trying to stay behind an ongoing storyline in another medium, nor does it need to pad out the season in order to fill an episode quota. This week’s episode Long, Long Time is not a product of either scenario. Lost Creators Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have admitted that the episode was created to pad out the season, and the negative reaction to it is the reason that ABC agreed to give Lost an end date. ![]() The third season’s Stranger in a Strange Land is regarded as Lost’s worst episode because nothing that happens in it helps get us closer to solving the show’s mysteries. ![]() One very notable episode of TV filler comes from Lost, the breakout, heavily serialized puzzle box series from the early ‘00s. Well, here I am taking the bait: Long, Long Time is not, and could never be, a filler episode, because The Last of Us has nothing to ‘fill’. It’s a filler episode - a pointless waste of time that detracts from the actual story being told. This week’s episode, Long, Long Time, is bad not because it’s gay (some of my best friends are gay, alright?) but because it doesn’t “move the plot forward”. In TLOU’s case, the rallying cry of the homophobe is ‘filler episode’. Related: Joel Is Already A More Sympathetic Character In The Last Of Us On HBO They’re not homophobic, you see, they just have a specific and nuanced issue with this particular situation. They’ll claim making Harley Quinn bi is disrespectful to the source material, or that the Overwatch writers are condescendingly pandering to the audience with the inclusion of queer characters. Bigots will do backflips to justify their bigotry, and unfortunately, they’re often successful in convincing others to hate something for the reason they just made up.
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