Sometimes it's impossible to go back to the main story.
I am not a mcspirker but that doesn't mean I don't care about Bones or think he's close to them. He's family.
You can play a lot with the dynamics. The one I like best is where Jim and Bones are best friends, then Jim starts getting close to Spock and Bones feels jealous because he fears he's losing his best friend spot. So they hang out together with this obvious competitive air, putting each other down for the benefit of Jim, trying to prove to Jim that they are the best friend and the other isn't.
And then Bones gets it. Spock isn't after his spot. He wants to be something very different to Jim; he wants a romantic relationship. At which point Bones gradually quits with the competitive shit and wingmans each of them to the other. Complaining all the while that they're giving him gray hair with their slow burn nonsense. He's the first to congratulate them when they finally get together.
By the movie era he is genuinely like a brother to both of them, confident in his place in the family.
This is all yet another manifestation of my "romantic love isn't by definition closer than platonic" hobby horse. Kirk and Spock don't love Bones less. They love him differently.
*takes drag* but that's just, like, my opinion, man. Those of you who do ship all three together, I get where you're coming from.
Puki how do you feel about @therealjacksepticeye being named the King of Tumblr by the official Tumblr account? Do you feel your throne is threatened?
I WAS FUCKING SNUBBED! HE’S BARELY A TUMBLR USER. HE IS A YOUTUBER! He came crawling back from twitter when that site turned into a Nazi Germany. I don't blame him for that, but this has long-since been my home, I am a man of the people. He doesn’t NEED these HAND-ME-DOWN TITLES!!! The Academy is filled to the brim with limp-dicked WORMS.
I have never cried that fucking hard over a show in years.
I fully FULLY support the divergence of this episode, it was a phenomenal example of adapting source material in a way that feels like “oh yeah this is what actually happened they just didn’t have time in the game for all of this holy shit”.
They expanded on the frankly easy to ignore implications of the game and showed us that life can still be even in the midst of fear and uncertainty and apathy and FUCKING EVERYTHING, they showed us goodness and survival out of love because THAT is what The Last Of Us is about.
Death is horrific and sudden and will rob you blind with nothing to salvage; but it isn’t always that. Death is also kind, even forgiving. “Satisfying”, in the words of Bill. Frank wasn’t brutalized this time around, Bill wasn’t left alone to his prior demons. We got to see a side of this universe that hasn’t been portrayed thus far and it wasn’t twenty years of violent tragedy.
It was twenty years of two men enduring and surviving together in a world that had gone to shit, but they still took the leap and held hands while they fell. Everything else, the journey to the bottom, came after and it came painlessly.
I used to hate the world and I was happy when everyone died. But I was wrong, because there was one person worth saving. That’s what I did.
THE LAST OF US (2023-) S01E03 | “Long Long Time”
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