Welcome to Savage Starlight the official unofficial podcast for the last of us on HBO. I'm Jim. I may run and today we're talking about season one episode four, but we're not talking about it. You're talking about it.

I'm not crying. You're crying. A run. I don't know. There was nothing to cry about in this episode, but I hear there is plenty of feedback to talk about. Oh, yeah, no shortage of that.

I don't think we talked about this in the main podcast. The fact that this show continues to grow.

It, uh, yeah, you know, it posted like a 7.8 million share for whatever that that first, you know, I don't think that's the three day plus kind of number, but like we start off a five million. And then it was up to like, you know, six point something. Now it's like, uh, at the end of its run, house of the dragon was about 10 to 11 million. It started that way. It's going to stay and maintain its audience. And you know, someone pointed out that this just does.

It wasn't really happened. Um, it was a case in the early going of the golden age of television when people were just finding out about streaming and stuff that like shows would gain steam over season over season, but through a season that you're actually each week about another million people mozzy on over and start watching to show pretty crazy, pretty crazy. Yeah. So that's, that's really exciting.

Um, also a lot of people wrote in and said they were touched by the mere recollection of this damn dying pet poem, uh, that I misremembered the title of so a lot of people wrote in and like, what is the, what is the name of that poem. I want to read for myself. I'm going through something similar, et cetera.

Uh, it is May I go now by Susan A Jackson. And again, it's, uh, it's pretty, pretty strong stuff. I still am not thinking about it. So I don't get choked up, um, that's, that's, if you, if you want pain, uh, or I guess comfort in the long term, that's, that's where you go. May I go now by Susan A Jackson.

All right. T Liu at baldmove.com T L O U at baldmove.com is how you get onto this feedback show. It's the only way to get on this feedback show.

Have, have a, have your strongest take earliest as you can get it to me. T Liu at baldmove.com first up as Rachel, that either of you made the connection between the soundtrack played during Frank's last day in the movie arrival, the song on the nature of daylight by Max Richter, of course, we know Max as torturing us on the left, the leftovers, the ebony and the ivory, uh, the nature on the nature of daylight by Max Richter is a song used in arrival where Luis snowing, uh, everything she has to lose still.

It makes the choice to start a family with Ian, hmm, T Liu uses the same song in the scenes of Frank's last day at a very strong emotional reaction of Frank's last day, likely because of the complicated emotions I had watching arrival and recognizing the music from that film after three pregnancy losses, I may understand Luis's choice better than many, the profound love you experience when you know someone no matter how long, and how that can be worth the pain of their loss and Bill and Frank's case they spend their last day reflecting on their lives together and Bill finds an unexpected fulfillment in his choice

to bring Frank into his life, both Luis and Bill know that choosing love brings with it the threat of sorrow, but it brings purpose to their lives that they would have never had without.

Um, boy, arrival packs a punch. Yeah. And I did not, I'm surprised because I just rewatched arrival late last year. It was kind of fresh in my mind. I went through kind of like a mini sci-fi marathon for myself.

And yeah, late stage arrival packs a punch. I'm surprised I didn't recognize the music as belong that film. It's great choice.

Can't go wrong. Max Rector, if you're wanting to people to feel, feel feelings.

Bradley from Indiana, fellow former user. Well, I guess he's a fellow user. I'm a former user. We used to be Hoosiers. We used to dig coal.

I was just listening to your recap from episode three and there was something you missed. You mentioned that I initially agreed with but after rewatch felt totally different about hear me out.

You both seem to agree that Bill's solo gun battle in the middle of the street was totally out of character for this normally very cold and calculated man who watches the infected get brain through his video monitor.

While true on the face of things, I think it overlooks the love that Frank consistently brought out to this more irrational vulnerable and opulsive side of Bill.

This is evident from the very first scene together where against his very much better judgment, he allows Frank a complete stranger lurking in his backyard into his home for lunch and then into his bed.

Years later in the strawberry patch, he wistfully admits that he never felt afraid until Frank showed up.

The last scene together when he takes the pills in his own wine and gulps it down because Frank was his purpose.

Pre Frank Bill would have never taken his own life before his time had come. He was a self-proclaimed survivalist after all the objective antithesis of being suicidal.

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