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This was a really good, interesting and terrifying episode! The actor did a really good job of playing the cannibal, molester, preacher! He was frightening! Bella was great because I could feel her pain, anger and cry for mental health therapy! Joel woke up, went right into beast mode and started brutality killing people! ! I enjoyed this episode and I'm waiting to see what they have coming for us in episode 9!
I recently (yesterday and today) re-watched the entire series in preparation for the final episode an one thing that just rubs me the wrong way is that why didn't Marlene just take blood or tissue samples from Ellie and send them to whatever Fireflies lab she wanted to smuggle Ellie to? Why did they need Ellie herself? Did they want to experiment on her. Use her as a lab rat or something? The reason I wonder this is because one of the main tropes of show and films that have a unique character is that they're always afraid of being the target of "mad scientists" who want to study them. Ellie isn't one to tolerate that kind of shit.
I like how they've sorta hinted at that throughout the series, but most recently in the 6th episode "Kin". Joel's reputation had preceeded him and Tommy's new wife was almost afraid of him.
Something I noticed is that he called Ellie an equal. That was a dead give away for me. An adult should never see a child as an equal. It’s similar to him saying that she’s mature for her age. It’s possible she could have become a child bride and that thought terrifies me.
him calling her an equal wasnt a dead giveaway. that just portrayed him saying i see the dark in u and i have it too, so ellie could feel seen. yeah he had other things in mind, but that wasnt a dead giveaway. what u talking about.
Ellie channeled her inner Rorschach when David was trying to get her in the steakhouse. "I'm not locked in here with you! You're locked in here with me!"
Absolutely loved how all the violence was shot and edited in this episode. Especially these three moments (chronologically): 1. The camera cutting to a wide as Joel casually buries a knife into that guy's chest 2. The blood just gushing out of James' neck as he slumps against the wall and falls down... And we can see his chest rise and fall as he takes his last breaths (btw how cool is it that Show Ellie kills Game Joel haha. Baker was great in this episode. Did so much work with just his eyes. You can absolutely feel his uneasiness around David) 3. The shot of Ellie julienning David's becoming blurry and hazy as the blood splatters cover the lens Special shout-out: to the stuntwoman who got yeeted off a mechanical horse for the stunt where Ellie is thrown off Callus when James shoots him.
I know in the game Joel has to fight his way through the town, but I got the feeling that these town members didn't really fight and were basically totally reliant on the few "fighters" they had. Which I'm also guessing we're the ones that were sent out and killed. There also didn't seem to be a crazy amount of them so Joel could have easily made his way through
I loved everyone’s reaction to David truly showing his colors at the end of the episode, but I absolutely loved how I could see Calvin looking like he wanted to jump into the screen and obliterate David!…luv you guys 🌻💜
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Bella Ramsey completely demolished it. She surprised me with her role as Lady Mormont in GoT, despite being a supporting role, but here she is on another level. All of her scenes, from the time she breaks David's fingers, to the end, are incredible. I'm totally in amazement with how she can go from a murderous personality to that of a completely innocent 14 year old girl. All the rage and fear unleashed when she kills David...magnificent. And on top of that, at the end, when Joel calls her "babygirl", I felt my heart break. Tomorrow the season ends and I don't know how I'm going to hold out until the second one comes out (probably playing the game on pc).
2:26 Ok. we can pause to admire, how cute was that smile that Calvin made. I say, this is my " apocalyptic Wonder. ( With all due respect, of course. I'm new here on the channel, I don't know if it's in an exclusive relationship And it was just a compliment ) (I don't speak English, I'm using a translator)
Last night i dreamt about the burger king i work at being threatened by gus fring. He put a bomb on the building, so i did the most rational thing. I commented under a blindwave video. Soon after the blindwave crew pulled up in a car and they got out, they got a football out of the trunk and took turns trying to kick the bomb off the roof with it. In the end they failed and gus triggered the bomb, weirdly enough it blew up the nearby kfc. The end. Thanks guys, i can always count on you.
Troy Baker sought to play James as a pragmatist who doesn't buy into David's talk of religion at all and regards David himself as the Devil, but goes along with him to stay on his good side.
I have noticed that during the torture scene, Joel first stabs the guy above the kneecap with threats to pop it off then he uses a steel pipe to beat the other man to death. Well, ***SPOILERS FOR SECOND GAME*** That Joel first gets his kneecap blown off by a shotgun in the same side as the man he tortured then he was beaten to death by a steel golf club. Karma or irony?
David really is a pastor, the man slapped the holy spirit into that girl… or did he slap the holy spirit out of her, I don’t remember it was so hard I felt it
I’ve never had penicillin personally but I have had to give it IM to a horse after a snake bite and man… dude acted like I’d just electrocuted him. Idk if there’s a method to avoid that injection pain in people, but I sure don’t have a hard time believing how quickly it can get you on your feet lol, horse went from asleep on his feet to trying to flatten me 😂
38:00 I don't know about "not a good person". He isn't a pacifist, that's for sure. But would you call Tommy a bad person, too? But he and Joel were in the same place some years ago, who is to say Joel can't turn himself around as well? The actions he took in this episode are certainly brutal and ruthless, but not evil. He defended himself against the first guy, needed information from the other guys, and arguably couldn't afford the risk of leaving them alive, because in truth they are just as ruthless as he is, if not more so. "You live by the sword, you die by the sword".
As bad of a guy as David is, man did I feel for him whenever he has to repeat himself for the 15th time to his guys. Like when they are about to kill Ellie and he shoots the air with that “are you fucking kidding me, I’ve said don’t kill her like fifteen times now….”
I think you guys might have missed the quick flash of the camera to the several bodies being bled out in the kitchen when Ellie is running through the place. I don’t think the girl’s father is the first and I don’t think he would have been the last.
Something I really like is that there’s no generic “raiders” in this world. Everyone has a story, a group they’re affiliated with, and when they die, we see how the larger group is impacted by that loss. Whether it was Brian, the kid that Ellie shot to save Joel in Kansas City, or Alec, the guy that stabbed Joel at the college, these guys had people/families that cared about them and are impacted by their death. It just makes the world of Last Of Us feel so real.
Its definitely one of the better changes in my book. Obviously the game needs hordes of faceless baddies for combat but that wouldn't really work in the adaptation.
David saying they can’t bury the little girls father until spring. (But actually secretly cooking him in the stew and feeding the daughter her own father) that is just dark 😂
It was ridiculous already, but after this one, anyone still complaining about Bella Ramsey's casting as Ellie is an abject moron. The climax in particular is her showcase, how she goes from pure rage hacking away at David like an animal and then afterwards so shellshocked and traumatized she can barely get out one word to Joel before collapsing in his arms. And I'm hardly the first to note this, but Ellie killing original Joel is some prime dark humor.
Joel was brutal and hardcore but he also knows he isn't in any shape to have any of them getting loose and following him. He needed to take them out while he had the upper hand. Bella's scream was primal. It was absolute perfection. I can't wait to see how her career grows from this, how good she ends up being in the next decade.
As it was intended to be. That scene seals the father/daughter bond. The emotional walls Joel put up after Sarah died have come crashing down and he's willing to allow himself to care for another daughter, with all the risk that comes with it.
I'm glad they gave Ellie a rifle instead of a bow and arrow for the confrontation scene with David and James. Makes her advantage more realistic. Edit: I never had so many likes before ahah thanks everyone! Love the comment feed on this channel everyone is nice and respectful. Cheers!
@@aka9252 we know that he had another gun in his pocket and he could’ve easily clapped Ellie several times but he didn’t because he did want her to feel at advantage
I actually never considered that James and them decided to kill her to protect her from what David might do to her Edit: this was what they were suggesting in the video, not my own personal opinion. I was just emphasizing it was never an option I had considered and thats part of the reason I like rxn videos, gives you different perspectives.
It’s nothing to consider at all. They were solely after her and Joel because they killed one of theirs. James was very helpful to David when they were gonna kill her and chop her up. It’s not even half of a consideration
idk, it seems weird to say that somebody tries to protect someone from something by erasing that someone from existence, which is the very precondition of being protected; it does not make sense to say that you protect someone by denying their precondition of being protected, i.e. the latter is presupposed by the former.
This episode showed us what Marlene meant when she said she knew what Joel was capable of. Even at 10% he's more dangerous than most people at 100%. Also, I loved when Joel hugged Ellie at the end and called her "baby girl". Shows how he sees Ellie sort of like Sarah.
20 years of surviving, combined with traume of losing one daughter and the pure adrenaline rush from the fear of losing his "second daughter". The feats of strength a parent can pull off to save their child is amazing.
I thought it was interesting that someone on reddit said they were in HORRIBLE shape, like in the hospital, felt like they were dying (super sick) and 24 hours after getting penicillin (or something just like it) they were up, moving and feeling great. So, surprisingly, I think that part of the episode was actually true to reality or close to it.
Yeah if it's into the bloodstream it doesn't take long to show results. My sister was extremely sick and in the ICU. She looked extremely tired. They let us into see her maybe 5 hours later and it was like she had just woken up from a nap. Not like there wasn't still a road ahead of her. But it's not too unbelievable to me that even if you felt like crap you could put it on the back burner of a loved one was in danger.
Yeah, it's kind of eerie how fast antibiotics can get you feeling better. After childbirth, I got a mastitis infection and it was the sickest I ever felt. Could barely move. Antibiotics had me turned around in hours.
When a doctor gives you a script for 2 weeks of antibiotics, 99.9% of your infection is killed within like 5 minutes of you taking your first dose. The remaining doses for the remaining weeks are all to kill the other 0.1% because they need to make sure it's all killed and no antibiotic resistant bacteria starts growing inside you. So you feel fine and recover very, very quickly.
Without question this is the *DARKEST* part of the game. And yeah, they show did not hold back. They made David in his last minutes even more disturbing than the game made him. And when David tells Ellie that she has a violent heart he had NOOOO idea. I would honestly put her near the top of the list of the deadliest people in tv or video games. When she is chopping the hell out of David it is cathartic at first but then you see the tragedy because Ellie needed to tap into all of the darkness and violence in her heart to survive. And then we get the scene of Joel hugging Ellie and calling her baby girl😭😭😭. Bella Ramsey is getting an Emmy or this show🤞🤞! I kinda wished that Troy Baker (the original actor who played Joel in the game) was cast as someone far more important than James. Still he was amazing and he had an awesome death scene, and it was darkly funny that video game Joel was killed by tv Ellie. I actually screamed out “NO JOEL” when that happened 😂. Also wish that they gave Ellie her trademark bow and arrow, but hopefully we get that in Part 2.
I think the show has a running formula that video game actor is film actors second in charge. Tommy’s voice actor for the female villain and now Joel’s voice actor for this episodes main villain.
spoilers if you haven’t played the game i feel like it would’ve been funny af to see troy baker be the firefly that tries to escort joel out of the hospital, and seeing tv joel kill video game joel
You know what I realised after watching the episode 2-3 times? Those guys that jumped Joel and Ellie were actually looking at them as meat. Probably went there for the monkeys but our guys would have been a nice “bonus”.
Bit of a tangent but here in Argentina the big cannibalistic case we always remember is the one that happened in the Cordillera (giant mountain range on our left). In short, bunch of rugbiers crashed on the plane while going to a game in Chile and because of the extreme cold, after exhausting every other option, they started eating the people that already died. They survived 3 months and when they came back didn't disclosed how they survived. After a while, people find out and they were furious. But then with the years we all kind of agree that it what normal people would do in that situation.
That crash didn't help with people fearing Friday the 13th either The survivors of that crash did nothing wrong, but If course understand that the relatives of the eaten people could get furious.
i do know the case pretty well. it was an uruguayan rugby team and my mom knew a bunch of them from the neghbourhood. i've met the one that's portrayed by ethan hawk in the movie ¡Viven!. i met parrado when i was a kid and i've met his father a bunch of times too. all of this was when i was a kid before moving to spain but i had no idea back then. then when i was a teen my mom saw me watching the movie and told me about it.
@@cedric13 Also a new netflix movie is coming out by director J.A. Bayona. (The Impossible, A Monster Calls) I Am from Mendoza, The province where it happened and actually meet some of the survivors and went to the Valley of Tears a month ago. I been following the movie since it was announced many years ago and it is based on the book ¨ The Snow Society¨. Its coming out 2023 or early 2024 and is the most expensive spanish project ever from what i heard, and i hope its going to be good. Netflix is going to be aiming for The Oscars with this one.
It doesn't matter that more people probably would've been around, smelled the smoke, or seen the fire. Bella's performance is extraordinary. I have to remind myself that she's only 19 because her talent far exceeds her years.
Remember when people lost their fucking mind that "the girl from Game of Thrones" was cast as Ellie? Remember when people complained that Bella Ramsey isn't a good actress. We've soon had an entire season with Bella as Ellie and she's been great, at times even amazing. So....yeah....perfect fucking casting!
When the episode has you cursing and crying....it's gotta be good. i'm still tearing up 😢😭 from watching it again with the three of you. Bella unleashed in this episode and Pedro.... those words just hit extra hard....
Outstanding writing. Never would have thought something as simple as hearing baby girl would break me down, and I knew it was coming. But the fact that I call my 1 year old daughter that from time to time just strikes a chord on such a human level. Great episode
Incredible episode! Bella Ramsey deserves all the awards for this one! Both her and Pedro are phenomenal! That ending scene just completely broke me! 😭
When the part that Ellie keep swinging David my dad said "you can stop now sweetie he can't hurt you anymore" man i was on the floor bawling my eyes out 😭
Hats off to the actor that played David, because he was just as creepy or even more than David in the game i would say. Also Bella Ramsey man...what an amazing actor. Bravo to them 👏
The podcast, is so good at narrating David’s intentions with Ellie. He clearly wanted a child bride, I don’t know any grown man that looks as a 14 year old girl as their “equal”. Their defense for the writing is this episode is about “depavity”. To answer his question about “when did David become “this guy”? According to the show makers this is what happens to a person when they are deprived of things for so many decades and years what do they become?
So I have shared this a few times already. But the sutle changes from the game that i think are impactful to the story and Ellie/Joel relationship. First that Ellie gave Joel her special switchblade knife to defend himself with. The first time Joel killed anyone with it, and it was a very intimate kill. He isn't using it when he interrogates the two guys. 2nd, the turning point for me when Joel fully excepts who Ellie has become for him is when she tells Joel that anyone coming into the house he needs to kill them. No matter who. And Joel doesn't hesitate to continue wiping them out. Why...Joel has started to change and not be that savage guy. We saw it earlier because of Ellie and how he was feeling towards her. He wants to be a better person for her. So when she tells him kill them, he is excepting her judgment of the situation fully. No doubt no questions. These are bad people and he is going full Papa Joel savage because Ellie told him to do it. Not because "he" wants to. Ellie made the call and from now on going forward Joel never doubts again.
I keep on watching reactions to this episode and it looks like i'm the odd one because instead of cheering for Ellie when she was killing David i was actually bawling my eyes out, that poor kid man..
So, I mean, it’s a wrap right? Don’t see anybody putting in a better performance than Bella did with this. They have been fantastic throughout, but these past two or three episodes have been next level. Absolutely blown away.
I don't see Joel as "a bad man" whatsoever. He did what he needed to do to get Ellie back. Any of us in Joel's position would do the exact same thing That's why I also disagree with the person who asked the last question about how they're "glad that they're not shying away from showing us that Joel is NOT a good person and will do AWFUL and HORRIBLE things to protect Ellie". Again, ANY of us would 100% do EXACTLY as Joel is doing / HAS done / will SOON do and you would be justified in doing so. We all agree that The Last of Us as a game AND as a show is phenomenal... but if the GOAL of this show is to ATTEMPT to reiterate that "Joel is a bad guy and we shouldn't get attached to him or feel as what he's doing is justifiable", then they're once again doing a horrible job at showing that. The people who still support Joel will still support him and the people who still think he's a horrible, irredeemable person... will still be wrong
Laughing my a** off at at Eric and Calvin arguing which one has the better meat to fat ratio when the crew of Blind Wave turns to cannibalism. To settle it - Eric would make the best burgers and rendering out for tallow. Clavin would be used for stew meat and slow cooked roasts. Aaron would be the one enjoying the meals (all that talk about "accidents" and his "waste not, want not" attitude are the red flags, so if you guys are together in an apocalyse, Eric & Calvin... watch your backs).
4:57 I love the idea that show Ellie is smart enough to stake-out her fallen kill before collecting [some of] it, though she also mighta found it and said to herself, “dafuq do I do now? firefighter carry a deer?” 😆
Man all the little things. Just. He was a TEACHER before everything went to shit. Horrifying to think about. (ironic that he became a preacher as well)
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So where’s Rick?
This was a really good, interesting and terrifying episode! The actor did a really good job of playing the cannibal, molester, preacher! He was frightening! Bella was great because I could feel her pain, anger and cry for mental health therapy! Joel woke up, went right into beast mode and started brutality killing people! ! I enjoyed this episode and I'm waiting to see what they have coming for us in episode 9!
Harley Quinn when?
I recently (yesterday and today) re-watched the entire series in preparation for the final episode an one thing that just rubs me the wrong way is that why didn't Marlene just take blood or tissue samples from Ellie and send them to whatever Fireflies lab she wanted to smuggle Ellie to? Why did they need Ellie herself? Did they want to experiment on her. Use her as a lab rat or something?
The reason I wonder this is because one of the main tropes of show and films that have a unique character is that they're always afraid of being the target of "mad scientists" who want to study them. Ellie isn't one to tolerate that kind of shit.
If Joel is THIS badass at 56 years old and recovering from a gut wound that happened less than a week ago imagine what he was like in his prime.
I like how they've sorta hinted at that throughout the series, but most recently in the 6th episode "Kin". Joel's reputation had preceeded him and Tommy's new wife was almost afraid of him.
Joel kinda reminds me of Stallone's Rambo "when you're pushed, killing is as easy as breathing"
@@chuckjones5379 "Joel made a lotta enemies. A lot."
@@maddoxio yeah I bet he did
He is still in his prime....:p
Something I noticed is that he called Ellie an equal. That was a dead give away for me. An adult should never see a child as an equal. It’s similar to him saying that she’s mature for her age. It’s possible she could have become a child bride and that thought terrifies me.
That's exactly his idea, ; ).
Me that entire scene. “Ew, ew ew, ew ew ew ew!”
And that “there’s no fear in love” as he was, I assuming, about to r@pe her is going to haunt me.
him calling her an equal wasnt a dead giveaway. that just portrayed him saying i see the dark in u and i have it too, so ellie could feel seen. yeah he had other things in mind, but that wasnt a dead giveaway. what u talking about.
@@homeiswhereukeepurdealdoe no grown adult should be telling a child they see them as an “equal.” That’s grooming
What amplifies that is him also saying that he's everyone's father.
Ellie channeled her inner Rorschach when David was trying to get her in the steakhouse. "I'm not locked in here with you! You're locked in here with me!"
Haha yeah!
Is it weird that as I was watching this episode I thought: "Aaron is going to hate the penicillin scene soooo much and I can't wait to see it" 😂
I was looking for a comment like this cause I thought the same thing XD
Legit as soon as Ellie injected Joel I thought "I can't wait to see Aaron squirm over this" 😅
Same 🤣
oh we were all thinking that :D
Me watching the episode "LOOK AARON ! LOOK ! IT'S GOING SO DEEP" 🤣
Joel's got that 'Liam Neeson from Taken' going on in this episode trying to find Ellie.
"That's okay, I believe you." BANG
Absolutely loved how all the violence was shot and edited in this episode. Especially these three moments (chronologically):
1. The camera cutting to a wide as Joel casually buries a knife into that guy's chest
2. The blood just gushing out of James' neck as he slumps against the wall and falls down... And we can see his chest rise and fall as he takes his last breaths (btw how cool is it that Show Ellie kills Game Joel haha. Baker was great in this episode. Did so much work with just his eyes. You can absolutely feel his uneasiness around David)
3. The shot of Ellie julienning David's becoming blurry and hazy as the blood splatters cover the lens
Special shout-out: to the stuntwoman who got yeeted off a mechanical horse for the stunt where Ellie is thrown off Callus when James shoots him.
I never understood how come Troy baker never got more live action roles. He can act, he is handsome, what’s more do you really need from actor?
It’s more of a preference I believe. He has a passion for video games
"We need a poll!" "Would you eat people?" *mouse slam* That was amazing lmao
I know in the game Joel has to fight his way through the town, but I got the feeling that these town members didn't really fight and were basically totally reliant on the few "fighters" they had. Which I'm also guessing we're the ones that were sent out and killed. There also didn't seem to be a crazy amount of them so Joel could have easily made his way through
The guy who got hit by the gun butt and died last (Joel tortured) looked like a older Calvin lol
I loved everyone’s reaction to David truly showing his colors at the end of the episode, but I absolutely loved how I could see Calvin looking like he wanted to jump into the screen and obliterate David!…luv you guys 🌻💜
Eric the Norwegian fish you are talking about is actually from Sweden and it's called Surströmming.
Love from Norway
You can totally hear Troy's Joel voice coming through in this episode
The amount of hate Calvin had on his face for David was intense. The only time he cracked a smile was when Ellie was going to town with the machete.
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I remember
The discussion about cannibalism was pure gold 😂
Calvin, they love you over at Sean tank top they mentioned you a couple times in their review of this episode.
i just want pedro pascal to tell me "it's okay babygirl, i got u" too.
Bella Ramsey completely demolished it. She surprised me with her role as Lady Mormont in GoT, despite being a supporting role, but here she is on another level.
All of her scenes, from the time she breaks David's fingers, to the end, are incredible. I'm totally in amazement with how she can go from a murderous personality to that of a completely innocent 14 year old girl. All the rage and fear unleashed when she kills David...magnificent. And on top of that, at the end, when Joel calls her "babygirl", I felt my heart break.
Tomorrow the season ends and I don't know how I'm going to hold out until the second one comes out (probably playing the game on pc).
Okay, the discussion after the episode was really funny.
2:26
Ok. we can pause to admire, how cute was that smile that Calvin made. I say, this is my " apocalyptic Wonder. ( With all due respect, of course. I'm new here on the channel, I don't know if it's in an exclusive relationship And it was just a compliment ) (I don't speak English, I'm using a translator)
Last night i dreamt about the burger king i work at being threatened by gus fring. He put a bomb on the building, so i did the most rational thing. I commented under a blindwave video. Soon after the blindwave crew pulled up in a car and they got out, they got a football out of the trunk and took turns trying to kick the bomb off the roof with it. In the end they failed and gus triggered the bomb, weirdly enough it blew up the nearby kfc. The end. Thanks guys, i can always count on you.
Why am I imagining when Blind Wave pull up, it is I. Slow motion and to the course of "American badass"? 😂
Seriously though that is an awesome dream
Loved the reaction guys!
Troy Baker sought to play James as a pragmatist who doesn't buy into David's talk of religion at all and regards David himself as the Devil, but goes along with him to stay on his good side.
I have noticed that during the torture scene, Joel first stabs the guy above the kneecap with threats to pop it off then he uses a steel pipe to beat the other man to death. Well, ***SPOILERS FOR SECOND GAME***
That Joel first gets his kneecap blown off by a shotgun in the same side as the man he tortured then he was beaten to death by a steel golf club. Karma or irony?
David really is a pastor, the man slapped the holy spirit into that girl… or did he slap the holy spirit out of her, I don’t remember it was so hard I felt it
Eric looks so good. i for sure eat some of that :p
I’ve never had penicillin personally but I have had to give it IM to a horse after a snake bite and man… dude acted like I’d just electrocuted him. Idk if there’s a method to avoid that injection pain in people, but I sure don’t have a hard time believing how quickly it can get you on your feet lol, horse went from asleep on his feet to trying to flatten me 😂
Joel was stabbed in the liver, so he would bleed out in a few minutes, but some artistic freedom is always allowed. :)
I’m actually going to meet Troy hopefully next month
38:00 I don't know about "not a good person". He isn't a pacifist, that's for sure. But would you call Tommy a bad person, too? But he and Joel were in the same place some years ago, who is to say Joel can't turn himself around as well? The actions he took in this episode are certainly brutal and ruthless, but not evil. He defended himself against the first guy, needed information from the other guys, and arguably couldn't afford the risk of leaving them alive, because in truth they are just as ruthless as he is, if not more so. "You live by the sword, you die by the sword".
22:51 that was a great malkovich and I've never made that leap before. "close to snape but not"
This was a great ad for penicillin
As bad of a guy as David is, man did I feel for him whenever he has to repeat himself for the 15th time to his guys. Like when they are about to kill Ellie and he shoots the air with that “are you fucking kidding me, I’ve said don’t kill her like fifteen times now….”
How come the 4 men (one of whom was killed by Joel) at the University campus didn't have guns, but these people at the resort had guns?
I'm placing my bet on the final episode name: "Look for the light"
I think you guys might have missed the quick flash of the camera to the several bodies being bled out in the kitchen when Ellie is running through the place. I don’t think the girl’s father is the first and I don’t think he would have been the last.
Give Bella Ramsey all of the awards!
“It’s okay, it’s okay now baby girl”
God damn, that got me in the feels
That shit had me and my wife saying "aww" and tearing up. and that women never cries. lol
Something I really like is that there’s no generic “raiders” in this world. Everyone has a story, a group they’re affiliated with, and when they die, we see how the larger group is impacted by that loss. Whether it was Brian, the kid that Ellie shot to save Joel in Kansas City, or Alec, the guy that stabbed Joel at the college, these guys had people/families that cared about them and are impacted by their death. It just makes the world of Last Of Us feel so real.
Raiders are just people from any other group at this point and everybody thinks everyone else are raiders while being raiders themselves lol
Its definitely one of the better changes in my book. Obviously the game needs hordes of faceless baddies for combat but that wouldn't really work in the adaptation.
@kingj411 There were generic raiders in the episode with Bill and Frank. There was no story with them other than Joel saying they attack at night.
@@marcusmcgill4423 That’s… actually totally correct. I didn’t even think about those guys.
Maybe if you don’t attack people you won’t get killed. I have no sympathy for them and their families.
David saying they can’t bury the little girls father until spring. (But actually secretly cooking him in the stew and feeding the daughter her own father) that is just dark 😂
25:52 “we started cannibalism and , oh brother: it was all downhill from there” 😂
And the mom is cooking it 😂
Unspeakable atrocities 🤣
And when you realize that he's not the first/only guy they cut up for meat. There's nothing like a hungry cult!
He also has the biggest plate
It was ridiculous already, but after this one, anyone still complaining about Bella Ramsey's casting as Ellie is an abject moron. The climax in particular is her showcase, how she goes from pure rage hacking away at David like an animal and then afterwards so shellshocked and traumatized she can barely get out one word to Joel before collapsing in his arms.
And I'm hardly the first to note this, but Ellie killing original Joel is some prime dark humor.
One of the best performances of the year. Award worthy.
They kinda people that worst than David lol
Apparently Bella can't act at all. Daytime soap opera acting. Those people will still be saying that after this episode
a loooot of people are still saying that even after the show ended. Incredible
Joel was brutal and hardcore but he also knows he isn't in any shape to have any of them getting loose and following him. He needed to take them out while he had the upper hand.
Bella's scream was primal. It was absolute perfection. I can't wait to see how her career grows from this, how good she ends up being in the next decade.
Her acting when she went all primal on David. What an achievement, she's an incredible actor!
The ending of this episode had me in tears when Ellie and Joel reunited. 🥹
Baby girl got me dude 😭
As it was intended to be. That scene seals the father/daughter bond. The emotional walls Joel put up after Sarah died have come crashing down and he's willing to allow himself to care for another daughter, with all the risk that comes with it.
Two words: "baby girl." And the genius of making sure we all saw Joel's watch in that scene cut me right to the bone.
@@sherank244 yep that was it
Scott Shepherd was amazing at playing Creepy David in this episode.
He looks like he could be Scottish and he's literally a shepherd. He is, by all accounts; Scott Shepherd, but he ain't no Ish.
Evil Woody Harrelson 😂
FR! god, even his voice was so slimy when he was talking to ellie in the cage i legit got the creeps hahaha
I'm glad they gave Ellie a rifle instead of a bow and arrow for the confrontation scene with David and James. Makes her advantage more realistic.
Edit: I never had so many likes before ahah thanks everyone! Love the comment feed on this channel everyone is nice and respectful. Cheers!
They talked on the podcast about how Bella was genuinely finding it difficult to keep the rifle up, just as Ellie would do.
I actually don’t just becos I like the thought (head cannon) that David gave her fake confidence so he could get closer to her.
@@aka9252 He kind-of did that already, particularly when he told James to lower the gun.
@@aka9252 we know that he had another gun in his pocket and he could’ve easily clapped Ellie several times but he didn’t because he did want her to feel at advantage
@@Tao_Tology Meanwhile, Game Ellie is holding a hunting bow at full draw for like 3min lol
I actually never considered that James and them decided to kill her to protect her from what David might do to her
Edit: this was what they were suggesting in the video, not my own personal opinion. I was just emphasizing it was never an option I had considered and thats part of the reason I like rxn videos, gives you different perspectives.
Well, shit... Me either lol.
I'd say it's multiple, it would cause more issues keeping her. He was 100% a pedo as well.
Nope his first impression upon knowing Ellie killed his friend was to shoot her for revenge
It’s nothing to consider at all. They were solely after her and Joel because they killed one of theirs. James was very helpful to David when they were gonna kill her and chop her up. It’s not even half of a consideration
idk, it seems weird to say that somebody tries to protect someone from something by erasing that someone from existence, which is the very precondition of being protected; it does not make sense to say that you protect someone by denying their precondition of being protected, i.e. the latter is presupposed by the former.
This episode showed us what Marlene meant when she said she knew what Joel was capable of. Even at 10% he's more dangerous than most people at 100%.
Also, I loved when Joel hugged Ellie at the end and called her "baby girl". Shows how he sees Ellie sort of like Sarah.
Not for nothing he was one of the people who survived the early years of the outbreak, before they had safe zones and infection detection etc.
You posting this comment everywhere or am I seeing things?
20 years of surviving, combined with traume of losing one daughter and the pure adrenaline rush from the fear of losing his "second daughter". The feats of strength a parent can pull off to save their child is amazing.
@@HiThereLindsey he posting it on every reaction video 💀
I thought it was interesting that someone on reddit said they were in HORRIBLE shape, like in the hospital, felt like they were dying (super sick) and 24 hours after getting penicillin (or something just like it) they were up, moving and feeling great. So, surprisingly, I think that part of the episode was actually true to reality or close to it.
Yeah if it's into the bloodstream it doesn't take long to show results. My sister was extremely sick and in the ICU. She looked extremely tired. They let us into see her maybe 5 hours later and it was like she had just woken up from a nap. Not like there wasn't still a road ahead of her. But it's not too unbelievable to me that even if you felt like crap you could put it on the back burner of a loved one was in danger.
Yeah, it's kind of eerie how fast antibiotics can get you feeling better. After childbirth, I got a mastitis infection and it was the sickest I ever felt. Could barely move. Antibiotics had me turned around in hours.
Yea, that's how it works
When a doctor gives you a script for 2 weeks of antibiotics, 99.9% of your infection is killed within like 5 minutes of you taking your first dose. The remaining doses for the remaining weeks are all to kill the other 0.1% because they need to make sure it's all killed and no antibiotic resistant bacteria starts growing inside you.
So you feel fine and recover very, very quickly.
Antibiotics are truly a miracle
bella ramsey has been amazing all season but man she was fucking incredible this episode. what a great actress. i love her as ellie so much.
Definitely an actress who’s career I will be keeping an eye on. The fact she is so young makes it all the more impressive and worth keeping track of.
Joel's "baby girl" broke me.
same 😢
same
Big same
Without question this is the *DARKEST* part of the game. And yeah, they show did not hold back. They made David in his last minutes even more disturbing than the game made him. And when David tells Ellie that she has a violent heart he had NOOOO idea. I would honestly put her near the top of the list of the deadliest people in tv or video games. When she is chopping the hell out of David it is cathartic at first but then you see the tragedy because Ellie needed to tap into all of the darkness and violence in her heart to survive. And then we get the scene of Joel hugging Ellie and calling her baby girl😭😭😭. Bella Ramsey is getting an Emmy or this show🤞🤞!
I kinda wished that Troy Baker (the original actor who played Joel in the game) was cast as someone far more important than James. Still he was amazing and he had an awesome death scene, and it was darkly funny that video game Joel was killed by tv Ellie. I actually screamed out “NO JOEL” when that happened 😂. Also wish that they gave Ellie her trademark bow and arrow, but hopefully we get that in Part 2.
I think the show has a running formula that video game actor is film actors second in charge. Tommy’s voice actor for the female villain and now Joel’s voice actor for this episodes main villain.
Imo its better that troy etc play less important roles, dont want them to steal the show.
Ehh she’s not really even close to deadliest on either TV or television, there are tons of shows/games about contract killers, murderers etc
spoilers if you haven’t played the game
i feel like it would’ve been funny af to see troy baker be the firefly that tries to escort joel out of the hospital, and seeing tv joel kill video game joel
@@ChristianFerragut THAT’S EXACTLY WHAAT I WANTED!🤣🤣🤣🤣
“It’s okay, baby girl.”
One of the most powerful moments in gaming, adapted exquisitely.
Bella Ramsey is the kind of actress who's so good its genuinely scary. She is going to kill the second season.
Bella NEEDS to win an award for this episode. The amount of raw savagery that she displayed in this was freaking amazing! It was so primal.
You know what I realised after watching the episode 2-3 times? Those guys that jumped Joel and Ellie were actually looking at them as meat. Probably went there for the monkeys but our guys would have been a nice “bonus”.
I never thought of that! Whoa.
“In those ten minutes Joel killed everyone else” lol 😂
That little delay when the woman asks him what kind of meat it was
“…venison”
Well he was still very sad For the poor "Deer" they had to chop up For the meat.
Bit of a tangent but here in Argentina the big cannibalistic case we always remember is the one that happened in the Cordillera (giant mountain range on our left). In short, bunch of rugbiers crashed on the plane while going to a game in Chile and because of the extreme cold, after exhausting every other option, they started eating the people that already died. They survived 3 months and when they came back didn't disclosed how they survived. After a while, people find out and they were furious. But then with the years we all kind of agree that it what normal people would do in that situation.
Ya, made a movie about it back in 1992/3 called " Alive "
Rick and Morty had a scene in reference to it.
That crash didn't help with people fearing Friday the 13th either
The survivors of that crash did nothing wrong, but If course understand that the relatives of the eaten people could get furious.
i do know the case pretty well. it was an uruguayan rugby team and my mom knew a bunch of them from the neghbourhood. i've met the one that's portrayed by ethan hawk in the movie ¡Viven!. i met parrado when i was a kid and i've met his father a bunch of times too. all of this was when i was a kid before moving to spain but i had no idea back then. then when i was a teen my mom saw me watching the movie and told me about it.
@@cedric13 Also a new netflix movie is coming out by director J.A. Bayona. (The Impossible, A Monster Calls) I Am from Mendoza, The province where it happened and actually meet some of the survivors and went to the Valley of Tears a month ago. I been following the movie since it was announced many years ago and it is based on the book ¨ The Snow Society¨. Its coming out 2023 or early 2024 and is the most expensive spanish project ever from what i heard, and i hope its going to be good. Netflix is going to be aiming for The Oscars with this one.
Calvin looks like one of those David’s troops LOL
The Normies said the same thing 😂 in their reaction
The cannibalism discussion tho LMFAO never change boys.
The who would "turn to cannibalism first" conversation was high-quality chitter chatter.
Bella's performance was top notch
Like she is so perfect
Never clicked on a notification so fast, but fr……… the end when Joel said baby girl killed me bro 😭😭😭
It doesn't matter that more people probably would've been around, smelled the smoke, or seen the fire. Bella's performance is extraordinary. I have to remind myself that she's only 19 because her talent far exceeds her years.
Not to mention she was probably only around 17 when this when filmed. Phenomenal preformance
Remember when people lost their fucking mind that "the girl from Game of Thrones" was cast as Ellie?
Remember when people complained that Bella Ramsey isn't a good actress.
We've soon had an entire season with Bella as Ellie and she's been great, at times even amazing. So....yeah....perfect fucking casting!
Bella Ramsey's performance was very spectacular, and Troy Baker being in this episode was an excellent touch!!!!
I wouldn't say it's an "excellent touch"... It's just a cameo.
the moment he said " it's okay baby girl I got you." that hit so different..😢
When the episode has you cursing and crying....it's gotta be good. i'm still tearing up 😢😭 from watching it again with the three of you. Bella unleashed in this episode and Pedro.... those words just hit extra hard....
Eric knowing he's going first... watch your back bro watch your back. 😂 knife fight.... haha
When they hug at the end, the watch is in shot ....
The acting from Bella and Scott Shepherd who played David was amazing!
Loved the calm nods of approval when Ellie broke David’s fingers lol
Outstanding writing. Never would have thought something as simple as hearing baby girl would break me down, and I knew it was coming. But the fact that I call my 1 year old daughter that from time to time just strikes a chord on such a human level. Great episode
The ending was so beautiful like Joel calling Ellie baby girl, he officially sees her as a daughter 🥹
Incredible episode! Bella Ramsey deserves all the awards for this one! Both her and Pedro are phenomenal! That ending scene just completely broke me! 😭
Papa Pedro seems soo proud of bella in every interview.
When the part that Ellie keep swinging David my dad said "you can stop now sweetie he can't hurt you anymore" man i was on the floor bawling my eyes out 😭
i was solid... then he said "It's ok baby girl" and i shattered. god that killed me. 😭😭😭
I find it darkly humorous that Ellie ends up killing the original Joel here...
..And that "It's okay baby girl, I've got you' gave me chills.
The original Joel? What does that mean?
@@Playth3record Troy Baker who plays James, is the voice actor for Joel in the game.
Hats off to the actor that played David, because he was just as creepy or even more than David in the game i would say. Also Bella Ramsey man...what an amazing actor. Bravo to them 👏
The podcast, is so good at narrating David’s intentions with Ellie. He clearly wanted a child bride, I don’t know any grown man that looks as a 14 year old girl as their “equal”. Their defense for the writing is this episode is about “depavity”. To answer his question about “when did David become “this guy”? According to the show makers this is what happens to a person when they are deprived of things for so many decades and years what do they become?
8:00 My first thought of that needle scene was what Aaron’s reaction would be haha!
I want a whole Cannibal Blind Wave podcast now. That segment of Q&A was hilarious!
This is my favorite part of the game and I have to say this episode did not disappoint.
Honestly this and episode 2 are the only ones that gave me the feel of the game.
So I have shared this a few times already. But the sutle changes from the game that i think are impactful to the story and Ellie/Joel relationship. First that Ellie gave Joel her special switchblade knife to defend himself with. The first time Joel killed anyone with it, and it was a very intimate kill. He isn't using it when he interrogates the two guys. 2nd, the turning point for me when Joel fully excepts who Ellie has become for him is when she tells Joel that anyone coming into the house he needs to kill them. No matter who. And Joel doesn't hesitate to continue wiping them out. Why...Joel has started to change and not be that savage guy. We saw it earlier because of Ellie and how he was feeling towards her. He wants to be a better person for her. So when she tells him kill them, he is excepting her judgment of the situation fully. No doubt no questions. These are bad people and he is going full Papa Joel savage because Ellie told him to do it. Not because "he" wants to. Ellie made the call and from now on going forward Joel never doubts again.
Never thought I’d ever see Blind Wave have a half serious, half joking discussion about cannibalism, but there’s a first time for everything, I guess.
I keep on watching reactions to this episode and it looks like i'm the odd one because instead of cheering for Ellie when she was killing David i was actually bawling my eyes out, that poor kid man..
Joel calling Ellie "babygirl" will never not make me tear up a little
So yeah, David tried to undo his pants, if you catch that part?
That was awful.
The only thing I could think when Ellie was stabbing the dude the death was "Yep...keep going...keep going...keep on going..."
So, I mean, it’s a wrap right? Don’t see anybody putting in a better performance than Bella did with this. They have been fantastic throughout, but these past two or three episodes have been next level. Absolutely blown away.
Missed opportunity for David when everyone was eating the stew to say, "we all have a little father in us".
"Will the real father please stand up?"
"F*ck it, I guess there's a little father in all of us. Let's all stand up."
I don't see Joel as "a bad man" whatsoever. He did what he needed to do to get Ellie back. Any of us in Joel's position would do the exact same thing
That's why I also disagree with the person who asked the last question about how they're "glad that they're not shying away from showing us that Joel is NOT a good person and will do AWFUL and HORRIBLE things to protect Ellie". Again, ANY of us would 100% do EXACTLY as Joel is doing / HAS done / will SOON do and you would be justified in doing so.
We all agree that The Last of Us as a game AND as a show is phenomenal... but if the GOAL of this show is to ATTEMPT to reiterate that "Joel is a bad guy and we shouldn't get attached to him or feel as what he's doing is justifiable", then they're once again doing a horrible job at showing that. The people who still support Joel will still support him and the people who still think he's a horrible, irredeemable person... will still be wrong
After listening to your discussion on cannibalism may I suggest the movie Alive as an reaction! Based on a true story
Can we all agree Bella Ramsey deserves all of the awards
Every single one. ❤
Laughing my a** off at at Eric and Calvin arguing which one has the better meat to fat ratio when the crew of Blind Wave turns to cannibalism. To settle it - Eric would make the best burgers and rendering out for tallow. Clavin would be used for stew meat and slow cooked roasts. Aaron would be the one enjoying the meals (all that talk about "accidents" and his "waste not, want not" attitude are the red flags, so if you guys are together in an apocalyse, Eric & Calvin... watch your backs).
4:57 I love the idea that show Ellie is smart enough to stake-out her fallen kill before collecting [some of] it, though she also mighta found it and said to herself, “dafuq do I do now? firefighter carry a deer?” 😆
Such a fantastic yet heart wrenching episode. The only thing I could think was “And now the preacher burns in hell.”
Man all the little things. Just. He was a TEACHER before everything went to shit. Horrifying to think about. (ironic that he became a preacher as well)
Amazing episode... They deserve ALL the awards!🔥