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THE SERAPHITE WHISTLE OMG
Joel, get up. Joel, fucking get up! THE LAST OF US 2.02 | Through the Valley
i hate you for what you did, and i miss you like a little kid.
this parallel is destroying me !
i just got stabbed and am throwing up all over the place rn btw!!
SPOILERS FOR THE LAST OF US S2 EP2 .ᐟ
okay i'm just gonna rant for a little bit so stick with me.
one. that death scene man. god. and i will say ellie crawling to joel is HEARTBREAKING. and also... abby breaking the fucking golf club. and that shot zooming out of ellie laying next to joel. along with ashley johnson's singing into the valley. i'm ILL.
now for some criticism...
i know alot of people are saying this but the pacing felt abrupt and there wasn't enough buildup!!! i've been talking to my friends about how i thought they would do it in ep3 or 4 this is NOT what i expected. and i feel like his death was just more cold and oddly sterile. the game made you live with that death and i feel like the show just uses it. and i don't know why they switched from the basement to the like living room area???? it felt much more sickening in the basement when it was dark. i don't know why it felt so much more disturbing so hopefully somebody explains why it feels like this lmao.
and i think what they could've done for ep2 instead was some scenes of joel and ellie’s strained reconnection. flashbacks to fill in time between seasons (their time in jackson, their awkward silence blah blah). joel teaching ellie guitar!! wish they had that guitar scene early on i genuinely love that scene so much! and to me it reinforces not just that he’s her father figure, but that he’s still shaping who she becomes. and maybe a tense moment where joel almost confesses what he did at the firefly hospital, adding to future conflict idk. and obviously abby's pov without the reveal. hate that they literally just tell you she's jerry's daughter this early. introduce abby and her crew, but withhold TELLING US EVERYTHING!! make us intrigued by her — not force us to empathize with her. let her and her group be a mystery. build suspense like the game! who are these people? why are they tracking someone? it’s better to be curious about abby than to be told we should understand her pain immediately.
also some scenes focused on the jackson life. give us scenes of joel, tommy, ellie, and dina in this insulated world. show their interactions, their daily routines, the illusion of safety. let joel have a moment of quiet and happiness! not to fake us out but to remind us what is being taken from ellie and us as the audience! oh yeah also i hate what they did with abby i'm sorry. it's been talked about alot before but abby's build IS important to her character!!! making her this short skinny girl is kinda crazy just saying!
yeah that's kinda it i literally just don't know what to do with myself and this is really poorly worded but rip joel. again. my goat ❤️
just started ep2...... eek
"but i'm still me, he's still joel, and we-- and nothing's ever gonna change that. ever."
Show Ellie isn’t obsessed with killing abby, she’s so happy - idk man she just left her pregnant girlfriend with an arrow in her leg to hopefully make it back to the theater, no checking in, no seeing if her gf and best friend made it out of the culty forest alive, just straight up let me go on a suicide mission to maybe find and kill Nora. Seems like a very revenge consumed girly but that’s just me