Ellie's whimper when Henry decided his fate broke me. I felt it. Anyone who has a problem with Bella Ramsey as Ellie is blinded by their prejudice for the video games. She has range and you see it shine through in these subtle moments that matter the most.
Absolutely! Comparing her facial expressions and line delivery to the game's version is entirely unfair. Different forms of media require different ways of portraying a scene, and being too used to a certain version can make ppl overly critical when hearing it a different way. But Bella has been absolutely phenomenal, especially in this episode.
Good lord Bella's acting is unreal. That gasp in response to Henry shooting himself was just heart-breaking. I never get attached to characters but she you can't help but want to jump into father mode to shield her from all that gnarly shit.
The way both of y'alls eyes turned to the corner when the truck started falling, followed by the simultaneous head turn, and combined with the realization of what's about to happen is why I am so happy I found your channel. Always entertaining to watch. Mucho, mucho amor to the both of you. 💜🐻
This was a great episode. Oh, Ellie's belief that she could cure Sam made it so much more painful. I think she genuinely believed that it would work. She is a child, she has been told over and over that she is a cure, she has no understanding about how a cure would be made so it makes sense that she thinks it could be relatively simple... Oh, so sad. She apologized at the grave. When Tess died, Ellie hung around to grieve, while Joel shoved his emotions down grimly and pressed on. This time it was Joel who lingered and Ellie who left. He is becoming more emotional, and she is becoming colder/more traumatized. Also, Joel and Henry mocked "endure and survive." Henry survived but couldn't endure. Both parts are important. Sam also faced the window. Two things: He knew he wouldn't see Ellie, which means he wouldn't attack her. He was protecting her. As he felt himself turn, he knew he wouldn't hear her. If he couldn't see her, he wouldn't know she was there and thus couldn't attack her. Also, it has been confirmed over the years of the game that runners DO have the person in their head. So Sam was in there when he attacked Ellie. Something to think of though -> If Ellie never touched him, if no one ever touched him or got in his vision, he would be sitting there forever watching the sunset. He's deaf, so he wouldn't hear anything. Once he hit the clicker phase, and he could no longer see, then he would be sitting there in darkness and silence forever. If you play the video game, when you get to the sewers area, get every note from Ish. They give a nod to him which I appreciate (the part of the tunnels with the kid's room and the picture on the wall that says, "Our protectors -> Daddy and Ish." It's a fascinating and heartwarming/heartbreaking story).
I keep finding myself going into protective older sibling mode with Ellie and wanting to shield her from the horrors of the world of/with the Clickers in it. I just wanna wrap my arms around her and protect her. Her little gasp when the older brother shot himself made me genuinely tear up.
This episode made me cry just as much as episode 3 did. As a wheelchair user and a person who is hard-of-hearing, I appreciate the rep in this. Ellie is so sure she can cure Sam and is so sad when it doesn't work. She's desperate to get to someone who can make a cure from her blood in Wyoming. It's so ironic that Kathleen is killed by a child after she was so callus about children dying. I was glad to see her die. I'm not attracted to men, but I love Pedro Pascal for being a great actor and a fierce LGBTQ (especially trans) ally.
This version let Ellie know Sam was bitten and showed how she desperately tried to save him. This puts more weight on her mentally and emotionally that her being immune must have meant something - to save everyone, and could have saved the people she cared about (Sam and Tess). They also replaced the robot toy with a notepad. Gave Ellie and Sam more connection.
This episode was everything I asked for in a episode 😊😂I played the game so I knew this was not going to go good😭😊it was an amazing Collab I wish we could’ve got more but STOP TRAUMATIZING MY COUSIN I’m sick of this lmao 😭😭😭😂😂😂pissing me off this is the part of the game where Joel gets the sniper but the game setting was in the morning but the show switched it 😒😭😊and men was all over the houses in between but LOVE YOU guys I can keep going but I’m done❤️❤️❤️😭😭😂🤣
The final scene in the game fucked me up bad anyway, but this show…something about Henry collaborating with both self-proclaimed good guys in both “the people’s government” and with FEDRA, just to keep Sam alive and then it just ended with a young black boy and a young black man being shot anyway, I just can’t do that. I know that kind of symbolism probably wasn’t intentional but I just can’t keep seein that kind of shit, man. Even in fiction, I can’t.
"This is not good." Nope. It's not good. It's great. It's fantastic. It's exactly what the crazy woman and her people, who didn't get rid of her in her sleep to find a sane leader instead, deserved. Only one of them didn't.
I know everyone is not happy with Fedra, but they were also protecting people from being infected. She just wanted revenge and I wished they hadn't listened to her just because she was the leader's sister. They just went about it all wrong and I just feel bad because I know there were a lot of people who died because of this.
One of the best horror youtube channels! So much personality, such big hearts. Love the way they can handle both the dark subject matters and keep things light when the moment calls for it (and occassionally when it doesn't. Sergio Voguing in episode 2 comes to mind)
