The Last of Us 1x8 Reaction | When We Are in Need | Fight! Fight! Fight! 

Marlene said in the first episode. The other Fireflies were going to kill Ellie, Marlene stopped them. Not because she really knew for sure that Ellie was immune, but because she knew who she was (she'd probably been keeping an eye on her even though she grew up in the Fedra school), and she's more level headed and realized that it was peculiar that one kid had turned (and been killed), but the other hadn't. So they took her, but put her in chains and under observation. They couldn't be sure she wouldn't turn eventually, perhaps it was just delayed... but decided, no, apparently not, after a few weeks.

About the other dead corpse snacks, my interpretation is that part of sending the groups out to scavange included obtaining "long pig" if nothing else could be found. So Joel and Ellie would have been hanging up there had they killed them instead of escaping. So the other corpses were just others they had killed out in the world not part of the group.

FUN FACT: David's right-hand man, James is played by Troy Baker, the original Joel from the video game. So, you could say in this iteration, Ellie killed Joel. :)

Funny fact here: The guy Joel knifes in the basement is also the director of thos episode and the finale. As for where Ellie put the penicillin, as long as it went into the stomach muscle, it was okay to put it in Joel's gut.

The final scenes in the lodge play out pretty much exactly like the game.

This is my favorite episode of the season. Pedro and Bella were absolutely fantastic.

I think the four people last episode going out ‘looking for supplies’ were in on the cannibalism, and the others who were in the meat locker were either travellers they hunted or other members of the tribe who died by natural causes. I don’t think they had started deliberately killing their own yet.

When they found Ellie Riley had already turned and been killed by Ellie well beyond the time it takes to turn

Wait till episode nine. It'll answer most of your questions. Particularly the cold open. I won't say anything else.

we do not know if David actually believed Ellie was his equal, makes more sense he was lying to get her to do what he wanted

20:56 In episode 1 Tess told Joel that Robert was Terrified of Joel... This is why.

I am glad you get to rewatch several times with doing your editing and then as you said you are not worried about the constant attack... Ellie really excels in her acting in this episode and my heart just leaps every time Joel calls her baby girl for the first time... and yes why did no one else from the community come to see what was going on with the fire... looking forward to sharing the end with you.. do love your reactions

Hummm, I thought Anna would have pressed her temples so hard.... she would have her hands imprinted in them. But no, she rode this one out like a chill queen. The finale may cause her more...consternation. But she'll finally understand the true nature of this surprisingly difficult 'love' story.

You *will* find out in the final episode exactly why Ellie wasn’t killed on sight. In the game, Marlene and Ellie had a *slightly* more cohesive relationship. Not close by any stretch, but they knew each other prior to Ellie getting bitten. Also, the exact details of Ellie killing Riley are left to the imagination in the games.

if you watched the 1st episode more carefully, the infection flyer tells u that the people who got bitten on the leg would take the longest to turn which is around 12-15 hours, we can reference that to how long it took for Sam to turn as he was bite on the leg. Also, Ellie was found the next day but not in the daytime as the resistance would never risk being caught moving around during the day, which means by the time the firefly found Ellie would have been way past the time span of even the longest lasting period for anyone who has been infected on record. That reason alone would have made Ellie become someone very special in most people's eyes, not to mention the resistance leader Marlene also has a history with Ellie, those two obvious reasons alone were enough to save Ellie's life.

Firstly, remember Marlene knows Ellie. When the fireflies turned up at the mall, they found a mature, dead infected, a newly turned and dead Riley and an alive, unturned and bitten Ellie. Marlene r4ecognised Ellie should have turned by then and stopped the fireflies from killing her (she said this to Ellie in Ep 1). Marlene had an emotional connection to Ellie, she was puzzled that she hadn't turned yet and maybe ...she had another reason for suspecting Ellie might be immune? So they chained her up and waited to see what would happen.

I don't think there was any strategy to David's words about Ellie as his equal, at least not along the lines of her being immune and also good with guns/having hunting skills or something like that. To me it comes across more like a typical grooming/predatory behaviour, just a variation of 'you're not like other girls' or 'you're really mature for your age'. Re: bodies and people disappearing from the group - the other bodies are probably travellers like Joel and Ellie, just without the plot armor.

the diner is a level in the game, you have to sneak around avoiding david until you can get attacks on him with the knife. david was a child predator he didnt want her as a partner he was just telling her what he needed to get her to join. people always jump to "they ate the dad" but once you see other bodies you kinda know a body has to be prepped to eat and stored so her dad probably is not in line to be eaten yet. the season ends with the conclusion of the first video game.

Did they know there would be a season 2? They knew it would be a possibility, but it doesn't plug into this. The plot is following the game very closely and they didn't know there would be a second game when they ended the first ...in fact there was a 7 year time gap between the first and second game and the second was only developed because there was such a demand for it following the success of the first. So the game concludes as a self contained story and the show appear to be following an identical path.

Can we talk about how the lady puts raw meat into the stew?! Not gonna brown, or sear it first? Heathens!

this level in the game was indeed insane and very hard for me, pretty sure I hade the difficulty set to normal too lmao he was hella sneaky and a total creep.

Marleen ordered them not to kill her. You will find out the other answers as you are almost at the end...probably already at this point considering how recording and posting works lol.

this episode should've been titled "beast mode" cause joel ellie & david all went there.

Sorry. So late watching.Another fun reaction where I could see the word STRESSED written all over your face 👍😉. And yes...this is a crazy part of the game. I can't wait to see how you feel about how they land the plane in Season 1. Well Done 👍👍

Super late to this, but as I casually scrolled through the comments I didn't see anyone talk about it, so I was compelled to address your questions/thoughts at the end. I just wanted to add a bit more depth from the gaming side. I agree that Davis was being predatory and probably telling Ellie what he thought would best sell his "nice guy" act, but there was much more to it in the game. When Ellie first shoots the elk and she's waiting with David for the medicine, the two of them are attacked by a HORDE of infected, including several of the larger ones that you saw from the episode with Kathleen in Kansas City. So all this talk about how impressive she was, seemed kind of out of place in the show. It was lore accurate for him to say those things but given we didn't see her do anything particularly impressive, I understood why you were confused by him saying so. In the game that came from a shared experience of fighting for their lives and defending each other when the chips were down. So that's at least where that was coming from. Half of it was creepy pedo crap, and half was he was genuinely impressed by her.

David didn't actually see her as an equal, he was trying to groom her

The only thing that occurs to me is that this building is far from the others. David is not having all his things close to the other people. Eventually, they'll find out. That is a resort my question would be how did Joel find it?

Why don’t canabils eat left handed venison, they don’t taste right

watch the show & let it unfold. your qyestions wull be answered. trust the show.

I don't know if I commented this after the episode with Henry and Sam, but Bella Ramses nonverbal vocalizations are just amazing acting. As far as the bodies and who they were eating I think the people Joel and Ellie ran into at the university wrought looking for people. That's why they attack them. So maybe they weren't eating the people from the group unless perhaps they died of natural causes ...

I love your reaction and fun fact David right hand Man James is the same actor that plays Joel in the games

Why didnt it seem like they were just out for supplies? Four guys armed only with baseball bats? This brings me to my thoughts on perspective. If we had been following David's group from the beginning, from Pittsburg across the country, we would view this whole sitution differently. We would be upset at the people starving. Very upset that Alec died, leaving his wife and daughter who everyone would be crying for. With his group starving, including that wife and daughter, Alec sees two people, armed with guns and riding a horse that could feed his group for a month and possibly loaded with supplies. He also doent know if they are part of a larger group who could now come and attack his group. When we hear about and see Joel killing innocent people, we brush it off as "you do what you have to do to survive in an apocalypse " or "He’s just protecting the people he cares about." Thats all the guys with bats were doing too. I dont think they were actively killing the people they were eating. I think they were just using what became available to them. Here's another thought. Not whether or not the penicillin was really penicillin, but what if Joel was really allergic to penicillin? She would have just finished him off. It wasnt so much subtext about Jesus being that gils father as it was straight up text him telling her he was her daddy now. The creepiest thing about all this, is that that pedo was a teacher before this all happened. I still dont know why David beings that cleaver down next to Elliw just because she yells out that she's infected. Either way, he was a second away from chopping her up. He should at least have taken her arm. At least that way he could have looked to see if she was infected.

been suggesting to all the reactors I like to do the series MANIFEST.. 5 seasons on Netflix and so far no one has done any reactions

Also, the first game ends exactly the same as the show.

This was when ellie changed forever 😢 suppose once the saga concludes we will see if for good or bad .. powerhouse performances yet again...

David didn't see ellie as an equal.. simply groomed her...or tried to rather... Just like he groomed his entire 'flock'

I really think you are the person who found a plothole in this outstanding story 🙃

You made it sound like you thought this is the last episode of the season. There is one more episode.

Why are you applying adult logic to a teenager. Is it your nature just to be contrary?

I think the reason he was so infatuated with ellie (yuck) is because she wasn't a follower. Every person he ever encountered, he was able to manipulate. Every person he encountered was immediately a subordinate. He had power over them...but in some twisted way felt responsible for them too. He felt like because he was able to manipulate them, they weren't his intellectual equal. Then here comes Ellie, who immediatly sees him for what he is, and calls him out on it. Instead of being angry or offended by this, he sees her as an intellectual equal...as someone who's not going to just swallow his lies wholecloth. Super twisted thinking.

Technically if Ellie had kids they’d be immune like her. You’ll see why soon.😊

No, we didn't know. You knew I did, but I have seen other reactions, most of them didn't know maybe after he hit the girl, and even then, they were surprised. At this point, those instincts, that poor perception, because he was reading the bible? That worries me. And I am very catholic

The answer is you don't know the whole story. Have a nice day. The game is very brutal and so is the show. The nagging question you should be asking is 'What does good and bad actually mean?' Its not so easy to get from the show but its there. We have a habit of just pulling for the main characters. In actuality Joel and Elle are a couple of not so good people. The show uses this episode to show a turn in Elle that you slightly notice. The ethical question is what does good and bad, right and wrong actually mean at the end of the world?

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everything will come together by the time you finish the show thankfully. I literally can't say anything more without spoiling but man I love this show 🥲