*The Last of Us* Episode 5 BROKE my heart.. 😭 

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When she said "I'm so glad I have these" I LOLed cause I knew that ending was going to break her. 😂

Tear Ducts: "And I took that personally"

"And that'll only get worse." Right until fulfilling her worst fear. Losing everything and ending up alone.

Mmhmm. I think episode 3 showed Joel in this way. He wanted to get away from Ellie when he read that letter from Bill, he wanted space.. because he felt responsible. This time it's opposite. Ellie feels almost responsible for Sam, and wants space, wants to even be away from Joel for a bit. This world has beat them down, and made them pretty broken.. but they still can only move on..

I'm glad someone else picked up on this. It's as if their characters have switched. Her walls are coming up, and his are coming down. She's pretty much done with all this, and just wants to be done. It's not "exciting" anymore.

Endure and survive, we are the last of us

also worth remembering that it's a total mirror to the end of the Tess episode's shot, with Joel somewhat coldly walking on and Ellie standing there. Blows my mind how well they're showing the progression of these characters, honestly even surpassing the game.

It's showing how hardened and alike they both are and when they crack later in the show it will be even more powerful.

It’s very interesting. On the show’s official podcast, the creators were talking about how Joel buried Henry & Sam mostly for Ellie. That he didn’t really care about burials. But he did it because he cared about Ellie, that she’s no longer just cargo.

Beautifully written

This is the best comment by far on every single reaction video to episode 4. I have watched maybe 15 different videos on this episode and this comment is legitimately heart breaking but brutally true. This This This THIS THIS!!!!

@@Phelddagrif1998 Sorry if I paste it too often. I just watch lots of reactions and figure it's not like I'm gonna type something different each time : ) I'm glad you follow my train of thought, like you, after watching so many reactions, certain things click. I think we felt the feeling of what I wrote. That feeling right before Henry is shot was in our guts. And this is the genius of the director of this series, I've come to realize later that it's shot, scored, and lit in a way that we go through the same thing Henry does. Everything happens so fast, so aggressively, that we "feel" it before we can name it or organize our thoughts. So that by the funeral part we're numb, just like Ellie. Then when we sort out our feeling of why we felt the we felt, or see it written, there's a moment of clarity. We understand the layers of Ellie betraying her promise. While Sam is sitting there everything is fine in the world. We don't know yet whether he's cured. He's sitting and not attacking. So maybe... we can just not approach him. While we don't move, there's no pain. Every step Ellie takes is a step that makes it that fantasy fade away, she might have broken her promise, he might have turned into his worst nightmare. Should we take another step? But we have to. What if everythings fine. If everythings fine we (Ellie) didn't betray him, we saved him. It's like that feeling when you overslept, or your alarm didn't go off, and your stomach drops while you frantically grab your phone to see what time it is. Where you promise the world to whatever we have to that if just this time, if this once, we're fine, we'd do anything. And then you look at the time, and you're not late for work, or school, or whatever it was. You sink back in bed with the most wonderful feeling of relief. Or you're late. Oh god you're going to have to call your work, to call your school, to lie or to be honest, and it's so much you freeze for a little... wishing things were different. That brief moment, where both realities exist, and you're grabbing your phone or however you tell the time, your heart feels like it stops. Time stops. They managed to materialize that same feeling into one scene. It's so many thoughts and feelings at the same time that all we feel is white noise. And then suddenly bam, he's dead, before we even thought a single clear thought. The scene is constructed beautifully to highlight that the things we find the most beautiful in the world, flowers, snowflakes, a child in his superhero mask. Are also often the most fragile.

The one criticism (or the main one) I have of this show ...and the games ...is that the revenge themes are nonsensical. Nobody would follow Kathleen, she's a lousy leader with lousy motivation ...it's really not realistic. She's not badass, she's just unhinged. It would have been more believable if Jerry had put a bullet in the bitter old bag and taken over as leader.

Well, I mean, not for them. But yeah.

I dont agree. At the end, Ellie moves off first ...she wants to get to the fireflies so they can make the cure and no more people like Sam have to die. That's the fuel for her stoicism. It's not hardness, it's compassion.

@@Martyntd5 There's definitely compassion there because she does want to help. But her not allowing herself to grieve is hardening her in a way that she probably doesn't even realize. We've seen how she wants to put on a brave face in front of Joel. That was really first shown in Episode 4 when she starts crying as Joel kills Bryan, but then immediately wipes away her tears when she hears his voice, and is quick to tell him that she's good. The cost of that brave face is that she's bottling up some really raw emotions.

I love how people when part 2 came out were like "Ellie wouldn't do what she's doing, she's not that person". Yeah, people change, she became the man who raised her the most, who taught her the most. She's an impressionable young teenager, and Joel has saved her life many times, she's learned from him already in this show how to survive, pushing away emotions and keeping on going forward, to let it all out in moments of rage and violence. Made sense in the game and in the show...and unfortunately for Ellie, it's not going to get any easier this season.

@@CrazeeAdam ///"Ellie wouldn't do what she's doing, she's not that person"/// I think it was more 'not that stupid'. All of their actions were stupid. Abby's action was stupid. Abby's friends were stupid to go along with it. Joel and Tommy were stupid. Ellie and Dina were stupid and then later, Ellie was even more stupid. Why did they suddenly all get stupid? It's like in this episode. Kathleen, Jerry and the others didn't make sense, it's one thing wanting revenge, but why were they all so stupid?

@@Martyntd5 I feel like you missed the entire point of TLOU2 and watched a RU-vidr complain about it instead... because you are way off-base for someone who supposedly knows what's going on in the story.

Thank you!! :)

@@VKunia The old man that was helping Sam and Henry, is the guy that Kathleen executed at the start of episode 4, the guy that the "Rat" at the start of this episode gave up to Kathleen before she executed them

@@VKunia You probably won't see this comment, but your hair is GORGEOUS in this video!

It really was :/ every time I rewatch, it still makes me tear.

@@VKunia I believe you Vicky how are you?

Has "Sorry professor, but I must not tell lies" vibes lol.

And on top of that, he must have realized that giving up Michael didn't matter in the end after all, that Kathleen was right, kids die.

So one could argue that without Henry's love they would still be oppressed... from a certain point of view.

@@Galiant2010 Well yeah from a different point of view what Henry did could have fucked the entirety of the resistance, since the death of their leader could have caused it to collapse and instilled an era of complacency and further suffering of the people.

@@Galiant2010 But luckily they were angry enough to rebel and with Kathleen to lead and point them they fuckin decimated and brutalized FEDRA.

This is where I first seen her, I was 8 or sth when I seen this movie, was amazing

Wasn't she in Coyote Ugly? I think she was the main characters childhood friend.......

Hard to tell in the chaos, but yeah, the two going after Henry and Sam under the car were definitely clickers, too.

wdym?

@@hodlsats It’s a really common reaction to disabled kids-a kind of pity mixed with the sense that they’re more innocent and sweet than other children. Although it usually has good intentions and kind-hearted people behind it, that perception is inaccurate and doesn’t make room for us to be understood as full, complex human beings-even as children. One thing I like about this show is that it hasn’t treated disability as some sort of advantage. And it illustrates accommodation (in this case sign language) as something good for everyone.

I'm starting to believe that of all the ways Tommy could die in the game, his voice actor Jeffrey Pierce personally asked for a death by bloater when he got cast as new character Perry in the HBO adaptation.

How to tell someone you didn't watch the video you commented on without actually spelling it out. She mentioned that at both: 3:49 3:59

@@ChibiHoshiDragon Of course I watched the reaction video from start to end. And as someone who never played the game, I've only started to learn which voice actors got cast in the TV series as other characters, and observe that fans of both versions can't help connecting said actors to their initial voice roles (21:27 "Tommy, NOOO!! TOMMEEEEEEEEE - Iknowyou'renotTommybutyousoundlikeTommy...") All I'm suggesting was that Kansas City (in lieu of Pittsburgh) was a way of bringing a bloater on screen to kick ass, and Perry's manner of death wasn't written into the script for nothing.