I Was Watching TLOU HBO Video Essays Again (its Normal Behavior, Ok?! NORMAL!!!) And I Saw Someone Say

I was watching TLOU HBO video essays again (it’s normal behavior, ok?! NORMAL!!!) and I saw someone say that Bella Ramsey’s performance was “flat” at times, but I completely disagree. I thought that their performance was never less than truly incredible. They portrayed such deep emotion without being melodramatic, they developed Ellie through the story in a truly masterful way, they perfectly showed us such real, human reactions and responses to all the situations Ellie was put in, and the way they played off their co-stars was really fantastic.

Not every scene they were in was hugely emotional, and the ones that were hit HARD. There were plenty of normal conversations, but those were acted to perfection too. Those normal scenes made TLOU so amazing.

IDK why I’m posting this, I guess just another Bella Ramsey appreciation post on my blog lol. Anyway, I truly, deeply loved their performance SO much, it was so amazing. The cast of TLOU is truly in another planet.

Quick side note: pls don’t DM me about why I’m wrong. It’s not really gonna do anything, and it just sours both our moods. You don’t have to agree with me, I get that it’s subjective, just don’t private message me listing all the reasons you disagree, yeah? Cheers👍 (I’m not British I just like the word ‘Cheers’)

In TLOU HBO there are two episodes that take place outside of the main timeline of the show, and both are absolutely fantastic queer love stories, but they are also completely different types of love stories.

Long, Long Time is a story about growing old together. It’s about loving someone so deeply and unbreakably that they become your purpose. It’s a two decade spanning story about time and spending your life with someone you love.

Left Behind is a story about young love. It’s about the awkward giddiness of having a crush at fourteen. It’s about the butterflies in your stomach and young, naive hope. It spans one night, probably less than four hours, that ended way too soon.

Bill and Frank’s death wasn’t the tragic end of a play, but Riley and Ellie were all poetic and decided to lose their minds together.

I was scrolling through TLOU tag and I saw a post that just said ‘aaaaand therapy time’ but it wasn’t even part of the tag😂 it just… was there and with 0 notes which means that Tumblr was just like “ah yes, this goes here” and it DOES😭

Me: well well well, if it isn’t the darkness that haunts my every waking moment. What must I do to please you?

The darkness *whispering creepily*: angtsyyyy fanfiiiic

I always dislike it when people say that show Ellie is too ‘annoying’ or ‘bratty’ or ‘hostile’.

There’s three main reasons for this:

1, she’s a scared kid. She’s never been shown love and had to act tough as a defense. She just had to kill her bestie/gf and was chained to an AC unit for two weeks, just to be pawned off to two people she’d never met who just threatened to kill her. It makes perfect sense she’d be on edge at first, and we see her open up more and become more comfortable with Joel (and Tess to a lesser extent) as the series goes on.

2, I think the thing that makes me love TLOU HBO so much is just how real all of the characters are (TLOU video game too, but it’s a very different medium where there is less realism most of the time). Everything that characters do, every emotional response they have, makes perfect sense because of their personalities and histories. It’s really incredible writing, if you look at it all. It feels real, and is still so wholesome and tragic at the same time. I think it’s really special, and I think Ellie’s response is also incredibly real and well written. I don’t think it makes Ellie less endearing or adorable at all.

3, don’t be mean to Ellie I love her and she’s my lil’ fictional friend🥲