Can I Just

Can I just—

LOOK AT THIS GUY!! LOOK AT HIM!!

I LOVE THIS ZOMBIE SO MUCH!!! He’s like… gorgeous, in this scary way. The cordyceps growing out of him, the way he moves, it’s just amazing.

Not to mention the prosthetics, makeup and effects that went into this. Seriously I cannot express my love for this big guy.

Me:

Tumblr is cool because every day I find out that other people noticed the same gay ships in tv shows I watched years ago that I thought was just me being delusional at the time.

*chanting* GHOSTS GHOSTS GHOSTS

It’s… well, believe it or not it’s sorta angsty, actually. Basically the synopsis is that back in Jackson, Ellie starts to see hallucinations of the people who she’s killed, directly or indirectly (that she blames herself for).

you’re a fake ass tlou fan

👍👍👍

This is a brilliant analysis, thanks for making me cry at 4 o’clock on a Saturday

So I hope we're gonna talk about how the choice to NOT have Joel be the one to pull Ellie off of David, to NOT pull her out of the burning restaurant, isn't just a change for no reason. It's A Choice

Joel can't save her. Joel can't protect her. Not forever. And certainly not here. His worst fears for his own inability, his worst fears for Ellie, came true and he wasn't even there for it. Only Ellie could save Ellie and she experienced David alone, ALL alone. She has to drag herself out of that burning building. ALONE. It's sadder and bleaker and it centers her experience even more than ever

Like, I always loved the scene in the game where Joel makes her stop stabbing David, where he hugs her in the middle of a burning building, but I also have to ask myself if that even means anything for either character, especially in the context of the themes that have been built up in the show (Ellie wanting autonomy and independence but facing the realities of violence/conflict, Joel aging and doubting himself and failing to physically protect 2 daughters from the violence of this world despite actually managing to be emotionally available and nurturing).

Ellie hitting her lowest point entirely by herself jives better with what's coming in season 2 and ugh I wish that it was being talked about more beyond people wishing that it was 1:1 with the game

Something that ticks me off is people comparing TLOU the game with TLOU HBO and saying it didn’t have as much emotional impact as the game, or that it didn’t “recapture the magic”.

Like… yeah of course it didn’t have as much impact for YOU. You played the game first, and saw it for the first time in the game. With TLOU HBO you saw it again, of course it’s gonna have less of an emotional impact on you when you don’t already know the scene.

Some people went into TLOU HBO expecting to feel exactly what they felt when they played the game, but that’s impossible. The show will never be able to “recapture the magic” for you, because you know the scene and what they’ll say. You already know the emotional beats and the plot.

That’s why ep 3 hit people who played the games and people who didn’t so hard, not just because it was an amazing story, but because you didn’t know what would happen. You didn’t already know the scenes or what they’d say, because of course it “doesn’t have the magic” when you already know exactly what comes next unlike when you played the games.

I watched TLOU HBO first, and all of the emotional beats struck their mark perfectly and hit me like a damn semi-truck.

“You’e not my daughter, and I sure as hell ain’t your dad”, “I swear”, “I got you baby girl”, they all wrecked me like they wrecked you when you played the game.

Of course the scene is gonna hit harder when you’re experiencing it for the first time, rather than the scenes being “worse” in the show.