Whats Your Favorite Episode Of The Show?

What’s your favorite episode of the show?

why would you ask this, anon?? /lh

I have thought about it and you're getting THREE of them. I cannot choose, but ep7, ep4, and ep6!

It’s in Joel’s house?? 😭 he pry kept it because it’s the closest thing he’d ever get to a family photo

it is! it's by the corner with all his liquor 😭 (I really need to rewatch the second game, so I can't give you specifics, but it should be in the kitchen)

ANON WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT? 😭😭😭 I have no words D:

more devastating news, since you're out to get me (/lh), is that he had that picture of him and Sarah on a table (or the mantel? do not emember) and there was a picture of him with Ellie and a horse next to it :( oh, and the picture with Sarah had a candle that was a bit melted. meaning he lit a candle for her, maybe frequently (and no one's there to light it anymore)

So I have a theory about the Nora scene

You know how Ellie didn’t get any of her stuff back in the finale? Well in her bag didn’t she have a picture of her and Riley? So maybe the fireflies went through her stuff (before they disbanded) and maybe some of them (Nora) end up recognizing her from the photo? Idk tho

I just feel like them having a picture of the only immune girl will comeback to haunt Ellie

Or like you said- maybe Ellie gets bit with Dina and then Nora notices the bite and realizes she’s not turning

I agree, I really hope she isn’t covered in bite marks by the end. Doesn’t she also get bit in the game near the end too?

she does have a picture of Riley in her bag! and she did lose it! (this is not exciting, I just love me some theories)

I imagine they did go through her stuff cause that just seems like something they'd do. and maybe Nora does recognize Ellie from that, and then helps Abby to go after her. I know she doesn't go after Ellie, but they could ask around and find out that Ellie very clearly means something to Joel, so if she kidnaps or goes after her, Joel will come and then the golfing will happen. could also help with the theater part - Abby would already know who Ellie is, while Ellie only knows Abby as the girl who killed Joel. mmmm or if Nora and Abby meet after the fireflies disbanded, and Abby confides in her about what happened in that hospital and Nora shows her the picture. anon, this is such a good fucking theory. it will bite Ellie in the ass, I can already feel it

and yeah, that could be it, too! Ellie gets bit with Dina and Nora sees it and that's how she knows. I was worried/thinking they'd give her another bite within the same 24 hours, but this makes more sense. we know from episode 2 that it'd still be a bit inflamed cause it's healing, so maybe Nora sees it and knows that she should be turning, but she isn’t. I am wondering how Nora will go out, though? cause she breathed spores and they don't have spores in the show, so do they wait for Nora to start turning? cause she was pretty close to it, I imagine, when Ellie caught up to her

and yeah, Ellie did get bit near the end! it's when she's going after Abby in Santa Barbara, she ends up getting bit on her left hand, coincidentally. so if they give her a bite for every single time she's supposed to breathe the spores and then also when she's supposed to be bitten, girl's gonna have at least 5?? and if they do the chemicaling and the tattooing the same, is she gonna burn all of them?? cause that just seems like a lot? and ouchie, man

but also, how the hell did she know Abby was at the aquarium??? everyone's saying Nora probably told her, but we saw that whole interaction, and it was never mentioned? she beat the shit out of Nora, there's no way Nora was telling her anything. and I don't imagine she would've asked anyone else because 1, there were too many and they all wanted her dead and 2, she was basically in the basement (I think? haven't finished the rewatch yet) or the parking garage, so I'm sure she found an exit that way. she could've overheard someone talking about it, but she seemed pretty shaken up when she got back to Dina and Jesse, so I doubt she was in the right headspace to eavesdrop

I feel like Ellie not showing she misses Joel that much could just be a result of his ‘parenting’ in part 1. He pretty much taught her to keep her emotions in and not talk about things

Show Joel did take a different approach and opened up to her more, so hopefully we’ll get some more emotional scenes

ooo true true did not think of that, thank you, anon!

also, taking into account her growing up in fedra, she's probably used to hiding her emotions and just bottling them up. so with Joel telling her to not talk about her feelings and other heavy things (ie. the conversation in game 1 where Joel snapped at Ellie for bringing up Sam and Henry), she already knew how to deal with it. the freaking details, man

I would also love to see more emotions in the show! especially with how different they are than in the game. I feel Joel is a lot more open with his emotions (even if he does bottle them up, too) in the show, so hopefully he can tell her what really happened

you know, even in the beginning, Ellie told Joel he could make stuff up. in episode 3, before it cuts to Bill and Frank, Joel said that they should cut through the woods because there was some stuff he didn't want Ellie to see. she responded with "you're too honest, man. you should've said axe murderer," so with the addition of "you could've made something up, I would've believed you" about the dam? Joel was really just doing what she told him to when he lied about what happened at the hospital :(

How long have you been a fan of the last of us?

since march 14th of 2023!

I forget things really easily when watching shows weekly, so I figured I'd wait until the day after they were all released. I was able to watch it all in one go, which made a little brain goblin move in (and definitely did not empty me because of all the emotions I went through in less than 24 hours). after watching the show a couple times, I went through and watched a game play of the first game and the dlc cause i wanted to see what they changed :) (and also the "oh, he ain't even hurt" scene that everyone was talking about) I wanted to go into the second season blind, like I did the first, but I saw too many spoilers for it and alas, I had to watch the second game (although I'm sure brain goblin would've had me watch me it at some point)