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Pedro Pascal as Joel Miller in HBO’s The Last of Us.
the power that harwin strong and joel miller have on me
PEDRO PASCAL as JOEL MILLER in THE LAST OF US (2023—)
Pedro Pascal as Joel in THE LAST OF US (2023) 1.01 “When You’re Lost in the Darkness”
HBO’s The Last of Us (2023) — 1.01 “When You’re Lost in the Darkness”
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Pedro Pascal as JOEL MILLER in THE LAST OF US (2023—) 1.01 “When You’re Lost in the Darkness”
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seatbelt.
“seatbelt,” Joel says. he doesn’t think too much about it because there’s a little girl in the car and she needs to put her seatbelt on. it slips out of him like he’s said it a million times before. seatbelt when he’s taking sarah to school, seatbelt when they’re going to soccer practice, seatbelt when she’s coming with him to the grocery store because he forgets everything without her. seatbelt the first time he drives Tess somewhere, and she glares at him for a moment, so he never reminds her out loud again, but his eyes flick to the rearview mirror to check–not because he doubts her; he just needs to be sure.
seatbelt means nothing to Ellie, and when she says “hm?” he looks down at her, comprehension dawning on his face–this child knows next nothing of the world outside QZ walls, and all the books and classes at her shitty school couldn’t teach her enough to keep her alive on her own out here. and then he shows her the seatbelt and lets her buckle it herself. it’s like he doesn’t even realize he’s already started to care for her, even when he can’t let her care about him yet.
At the very beginning of episode 3 Joel is shown building a cairn near the river at the earliest hours of dawn. You can hear the cicadas chirping.
When he returns to check on Ellie, the sun is already up and above in the sky, lighting up the forest and the creek river flows in with warm yellowish colors.
That means that he probably covered Ellie with his jacket when she fell asleep to avoid any bickering and commentaries and stepped aside to let the river stream carry away a bit of his deeply buried sorrow, and stayed there for quite some time.
As if this broken man is still capable of gentle caring actions and experiences emotions, but only in silence, hidden in twilight. And I love that we're being subtly shown these parts of him.
THE LAST OF US S01E02 - Infected | S01E04 - Please Hold on to My Hand
THE LAST OF US S01E02 - Infected | S01E04 - Please Hold on to My Hand