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The Last of Us 1x06 Full Reaction! (Patreon)

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2023-02-20 22:18:16
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The Last of Us 1x06 Full Reaction

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Ryan

I hadn't heard that Rutina Wesley was in the show, and I loved seeing her as she was always one of the best parts of True Blood (and immediately killing her off was a huge part of why that show's final season sucked so much). Interestingly enough, this is her second time playing a character in an adaptation who was originally white, after her role in Hannibal.

Thomas Corp

I’m sorry to hear your congestion’s particularly bad today. I’m especially sorry that it was bad enough that you needed to pause the reaction. That doesn’t sound fun at all. Likewise, it’s rotten to hear you didn’t get any sleep last night. When you said that you were hoping for an enjoyable episode, I forgot the episode opens with showing again Henry’s suicide. Which upon seeing your reaction to that, and how you acknowledged that “Brightens my mood” not being the best term, it made me say, “Jess wants a comparatively light-hearted episode, and we open with seeing Henry’s suicide again. Well, apart from anything else, that’s just rude.” I enjoyed Graham Greene and Elaine Miles as the old couple at the beginning of the episode; they had a lovely dynamic. Yes, we’re taking it as a win that they did not die. Yeah, relatively a breather episode albeit one that still packs an emotional wallop. Yeah, like you observed, light on the action, but honestly who gives a shit? Interesting set-up the community has. The way they describe it, I found myself saying in response, “In other words, this is an autonomous collective; an anarcho-syndicalist commune? Or am I being too mean and somewhat nerdy about it?” I made myself depressed when it showed the community having the movie night. Specifically, I saw what they were showing, and said, “That’s The Goodbye Girl. Wow! I am so sad I knew that so fast. And I haven’t even seen that movie. Shit.” Great to see the brothers reunite. Yeah, difficult for Joel to process the news that Tommy is going to be a father, happy for his little brother though he doubtlessly is. A striking moment when Joel breaks down to Tommy. One aspect I loved about it was the storytelling without spelling things out. By that, I mean that Tommy had a fairly subdued reaction to Joel’s breakdown. My experience, when one’s older brother has a breakdown like that, you end up more shaken than what it was in the episode. It reminds us that Tommy was there when Sarah died and was probably witness to Joel having far worse breakdowns in the days, months, perhaps years following, that, to a certain extent, he's somewhat numb to it by now. Similarly, it’s a striking moment when Joel and Ellie have their moment. Your reaction to that was a stand-out moment of the reaction. Like you say, Joel has grown weary of people depending on him and, per his perception, he’s failed time and time again, thus, he feels Ellie will be better off without him, and he can fuck off and be the piece of shit that his brain, heart, and soul have deceived him into believing that he is. It's nice to see Joel and Ellie sticking together. The ending was a bit of a jolt. Again, your reaction was great at that part. When Joel is stabbed, and you asked, “What do we do?” well, the first thing he should have done was to leave the piece of baseball bat in his gut. I even screamed that at the screen when I first saw it, I went, “Ok, Joel, Joel, just leave it in. Don't pull it out, and you’ll h-WHAT DID I JUST FUCKING SAY!?!?!” I also loved you encouraging Mr. Ed by saying, “Go horsey, go” Of course, like you said, a little patchy-patch, and he’ll be right as rain in no time. All in all, a strong episode, and a wonderful reaction to it, Jess. Now, as to how you note some viewers have greater insight than others, to speak the plain truth, that’s getting on my nerves as of this week. More specifically, minutes after I saw the episode, I'm on the internet and there was already a substantial amount of chatter and hullabaloo concerning...something...in this most recent episode. I don’t know exactly what it was as I didn’t inquire about any of it. I'm trying my best to avoid the spoilers and it’s becoming more difficult as the weeks go on it seems. Similar to your usual method, if something does get spoiled for me, and spoilers come up in the episode, I'll be honest with you about it. Like I said, a great reaction, Jess, thank you.

Ryan

Please, if you ever feel you need to take time for your health before you do one of these, or you even need to skip it entirely, don't think about it, just do it. That's the most important thing.

Saltire
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I was going to write my own summation of this episode, but the crux of it is Joel's mental state, and I think you nailed it here better than I could Thomas. Joel has been the protector all his adult life; first with Tommy, then Sarah, then Tommy again, Tess and now Ellie. He has put the blame on himself for what happened with Sarah, and what he thinks about pushing Tommy away; that he failed them somehow. Then Tess being infected after he suggested they make the trip to the museum and run into the Clickers just adds credence to all his doubts in his head. And then her dying wish to make sure Ellie gets to her destination with him, and him feeling he's not up to the task with what happens to Sam and Henry, give him panic attacks. He feels he has failed everyone, that he is past his prime, that he is a horrible person after murdering people when he didn't need to, and cannot even now protect Ellie and do this task. He is also beginning to care for her which only adds to his feeling of burden, that he is slowing her down and that Tommy - who know longer needs him and will be a father himself soon - would be the better option to take her going forward; then he can go off and die rotting away someplace. In the end, Joel comes to some sort of conclusion, that Ellie can get a choice, to go with him and potentially not make it; or go with Tommy and probably will make it. It was never a choice for her though.

Thomas Corp
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Was not expecting the compliment but thank you. Yeah, his whole life, Joel's had people depending on him. It makes me wonder if his and Tommy’s parents died when they were young. I suspect they died at least prior to the fungal pandemic. I don’t know if that comes up in the game or not. Likewise, seeing as the memorial board shows that Sarah was fourteen, (Which incidentally means I got close as to guessing her age; I estimated about twelve which is how old I was at the time of the fungal outbreak.) it means that Joel had her straight out of college, assuming he went to college. Thus, like you say his whole life he has been a protector, and he’s failed, his efforts have backfired, and/or things go wrong in some way shape or form time and time again. In his place, I'd probably be in the same boat thinking that Ellie would be better off continuing the journey with Tommy. There's the line in Logan that sums it up well, “And it is better this way! Because I SUCK at this! Bad shit happens to people I care about!”