If you thought that Joel’s death (Pedro Pascal) would be the most heartbreaking part of The last of us Season 2, you would be wrong.
That honor falls in season 2, episode 6, an episode of flashback, all about Joel and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) in Jackson, and why they separated.
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The heartbreak of the episode comes in waves. The first sequences of the happiest memories of Joel and Ellie become tragically bittersweet with the knowledge of what is to come. And, of course, seeing both fall is a safe recipe for sadness. At the end of the time, his eyes will be wet and his heart will have shaken in a million small pieces. But well, in the leases we recover Joel for a moment!
Here, in chronological order, each time The last of us Season 2, episode 6 broke our hearts.
When young Joel’s father becomes vulnerable about the raising of children.
Episode 6 begins with an Austin flashback in 1983, when Young Joel (Andrew Díaz) tries to protect Tommy (David Miranda) from his father’s beating (Tony Dalton). But isolated from physically punishing any of his children, Joel’s father decides to tell him about the deformed paternity plan he inherited from his own abusive father, and how he hopes to improve it, little by little.
“I’m a little better than my father,” he tells Joel. “When it’s your turn, I hope you do it a little better than me.”
That line proves to be the thesis of the episode, with Joel trying to do a little better than his own father with Ellie. Know how limited that time is and how the two things ended: Kickstarts Episode 6’s Hearttle. And guess what? It is not about giving in the short term.
When the initial credits change to bring Joel back.
After Joel’s death The last of us‘Opening credits made a devastating change. Instead of ending in the image of two fungal silhouettes, aimed at representing Ellie and Joel, they ended only with the silhouette Ellie, highlighting their new loneliness. In episode 6, however, Silhouette Joel is back! It is a welcome return and a reminder that we are in Borredwed’s time with this pair. Who knew that a shadow or fungus could make me so emotional?
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When Joel sings “Future Days” to Ellie.
Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal in “The Last of Us”.
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So many elements of Ellie’s 15th birthday pull in The Hearts, from Joel’s reaction to his arm to hide his bite brand to him by customizing a guitar for her. But the moment in which the lazy opens is, without a doubt, Joel’s interpretation of the “Future Days” of Pearl Jam (who mocked Ellie in episode 5).
The lyrics of the song – “If I ever lost you / I would have missed me,” they are a resounding reminder of how much Ellie and Joel have meant for each mind. (It is also a dark portent or how Ellie can be losing in the search for revenge). But the performance is also a reward of a thread of history from all the way in season 1, when Ellie asked Joel to sing for her and teach her to play the guitar. Well, it finally happened, and it wouldn’t blame you for having an eye of tears.
When Joel and Ellie visit the museum.
Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey in “The Last of Us”.
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After a full season and half of seeing Joel and Ellie flee from infected and human enemies equally (and in the case of Joel, you know, die), any scene in which these two can relax and enjoy is a blessing. And what blessing is Ellie’s 16th birthday!
Joel takes Ellie to a museum, where the day goes by climbing for dinosaurs statues and going out to space in an old capsule. In one of the most moving moments of the season, its imagined space flight becomes a reality, with the light of the real world that fades around it until it is drifting in the dark emptiness of space.
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The whole sequence is Joel and Ellie in their happiest form. She becomes a girl for one, and Joel delights with her joy, knowing that she is doing a good job as a father.
Of course, the scene also serves as calm before the storm. The insistence of Ellie that she patrols is a reminder of the dangers that Jackson faces, as well as the patrol that will one day start Joel from her forever. For now, he thought, we can enjoy Joel fashionable from Dad, trying to give Ellie “the talk”, all without taking into account sexuality. Talk about bittersweet.
When Ellie moves from her home.
If Ellie’s 16th birthday is Joel’s dream, then the 17th birthday is her nightmare. Enter the smoking pot, tattoo and engage with cat (Noah Lamanna). “All teenage shit at the same time,” as he said.
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While Joel’s exasperated dad’s act seems fun at the beginning: what is worse, dodge clicks or adolescent rebellion? – It moves to the annoying territory quite fast. Discarding Ellie’s relationship with Kat as an “experiment” is horrible, simple and simple, as well as his statement that Ellie is not currently. It is not surprising that Ellie wants to move to the garage: make her own father figure refute her identity as that marks a great blow to her link.
Grateful, Joel recognizes the error of his roads and tries to help Ellie more space, but this fight and the subsequent movement mark the beginning of the end of Joel and Ellie. You want to take them through the screen and shout them to communicate with each other, that they only have a few years left. Instead, all you can do is see the snowball tragedy.
When we learn what the tattoo of the Ellie’s moth.
Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal in “The Last of Us”.
Credit: Liane Hentscher / HBO
One of Joel’s attempts to link with Ellie after the fight is to ask him about his moth tattoo. He echoes his drawings, which he used as inspiration when decorating his guitar. Ellie says she chose the moths for what they represent in dreams. Joel erroneously believes that they are symbols for change and metamorphosis, but the Gail therapist (Catherine or
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That means that Ellie has been carrying around the death of all who has lost, such as Riley (Storm Reid), her mother (Ashley Johnson) and more. As apparently the only person in the world who is immune to cordyceps, there is also a layer of guilt of the survivor here. Ellie is surrounded by death, but she is also protected from her. That is an overwhelming load to support, one that is defined to the entire age, and that Joel will never really understand.
When Ellie questions what happened in Salt Lake City.
Bella Ramsey in “The Last of Us”.
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On Ellie’s 19th birthday, he gets what he wanted since Jackson moved: to patrol with Joel. But now, Shey also wants something else: answers about what really happened in Salt Lake City at the end of season 1.
Before she and Joel go to the patrol, he sits in her room, rehearsing the questions about Salt Lake City. “If the fireflies saw us a mile from the hospital, how were they surprised by a complete group of assailants?” She wonders. “If the Raiders could kill all those soldiers and Marlene, and you had to take me all the time, how do we get away?”
These fonts indicate how much Ellie has reproduced that fundamental day, how these discrepancies have been eating in it for years. Deep down, she knows that Joel’s song. Perhaps that subconscious knowledge influenced his need for Joel’s space, even more the crack among them that Joel can attribute to the adolescent rebellion. Based on episode 1, we know that Rift is about to obtain much more, so the inclusion of Ellie’s questions here suggests that the other shoe is about to fall.
When we finally learn what happened with Eugene.
Joe Pantoliano in “The Last of Us”.
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This is the big one, friends. From episode 1, The last of us He has been talking about Joel killing Gail’s husband, Eugene (Joe Pantoliano). Now, we can finally see him play.
Eugene is marked by death from the moment he becomes infected with the patrol. He accepts that, but man, he makes his final moments. It all starts when Ellie insists that Eugene has enough time to return to Jackson and say goodbye to Gail before she becomes completely, and she makes Joel promise that he will help. But Joel, thinking of protecting Ellie and Jackson, returns to her promise and shoots Eugene anyway. It is a brutal concrete not only or Eugene, who obtains a few seconds from false hope before reality occurs, but also of Ellie, who realizes that Joel’s promise reflects the promise he made after Salt Lake City events.
“You swears,” she says, the whole weight of years of pain and questioning in just two words.
The discovery of Ellie of Joel’s lie develops differently in the program than in the game, where Eugene is already dead by a stroke. Even so, seeing her to build the pieces, and see Joel betray her even after her relationship seemed to be tentatively repairing, is nothing less devastating.
When Joel and Ellie take steps to heal on the porch scene.
Until now, episode 6 has revealed why Joel and Ellie are not talking in terms at the beginning of season 2, as well as what happened with Eugene. There is only an important question to answer: what happened the night before Joel’s death to make Ellie say she and Joel were “better now”?
The answer takes place in the beautiful final scene of episode 6, a continuation of the porch scene of episode 1. here, The last of us He reveals that Ellie not only delivered the night after seeing Joel on the porch. Instead, she returned to ask her, pointed, about what she did to the firefly. His interrogation line serves as an interrogation directly parallel to the interrogation of Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) just before his death: the two know the role that Joel played in the massacre, but they want to hear confess it by himself.
The following conversation is full of lines that double as it intensifies. Upon learning that doing a cordyceps cure would have killed her, Ellie says: “Then it was supposed to die! That was my purpose. My life would have imported. But you touch that of me, you touch that of all.”
Joel’s answer? “Yes, and I will pay the price.”
Little knows that you will pay the final price the next day. In fact, the whole scene hurts even knowing that the forgiveness trip that Ellie expects to embark will be interrupted in a matter of hours. Episode 6, you have already made me cry several times before, but this could take the cake.
Add salt to the wound is a last return of call to Austin flashback. “If you ever had [a child] Or yours, well, then, I hope you do it a little better than me, “Joel tells Ellie.
The line hits especially hard after Ellie’s reaction to Dina’s pregnancy (Isabela Merced): “I’m going to be dad.”
With that, The last of us The complete circle comes, making episode 6 an impressive and heartbreaking story of paternity, and the highlight of the season.
New episodes or The last of us Premiere of season 2 at HBO and HBO Max on Sundays at 9 pm et.