![]() She doesn’t want to give up she wants her life to matter, and she wants to be humanity’s savior. While watching the giraffes walk away without a care in the world, Joel tells Ellie that they can just stop their journey now and go back to Tommy’s (Gabriel Luna), if she wants.Įllie tells Joel that “after all we’ve been through, everything I’ve done, it can’t be for nothing.” This is a direct line from the game and an important one. That is when she and Joel get to the roof and see a whole tower (I just learned that this is what you call a group of giraffes how cool) of giraffes walking through Salt Lake City. When the giraffe walks away, Ellie once again runs after it, to try to find where it is going next. It’s an emotional scene that reminds us, Ellie, and Joel that there is beauty left in this world to fight for, even if there is so much darkness. When Joel finally reaches Ellie, he finds her watching, in wonder, a wild giraffe eating some foliage. Meanwhile, she and Joel are now nearing the hospital in Utah where the Fireflies may or may not be.Ī once-catatonic Ellie all of a sudden perks up and runs off when they get inside a bombed-out building. We then jump back to the present, with grown-up Ellie-well, grown-up-ish she’s still just 14-still processing everything she went through with David in the last episode. In the end, Marlene reluctantly obliges this request too. Then Anna asks Marlene to do something very tough: kill her. Marlene initially refuses, but she eventually agrees. When Marlene finds Anna and Ellie upstairs, Anna pleads with Marlene to take Ellie to Boston and find someone to raise her. Perfection.Įventually, the people Anna was hoping to find in the home when she arrived show up-it’s Marlene and more Fireflies, of course. You fucking tell them, Ellie.” As if watching the OG Ellie kill an Infected with a switchblade isn’t cool enough, we also get this heartbreakingly beautiful scene. One moment in this flashback that brought tears to my eyes is when Anna holds up a screaming newborn Ellie and tells her, “Yeah, you tell them. Finally, Ellie’s immunity is explained! The cordyceps has already been in her since birth, so it recognized her as one of their own when she was bitten later on. ![]() That’s when Anna realizes that, right before Ellie’s birth, she was bit. Seconds after the Infected dies, Ellie is born-screaming her lungs out, of course. When the Infected makes it into the room, Anna is able to eventually kill them with her trusty switchblade. ![]() Imagine giving birth while having to fight off an Infected this woman is a badass just like her daughter (surprise!). However, they are not there yet, leaving her alone and in labor, having to deal with this especially persistent Infected. ![]() Luckily she makes it out of the woods and into an abandoned house, where she is hoping to meet others. If you are a fan of the video game, you will immediately recognize that this woman is played by Ashley Johnson, who originated the role of Ellie.ĭuring the chase, it becomes clear that this woman-who we later learn is named Anna-is in labor. ![]() The first thing we see is a pregnant woman running through the woods away from a particularly loud Infected. Much like the series premiere, we open on a time jump-and a very important one at that. (Warning: Spoilers ahead for The Last of Us. Some have played the video game and therefore have a pretty good sense of what is to come, but for others, this ending will do what The Last of Us does best: make you question your choices. It is also the culmination of a long and emotional journey for the audience. The Season 1 finale is the culmination of everything Joel and Ellie have fought through and lost along the way. This is The Last of Us nothing is light or airy. We probably have not recovered from last week’s traumatizing episode-I know I haven’t-and I would love to tell you that this week’s finale is light and airy, but it is not. ![]()
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