Latest / Stuff Mom Never Told You / The Last of Us Part 2 Special: Episode 2
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Hey, this is Andy and Samantha.
- 0:06Speaker 2: I'm welcome stuff I never told you production of iHeart Radio,
- 0:18Speaker 2: and welcome to the second episode of our seven episode
- 0:23Speaker 2: mini series we are doing on season two of the
- 0:26Speaker 2: Last of Us, which is not a sponsor. As ridiculous
- 0:30Speaker 2: as that isous it is very ridiculous. If you're familiar
- 0:35Speaker 2: with this segment, then you know basically what we're doing
- 0:39Speaker 2: is we're reacting to the previous week's episode, and we're
- 0:43Speaker 2: only spoiling that episode plus the previous season, the first game,
- 0:49Speaker 2: and parts of the second game, but not plotline parts.
- 0:54Speaker 2: We're being very careful here. Yeah, we're trying our best.
- 1:00Speaker 2: I think we're doing a pretty good job so far.
- 1:03Speaker 2: But yes, this is just a special thing we're doing.
- 1:07Speaker 2: Hopefully you enjoy it even if you haven't watched the
- 1:09Speaker 2: show or played the game, although maybe not for this episode,
- 1:13Speaker 2: which we'll talk about. But yeah, there's only seven and
- 1:16Speaker 2: then we'll eventually get to season three because they're splitting
- 1:22Speaker 2: the second game into at least two seasons, and I
- 1:24Speaker 2: personally think it's going to be three seasons, but we
- 1:27Speaker 2: will see. That is what we're doing here. I did
- 1:31Speaker 2: want to say before we get into this one. The
- 1:33Speaker 2: Showwriners have called this the Empire strikes Back season, so
- 1:37Speaker 2: make of that what you will. Also, this is why
- 1:40Speaker 2: I need a fandom therapist. I looked it up. There
- 1:44Speaker 2: are fandom therapists, but really they're just like therapists that
- 1:48Speaker 2: no fandoms. I need to tell me why this upsets
- 1:52Speaker 2: you so much? When XYZ happens in this game, That's
- 1:56Speaker 2: what I need. But anyway, please see your past episodes.
- 2:03Speaker 2: But the way these works is Samantha gives the recap
- 2:08Speaker 2: and then I go through all of my thoughts. Anaya
- 2:12Speaker 2: have a lot of thoughts about this one, for sure.
- 2:15Speaker 1: Yes, yes, she has many thoughts.
- 2:17Speaker 3: I did not count the oh no's because there was
- 2:20Speaker 3: too many guts.
- 2:22Speaker 2: There's a yeah, I think I guessed the very first moment.
- 2:26Speaker 1: You did before I even even I think it started.
- 2:28Speaker 1: I was like, really.
- 2:29Speaker 2: Because the sound effect, I was like.
- 2:32Speaker 3: Immediately like it was like nothing had happened except for
- 2:37Speaker 3: the sound effect.
- 2:40Speaker 1: So I did not get keep count.
- 2:42Speaker 3: But I do have some amazing pictures of you and
- 2:46Speaker 3: your friends are friends friends of the show. Marissa and
- 2:50Speaker 3: Katie's reaction and it's quite hilarious.
- 2:53Speaker 1: It is a tale there they are tales. But here
- 2:56Speaker 1: we go. Are you ready any Yeah? Sure you ready?
- 3:00Speaker 3: We open to a scene of a dream or not.
- 3:05Speaker 3: Abby is going down the hospital corridors because she's hearing
- 3:09Speaker 3: the alarms and as she's going down hearing snipe likes
- 3:13Speaker 3: like screams and muffle screams. In the background, we hear
- 3:16Speaker 3: someone say, don't do don't go in there, because she
- 3:18Speaker 3: has reached the operating room and she turns to look
- 3:20Speaker 3: as hers herself and then she's saying, don't go in there,
- 3:23Speaker 3: don't go in there. You'll regret this. Don't go in there,
- 3:25Speaker 3: and they're like, you're lying. She's saying that you're lying,
- 3:29Speaker 3: there's nothing wrong. Well, essentially back and forth, and finally
- 3:31Speaker 3: she's like, Okay, you're gonna regret this. You're gonna see
- 3:33Speaker 3: his brains on the floor, and essentially she goes in
- 3:36Speaker 3: scream wake up. We find Abby now up to date
- 3:40Speaker 3: the five years later, she and her crew are at
- 3:43Speaker 3: a cabin close to Joel and Ellie's and Kamma Jackson,
- 3:49Speaker 3: and they have been searching for Joel the entire time.
- 3:54Speaker 3: As the light shines down on them because apparently, I
- 3:57Speaker 3: guess I got must have got there at night and
- 3:59Speaker 3: they didn't see. They look out and see that the
- 4:02Speaker 3: area that they've been searching for is a giant town.
- 4:06Speaker 3: It's not a small keep like a couple of tents
- 4:09Speaker 3: here and there is a whole village.
- 4:11Speaker 1: And they were not ready.
- 4:13Speaker 3: So they have a hole back and forth for a
- 4:14Speaker 3: minute about what to do in plans, and Abby is
- 4:16Speaker 3: holding firm she will find Joel. They will find a way,
- 4:20Speaker 3: they will find she. Her plan is to find someone
- 4:23Speaker 3: who knows about the town, take them in, get the
- 4:27Speaker 3: information that they need, and then dot dot dot because
- 4:31Speaker 3: they're like, you can't just let them go, and they
- 4:33Speaker 3: we'll deal with it. So as Abby gets ready she's
- 4:37Speaker 3: going to go on patrol herself. The rest of them
- 4:40Speaker 3: are coming around together saying, what are we going to do.
- 4:41Speaker 3: There's no way we can take them. We're all going
- 4:43Speaker 3: to die, in which Owen says, my plan is to
- 4:48Speaker 3: convince her to turn around. So end of that, Abby
- 4:52Speaker 3: makes her way out in the very freezing cold.
- 4:54Speaker 1: Oh dear god.
- 4:55Speaker 3: We come to back to Jackson. We see Ellie being
- 4:59Speaker 3: woken up by Jesse saying, we need to go on patrol.
- 5:03Speaker 3: You gotta do your duty. Da Da Da and there's
- 5:07Speaker 3: a whole cute back and forth which is actually in
- 5:09Speaker 3: the game about the fact. She's like, look, man, last
- 5:13Speaker 3: night was crazy because he was like I heard y'all.
- 5:16Speaker 3: Y'all got into them some things after I left, and
- 5:18Speaker 3: she was like, oh no, everything was crazy. Dina was drunk.
- 5:23Speaker 3: I don't know all these things, and Dina didn't mean it,
- 5:26Speaker 3: and he's like, what I was talking about, you get
- 5:28Speaker 3: in a fight and then he's like.
- 5:30Speaker 2: It's all stuff.
- 5:31Speaker 1: I can't believe you would do this, blah blah, just kidding.
- 5:33Speaker 3: I knew I don't care type of thing, and then
- 5:36Speaker 3: she was like shut up and she goes get it
- 5:37Speaker 3: ready and he's like no, but that was kind of dumb,
- 5:39Speaker 3: and she's like ah. So they go on and he
- 5:43Speaker 3: keeps talking about what's going on with him with Joel,
- 5:47Speaker 3: with everything, and finally she's like, Joel and I are good.
- 5:49Speaker 1: We're fine.
- 5:50Speaker 3: Joel's Joel, I am me and we're fine. It's just
- 5:53Speaker 3: we handle it as in fact, let me go patrol
- 5:55Speaker 3: with him. You're getting on nurse. Let me go patrol
- 5:57Speaker 3: a hit with him, and he's like, you can't. He
- 5:59Speaker 3: went out with Dina, but also Maria wants to talk
- 6:03Speaker 3: to us. So they go to the cantina where Seth
- 6:08Speaker 3: I guess owns it or runs it, and Assessed the
- 6:12Speaker 3: apologizes with a steak sandwich and we had we had
- 6:16Speaker 3: a stake sandwich Annie the first episode, thinking that episode
- 6:19Speaker 3: was going to be the first episode we miss moving
- 6:21Speaker 3: miscalculated just.
- 6:23Speaker 2: Want because it's the first scene yeah, after the title
- 6:26Speaker 2: card in the game.
- 6:28Speaker 1: Yeah, but we are Yeah, I had to come back
- 6:31Speaker 1: to it.
- 6:32Speaker 3: We were all also off on the second one. Anyway,
- 6:35Speaker 3: moving on, we didn't do so well with the predictions
- 6:38Speaker 3: for the mills, so we move on and they are
- 6:42Speaker 3: all going on patrol. At the same time, we have
- 6:45Speaker 3: Tommy giving a spiel about protocols because there's a giant
- 6:49Speaker 3: mass amount of infected out there and they found out
- 6:53Speaker 3: that they're all under the snow and there's tons of them,
- 6:55Speaker 3: so just be aware. So they have a whole plan
- 6:58Speaker 3: about how to keep the city safe, if the village
- 7:00Speaker 3: is safe, and everybody's responsibilities and duties doing all this
- 7:05Speaker 3: and reminding people what to do and protocols. I feel
- 7:08Speaker 3: like that was foreshadowing obviously, as they are still working
- 7:12Speaker 3: on that pipe that we saw from the first episode.
- 7:14Speaker 1: Oh he cuts into it and he.
- 7:16Speaker 3: Realizes, oh no, the court is ups are communicating, are communicating,
- 7:21Speaker 3: And then we flash onto finding Abby. He's still traveling
- 7:24Speaker 3: and she is a bound to determine because she just
- 7:26Speaker 3: spotted two people on a horse and she's like, okay,
- 7:29Speaker 3: I gotta get them, I gotta get them. She's going
- 7:31Speaker 3: downhill and she's like like steep hills, just sliding, just sliding.
- 7:36Speaker 1: All the way down to the point.
- 7:38Speaker 2: Oh.
- 7:38Speaker 3: She loses her gun and she goes into the middle
- 7:40Speaker 3: of nowhere and she looks around. She realizes this, holy crap,
- 7:43Speaker 3: a lot of infected, a lot of bloaters like just sticking.
- 7:46Speaker 3: And it was really a scary scene. She's looking around like,
- 7:49Speaker 3: oh my god, Oh my god, what do I do?
- 7:51Speaker 3: And they start coming awake because they realize she's there.
- 7:55Speaker 3: Also again the communicating with the village, so a lot
- 7:58Speaker 3: of things are happening. So she like runs for it,
- 8:02Speaker 3: and there's a whole scene. It kinda is like the
- 8:04Speaker 3: behind the Back, not behind the Bassards, the Battle of
- 8:06Speaker 3: the Bastards scene. Y'all know, Game of Thrown people know, Okay, anyway,
- 8:10Speaker 3: moving on, they run and run and run. She goes
- 8:12Speaker 3: to what a building and climbs over a wall and
- 8:16Speaker 3: then she's like going to the side and makes the
- 8:18Speaker 3: mistake of being around a fenced area, a wire fence,
- 8:20Speaker 3: and oh that scene. Because they are trying to get
- 8:23Speaker 3: to her every way possible. One breaks through, it's like
- 8:25Speaker 3: grabbing at her. She goes through and.
- 8:28Speaker 1: She's like, oh my god.
- 8:29Speaker 3: And then we hear a gunshot and it's Joel and
- 8:32Speaker 3: he has rescued her and he pulls her up and
- 8:34Speaker 3: they go around and they're trying to figure out what
- 8:36Speaker 3: to do inside the building.
- 8:38Speaker 1: So Dina and Joel and Abby are all together. Oh
- 8:42Speaker 1: my god.
- 8:43Speaker 3: So during this time they're trying to figure out where
- 8:45Speaker 3: to go, what to do. She Abby says, my people
- 8:48Speaker 3: are here, they're up in the cabin.
- 8:50Speaker 1: We can make it.
- 8:51Speaker 2: Let's go.
- 8:51Speaker 3: So they're like make a decision, grab onto each other
- 8:54Speaker 3: and move on. And by the way, Dina's like, who
- 8:56Speaker 3: are you? She does where did you come from?
- 8:58Speaker 1: Where did you come from?
- 9:00Speaker 3: So she asks a good question that I'm really surprised
- 9:03Speaker 3: Joel didn't ask. We flashed back and we realize, holy crap,
- 9:09Speaker 3: they infected are coming and they are all coming for Jackson,
- 9:13Speaker 3: and everybody's preparing.
- 9:14Speaker 1: We got the whole wall.
- 9:16Speaker 3: We've got like barrels crashing with gas, and we got
- 9:20Speaker 3: all the guns, people in the village getting ready, people
- 9:23Speaker 3: at the top getting ready to shoot. So it's everything's
- 9:26Speaker 3: happening with all the children and women are being put
- 9:28Speaker 3: into bunkers.
- 9:30Speaker 1: Essentially, Wow, this is going down, and oh my god.
- 9:34Speaker 3: We see the giant floater, like the really big messy
- 9:38Speaker 3: one messy and they know he's coming, and so Tommy
- 9:42Speaker 3: yells they're gonna breach because there's no way to stop them.
- 9:45Speaker 3: We have flamethrower people getting ready to go, and then
- 9:48Speaker 3: two of them runaway.
- 9:50Speaker 2: You know. The other one is Seth I killed.
- 9:57Speaker 1: Does he die in the game?
- 9:59Speaker 2: I don't think he see him again in the game.
- 10:01Speaker 3: But well that is a variation from the game, because
- 10:04Speaker 3: that does not happen in the game, correct.
- 10:06Speaker 2: Yeah, no, oh, this whole thing doesn't happen in the game.
- 10:08Speaker 3: Well later, yeah, But like anyway, so we have that saying,
- 10:11Speaker 3: oh my god, it's a whole thing. We have Maria
- 10:14Speaker 3: and Tommy making eye contact with each other knowing what's
- 10:17Speaker 3: going down. Tommy's running down getting that flamethrower because again,
- 10:21Speaker 3: two people will make an exit, not the coolest.
- 10:24Speaker 1: Uh, and they're trying to all fight uh these floaters.
- 10:28Speaker 1: We go back to Abby and Dina. Because it's a
- 10:31Speaker 1: cut back and forth drama, there's a lot of trauma.
- 10:35Speaker 3: So we go back and Abby and Dina and Joel
- 10:38Speaker 3: have made it to the cabin and everybody's like trying
- 10:41Speaker 3: to fix mel It's really on top of the trying
- 10:43Speaker 3: to get in the warm up, trying to give him food,
- 10:45Speaker 3: making sure they don't have like frost happening.
- 10:48Speaker 1: Dina is noticing.
- 10:49Speaker 3: Nina is very aware of everything, watching looking at people,
- 10:52Speaker 3: looking at tags and like trying to figure out who
- 10:54Speaker 3: they were, and like where are you from? Who are
- 10:56Speaker 3: you at the Then this is when we see the
- 11:00Speaker 3: gun being pointed at Joel, and Abby pretty much tells
- 11:03Speaker 3: her intentions about what's going on after she's kind of
- 11:05Speaker 3: given the hint and like this is so, and so
- 11:08Speaker 3: this is Joel, this is it? Like like she makes
- 11:10Speaker 3: a giant announcement. All of them are like what what
- 11:15Speaker 3: and so that has happened? And Abby begins her speech
- 11:18Speaker 3: about what she's doing, who she was, and how she
- 11:21Speaker 3: lost everyone and she's like, you know, do you know
- 11:23Speaker 3: who I am?
- 11:24Speaker 1: Essentially, and he was.
- 11:25Speaker 3: Like are you military? She's like, do we look like military?
- 11:27Speaker 3: And you know, he does a little observation. He's like no,
- 11:30Speaker 3: He's like, wait, are you firefly? And he kind of
- 11:32Speaker 3: gets that and she's like, didn't you know all the
- 11:35Speaker 3: fireflies are dead? Drama, and then at this point he
- 11:40Speaker 3: gets shut in the knee. She takes his kneecap out.
- 11:45Speaker 3: At the same time, they have Dina. Dina's freaking out,
- 11:48Speaker 3: and Abby instructs them to put Dina to sleep, so
- 11:52Speaker 3: like gives her medicine, so she gets knocked out and
- 11:55Speaker 3: she falls out, and he.
- 11:57Speaker 1: Oh, all the bad things are happening.
- 11:59Speaker 3: All the while, Ellie and Jesse have also gone on patrol,
- 12:01Speaker 3: so they actually don't know what's going down. Because the
- 12:04Speaker 3: storm has gotten so bad, they are told to, you know,
- 12:07Speaker 3: get shelter. So they go and do their thing. Put
- 12:09Speaker 3: the horses left, get in the shelter, lay about.
- 12:11Speaker 1: It turns out to be a eu Jay's place.
- 12:13Speaker 3: Lots of weed, lots of good bonds, all the things
- 12:16Speaker 3: there if you need it. She talks about all the
- 12:18Speaker 3: things that she's going to take back, and this was
- 12:21Speaker 3: a variation as well that I know we're going to
- 12:22Speaker 3: talk about, but like you know, here we have a
- 12:24Speaker 3: representation of who Jane was a We find out that
- 12:27Speaker 3: Jean had been a firefly as well, and that he
- 12:31Speaker 3: quit a while ago because he was tired of all
- 12:33Speaker 3: the killing quote unquote something. A conversation comes up about
- 12:37Speaker 3: how it was really sad when Joel had to put
- 12:39Speaker 3: him down, and that's kind of the end of that story.
- 12:42Speaker 1: In that moment that like, we don't know much more
- 12:44Speaker 1: of that.
- 12:45Speaker 3: While this is happening, they do get an alert and
- 12:48Speaker 3: this is kind of pre attack on the Jackson just
- 12:51Speaker 3: they just know it's coming, and people are calling them
- 12:55Speaker 3: and saying, hey, we can't find Joel, we can't reach Joel,
- 12:58Speaker 3: we can't find Dina.
- 13:00Speaker 1: So Ellie and Jesse are like, we're down, let's go,
- 13:02Speaker 1: let's go.
- 13:02Speaker 3: So they immediately get their stuff and immediately make their
- 13:05Speaker 3: way up. They make a plan to go around so
- 13:07Speaker 3: they can cover more space, so they split up. Jesse
- 13:10Speaker 3: goes one way, Ellie goes the other, and that's where
- 13:13Speaker 3: we can come back again. Back in the town big Bloater,
- 13:16Speaker 3: going after Tommy. Tommy's about to die. We got a
- 13:19Speaker 3: flame thrower that is crapidly losing gas and he's like
- 13:23Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'm.
- 13:23Speaker 2: About to die.
- 13:24Speaker 1: I'm about to die like he's you can see it everywhere.
- 13:26Speaker 1: And then as that ends, the Blowter dies. He gets roasted,
- 13:31Speaker 1: really really well, really really good and roasted.
- 13:34Speaker 3: And it comes back to battle and seeing all the
- 13:36Speaker 3: dead bodies, but he's still going after all the other
- 13:39Speaker 3: uh infected, because that's obviously happening as he's trying to
- 13:43Speaker 3: round out.
- 13:43Speaker 1: That and of the battle there.
- 13:48Speaker 3: All the while, I didn't forget to tell y'all that
- 13:50Speaker 3: Joel does see what's happening in Jackson because he sees
- 13:53Speaker 3: all the flames and he's trying to rally he was
- 13:56Speaker 3: he was trying to rally everybody back to go to there.
- 13:59Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 14:00Speaker 3: Yeah, again when he figured out what was going down,
- 14:02Speaker 3: he knew what was happening. Abby gives a big speech
- 14:05Speaker 3: about what's happening. He says, you know, just kill me.
- 14:08Speaker 3: I'm so tired of the speech. If you're going to
- 14:10Speaker 3: do it, do it. So At the same time, Happy
- 14:13Speaker 3: finees a bag of golf clubs, the infamous golf clubs.
- 14:18Speaker 3: And I'm pretty sure we got trolled with that comment.
- 14:21Speaker 1: That I read that day.
- 14:22Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say something, but I was like
- 14:25Speaker 2: we can't explain why it's a punt. I think it's.
- 14:27Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, I think it was.
- 14:30Speaker 3: Uh. So she takes that nine iron and goes to
- 14:33Speaker 3: town on a very brutal, brutal beating, brutal beating on him,
- 14:37Speaker 3: and she is taking out all her rage and everybody's
- 14:40Speaker 3: just watching and like, if you watch the faces of
- 14:42Speaker 3: her friends and her allies, you have different emotions between yes,
- 14:46Speaker 3: vengeance and yes enjoyment and yes disgust. Like there's several
- 14:50Speaker 3: different concern as this going down.
- 14:54Speaker 1: We have Ellie's hearing this.
- 14:56Speaker 3: Ellie has approached the cab and she made it first,
- 14:58Speaker 3: she sees their horses and she's like, okay, what's happening?
- 15:00Speaker 3: Goes in Godziah and she hears noises and can't bear
- 15:03Speaker 3: out what it is. And as she opens the door,
- 15:06Speaker 3: she realizes something that Joel is in there. And as
- 15:10Speaker 3: that happens, she comes in, she gets attacked because she
- 15:13Speaker 3: doesn't see everybody because she's in the panic, and it's
- 15:16Speaker 3: the gun is taken from her and she's put down,
- 15:19Speaker 3: not I mean first, she definitely takes a swipe with
- 15:22Speaker 3: a knife, gets one of them in the face.
- 15:24Speaker 1: Manny gets gets a cut in the face, which he
- 15:27Speaker 1: is not happy about the entire time.
- 15:29Speaker 3: But she's put down and having to witness what is happening.
- 15:32Speaker 3: The rest of the crew Abbey's cruise just tell her
- 15:34Speaker 3: to get it over with. They're done, we gotta go,
- 15:37Speaker 3: we gotta go. And so the final blow is with
- 15:39Speaker 3: the broken club chink to the head, essentially to Joel.
- 15:45Speaker 1: We see Joel.
- 15:46Speaker 3: He does try to get up as Ellie is pleading
- 15:48Speaker 3: for him to get up, does not get up.
- 15:52Speaker 1: Ellie tells them I will kill you all. I will
- 15:55Speaker 1: find you and I will kill you all. They leave
- 15:58Speaker 1: her out the door very quick and leave.
- 16:02Speaker 3: We have her just alone with Joel's body because Dina
- 16:06Speaker 3: is hasted out and not awake. Jesse makes his way
- 16:10Speaker 3: up there. Eventually, as the scene clears at Jackson Hole
- 16:16Speaker 3: or Jackson Wyoming, they have defeated all of the infected,
- 16:21Speaker 3: but now they're having to kill off their own people
- 16:23Speaker 3: who have been bitten and clean up the mess that
- 16:25Speaker 3: is there. Tommy and Maria are united and are okay
- 16:31Speaker 3: and walk away, and the final scene we see Ellie, Dina,
- 16:36Speaker 3: and Jesse on horses dragging Joel's body back to the encampment.
- 16:42Speaker 1: Or back to the village end scene.
- 16:47Speaker 2: About the cry right now. Oh terrible, Oh my god.
- 16:52Speaker 1: It is all terrible.
- 16:54Speaker 2: It's very good.
- 17:09Speaker 1: Oh okay, how are you?
- 17:14Speaker 2: I'm good. This is okay. This is the one that
- 17:18Speaker 2: I've been wanting to talk about. I'm so relieved it
- 17:21Speaker 2: out there because it is just we're gonna get into it.
- 17:28Speaker 2: But it was so emotionally devastating when I played it,
- 17:32Speaker 2: and it was really hard. We weren't even sure what
- 17:35Speaker 2: they were gonna do, right because Pedro Pascal and We're like,
- 17:38Speaker 2: are they gonna are they gonna do it? We don't know.
- 17:43Speaker 1: They did it, and they did it and they stuck.
- 17:45Speaker 3: Like even though her Ellie walking in I remember this
- 17:49Speaker 3: in the playthrough, hearing the hearing the noise, so she
- 17:53Speaker 3: didn't know exactly what was happening until she opened the door.
- 17:56Speaker 1: It was spot on.
- 17:58Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we're in talk about that later because that
- 18:02Speaker 2: that kind of ringing sound is going to be recurrent
- 18:06Speaker 2: from here on out. But okay, let's get into it.
- 18:10Speaker 2: Because I have a lot of thoughts about this.
- 18:15Speaker 3: I will say Annie did not react the way I
- 18:19Speaker 3: thought she was going to react. I thought you would
- 18:22Speaker 3: be on the floor screaming Joel's name. Much like the game.
- 18:25Speaker 3: When we first played that through, Annie just sat in
- 18:30Speaker 3: my partner's living room. This is like COVID during the lockdown. Yeah,
- 18:35Speaker 3: with a piece of apple pie. It was for her birthday,
- 18:39Speaker 3: I believe, Yeah, and her sobbing and just saying Joel why,
- 18:45Speaker 3: and then my dog sheches just staring at her. I
- 18:50Speaker 3: think it was more for the pie, but then he
- 18:51Speaker 3: was also she was also confused about what was happening. Yeah,
- 18:56Speaker 3: So for us to see the scene, knowing that it
- 18:59Speaker 3: was coming, we weren't. We were sure if it was
- 19:00Speaker 3: gonna be this episode of the next.
- 19:02Speaker 2: But you did not.
- 19:03Speaker 1: You you did.
- 19:04Speaker 3: You were in tears, like the emotions were there, but
- 19:06Speaker 3: it wasn't as in depth or like, uh, as long
- 19:10Speaker 3: or as deep as I thought it was gonna be.
- 19:13Speaker 2: I did upon another rewatch, I had had a pretty
- 19:18Speaker 2: I had it pretty good. But I think because I
- 19:20Speaker 2: was just so relieved, which sounds awful, but like I
- 19:24Speaker 2: just haven't bating it. Yeah, I was anticipating it. I've
- 19:26Speaker 2: played that game fifteen to twenty times, and I'm not exaggerating.
- 19:29Speaker 2: I don't think more than that. I think it's probably
- 19:33Speaker 2: fifteen to twenty, but who knows, I could probably look
- 19:36Speaker 2: but I just was like, finally I could share this
- 19:41Speaker 2: pain with people. And I do feel kind of bad
- 19:44Speaker 2: because I said I was looking forward to like schaden Freuda,
- 19:47Speaker 2: and now I've gotten a lot of videos of it,
- 19:49Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh, I'm so sorry, you're so sad.
- 19:53Speaker 1: But I'm also like, I know what you're going through.
- 19:56Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and it happened so early. We'll get into
- 19:59Speaker 2: that second. But okay, first of all, let's start with
- 20:04Speaker 2: the title name, which, as I said, had cost me
- 20:08Speaker 2: a lot of consternation because it was the only title
- 20:11Speaker 2: name they didn't confirm previously because they knew they knew
- 20:16Speaker 2: everyone who played the game. We were looking for when
- 20:20Speaker 2: is this episode it's gonna happen, So it's called it's
- 20:24Speaker 2: titled Through the Valley. And this is a reference to
- 20:29Speaker 2: a song that Ashley Johnson, who is the voice of
- 20:33Speaker 2: Ellie in the game, covered, and you first hear her
- 20:37Speaker 2: cover it in a twenty sixteen trailer for the Last
- 20:42Speaker 2: of Us two, which tells you how long these games
- 20:44Speaker 2: take to make, because the first one came out in
- 20:45Speaker 2: twenty thirteen, and when in that trailer, it's very clear
- 20:51Speaker 2: there's a vengeance story, but we didn't know what it was.
- 20:55Speaker 2: And when you listen to the lyrics, it's all about like,
- 20:58Speaker 2: I'm strong and my convict, I'm going to do what
- 21:01Speaker 2: I have to do. My soul will be damned though
- 21:03Speaker 2: I'm on the wrong side. And in the trailer it's
- 21:07Speaker 2: focused on Ellie, but in the show it kind of
- 21:10Speaker 2: starts on Ellie and then it moves to Abby, which
- 21:13Speaker 2: I think was very purposeful. But that is where that
- 21:18Speaker 2: song at the end comes from. But yeah, let us
- 21:23Speaker 2: talk about the big battle scene. This actually is not
- 21:25Speaker 2: in the game at all. There is a scene like
- 21:29Speaker 2: it where the Horde that's chasing Abby Joel in this
- 21:34Speaker 2: case Tommy, which we'll talk about in a second. It
- 21:37Speaker 2: wasn't DNA. It was Tommy. Back to the lodge where
- 21:40Speaker 2: Abby and her crew are. They do throw like a
- 21:43Speaker 2: lot of them all the top cocktails and set the
- 21:46Speaker 2: Horde on fire, but it is nothing like this. I
- 21:51Speaker 2: suspect this was in part a response to the complaint
- 21:55Speaker 2: that they didn't have enough infected in the first season,
- 21:58Speaker 2: so they're like, hey, won't act there, let's do it. Then.
- 22:04Speaker 3: Did you know the person who directed this episode was
- 22:08Speaker 3: like did do some Game of Throne as well as Succession,
- 22:12Speaker 3: and then apparently in Succession he directed the most like
- 22:14Speaker 3: one of the most famous deaths in Succession, so they
- 22:17Speaker 3: brought him in so that it feels like they did
- 22:20Speaker 3: that to make sure to have it have that feel.
- 22:23Speaker 2: Yeah, and I believe he said in the like behind
- 22:26Speaker 2: the scenes after the episode, he was like, I need
- 22:28Speaker 2: to the thing I knew I needed to get right
- 22:31Speaker 2: with Joel's death, Like I knew I had to get
- 22:33Speaker 2: the makeup right, get all that right. But one thing
- 22:38Speaker 2: that is different about how the infected act in this
- 22:44Speaker 2: is they're communicating almost like telepathically. I mean it's through
- 22:48Speaker 2: the roots, which is new to the show as well.
- 22:51Speaker 2: But I didn't notice this until I was watching something later.
- 22:53Speaker 2: But when the Bloat, which is the big one, is coming,
- 22:58Speaker 2: Tommy notices that they all start following all the other
- 23:01Speaker 2: infected called runners start following the bloater because they know
- 23:05Speaker 2: the Bloater can break in to the break in, so
- 23:09Speaker 2: they're making strategic choices. Now they're smarter now.
- 23:15Speaker 1: They did address in the episode about the ghost.
- 23:18Speaker 2: Story, yes, but they really and then like that scene
- 23:22Speaker 2: where they're all chasing after Abby and Joel and Dina
- 23:25Speaker 2: and then they kind of branch off, like it's like
- 23:28Speaker 2: a fish school coming together. They're coming together in a
- 23:34Speaker 2: way that's very scary. And the Bloater and the game
- 23:39Speaker 2: is like very difficult. And by the way, they also
- 23:42Speaker 2: explode when they die, so everybody, we were all screaming
- 23:46Speaker 2: out the TV like, no, Tommy's gonna die. But they
- 23:51Speaker 2: got rid of that for the show. So Tommy is fine.
- 23:54Speaker 2: But like the flame throwers one of your most powerful weapons.
- 23:58Speaker 2: You get it at the end of both games, and
- 24:01Speaker 2: for Tommy, the slame thur in the game also is
- 24:04Speaker 2: only a campfire kind of amount of fuel, but he
- 24:08Speaker 2: had two like full canisters of gas and this floater
- 24:14Speaker 2: was not going down, So that suggests that they're evolving
- 24:20Speaker 2: and becoming stronger to humanity's defenses. Also, I have to say,
- 24:26Speaker 2: well that you hear that growl of the Bloater.
- 24:29Speaker 3: I was like, well, the coming, before we could see it,
- 24:33Speaker 3: she kept saying it's coming.
- 24:35Speaker 1: I hear the Bloater.
- 24:37Speaker 3: One thing we do have in our house because my
- 24:39Speaker 3: partner really really gets excited about sound, is a pseudo
- 24:44Speaker 3: surround sound set up, so you do have that like
- 24:46Speaker 3: background noise and then behind you.
- 24:48Speaker 2: Yes, but that sounds so ingrained. You're like, he's just
- 24:52Speaker 2: around here, somewhere. But also I did love and I
- 24:58Speaker 2: think your partner pointed this out too, but there's this
- 25:00Speaker 2: scene where you can when the blower is coming for
- 25:03Speaker 2: Tommy on like a one on one fight, you can
- 25:05Speaker 2: see its reflection in the window. That was cool. That
- 25:09Speaker 2: was really cool. This isn't I guess this isn't part
- 25:12Speaker 2: of the big battle scene, but I'm gonna include it
- 25:14Speaker 2: because it was a pretty big set piece. But the
- 25:17Speaker 2: scene where Abby is crawling under the fence and it's
- 25:20Speaker 2: like collapsing under all of those infected is like straight
- 25:25Speaker 2: from the game, and it's terrifying because you're kind of crawling, which,
- 25:30Speaker 2: by the way, you do play as Abby. We're gonna
- 25:32Speaker 2: talk about that in a second, but at this point
- 25:34Speaker 2: you're playing Zabby and you're crawling under and that was
- 25:39Speaker 2: really good. I also just want to kind of flag
- 25:42Speaker 2: the dogs. So the second game introduces this very terrifying
- 25:57Speaker 2: functionality where people have have dogs that can smell you
- 26:03Speaker 2: when you're hiding, so you can't just like hide in
- 26:06Speaker 2: the bushes like I like to do. The dog will
- 26:09Speaker 2: find you, so you have to either run or kill
- 26:14Speaker 2: the dog. I don't know. I don't know what they're
- 26:20Speaker 2: going to do in the show, but I will say
- 26:21Speaker 2: if they follow the game, there is going to be
- 26:23Speaker 2: at least one dog death. Yes, I mean, I'll try
- 26:28Speaker 2: to warn everybody once we get to that. If I
- 26:30Speaker 2: think they're going to do it, I'll try to warn you.
- 26:35Speaker 2: But I don't know. I have no idea. But that's
- 26:39Speaker 2: that is a new thing they introduced in the second game.
- 26:43Speaker 2: But it was really cool. It was really cool. It
- 26:45Speaker 2: felt very helms deeper Game of Thrones, and I did
- 26:49Speaker 2: like seeing how prepared they were. And it was also
- 26:53Speaker 2: kind of so sad because even with all those preparations,
- 26:58Speaker 2: just the carnage, absolute carnage, and Jackson is not in
- 27:04Speaker 2: a good shape, which again this did not happen in
- 27:06Speaker 2: the game. None of this happened in the game. I
- 27:09Speaker 2: think they added it in both because of the you know,
- 27:13Speaker 2: people will like it, but I think they also put
- 27:15Speaker 2: it in there because it added a lot more drama
- 27:18Speaker 2: in terms of we had so many moving pieces, everybody's
- 27:23Speaker 2: in danger, we don't know what's gonna happen, right, And
- 27:27Speaker 2: it was effective. It happened so fast, and it's like
- 27:29Speaker 2: bouncing back between so many things.
- 27:32Speaker 3: Uh, they did please a lot of drama in one
- 27:36Speaker 3: episode an hour.
- 27:39Speaker 2: It's only an hour, so I did want to touch
- 27:43Speaker 2: on some key differences before we get to the big
- 27:47Speaker 2: the big thing we must talk about. Uh. So one is,
- 27:51Speaker 2: as we mentioned, in the game, Jesse, it's Tommy and
- 28:00Speaker 2: Joel that go on patrol together, and it's Ellie and
- 28:04Speaker 2: Dina bank go on patrol together. And then Jesse later
- 28:07Speaker 2: finds Ellie and Dina at Eugen's hideout and he's like,
- 28:14Speaker 2: oh God, we can't find Joel and Tommy. So that's different.
- 28:18Speaker 2: I have a couple of reasons for why I think
- 28:20Speaker 2: that is, but I will say, you know, when Abby's
- 28:24Speaker 2: doing her like hey, here are names, Dina definitely picked
- 28:31Speaker 2: up on that and remembers all their names, which I
- 28:33Speaker 2: believe is replacing a mechanic in the game where you
- 28:36Speaker 2: find all their photos. So I think it's okay, yeah,
- 28:40Speaker 2: because she knows she knows all their names, she saw
- 28:43Speaker 2: the patch. And another one, a huge one that I'm
- 28:48Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about more in a second, is
- 28:50Speaker 2: that in the show, you know Abby's motivation in the game,
- 28:53Speaker 2: you do not at all. You have no idea. You've
- 28:58Speaker 2: got your theories, but you have got no clue, and
- 29:03Speaker 2: it can it kind of completely changes how that scene
- 29:05Speaker 2: plays out. Then, Yes, the destruction of Jackson, that's new.
- 29:10Speaker 2: I do think it's a pretty stark reminder that they're
- 29:14Speaker 2: not safe and they got kind of complacent. I mean,
- 29:17Speaker 2: obviously they were prepared, but they just had a lot
- 29:20Speaker 2: of stuff that a lot of people outside of Jackson
- 29:22Speaker 2: don't have. They had this nice celebration the night before.
- 29:28Speaker 2: So when Joel sees Jackson on fire and he makes
- 29:32Speaker 2: the choice ultimately to trust Staddy or be like, okay,
- 29:36Speaker 2: we'll go with you, that, I mean that kind of
- 29:39Speaker 2: makes it worse that he dies, not knowing just knowing
- 29:43Speaker 2: that Jackson.
- 29:46Speaker 1: There's so many things.
- 29:47Speaker 2: I know, It's awful, so bad. I love it though,
- 29:52Speaker 2: but yeah, he dies like knowing Jackson's on fire and
- 29:56Speaker 2: all the people he loves are there, and but also
- 29:58Speaker 2: Ellie is right there and watching it, so that is different.
- 30:06Speaker 2: I read some interesting I was watching a good breakdown
- 30:10Speaker 2: of it today and I also read that you know
- 30:14Speaker 2: kind of when Jesse and Ellie go out and they
- 30:16Speaker 2: see the storm and they're like, oh no, it would
- 30:18Speaker 2: be fine, we don't worry about it, and it turns
- 30:20Speaker 2: out they definitely did. But also Abby is in the mountain,
- 30:24Speaker 2: so it's sort of like dismissing this threat that was
- 30:26Speaker 2: up there, and Abby unintentionally is the one that awakens
- 30:33Speaker 2: all of those infected when she falls down, and Abby
- 30:37Speaker 2: was there for Joel. So it's just kind of a
- 30:41Speaker 2: mess of the fallout of the decisions these characters make,
- 30:48Speaker 2: which is sort of something we're going to see a
- 30:50Speaker 2: lot of coming work. But all right, let's talk about
- 31:05Speaker 2: the big thing, Joel's death. Oh man, oh my gosh.
- 31:12Speaker 2: Like I said, I'm really relieved it's out there. I'm
- 31:17Speaker 2: so ready to talk about it. I have gotten so
- 31:20Speaker 2: many texts about it, including from people I haven't heard
- 31:22Speaker 2: from literally two years. Didn't even say what they're talking about,
- 31:26Speaker 2: just said how could you? And I assume they're talking.
- 31:30Speaker 1: About this, which is hilarious because it's not like you
- 31:34Speaker 1: controlled the game in any least way.
- 31:36Speaker 2: No, no, but it was great. I was like, oh yeah, sorry,
- 31:42Speaker 2: And it is like I'm joking about it because it
- 31:45Speaker 2: was really painful, Like I went through the five stages
- 31:48Speaker 2: of grief with this game, and I started with denial.
- 31:53Speaker 2: But I'm just gonna I'm just gonna be real with you.
- 31:56Speaker 2: He's dead. He's dead.
- 31:57Speaker 1: I'm sorry, he's not gonna there's no magic in that.
- 32:00Speaker 2: Nope, he is not coming back. He is dead. There
- 32:05Speaker 2: are a lot of flashbacks that he'll be in so
- 32:09Speaker 2: that we understand what happened of the five years we missed,
- 32:12Speaker 2: So he's not gone. I guess Pedro Pascal will be back,
- 32:18Speaker 2: but he is dead. And one of the reasons I
- 32:22Speaker 2: say this is that when the game first came out,
- 32:29Speaker 2: they had this fake out trailer where all a lot
- 32:35Speaker 2: of the scenes that you play later in the game
- 32:38Speaker 2: you see Joel in them. It turns out it's not Joel,
- 32:44Speaker 2: it's Jesse actually, so they pulled it. So I thought
- 32:48Speaker 2: he was going to come back. I saw what I saw,
- 32:50Speaker 2: and I was like, can't be I saw.
- 32:53Speaker 4: The trailer, this is not true. I was really like,
- 32:57Speaker 4: I don't know what this is, but it's gotta be wrong.
- 33:02Speaker 4: But it was incredibly, incredibly painful, a lot of DearS
- 33:07Speaker 4: over many playthroughs.
- 33:10Speaker 2: But another thing with this is we talked about this
- 33:16Speaker 2: in our episode we did on the most recent remaster,
- 33:22Speaker 2: there's a documentary about how this game got made and
- 33:27Speaker 2: a lot of things went wrong because of the pandemic.
- 33:34Speaker 2: One of the big ones was that they delayed the
- 33:39Speaker 2: game both because of supply chain because of the pandemic,
- 33:44Speaker 2: and they knew this was going to be a huge
- 33:47Speaker 2: spoiler and they were trying to protect it. But that
- 33:51Speaker 2: made a fan in quotes really angry. And because the
- 33:59Speaker 2: engineer there's the designers were working from home, this fan
- 34:04Speaker 2: was able to get into their servers and was like
- 34:09Speaker 2: basically doing kind of a hostage threat with the gam
- 34:11Speaker 2: where it's like I'm gonna leak a scene every day
- 34:14Speaker 2: until you release the geit and he got frustrated and
- 34:19Speaker 2: eventually was like yea agile diyes here's the sun and
- 34:23Speaker 2: it blew up. Like people were furious. And this is
- 34:30Speaker 2: if you remember in the last one I said stay
- 34:31Speaker 2: away from Reddit when it comes to Last of As two.
- 34:36Speaker 2: It had a huge impact because the game is meant
- 34:40Speaker 2: to be played, it's meant to go. You got to
- 34:45Speaker 2: go through the whole thing. It's like grief, you got
- 34:47Speaker 2: to go through the whole thing. And so people were
- 34:50Speaker 2: seeing this one scene and they were so outraged by it,
- 34:54Speaker 2: to the point like I've had people who never played
- 34:56Speaker 2: the game tell me they hate it for X Y Z,
- 34:58Speaker 2: and I'm like, but the it's not actually what happens,
- 35:01Speaker 2: and they go, but they've heard this kind of like
- 35:03Speaker 2: Reddit dialogue, and it's really sad. It's really heartbreaking because,
- 35:10Speaker 2: as I said, the Firskin came out in twenty thirteen,
- 35:14Speaker 2: this one came out in twenty twenty, so seven years
- 35:17Speaker 2: of work and have it leaked and then torn apart
- 35:22Speaker 2: and then get death threats for it. It's pretty awful.
- 35:27Speaker 2: But it also is kind of funny because some of
- 35:31Speaker 2: the people involved or like, I don't care if you
- 35:35Speaker 2: get spoiled on the show Man done, Like, yeah, that's fair,
- 35:40Speaker 2: that's fair. But anyway, I do know that they wanted
- 35:44Speaker 2: to kill now. I know they wanted to kill Joel
- 35:46Speaker 2: Off pretty early in the show too, because they were
- 35:48Speaker 2: worried that it would get out. So they still care
- 35:52Speaker 2: a little. But yeah, anyway, but I had no idea.
- 35:59Speaker 2: I had never parents and anything like this in a game.
- 36:02Speaker 2: But so you start as playing Joel, you played most
- 36:06Speaker 2: of the first game as and Joel tells Tommy what
- 36:10Speaker 2: happened in the first game with the Fireflies with Ellie
- 36:13Speaker 2: and her being immune and then after the title card,
- 36:16Speaker 2: that's where it starts to seem with Jesse, who's waking
- 36:20Speaker 2: her up from Morning Patrol, which we saw in this episode,
- 36:22Speaker 2: and you're starting you start controlling Ellie. Another thing they
- 36:26Speaker 2: did is they you knew, like I said, it was
- 36:27Speaker 2: a vengeance tale, but they made you believe it was Dina.
- 36:31Speaker 2: Dina was the one that was going to die. And
- 36:34Speaker 2: that's why at first I was like, maybe that's why
- 36:36Speaker 2: they put Dina here. I still think I think they
- 36:40Speaker 2: were just kind of trying.
- 36:41Speaker 1: To save still messing with us.
- 36:43Speaker 2: I think so. I have a theory, but I'm going
- 36:45Speaker 2: to wait for the next episode to explain. But yeah,
- 36:48Speaker 2: we really thought it was her. And I remember when
- 36:52Speaker 2: I got this game, I went and found it. Here's
- 36:55Speaker 2: what it says on the Beck experienced the devastating physical
- 36:59Speaker 2: and emotional consequences of Ellie's vengeance as you embark on
- 37:03Speaker 2: a relentless pursuit of those who have wronged her. I
- 37:07Speaker 2: knew I was in for it. I was like, oh, no,
- 37:11Speaker 2: this is gonna be wrong. And it was.
- 37:16Speaker 3: It was.
- 37:16Speaker 2: It was, but it was rougher than I could have
- 37:19Speaker 2: ever imagined. And Joel's death happened so fast in the game,
- 37:25Speaker 2: it's within an hour. It doesn't the show too, but
- 37:29Speaker 2: it's just like everything falls apart so quickly, and it
- 37:34Speaker 2: completely shifts what you think this is going to be. Wow,
- 37:38Speaker 2: especially because you've got like the relationship between Joel and
- 37:41Speaker 2: Ellie being so fractured and then he's dead hour O yep.
- 37:51Speaker 2: And to reiterate, you had no idea who these people
- 37:55Speaker 2: were that were coming in or why they were there.
- 37:59Speaker 2: You know why I'm controlling this random character because you're
- 38:03Speaker 2: controlling Abby within the first hour as well. You don't
- 38:06Speaker 2: even know who they're looking for. The first time I
- 38:08Speaker 2: played it, I thought they were looking for Ellie, but no,
- 38:13Speaker 2: you don't know. And yeah, you control Abby at the
- 38:16Speaker 2: fence part. You're looking for these patrols. It's a real mind.
- 38:22Speaker 2: And there's actually one that's wilder, way wilder later that
- 38:26Speaker 2: I cannot wait to talk about. And then there's another
- 38:29Speaker 2: one that just hits you where hurts. Oh. They love
- 38:35Speaker 2: doing that, they love doing it. But the shock factor
- 38:37Speaker 2: of this death is really hard to overstate because I nope,
- 38:43Speaker 2: I couldn't couldn't believe it, couldn't believe it. It does
- 38:48Speaker 2: play out differently in the show because of you know,
- 38:51Speaker 2: you know, Abby's motivations, which gives it an added layer
- 38:55Speaker 2: of tension because you know, but I think it diminishes
- 39:00Speaker 2: the shop. But people who haven't played the game and
- 39:03Speaker 2: just watched the show, you can write in and tell
- 39:04Speaker 2: me I'm not sure. I've seen a lot of different reactions. Interestingly,
- 39:08Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of you know, hey, they humanized
- 39:10Speaker 2: Abby a bit more in the show because at this
- 39:16Speaker 2: point in the game, you have no idea, you have
- 39:19Speaker 2: no clue, but you feel really helpless, and I feel
- 39:23Speaker 2: like they captured that in the show as well, where
- 39:26Speaker 2: it's just like everything is unraveling and you're too late
- 39:32Speaker 2: or you made the wrong decisions and you can't stop
- 39:36Speaker 2: it now. But it is also the consequences of your
- 39:44Speaker 2: actions as a character and as a gamer. So that
- 39:46Speaker 2: is one thing I love about this game is it
- 39:48Speaker 2: really makes you question some of the things you've done,
- 39:55Speaker 2: because you know, a lot of video games like this,
- 39:59Speaker 2: not necessarily with the humans in the game, but it's
- 40:02Speaker 2: kind of fun to kill clickers if you know what
- 40:04Speaker 2: you're doing. Like it's it's sort of the point is
- 40:07Speaker 2: it's like this is the objective and then this comes
- 40:10Speaker 2: in and is like, but actually there's consequences to what
- 40:14Speaker 2: you did and now you've got to face it. Whoo,
- 40:20Speaker 2: which brings us too Abby, Abby, Abby. One of the
- 40:25Speaker 2: reasons I always say it like that is because Ellie
- 40:28Speaker 2: gets so obsessed with event she just starts repeating Abby's name.
- 40:31Speaker 2: It's one of my favorite, like most disturbing scenes in
- 40:35Speaker 2: the game, but it became a whole thing. When we
- 40:38Speaker 2: would play it. I would do places we would just say.
- 40:42Speaker 1: It would include that in other games, yes.
- 40:44Speaker 2: You would, which I have looked up. Her name Abby
- 40:48Speaker 2: means my father is Joy, which makes sense. So in
- 40:53Speaker 2: the show she is the same age as Ellie is
- 40:57Speaker 2: currently when she found her dad dead, So so that's
- 41:00Speaker 2: a We're going to see a lot of these parallel she.
- 41:04Speaker 2: Abby was nineteen when she found her dad dead. Now
- 41:07Speaker 2: Ellie has witnessed a father figure die in front of her.
- 41:12Speaker 2: Abby has this whole speech about how she broke her code.
- 41:18Speaker 2: She does not get to have the speech in the
- 41:21Speaker 2: game because they are trying to obscure her motives. So
- 41:27Speaker 2: in the game she's like basically like do you know
- 41:30Speaker 2: who I am? And Joel's like, just get it over
- 41:33Speaker 2: with and she does, whereas in the show, she has
- 41:36Speaker 2: this whole speech and then Joel says, just get it
- 41:40Speaker 2: over with and she does. But she has this whole
- 41:43Speaker 2: thing about her code, which I'm very interested in because
- 41:46Speaker 2: that doesn't track with how I know the code of
- 41:51Speaker 2: the WLF. But we'll find out more about that, I
- 41:55Speaker 2: am sure. But she breaks it too, and she knows
- 41:57Speaker 2: that's I think that's one of the lines in the
- 42:00Speaker 2: song so resonant is it's you know, I know I'm
- 42:03Speaker 2: on the side of the wrong. I know I'm gonna
- 42:04Speaker 2: be damned for what I did, but she decided it
- 42:07Speaker 2: was worth it. This is also an instance where she's
- 42:12Speaker 2: basically like, tell me the truth and we'll go from there,
- 42:15Speaker 2: and he does tell you the truth, even though he
- 42:17Speaker 2: didn't for Ellie or Gale the Therapist. Another really heartbreaking
- 42:23Speaker 2: thing about this is kind of the accidental circumstances of it.
- 42:28Speaker 2: There's a lot of things that could have gone differently,
- 42:34Speaker 2: and Joel might still be alive, but she does accidentally
- 42:39Speaker 2: get what she wants. She you know, Owen wants to
- 42:42Speaker 2: convince her it isn't worth it. A lot of the
- 42:45Speaker 2: other people in the group seem to think it's not
- 42:47Speaker 2: worth it. She almost turned around because of the cold.
- 42:51Speaker 2: Joel has a lot of instances where he almost went
- 42:55Speaker 2: to Jackson but then trusted her saved her life, like
- 42:59Speaker 2: a bunch of different things, And I think that's really
- 43:03Speaker 2: reminiscent of all the questions that come after death, like
- 43:06Speaker 2: what if I had done this? Or what if? What
- 43:08Speaker 2: are the ways I could have changed this outcome? And
- 43:13Speaker 2: that's so painful. But yeah, I've read some really interesting
- 43:20Speaker 2: articles about how the balancing act between making Abby like
- 43:27Speaker 2: a villain and an anti hero, which is so interesting
- 43:31Speaker 2: to me because, like I said, she's a very divisive
- 43:33Speaker 2: character in the game. I don't think you'd ever there
- 43:39Speaker 2: was never any worry with that. But again, you didn't
- 43:41Speaker 2: know her motivations. You had no idea who she was,
- 43:44Speaker 2: and that goes back to it. Yeah, she has the
- 43:46Speaker 2: speech we see all the graves, the dream slash flashback
- 43:53Speaker 2: that she has at the beginning, where she's talking to
- 43:56Speaker 2: her younger self and she says, I don't know you.
- 43:59Speaker 2: That's gonna be pretty prominent I think throughout it is
- 44:01Speaker 2: in the game, But she's like, she doesn't recognize who
- 44:04Speaker 2: she's become, her younger self doesn't recognize who she's become,
- 44:08Speaker 2: but also she doesn't It's she hasn't faced a trauma
- 44:15Speaker 2: of what happened, so she is unable to go into
- 44:18Speaker 2: the door, and that is something that will come up
- 44:22Speaker 2: a lot, and it's actually really interesting the presentation of
- 44:25Speaker 2: trauma in my opinion, from here on out, if they
- 44:28Speaker 2: follow the game, Ellie's also going to have a recurring
- 44:31Speaker 2: nightmare involving a door that won't open or being too late.
- 44:37Speaker 2: She also so the alarm. The reason I guess at
- 44:39Speaker 2: the beginning before anything can even come on the screen
- 44:42Speaker 2: is that sound that alarm Abby hears in her dream.
- 44:47Speaker 2: It is just so iconic to me. Ellie's is the
- 44:51Speaker 2: sound that like piercing sound that they did include in
- 44:58Speaker 2: the show when Joel's but they also included it in
- 45:01Speaker 2: the trailer the second season. For the second season, and
- 45:04Speaker 2: everybody who played the game was like, huge jerks, we
- 45:09Speaker 2: know exactly what this is. But one thing I also
- 45:13Speaker 2: wanted to bring up here. In the first game, Joel
- 45:20Speaker 2: kills the nurses too when he goes into the operating
- 45:23Speaker 2: room to save Ellie, And in this I feel like
- 45:27Speaker 2: they kept them alive so they were witnesses and they
- 45:29Speaker 2: could explain what he looked like, and they could. That's
- 45:31Speaker 2: how they found Joel. But that is another fallout of
- 45:36Speaker 2: what he did is heard Abby's dad is believed to
- 45:42Speaker 2: be the only person that could have made a cure,
- 45:45Speaker 2: and he killed him and also the nurses. So that's
- 45:51Speaker 2: pretty bad. But in the first scene where we see
- 45:55Speaker 2: Abby in the show, where they're saying, like where Noras says, Oh,
- 45:57Speaker 2: it wouldn't even matter anyway, because is there's nobody who
- 46:02Speaker 2: could manufacture it here anymore. That's what she's talking about.
- 46:05Speaker 2: Also that actress, I didn't realize this is gonna be
- 46:09Speaker 2: and the next Naughty Dog game, Naughty Dog is the
- 46:12Speaker 2: one that does last us in galact.
- 46:16Speaker 1: I thought she's pretty significant. They've got her in for
- 46:19Speaker 1: a good reason.
- 46:20Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Yeah. She's also been in the live action
- 46:25Speaker 2: Drink movie, so she's been around. I didn't know that though.
- 46:28Speaker 2: That was a new thing. Somebody pointed out to me.
- 46:32Speaker 2: There's also kind of this. You can see the fracturing
- 46:35Speaker 2: in their group that you kind of mentioned, Samantha and
- 46:38Speaker 2: your reactions to what Abby does. But Mels is probably
- 46:43Speaker 2: one of the biggest where she says, you know, we
- 46:45Speaker 2: said we wouldn't hurt anybody else. She's crying during this
- 46:49Speaker 2: whole thing, so that's something to keep in mind. Also
- 46:54Speaker 2: the whole like Joel saving her life after he had his,
- 46:59Speaker 2: like our life bodis swamped thing. I think this is
- 47:03Speaker 2: a no good deed goes unpunished theme which is going
- 47:08Speaker 2: to come back later. And then when he didn't get
- 47:14Speaker 2: to point this out in the game because she just
- 47:17Speaker 2: goes right in for the kill. But he in the show,
- 47:20Speaker 2: he says, you know, I saved your life and she says,
- 47:22Speaker 2: what life? And I think that's a throwback to what
- 47:25Speaker 2: Marlene says in the first season where she's like, what
- 47:28Speaker 2: kind of life will Ellie have in this world? That
- 47:43Speaker 2: does bring us to the golf club. It's a very
- 47:46Speaker 2: iconic It is so iconic. It's awful. I mean, it's
- 47:51Speaker 2: it's horrific. They definitely it cuts away much faster in
- 47:59Speaker 2: the video game than it did in the show, but
- 48:02Speaker 2: it's very brutal in the game as well. Both of
- 48:05Speaker 2: them are bad. Both are bad, and this kind of
- 48:08Speaker 2: brings us to a point I feel like a lot
- 48:09Speaker 2: of people bring up and so in the first episode
- 48:13Speaker 2: of the season, when Gail says it's not your fault.
- 48:17Speaker 2: I know that, it's how you did it. I think
- 48:22Speaker 2: that's going to be a recurring theme as well. And
- 48:26Speaker 2: Gail's story is like Ellie's. If you believe that Joel
- 48:29Speaker 2: didn't have a choice, which I think he did, but
- 48:31Speaker 2: if you believe it, which I think Joel thinks he
- 48:33Speaker 2: didn't have a choice, or she's like, I know you
- 48:36Speaker 2: didn't have a choice. It's how you did it. He
- 48:39Speaker 2: killed all of those people, and Abby spared Dina and Ellie,
- 48:46Speaker 2: even if her murder of Joel was brutal and Joel
- 48:48Speaker 2: killed according to this eighteen soldiers and one doctor, but
- 48:52Speaker 2: in the game it was it was more than that,
- 48:56Speaker 2: to say Ellie, which is a pretty that's pretty significan y.
- 49:02Speaker 2: But yes, also, as you mentioned, we read that kind
- 49:06Speaker 2: of what we thought might be kind of an innocent
- 49:09Speaker 2: review in the last episode that I was like, I
- 49:14Speaker 2: think it might be a pun because it said they
- 49:17Speaker 2: hope they ironed out the.
- 49:20Speaker 1: Yep, they got me. But there's you sweetaters, Yeah, Jock.
- 49:27Speaker 2: The funny thing is, though a lot of people who
- 49:30Speaker 2: haven't played the game or like roll mad understandably, I
- 49:33Speaker 2: get it. And I saw a comment today one of
- 49:36Speaker 2: my favorite comments was all y'all making golf funds that
- 49:40Speaker 2: we didn't get you so superad and so like I
- 49:46Speaker 2: remember there was a bunch of articles that said something
- 49:49Speaker 2: like the last of us to tease up for another season,
- 49:53Speaker 2: or like yeah, we were all making these puns. And
- 49:57Speaker 2: then there was an instance where Bell Ramsey just posted
- 50:02Speaker 2: under a Taylor Swift video where Taylor Swift was swinging
- 50:06Speaker 2: a golf club, Joel, that gave me a good chuckle.
- 50:10Speaker 2: That gave me a good chuckle. I mean, it's horrible,
- 50:12Speaker 2: it's so sad, but it was like a traumatizing event
- 50:16Speaker 2: that we now have all been like I got through that.
- 50:19Speaker 2: At least let me make a golf joke. Even Patron
- 50:27Speaker 2: Pascal did it. He posted something today about it. Yeah.
- 50:33Speaker 2: But and we're going to talk about this more later.
- 50:35Speaker 2: One of the sad things is because Abby is such
- 50:38Speaker 2: a divisive character. The voice actor who was in season one,
- 50:43Speaker 2: she was one of the nurses, and Caitlin Deaver who
- 50:47Speaker 2: plays her in the show, have gotten death dreats. And
- 50:51Speaker 2: I believe Katelyin Diaver has a bodyguard or had one,
- 50:55Speaker 2: And Isabellehmer said said, like, you know, she's not Abby's
- 50:59Speaker 2: not h Caitlyn Deaver's not abby. But people were so
- 51:06Speaker 2: angry about it, and you know, it's it was. It hurt,
- 51:12Speaker 2: and it was I was mad too, but I wasn't.
- 51:15Speaker 2: I'm not gonna send any death to us. It was
- 51:18Speaker 2: a good story.
- 51:19Speaker 1: I was mad because it was a good right, this
- 51:22Speaker 1: is a tale.
- 51:24Speaker 2: Yes, you don't have to play, It's okay, it's all right.
- 51:29Speaker 2: I also learned, and this is really sad, that her
- 51:31Speaker 2: mom had died a few weeks before filming the scene. Yeah,
- 51:38Speaker 2: oh that's real. That's that's difficult. And this is something
- 51:45Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm really interested to see how it continues.
- 51:49Speaker 2: But like the different conversations I've seen on playing Out,
- 51:54Speaker 2: playing out from like people who played the game and
- 51:57Speaker 2: people who haven't, they're pretty different in some ways. It's
- 52:01Speaker 2: really interesting. So I'm gonna keep an eye on that.
- 52:05Speaker 2: But I did want to touch John briefly. One of
- 52:11Speaker 2: the reasons this game resonated with me so much is
- 52:13Speaker 2: my dad had died less than a year before this
- 52:20Speaker 2: came out, and it wasn't on good. We didn't have
- 52:25Speaker 2: a good relationship when he died. There was a lot
- 52:27Speaker 2: of unresolved issues, and so this just is like it
- 52:34Speaker 2: really resonated with me. And I've said before, but I'm
- 52:38Speaker 2: able to experience emotion easier through fictional things, and so
- 52:42Speaker 2: it was a really cathartic grieving process for me. And
- 52:48Speaker 2: I mean it might sound silly to some of you,
- 52:50Speaker 2: but I really did go through the grieving process with this.
- 52:53Speaker 2: I went through denial and a group part. I was
- 52:55Speaker 2: like all of these things. I just it was so
- 53:00Speaker 2: powerful and it was really painful. And it also came
- 53:05Speaker 2: out during the pandemic. And I don't know why, but
- 53:11Speaker 2: I'm one of those people that for me that somehow
- 53:14Speaker 2: playing a game about an infection during a pandemic gave
- 53:18Speaker 2: me some kind of release, the same way a horror
- 53:23Speaker 2: movie might. But so one thing I didn't want to
- 53:27Speaker 2: point out I mentioned in the last episode. There's a
- 53:33Speaker 2: scene they cut out that is huge in the in
- 53:39Speaker 2: where after the dance and Ellie and Joel get to
- 53:43Speaker 2: their fight and Ellie sees Joel on the porch with
- 53:46Speaker 2: her guitar and she walks away. You'll notice she has
- 53:53Speaker 2: the guitar back the next morning when Jesse comes to
- 53:57Speaker 2: get her, and that's when she says, like, you know, Hey,
- 54:01Speaker 2: we worked it out, or basically we're working on it,
- 54:05Speaker 2: so I would just poured that out and I'll just
- 54:07Speaker 2: say she also really really loves music. She has all
- 54:11Speaker 2: of those vinyls and the tapes and her window is
- 54:14Speaker 2: covered in music sheets. That's going to be important later too.
- 54:21Speaker 2: Another thing we'll find out about this because as we said,
- 54:24Speaker 2: this wasn't in the game, but Eugene's whole story now's
- 54:28Speaker 2: got another layer because Ellie was clearly like, oh he
- 54:31Speaker 2: was a firefoy, oh oh, and Jesse's like, oh, yeah,
- 54:36Speaker 2: that's a shame couldn't be saved. Right. There's a scene
- 54:39Speaker 2: I don't know they'll include in the show, but they
- 54:44Speaker 2: basically Ellie's having this thought like if they had had
- 54:48Speaker 2: a cure, he could have been saved. So kind of
- 54:52Speaker 2: that survivor skill that she struggles with. Something else to
- 54:57Speaker 2: bring back as we start this journey is Ellie's fear
- 55:02Speaker 2: of ending up alone, which she mentions in the first
- 55:06Speaker 2: game in the first season, and also just her kind
- 55:11Speaker 2: of loss of Ellis innocence and the revenge that is coming.
- 55:23Speaker 2: It's a lot of like cycle of violence and trauma.
- 55:28Speaker 2: So just like Joel's action had consequences, so do Abby's
- 55:32Speaker 2: and so will Ellie's. And there are as I said,
- 55:35Speaker 2: there are a lot of flashbacks, the ringing sounds and
- 55:40Speaker 2: the trailer that I mentioned. Ellie can, She'll have like
- 55:45Speaker 2: these PTSD the flashbacks in the game if there's a
- 55:49Speaker 2: loud sound or something like that. And they're also just
- 55:52Speaker 2: non PTSD ones, but they're sad still, but that's something
- 55:58Speaker 2: to look forward to. Yeah. Also, just quick shout out
- 56:08Speaker 2: to the women leaders on this show for Better Hours.
- 56:12Speaker 2: There's a lot of women leaders.
- 56:15Speaker 1: Maybe of them confront some things.
- 56:17Speaker 2: They really really can, they really can. This brings us
- 56:21Speaker 2: to my random wrap up at the end. I did
- 56:24Speaker 2: want to call out this scene between Ellie and Jesse
- 56:26Speaker 2: at the beginning. I love that scene where they're kind
- 56:29Speaker 2: of teasing each other. I'm so glad they put that
- 56:33Speaker 2: in the show. I love that scene. Also, I forgot
- 56:37Speaker 2: to mention the composer Gustavo Sento Laya. He was in
- 56:42Speaker 2: the last episode and he's also sort of a character
- 56:46Speaker 2: in the game. He has a banjo and in the
- 56:48Speaker 2: remastered version you can play him in guitar free play mode, which,
- 56:50Speaker 2: by the way, you can play the guitar in last
- 56:53Speaker 2: of us too. I'm actually like, that's the worst thing
- 56:55Speaker 2: I met. I'm really mad at it, but you can
- 57:00Speaker 2: do that. He was playing at the dance Seattle. I
- 57:06Speaker 2: realized we kind of might have spoiled it for some
- 57:09Speaker 2: people because we've talked all about how the second season
- 57:12Speaker 2: mostly takes place in Seattle, and then that's where Abby's frohim.
- 57:17Speaker 2: But anyway, there's a lot of hints of Seattle. I'm
- 57:20Speaker 2: told that the beer I think it was red Rock
- 57:23Speaker 2: that was on being advertised on the walls from Seattle.
- 57:26Speaker 2: There's a lot of music from the Seattle grunge period,
- 57:30Speaker 2: and there's a lot of kind of themes of like
- 57:32Speaker 2: that period of like the lack of respect of authority
- 57:35Speaker 2: and things like that. Also, this is gonna be a
- 57:43Speaker 2: bigger conversation later, but I think that some people get
- 57:48Speaker 2: really some people get really frustrated. I'm not saying it
- 57:52Speaker 2: wrong too with Ellie, but I would just say, like
- 57:55Speaker 2: I would remember, she's nineteen. There's a lot of lying
- 58:00Speaker 2: and taking choices away from her that's happening, and underestimating
- 58:05Speaker 2: her when she could defend herself. It does really suck,
- 58:09Speaker 2: Like I mean, it's awful because you want these characters
- 58:11Speaker 2: to get along. It feels really painful, but I mean,
- 58:20Speaker 2: I don't know. I would just urge people to give it,
- 58:25Speaker 2: give her some give her some room. And also like
- 58:29Speaker 2: she knows he's lying, because it doesn't it just doesn't
- 58:34Speaker 2: really hold up what he's saying. And because he's telling
- 58:39Speaker 2: her like you can't tell anybody about the immunity, even
- 58:42Speaker 2: though he said there were a bunch of immune people,
- 58:44Speaker 2: like hmmm, so she she knows. And it's just a
- 58:50Speaker 2: frustrating feeling, I think. But that being said, that does
- 58:55Speaker 2: bring us to the end of this episode and to
- 58:59Speaker 2: some no for the future. I know you're hurt. You
- 59:03Speaker 2: might be.
- 59:04Speaker 1: Angry, Christina, I you okay.
- 59:09Speaker 2: I would urge patients. It's a really good story. You
- 59:13Speaker 2: are meant to go through it. It's not it's gonna hurt.
- 59:17Speaker 2: But that is one of the reasons why Samantha and
- 59:19Speaker 2: I've discussed it's kind of concern the weight between seasons,
- 59:24Speaker 2: because you are meant to You're really meant to go
- 59:28Speaker 2: through it all at once. But I'm excited. I'm very excited.
- 59:35Speaker 2: It's also like a very you never know when your
- 59:39Speaker 2: time is up. You never know when it's the last
- 59:41Speaker 2: time you'll see someone, and that's gonna be a pretty
- 59:44Speaker 2: big theme. And also parallels. There's gonna be a lot
- 59:50Speaker 2: of parallels. Yeah, same side, same coin, doesn't mean and
- 59:54Speaker 2: my friend like to say I even got her coin
- 59:57Speaker 2: that says that. Yes, when I'll explain that when we
- 1:00:02Speaker 2: get to that section. But yeah, in the meantime, Uh,
- 1:00:07Speaker 2: I hope you're okay, and I hope you're enjoying this
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