The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 3 REACTION

Just playing some catch-up with your episodes - happy to support and also get the fully reaction! An important factor I think with the "I feel like I didn't like Tommy when we met him in Season 1" stems from the fact we're looking at the entire season through Joel's lens; it's almost been building up to that point. We see the "betrayal" the same way Joel does and have the same emotional reaction.

Adam Stickley

Yes that’s exactly it, and I remembered it about a minute after I finished recording and have no way to update it lol. I know vocal tic wasn’t right as I said it. But yeah definitely vocal stim. It was in my head because I was working earlier in the week with someone who vocal stims and we had been playing around with words in our mouths so I was quite sensitive to it.

Lenny

Ha. Yeah it’ll get left in, It’s just my humour.

Lenny

Don’t edit out your gossip girl discussion. It made me laugh so much, especially when you looked up the one guy, “is that chucks father?!”. 😂

maris

i think the phrase you were looking for around 54:00 was a vocal stim btw lol

kaylie

Maria when she first met Ellie and was cutting her hair said "You would have been a great lawyer" and boy did she prove it this episode.

Versek

Technically they made only one minor change, but they fleshed it out A LOT. In the game they're on the road much quicker. Short and poignant mourning sequence and we're off to the races, since as Stu keeps saying, "we know they're gonna go after them." I do enjoy all the additional scenes, but I do wonder if I'd been a bit impatient if I didn't already know the story.

Ericsson

You seriously need to take some time off the internet if you're going to keep that kind of attitude around here. You're coming off as incredibly rude, and you're being a worrywart over a fictional show. How about you turn on your gaming device and play the game so you wouldn't have to come here to nitpick on every single thing this show ruins for you. The least you can do is let non-gamers enjoy the overall experience and make up their minds themselves.

Isaac

Yeah, I think I agree with that and is the conclusion that i came to in my little ramble about it. It effectively functions in the same way.

Lenny

There is no real difference between justice and vengeance. Justice is society saying vengeance is ok. It’s just the connotation that changes. Justice is giving justification for vengeance. IMO

MJ Eid

Thanks for sharing. That connection with art reminds me of Basho (the japanese poem person) who would write short poems which are quite easy to dismiss and people think sound really simple. But the point is its an interaction between the reader and the work. You have to bring yourself to it as the impact is within the collaboration bewteen you and the work. Typically in the western world the view seems to be if we dont get it, or understand it then its the creator / artists fault whereas in the East because its a collaboration, if one isnt getting anything out of a piece of art its because you're not bringing enough of yourself to it.

Lenny

Kayla Brunton

I said before that the purpose of good art is to tap into - or invite someone to occupy another’s - human experience. To create empathy and connection. One of the most powerful moments in the second game for me was the sequence where, as Ellie, you move through Joel’s house. In order to progress you are forced to handle various objects and talk with Dina about Joel, the little irritations and joys they shared together, the person he became when they didn’t have to fight for survival anymore. My grandmother died suddenly when I was in a different part of the country. When I came back for the funeral, I went with my mom and cousin to her condo to look through pictures for her service (among other things). Walking into her space, that still smelled like her, that had all the pieces of her life, that still had food in the fucking fridge, was so surreal and disconnected and heartbreaking and hard. I’ll never forget how that felt, and all I could think when I was playing (and crying) through that sequence was “the people who made this know exactly how that felt. Only someone who knows what that feels like could render it so well.” It was incredibly cathartic, to feel that connection and the shared softness of those moments where you deal with the aftermath of death. It’s good shit man.

Saj

I've not played the game, so no spoilers here, just me guessing. But I don't think Tommy will go because of his family, I think he'll feel conflicted but ultimately the town and his family will be his priority. He also already knows Ellie is too stubborn to be talked out of this now she's gone, even if it's likely to get her killed. I'm not sure about Jesse, he has his council position now, but less obvious family ties to consider. He might intend to catch them en route to stop them getting killed? Maybe he'll feel responsible for stopping them as a vigilant rule-following council member. I'm not sure. I'm surprised they got to Seattle so quickly. Makes me wonder what else is going to go down this season 😅 The handheld scythe from the trailer is called a sickle 🙂

JoJo

I mean, it’s HBO! There’s a reason they are being so cagey about Eugene’s death. If there wasn’t something up they would have just fed us an explicit of narrative of he was infect and Joel put him down. But we still don’t know if he was infected - and there’s a reason for that. And now we know he was caught up in the fireflies etc so we’ve got a bit more background. Definitely something up and as I said before, it’s HBO. Plus she would be a bit of a boring character if she literally was just a therapist who drank and got high.

Lenny

I've actually become suspicious of Gail's intentions and where her subplot is going after this episode. I think she's both right and wrong here, but squarely within her own perspective of Joel and Ellie based on what she knows of them. No spoilers because she doesn't exist in the game, but I'm questioning whether she really has either Joel's or Ellie's best interests in mind when she's talking to each of them, trying to get at the truth they're both hiding. Was she really willing to try to move past what happened to her husband? It will be fascinating to see how it plays out either way. Gail seeing Ellie as a liar makes sense from her perspective. But we know Ellie's been forced to live a huge lie due to circumstances out of her control. And I don't think that lying actually comes naturally or easily to Ellie. She's closed off emotionally, but usually straightforward and blunt. I think living the lie is so against her nature ti's damaged her considerably. In reducing Ellie to a liar, Gail is showing a lack of empathy for the potential reasons Ellie might have for only trusting Joel with the truth in her life. And any time a character lacks empathy in this show/universe, they are probably in the wrong in some way.

Christen

This episode actually made quite a few deviations from the game, so I’m interested to see how things play out going forward🤔

Lizzie🦇