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Starting point is 00:00:56 Guys, we don't have an ending with no music anymore. We got soul back in our lives. We've got things to hope for. We've got violence going on. We've got a lot happening. That's right. Tara, I'm coming to you first. How are you feeling right now after that episode?

Starting point is 00:01:13 You know, to be honest, I didn't look away from that. I was like, Elle, get it. Go ham on this girl, golf it out. I know what Rossi's saying. We shouldn't be like them. I was like, hell, I don't give an F. I wanted her to be in absolute pain. for what she called Joel and then especially she freaking keeps going when Elle's down there and she calls

Starting point is 00:01:35 her she's like you bitch you killed us both I'm like oh I hope whatever that I am all freaking for it I'm all about it and I am so glad that um that Jesse came back I think that's really exciting obviously he's like Tommy's with me I wonder where Tommy is sort of hiding out if he has a safe place for them to go because that would be good news for Dina so that Elle may have some hope so that they could all see each other again. But I do find it very intriguing to be able to see the scars and what they do, how they find people, how they punish them. Your people is just, yeah.

Starting point is 00:02:18 Because I know the whistling people. I know the whistles now. High one to the left and if it goes twice and it meets this, John, just so you know. That one's good. The high, long one. Bad news bears. Afraid of you. I know it.

Starting point is 00:02:32 Afraid. And for them to do the... It's how Tara and I communicate. I wish I could do a real high-pitched long one, but I can't. It was great. I liked it. I mean, this episode had really, really great effects. I loved seeing, obviously, we get to that room where she says we had to block it off because

Starting point is 00:02:53 it's in the freaking air. And then we see how it's in the air. how inventive and cool was that looking? I mean, it was horrifying, but also awesome. There's people up in there still alive, surrounded by cordyceps, breathing and out, and they did an amazing job with those effects. I just thought it looked,

Starting point is 00:03:12 I thought it looked like a mix of practical as well as special effects, and I thought they did a really good job with that. And I'm just still really glad. We did get one more kiss in there. Like, it's very cute how they are, um sort of painting the picture between ell and dina because they see this the smart one and before they split up they kiss again instead of just being like all right peace we got to go to work um

Starting point is 00:03:38 which i just thought was was really sweet and who knows how long i don't know i don't know if because this show is just like f you and f these characters we could lose them at any point i hope i mean an arrow in the leg isn't going to kill you so hopefully it doesn't hurt dina um well We'll see. John. Cook them. Cook them. This was a really good one too.

Starting point is 00:04:03 I like this episode a lot. Yeah, this is interesting because I think it plays, it's continuing to play on that thin line of motivation. And I mean, it's confirming certainly something that we've had suspicion of. But I wonder what Ellie truly means when she says, I know, like, you know, I know what. I know what Joel did because that seems to be, you know, the looming, again, given the prologue, given the ending of season one, the prologue of season two, you have this suspicion that, yeah, this day where Joel makes that lie is the day that this rift begins to grow and- But she knew. And yeah, and you always have, like, I don't know if she knows like the full and complete context, but it certainly seems like, yeah, she would be capable of figuring out. He probably murked all those dudes and got me out of there. And if he did that, it's probably because it was going to be a big threat to my life.

Starting point is 00:04:57 And so that moment was like wrenching, badass, scary, tense. And yeah, like, the interplay of cruelty is interesting because for us, the audience, we're obviously, we've been on the journey with Joel and Ellie. We love, love, love, Joel. And so we feel Ellie's righteous indignation. But she's going up against people who have the same motivation. And, you know, Abby's dad, this surgeon who. at least was the one person capable of potentially synthesizing a cure

Starting point is 00:05:27 like I understand what a doctor by the way one person yeah well you know they're hard to come by in the after times but yeah like as much it creates this dual sensation where on the one hand you want to see her let some rage out and you want to see all of these guys

Starting point is 00:05:46 you know incur some kind of comeuppance and granted abbey is like the most direct source of her rage and ire but you know there's this weird thing you're watching with nora where on the one hand you're like god damn it like you know you don't talk about joel like that but given her perspective like of course she probably has the hatred in her heart to you know do the name calling and make it extra not petty but just yeah more person letting your personal rage influence you know how you're handling the situation and when abby is you know wailing on her

Starting point is 00:06:19 leg, you know, part of you is like, get her, you know, like, make her suffer the way we have suffered. But then at the same time, or at least for me, at the same time, you're like, but you are descending into the same level of cruelty and you are committing to the cycle of violence. And I think the big, a big part of the debate of this season is that question mark of, does it matter who started what? And, you know, how do we act about that? And if we just succumb to our personal vendettas then it's just going to be and it's like that kill bill thing

Starting point is 00:06:53 you know with like the one assassin's daughters in the room and you know that little girl like the bride says that thing they're like one day you're going to come after me and I'm going to be ready you know and so like I think it is it's fascinating because it's a roar shakier version of this kind of story than we're used to seeing because usually

Starting point is 00:07:10 it would be like oh whatever character our protagonist is going after is more plainly just evil whereas the wolf's you know, you have the question mark of their morality and their codes and their whatever based on, you know, these glimpses we've got of them through from the outside through other events. And we see them in conflict with the scars. And we've had interesting views on both of them. But then, yeah, you just have this isolated experience with the personal angle of Joel and Ellie and all that. And yeah, like the question of the violence versus the, the, the, the, the intellectual question of the, you know, morality and the, I guess violence is not like altogether moral ever. But, uh, yeah, the moral question mark of should we, you know, feel as much catharsis as we do when Ellie, you know, gets to let this rage out, you know,

Starting point is 00:08:06 should we feel the way she feels or should we all look higher and go, wait a minute, this will never stop if we don't stop it, you know? Right. Yeah, I think it's just really interesting. And yeah, also to then, you know, them exploring the basement levels. I thought the build up to that was really cool. And I'd forgotten. I was like, what, what could this building be? And then I remember like, oh, yeah, but they keep talking about the hospital and. And then Tara said out loud.

Starting point is 00:08:30 Yeah. It's in there. Yeah, yeah. And then, you know, you have that tease of like, well, there's something in a basement somewhere that's bad. And then, yeah, once you get there, you're like, oh, shit, of course. They wouldn't need to patrol the hospital because that's probably like one of the core hubs of everything.

Starting point is 00:08:44 Yeah. But having them walk around it, yeah, the way they do the particulate in the air when you're in the basement, you're like, man, I would not want to breathe down there. Like, you just, even if it was just dust, like the way things are floating and you've got all these people grown into the walls and there's like exhaling these like almost smoke rings of, yeah, just like infection of, you know, viral fungus is really striking. Man, I thought this episode was, there was so many great things about it. the first of all the fact that we have jesse back and potentially tommy i'm really excited about i thought that they were going to come save us because of that tommy monologue that he gave about why you you don't go to save the debt go after vengeance you go to save the ones you loved then of course if he was going to go then jessie was going to go too yeah it's really

Starting point is 00:09:31 interesting right now that uh dina and jesse are together because your baby is inside her and you're you're trying to carry her to safety we don't know actually what ended up happening there. So I think that probably next episode we'll see what ends up happening. Do they end up making it out? I'm sure that they do because otherwise they wouldn't have done that off screen. So you've got that whole thing. We know Tommy's on the horizon, which is exciting.

Starting point is 00:09:55 And then we've got these two groups that are both our villains, but are each other's villains as well with the scars and with the wolves, which makes for an really interesting dynamic. And at the same time, having the ultimate villain in your basement now in the air, which is on top us seeing that there are so many of the smart ones now too so just the the threats keep growing and building and are taking over the world but at the end of the day ellie still cares about this one thing and she is given the opportunity by dina to turn back and she can't do it she can't pick going to live happy life with my baby and my wife in the future and live out our days she won't be able to live until she kills the people that killed Joel.

Starting point is 00:10:43 Yeah. And that's how she says, we got to keep moving forward. And Dean is not going to leave her. So I think all these choices make for a really strong episode. And I think that it's interesting too. Earlier on, we get the I love you, I know moment. And then we get a second I know moment. And it's at the end of the episode, we've been wondering this whole time, what does she

Starting point is 00:11:02 think? What does she think? And you don't know if she's going to explode or not kill her or what. And she does the thing that we've all felt in our hearts this whole thing. time she says i know i know what jill did i know and i've always she's always known it now it's been confirmed which is a little different than knowing something and like hearing it confirmed but i was so glad the show went in that direction she's a smart girl we hear about her smart in this episode she's smart what did she think he just like tiptoed on it just all happened like that barely

Starting point is 00:11:30 got you out of there no she knows she knows that's why she says swear to me she wanted to him to tell her the truth and but she knows so for all those reasons this was a really really really good one. Let's talk about that ending moment though. Because she's, Ellie is taking Nora to town with this pipe. She's piping north. She's laying a pipe. Yeah, that's right. And then we jump cut. We, we like smash cut to Ellie asleep, opening her eyes. And there. And there's Joel in kind of a haze. Are we supposed to think of this? that something, that something happened to Ellie and that's where she is in our mind. Is this a

Starting point is 00:12:14 flashback? Like, why do we only get 30 seconds of it? And then also, just speaking from a production standpoint, we have to have him for the next episode, right? Because why would they have paid him just to come back for 30 seconds? Right. On set, you know, I'm sure they must have had them for longer than you got. You guys had them on set for one day. That's all you got. Well, hello again, Hugh L, today's video sponsor. Lately, I've been loving talking about huel because i've used it as an excuse to give you guys updates on my fitness journey back in january of this year i was 218 pounds last time i weigh myself i'm down to 179 but this time i decided to take a fancy picture close to the mirror good lighting and i did have to flex but i'm making progress

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Starting point is 00:16:06 compensation provided a vesting involves risk. Acorns advisor LLC and SEC registered investment advisor. View important disclosure is acorns.com slash reex. Thank you again, Acorns. Like, it does feel like the kind of thing that suggests like, oh, the next episode's going to start with this or be some bottle fantasy episode or something or just him being back and them cutting to the future and everyone living happily ever after, of course. That one. I wonder if what it seems like is if you chart Ellie's, you know, Ellie is she's good at packing down her emotion. right? And right before they leave on this trip, you know, she's like about to kind of start weeping. And then Dina comes and she's got to kind of quickly like, okay, back to business. And they visit Joel's grave. Like there are these little bits and pieces of the emotional experience of this of her confronting the real pain and trauma inside over this, you know, horrific event. And so it's like when she starts wailing on Nora, it feels like that's another moment where she is actually confront.

Starting point is 00:17:08 and processing what's really going on inside and because this is such a significant step toward her goal, even if she's not really getting the info she needs. I feel like in a way, maybe that is opening her up to being able to confront the idea of Joel again because so much of this mission feels like it's a, you know, it's a way to keep distracted. And I have to imagine that if she were to arrive at Abby and kill Abby, that's when it would all come out, you know and this is just a yeah a little leak of that emotion coming out i agree is it possible though that this is cordisaps related she's breathing in the air and could this be like hitting her like a drug or she's having visions yeah because we don't really know how we've seen

Starting point is 00:17:53 with a bite but we've never seen this kind of thing yeah that's a good question i mean it could be anything and i like being i i like the disorientation of that and it's kind of a fun button to throw on a show like this where it's like, oh, here's this tender beat. And now we're cutting to black. And what does that even mean? Right. I feel like I wouldn't be surprised if they are having it to where she's wailing in on Nora and she saw that exact thing happened to Joel.

Starting point is 00:18:21 I would not be surprised if you would have sort of an out-of-body experience where you saw that happen to the person that is the most important to you in your life. and you are now getting a sort of catharsis, vengeance out on this person, giving them exactly what they gave that person in return that you could be taken to an out of body sort of like disassociating. Yeah, it could be, could possibly be. But just one more thought that I forgot to say is just I really,

Starting point is 00:18:54 really liked Dina's tiny monologue about her family because it, for me, when I saw, see Abby go for that and I just go hell yeah beat the absolute living crap out of her I am on I'm on the verge of just going I don't give an F if it's not right or if if it's totally wrong because you know what I'm also with what Dina said she's like had I gotten there early and and he had gotten away I would hunt him for the rest of my life yeah and you better believe that's me yeah like You come after somebody that I know or a family member that I love and I don't catch you. Yeah, I become a liability.

Starting point is 00:19:39 Absolutely. Like, I'm going to jail. You're dying and I'll die in the midst. Exactly. She says, we didn't kill you. She said maybe you should have. Exactly. And I love that because, and Dina is in this exact same headspace.

Starting point is 00:19:51 She is able to put herself in L's shoes in that moment to explain. I'm not just doing this because we're now lovers and we now know that I love. love you and you're my best friend i'm doing it because i understand your point of you and there's no way that i could not understand it and i am now on their side and i'm like i don't care i'm like i can't tap into although i should be able to because they're all humans i can't tap into norris side or abby's side about her dad i don't care i'm like literally beat them all up i'm so with i i feel the same way you do, but unfortunately, when you are somebody's ride or die, the second option is die. And I do unfortunately believe that we are on this path of vengeance. And I don't know

Starting point is 00:20:40 that there is a world in which Ellie, Dina, and baby all make it out of this. Right. I know. I know. Scary. And that's scary. It's like, as I am you, I am the same way. And if that's what happened that's what happens you know it's kind of like um what jol says if i don't make it i don't make it that's what he said last remember the last we saw him when he's like i'm going to ride back if i don't make it i don't make it right and that's how they're feeling right now if we don't make it we don't make it but at the same time if they could if they could be better than us yeah if they could be better than their being then they could just live together happily but they can't make that choice here and that's why jessie's like do i look like i want to talk to you guys right yeah you're right now i'm at risk now

Starting point is 00:21:24 it's not just even you guys so and now more on Tommy and more people yeah yeah because if you go it's not that simple because you know like and there's so much in the show about like people and and in a lot of stuff like this you'll have the character who you're following who's

Starting point is 00:21:40 you know the loose can and the impulse of the one who just gets fixated and has to get this done but who also then will be like no but I want to protect everybody else and keep them shielded from this and when you have a bunch of those characters then yeah you have this domino effect of like well yeah if and Dina go out, then surely Tommy's

Starting point is 00:21:56 going to follow and Jesse by proxy is going to follow. And yeah, then yeah, I guess it's doing an interesting illustration of just all the different moving parts that surround a single minded motive like this. Because it puts the whole really strong characters of the town, the strong

Starting point is 00:22:12 people of the town in danger. So it's like with what you're saying of like Jesse's real strong, Tommy's real strong and though, and like obviously Dina and L, they're like the strong fighters right, that you're like, well, you're taking them out of the town so they can't like help it but also i'm like glad they're on it i yeah man okay so much is happening damn there's just yeah there's a lot going on um i'm glad that i feel

Starting point is 00:22:38 fully invested in this show still though i was concerned that after the loss of joel that i wouldn't feel this invested and one thing about the show is that it is fully gotten by the throat right now so that's pretty cool that this is where we are i didn't know if i'd be here again so hey Thank you, too. T. Liu, the last of us. Don't forget, if you want all the people who know what's going on, then check out the gamers' reaction with Greg and Aaron and Andrew. They have played the games. They know what's up and they do their reactions on Sunday nights. We're the Monday morning crew who have no freaking idea. No idea.

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