Natural Remedy Dries Up & Flakes Off Skin Tags & Moles (In 8 Hours) - Gets Biggest Deal In History
The sad little man just wants to be a dad
Natural Remedy Dries Up & Flakes Off Skin Tags & Moles (In 8 Hours) - Gets Biggest Deal In History
begging the internet not to let the absolutism of tiktok and woke culture detract from the nuance of this story. yes, joel is selfish. no, he’s not evil. no, he didn’t have a choice. especially with what the show gave us, we now know if he had lost Ellie he would have picked up the gun again and this time he would not have flinched. yes, the fireflies were trying to do a good thing. yes, they were wrong in how they did it. marlene was a terrible selfish person for using Ellie’s trauma against her to try and make herself feel better for sacrificing a child to save humanity. she was also doing what she believed she needed to do for the greater good. there is not one single thing in this story that is black and white. joel did a terrible thing for a very human reason. that’s the point: people can be as good or as bad as you want, but in the end it doesn’t matter once the choice comes down to the person you love versus the rest of the world. that will never be a choice made with logic and reason. if it was, we wouldn’t be human
That fucking hospital scene…that is a sequence that I’m glad it didn’t feel like playing the game. Instead, I felt like I wasn’t breathing the entire time. That was one of the most effective sequences of television I’ve ever seen, from the acting to the emphasis on the brutality.
The way Joel seemed to be walking through a dream…that’s the part that hit the hardest. We as the audience were hyperaware of his actions, while he was barely there at all—Sarah and his grief and Ellie were the only things on his mind.
Neil Druckmann really wrote a story that turned a mirror on humanity, and my god am I thankful for both the game and this adaptation.
Yeah so in episode 5, when Henry shoots Sam and you can see in Joel’s eyes that he knows exactly what Henry is going to do next…
That scene hurts a whole lot more now that we know Joel tried to do the same thing after Sarah died.
marlene told joel that she was the only person who could understand how he felt (about sacrificing ellie) but she didn’t. bc marlene didn’t think of her as a daughter. she loved ellie’s mom, not ellie. she put ellie into a fedra orphanage (a group she was actively fighting against) and only cared/interacted with her when she was useful to the firefly agenda —14 years later. marlene had doubts about saving baby ellie in the first place. she rationalized killing ellie (and taking ellie’s autonomy away by denying her the choice) by saying she would get killed or raped or meet some other terrible fate, so why not end her life now? save her from all that? maybe she loved the idea of ellie, the association to the person she actually loved, but joel loved ELLIE. he spent every waking moment with her for months. protected her for months. saw her as his one and only purpose to live. marlene couldn’t understand that, or else she couldn’t have put ellie on that operating table
i’ll be a joel miller defender till the day I die. time didn’t heal any wounds at all, but ellie did. ellie and her puns and her determination and tenacity and the way she laughs and the way she said i’ll keep you alive if it’s the last thing i do. she saved him. she drew him out of the dark kicking and screaming until he could feel sunlight on his face again. he saved his whole world, consequences be damned. what does it matter if the world goes back to the way it was if she’s not in it? now he can teach her to play guitar, and they can play boggle, and it won’t all be for nothing because his heart isn’t buried under twenty years of regret anymore. and he owes all of that to his love for her.
marlene in the hospital: I can tell him what we’re doing to Ellie, he won’t care, he’s god’s perfect killing machine
god’s perfect killing machine who has learned to love again:
The juxtaposition between joel point blank shooting an entire hospital full of Fireflies in cold blood, but then telling the nurse to put a bandage on the tiny little spot on Ellies arm caused by the needle. Its barely even a scratch, and Ellie has definitely had worse, but thats his little girl and he cares about every little hair on her head. He cares so much.