Some ppl think this episode is just filler, but it’s essential to further understand Ellie’s character and it shows why she doesn’t abandon Joel when he tells her to. She hasn’t grown attached to that many ppl in this world, but she lost Riley. Now she has this bond with Joel, and she will not lose him like she lost Riley.
I'm convinced people are so spoiled but well-made media that they've forgotten what 'filler' actually means. It's not 'stuff that doesn't zoom toward the stated goal of the plot,' it's 'random bs thrown into a show manifestly to pad out the runtime and shovel out another episode.' It's like clip shows. Sheesh.
Like every episode before, this was a great one. 2 more coming. This is absolutely not a filler episode. Many claim this because they simply do not pay attention to anything. It has almost the same status as the pilot and Joel's past and connects various episodes through Ellie's behavior due to the events of the last night with her girlfriend. The mall is located in the QC. Quarantine means cleaned zone. Usually no infected. Therefore, people who enter or leave without permission are also executed by Fedra. This prevents infected people from contaminating this zone. It was just propaganda to claim that they were full of infected to prevent people from going in. That there was finally an infected in it is unfortunate, but by no means predictable. Probably a smuggler who came back to the zone infected. That's why Ellie and Riley are so carefree with noise. In addition, both have never seen one before because they grew up in QC. Everything they know, they know from propaganda. In episode 3, Ellie was standing in front of a Mortal Kombat 2 machine that didn't work. There she explained to Joel how the finisher of Mileena works that was shown here. Mileena was Riley's favorite character. If you payed attention, the episode shows you how the story with Ellie and Riley ends. They don't have to show that explicitly. Riley played Mileena in MK2 and Ellie played Baraka (last game). Baraka skewered Mileena with his blades as finisher. That was the metaphorical endgame. Ellie had to kill Riley. Most likely with her knife. I don't think she used Riley's pistol. She would have had to disarm her first and it wouldn't have caused such a heavy reaction from her when she shot Bryan. Besides, I don't think she stands in front of a mirror and plays with a gun after such an experience. That's why Ellie asked Joel in episode 2 what it was like for him to kill an infected, knowing that they once were human. I think she needed a comparison to her own feelings because she couldn't classify them. That's why she tortured and stabbed the stalker with her knife in episode 3. She first wanted to see if he felt something and then the anger broke through and she killed him because an infected bit Riley. Ellie kills Riley and because Riley didn't get in touch with Marlene the next day, she showed up at the mall, saw and took Ellie with her. She has prevented Ellie from being shot by her people, because she knows Ellie. As we learned in episode 1, it was Marlene who brought Ellie to Fedra Orphanage as a Baby. Marlene then locked her up for 3 weeks to see if she turned. Riley was first mentioned in episode 1 by Marlene. Ellie said to her Fireflys are terrorists, and Marlene then asked Ellie if she thought Riley was a terrorist as well. The escalator can also be seen metaphorically. No matter how much Ellie runs against it (sometimes everything stays the same, sometimes there are highs), it still goes further and further downhill for her. Also, we've learned that Ellie's first impulse is to leave when she feels pushed away or is pushed away or is disappointed in any way, but she keeps coming back. This is one parallel between Joel and Riley. Another parallel is, both are Ellie's protectors. And don't forget Ellie's greatest fear of ending up alone. In the end, she will try everything possible to save Joel or even the world, which she was not able to do with Riley. Ellie has lost Riley and Sam to the fungus. She is the cure. She wants her survival to have value. Here it is shown no matter Fedra or Fireflys, for both you are just a number. They tell you what you want to hear and what benefits them, to achieve the respective goals. The officer at the beginning may be really nice, but he's definitely manipulative and told Ellie bullshit. There is no leader at all in Ellie. Riley brings everything that makes a leader and she was assigned to the sewers. There are always only 2 options to choose from and both are manipulated into thinking there are not more. There is only one clearly good or one clearly bad choice. Leaving Fedra obviously does not exist as an option. It is noteworthy that the officer's keys, which stood for the positive path, were also the first thing he immediately took off the table after Ellie's decision. But orphans are easy to manipulate, as you can see from Ellie, who simply repeats what the officer told her in the conversation with Riley. Which in turn also shows that she is not a leader. And also with Fedra the people starve and kill each other, whereby Fedra officers lack nothing. The Fireflys are no different. Everyone comes in quickly, they made you feel you belong to a family and you are important to them. In fact, Riley is parked alone in the mall with bombs. These also kill civilians, as we saw in Episode 1 on Tess when one of these bombs exploded, killing two teenager. The series in general is all about the number 2. Bill and Frank, Ellie and Joel, Ellie and Riley, Sam and Henry, Joel and Tommy, Kathleen and Daniel, always only two choices, Mortal Kombat 2, joke book volume 2, t(w)ogethernes I actually thought Ashley Johnson (OG Ellie) would have her cameo here. Obviously, this was not the case, but it comes later in another memory. Most likely in the season finale. Next episode Troy Baker (OG Joel) will get his cameo. An important question was not answered. What do you call an alligator in a vest? An investigator. 😁 Your welcome. On the officer's keys was the Naughty Dog emblem.
I think ending it there was perfect. I mean, we KNOW. We know what happened. What Ellie had to do. It's the same with not showing us Bill and Frank in their bed. This show is really good about telling us about the horror and heartbreak, but to not be gratuitious about actually showing it every time.
I appreciate the fact that while I've cried at just about every episode, it's not repetitive. It finds some new spin on the sorrows... I also appreciate the fact that the show avoids gratuitous gross outs or shock. In this episode, you KNOW the mall is going to go badly and, even as someone who hadn't played the game, comments in episode one STRONGLY suggested Riley would die. The zombie is shown, it's not just some jump-scare. Even when the zombie finally appears, you hear it. The show is buoyed with the sure knowledge that it's good, that these things matter and will affect us, without having to resort to tricks. Even when they set things up in view, even when you know it's coming, ... it hits like a load of bricks. I like that a lot. It really draws me in to care and feel, because it's not just DUN DUN DUN ZOMBIE RAAAR.
This episode, just like the Left Behind DLC, is both heartwarming and heartbreaking. When Ellie and Riley are having the time of their lives playing around the mall and especially the arcade I felt absolutely elated. I especially loved how this was also a first date between them, even though they didn’t really know it was a date. And then when they finally kissed I couldn’t help but hold my heart because I thought it would burst from pure joy. And after they both get bit I felt my heart break even harder than in the game. On the “Inside The Episode” after the show they talked about how even though Ellie felt absolutely defeated she still wants to savor every second of time that she has with the ones she loves. And it shows when she is stitching Joel up and the Left Behind theme is playing. For God’s sake just give Bella Ramsey the Emmy!
You have 2 more to go, 8 & 9. I have not been disappointed in any of the episodes. The performances are outstanding and episode 8 for me is even better. I don't know how they do it.
There’s this enjoyable thing about watching others experience this for the first time. Don’t know if either of you played the game or not, but doesn’t seem like it.
I haven't played the game so I don't know how it goes down or what the game shows, but it sounds like y'all really just wanna watch Ellie kill the love of her life, and I personally think that's pretty twisted yo! Lmao, JK, JK! 😁
Some ppl think this episode is just filler, but it’s essential to further understand Ellie’s character and it shows why she doesn’t abandon Joel when he tells her to. She hasn’t grown attached to that many ppl in this world, but she lost Riley. Now she has this bond with Joel, and she will not lose him like she lost Riley.
I'm convinced people are so spoiled but well-made media that they've forgotten what 'filler' actually means.
It's not 'stuff that doesn't zoom toward the stated goal of the plot,' it's 'random bs thrown into a show manifestly to pad out the runtime and shovel out another episode.'
It's like clip shows.
Sheesh.
People who think it’s a filler doesn’t understand storytelling and world building.
Those people don't understand that none of the episodes were fillers, all we see has some kind of purpose.
And those people are crazy.
@@marcussmith5284 indeed, but many times these “filler” episodes can be boring. 9 eps in a season. You don’t need filler eps.
Such an emotional trip this episode was. 😭
Like every episode before, this was a great one. 2 more coming.
This is absolutely not a filler episode. Many claim this because they simply do not pay attention to anything. It has almost the same status as the pilot and Joel's past and connects various episodes through Ellie's behavior due to the events of the last night with her girlfriend.
The mall is located in the QC. Quarantine means cleaned zone. Usually no infected. Therefore, people who enter or leave without permission are also executed by Fedra. This prevents infected people from contaminating this zone. It was just propaganda to claim that they were full of infected to prevent people from going in. That there was finally an infected in it is unfortunate, but by no means predictable. Probably a smuggler who came back to the zone infected.
That's why Ellie and Riley are so carefree with noise. In addition, both have never seen one before because they grew up in QC. Everything they know, they know from propaganda.
In episode 3, Ellie was standing in front of a Mortal Kombat 2 machine that didn't work. There she explained to Joel how the finisher of Mileena works that was shown here. Mileena was Riley's favorite character.
If you payed attention, the episode shows you how the story with Ellie and Riley ends. They don't have to show that explicitly.
Riley played Mileena in MK2 and Ellie played Baraka (last game).
Baraka skewered Mileena with his blades as finisher. That was the metaphorical endgame. Ellie had to kill Riley. Most likely with her knife. I don't think she used Riley's pistol. She would have had to disarm her first and it wouldn't have caused such a heavy reaction from her when she shot Bryan. Besides, I don't think she stands in front of a mirror and plays with a gun after such an experience.
That's why Ellie asked Joel in episode 2 what it was like for him to kill an infected, knowing that they once were human. I think she needed a comparison to her own feelings because she couldn't classify them. That's why she tortured and stabbed the stalker with her knife in episode 3. She first wanted to see if he felt something and then the anger broke through and she killed him because an infected bit Riley.
Ellie kills Riley and because Riley didn't get in touch with Marlene the next day, she showed up at the mall, saw and took Ellie with her. She has prevented Ellie from being shot by her people, because she knows Ellie. As we learned in episode 1, it was Marlene who brought Ellie to Fedra Orphanage as a Baby. Marlene then locked her up for 3 weeks to see if she turned. Riley was first mentioned in episode 1 by Marlene. Ellie said to her Fireflys are terrorists, and Marlene then asked Ellie if she thought Riley was a terrorist as well.
The escalator can also be seen metaphorically. No matter how much Ellie runs against it (sometimes everything stays the same, sometimes there are highs), it still goes further and further downhill for her.
Also, we've learned that Ellie's first impulse is to leave when she feels pushed away or is pushed away or is disappointed in any way, but she keeps coming back. This is one parallel between Joel and Riley. Another parallel is, both are Ellie's protectors. And don't forget Ellie's greatest fear of ending up alone. In the end, she will try everything possible to save Joel or even the world, which she was not able to do with Riley.
Ellie has lost Riley and Sam to the fungus. She is the cure. She wants her survival to have value.
Here it is shown no matter Fedra or Fireflys, for both you are just a number. They tell you what you want to hear and what benefits them, to achieve the respective goals. The officer at the beginning may be really nice, but he's definitely manipulative and told Ellie bullshit. There is no leader at all in Ellie. Riley brings everything that makes a leader and she was assigned to the sewers. There are always only 2 options to choose from and both are manipulated into thinking there are not more. There is only one clearly good or one clearly bad choice. Leaving Fedra obviously does not exist as an option. It is noteworthy that the officer's keys, which stood for the positive path, were also the first thing he immediately took off the table after Ellie's decision.
But orphans are easy to manipulate, as you can see from Ellie, who simply repeats what the officer told her in the conversation with Riley. Which in turn also shows that she is not a leader. And also with Fedra the people starve and kill each other, whereby Fedra officers lack nothing.
The Fireflys are no different. Everyone comes in quickly, they made you feel you belong to a family and you are important to them. In fact, Riley is parked alone in the mall with bombs. These also kill civilians, as we saw in Episode 1 on Tess when one of these bombs exploded, killing two teenager.
The series in general is all about the number 2.
Bill and Frank, Ellie and Joel, Ellie and Riley, Sam and Henry, Joel and Tommy, Kathleen and Daniel, always only two choices, Mortal Kombat 2, joke book volume 2, t(w)ogethernes
I actually thought Ashley Johnson (OG Ellie) would have her cameo here. Obviously, this was not the case, but it comes later in another memory. Most likely in the season finale.
Next episode Troy Baker (OG Joel) will get his cameo.
An important question was not answered. What do you call an alligator in a vest? An investigator. 😁 Your welcome.
On the officer's keys was the Naughty Dog emblem.
I think ending it there was perfect. I mean, we KNOW. We know what happened. What Ellie had to do. It's the same with not showing us Bill and Frank in their bed. This show is really good about telling us about the horror and heartbreak, but to not be gratuitious about actually showing it every time.
I appreciate the fact that while I've cried at just about every episode, it's not repetitive. It finds some new spin on the sorrows...
I also appreciate the fact that the show avoids gratuitous gross outs or shock. In this episode, you KNOW the mall is going to go badly and, even as someone who hadn't played the game, comments in episode one STRONGLY suggested Riley would die. The zombie is shown, it's not just some jump-scare. Even when the zombie finally appears, you hear it.
The show is buoyed with the sure knowledge that it's good, that these things matter and will affect us, without having to resort to tricks. Even when they set things up in view, even when you know it's coming, ... it hits like a load of bricks.
I like that a lot. It really draws me in to care and feel, because it's not just DUN DUN DUN ZOMBIE RAAAR.
Yes!
This episode, just like the Left Behind DLC, is both heartwarming and heartbreaking. When Ellie and Riley are having the time of their lives playing around the mall and especially the arcade I felt absolutely elated. I especially loved how this was also a first date between them, even though they didn’t really know it was a date. And then when they finally kissed I couldn’t help but hold my heart because I thought it would burst from pure joy.
And after they both get bit I felt my heart break even harder than in the game. On the “Inside The Episode” after the show they talked about how even though Ellie felt absolutely defeated she still wants to savor every second of time that she has with the ones she loves. And it shows when she is stitching Joel up and the Left Behind theme is playing.
For God’s sake just give Bella Ramsey the Emmy!
You have 2 more to go, 8 & 9. I have not been disappointed in any of the episodes. The performances are outstanding and episode 8 for me is even better. I don't know how they do it.
Awesome episode! Glad to see you catching up.
They are 9 episodes. Tomorrow is the season finale.
Two more for you guys! One more for us this Sunday 😥😭😭😭
this series is all the cry
We have cried in every episode I think
Lets go🔥👌🏼😁
There’s this enjoyable thing about watching others experience this for the first time. Don’t know if either of you played the game or not, but doesn’t seem like it.
We haven’t played the game yet. But we’re going to after we finish this season.
@@TheMovieCouple Yeah play the first, don’t play the second if you don’t want season 2-3 to be spoiled.
I gotta see a review of the new "Little Mermaid" trailer from you guys.
It’s up
Can you guys react to the super Mario bros movie final trailer
I haven't played the game so I don't know how it goes down or what the game shows, but it sounds like y'all really just wanna watch Ellie kill the love of her life, and I personally think that's pretty twisted yo! Lmao, JK, JK! 😁