#TLOU ep 9

[dyingroses]

✨ Even more of The Last of Us + text posts and stuff ✨

[zuo-zz]

The light in his arms.

[redwhitebuddie]

joel miller and his happy dad face™

[abisexualidiotstuff]

yea…

[herstuf]

I so appreciated that the script emphasised the “our doctor THINKS” “he THINKS” and then clearly stating that they didn’t inform Ellie that they didn’t ask her or tell her that she wouldn’t survive this. It makes it so clear exactly why it was such an easy choice for Joel to say no, you will not do this.

[boilingcowboy]

been rewatching the scene where Joel finds Ellie after David because im trying to get a good reference photo so I've been rewatching that scene over and over again frame for frame and HOLY FUCK

the way Joel holds her and im not talking about their hug im talking about the way Joel holds her while she's fighting back in his arms with such ease like he doesn't just grab her arm and make her look at him no he at first garbs her arm but when she starts to scream and fight back and her legs give up Joel spins her around and is holding or at least trying to hold her like a new born like he's got one arm on her lower back and one on her upper back

and he's holding her till she has her knees on the ground and only ONLY when he knows she can't fall and hurt herself dose he slowly bring his hands up to her arms and then cups her face in his hands to then make her look at him and tell her "its me. its me"

AND A N D I M N O T D O N E. Joel. Joel Miller that parental motherfucker even has this worried "oh shit im about to drop my child" face while he's holding her like a newborn like OMFG HOW THE FUCK DID I NOT NOTICE THIS

like look at his face that’s a “im about to drop my child shit fuck shit “ face

for info I keep saying that Joel is holding Ellie like a newborn because when you hold a newborn you're supposed to have on arm around them supporting their back and one arm holding their head and he's holding Ellie the same way (obviously he can't hold her head in that moment because it would just make things worse but he still holds her like you would a newborn child) and this could be a parallel to how Anna held Ellie because she held her the same way.

Anna and Joel both held a screaming, fighting, bloody Ellie the same way.

I cannot do this anymore. im going to claw off my walls now and eat my own arm goodbye.

[mikewheely]

As if we already didn't know it but Craig Mazin confirmed in the podcast that this is their "I love you" to each other and this scene needs to be here because I actually sobbed at this point. And he also said that all this time Ellie knew what he meant to her, but this is when she realizes what she meant to him.

[erensbich]

i'll follow you anywhere you go

pedro pascal as joel miller | 1.09

[gretaripley9890]

It's fun to see people discuss whether what Joel did was right or wrong when that's hardly the point.

The point is: if you had a daughter, and that daughter was taken for a potential cure of a zombie apocalypse and had to die for it without even knowing, after you've already lost another daughter, wouldn't you kill every fucking accomplice ? Because I would, I'd probably kill anyone who represented even a distant menace to her safety.

And,

I sincerely do not think they would've found a cure. It takes years and a large, indefinite number of doctors, biologists, chemists and labs to develop anything, and you seriously expect that a single man, who doesn't wait a second before killing the only glimmer of hope for humanity, who has formulated a very vague hypothesis and has not run one test that could suggest that hypothesis to be correct, to actually find a cure?

[amythenortherner]

Joel’s shift to friendliness and carefreeness with Ellie in this episode did something to me, to my heart. 😭 He’d become so comfortable with her, when he started to talk about Sarah with her so easily I almost died. Lord help me

[imaginary98]

The last of us season final Jesus christ 😳

The attention to detail in this episode to the game is just ridiculously incredible 😫 it's just too fucking good I can't handle the emotional trauma I'm feeling right now I'm guna bed 😭

[dyingroses]

The Last of Us + text posts and stuff

[that-dumb-dinosaur]

so that's the most metal way to give birth

[redwhitebuddie]

ellie is joel’s light in the darkness

and he’s hers

[abisexualidiotstuff]

still haven’t recovered from this

[ele-meno-p]

“I was the guy who missed.” - Joel Miller, TLOU 2023