#the question is ‘will joel make what can be seen as the morally incorrect question to save ellie’ and the answer is in the way henry betrays | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

thewingedwolf · 2 years ago

Text

no this was ROUGH okay because i was just staring at the tv in horror as Sam shows Ellie his leg, knowing what’s coming, and when they bust through the door and Henry points the gun at Joel, my brain first went to “Joel is going to accidentally kill Henry in order to save Ellie from being bit by Sam” but then Henry is aware enough to shoot Sam to save Ellie and the moment the gun fired I knew Henry was about to kill himself, and because this is how my mind works when I watch shows like this, I thought “if B was Sam in this situation and I was Henry, I don’t know that I would react any different” and I felt a gut wrenching, sick moment of compassion and warmth towards poor Henry as Joel is begging him to give up the gun because he is also just as aware as I am what is about to happen, but then the camera switches to Ellie’s face and I switched into horror once again as I realized “oh my god but Ellie is going to watch Henry pull the trigger after she told Sam it would be alright no WAIT” and then the gun goes off again and Ellie screams

#tlou spoilers #this was definitely the more emotionally impactful mean way of killing them off ya kno like the momentary fear that joel would kill henry #just made me tired but when it went the other route it was both more horrifying in the moment & more interesting as well #it’s still build up into ‘the things joel will do for love of ellie.’ we don’t have to see him kill this barely out of his teenage years guy #he just bonded with it’s about joel seeing the sad sort of flip side to what bill said #not two people who love each other growing old together bc bill protected frank #but two people who love each other dying brutally young because in the chaos of this world henry could not protect sam #and you do not get very much of a say over whether you get to be bill & frank or henry & sam nor can you stop yourself #from loving someone in the way the two pairs love each other.#(the ultimate question is not ‘will joel kill innocent people to protect ellie’ which is what is answered by joel killing henry.#the question is ‘will joel make what can be seen as the morally incorrect question to save ellie’ and the answer is in the way henry betrays #kathleen & the revolution itself to save his brother and leaves a fiery collapse of infected behind in an effort to save him and the way #that henry completely falls apart and simply cannot go on when faced with the loss of sam anyway.#the last of us

48 notes · View notes