Overall, I did like this episode a lot, but it’s another depressing entry in the show in the end, for all its lighter moments. I have more to say about the game vs the show but I’m going to save it for a separate post. At least in the game, you spend several hours with Tess before she’s gone. I know that would be a departure from the game-but who cares? We need more time with these characters. If Bill had lived and joined Joel and Ellie for a bit. If Tess had been with us for most of the first season before dying, for instance. But maybe the impact would be greater if they were around longer than one or two episodes. At least this show kills people off and moves on. At least we’re not stuck in Georgia with the same slowly ballooning cast like we were in The Walking Dead.
So I guess the flashbacks just add to this sense that every new episode introduces and then axes some new character, good or bad, and then we move on. Sure, we have Tommy still and the people of Jackson, but they’re back in Wyoming, not in the story anymore in any meaningful way. Bill and Frank, Sam and Henry, Tess and Riley. We meet them, get to know them, probably get to like them, and then BAM they’re dead. And I don’t hate flashbacks, but at this point one thing that never bothered me in the games is starting to bother me here: Everyone outside of Joel and Ellie is starting to feel disposable.
I suppose my problem with this episode, even though it’s plucked from the game and at the same juncture as the game, with Joel wounded, is that it interrupts the story again to give us yet more flashbacks. I think she’s great, don’t get me wrong, but Ellie of Part II is a tour de force and I’m just not sure. The problem I keep thinking about-on top of the rest of the setup of Part II in general and how that translates to TV-is that even with all of these efforts to make Ellie more violent and angry, I’m still not sure I see Ramsey pulling it off. An Ellie that, without spoiling too much, is fairly horrible in a lot of ways. The Ellie of Seasons 2 and 3 of HBO’s adaptation. She just lost her BFF, someone she loved as a friend and as a potential romantic partner.Ģ) This helps set up Ellie of The Last Of Us Part II a lot better. It makes a lot more sense for her to be angry, sad, heartbroken, defiant. 1) Game Ellie shouldn’t have been so easy going if she just lost Riley.
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