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They did not need to go this hard in Episode 1

THE ARTFUL DODGER 1.01 'The Yankee Dodge'

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Conrad Fisher girlies are also Nathan Scott girlies are also Jess Mariano girlies are also Seth Cohen girlies are also Logan Echolls girlies are also Pacey Witter girlies.

I will be taking no questions.

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Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

You were bigger than the whole sky.

You were more than just a short time.

And I've got a lot to pine about.

And I've got a lot to live without.

I'm never going to meet

What could have been, would have been

What should have been, you.

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I think I've seen this film before...

And I didn't like the ending...

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The Miller Girls may enjoy sassing Joel...

But they enjoy a snuggle too...

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Ellie, Joel and the love languages.

Physical Touch:

Words of Affirmation:

Quality Time:

Acts of Service

Gifts

Also, whatever killing a hospital full of people so you don't die is.

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So much happens in this 30 seconds.

He can't bring himself to respond directly to the question about Marlene, knowing how much it would upset Ellie and that, of course, he's responsible.

The use of "us" and "home". What a journey from "Oh, it's "we" now"? and "I'm not family"? "No, you're cargo."

Ellie turning her back and Joel immediately noticing. What he did is already having consequences.

And yet a look of resignation, of acceptance, comes over him. He'll take those consequences if it means she's alive and with him, right now, upset or not. His "I'm sorry" is quiet, and when Ellie's already checked out of the conversation so who knows if she heard him. Anyway, he's only sorry for what she's been through and how she's now feeling. He'll never be sorry for his decision.

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I've been the archer.

I've been the prey.

Who could ever leave me, darling?

But who could stay?

You could stay.

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I've always thought Joel's face after Sarah tells him she fixed his watch because she knows he wouldn't fix it himself was really interesting.

We see Sarah take care of Joel almost as much as he takes of her (Giving him Vitamin C, making breakfast, knowing general knowledge he doesn't, telling him his shirt is inside out, insisting he has some kind of birthday celebration). But her acknowledging that obviously hurts him a bit. Even before the apocalypse, he was a Dad clearly trying his best but not always able to do everything he wanted.

When he can't save Sarah it just confirms his absolute worst fears - that he will never be able to do enough and that it's his daughter who suffers.

Then he meets Ellie, begins to take on a parental role, and it feels like it's happening again. He can't always protect her. She has to figure a lot out on her own.

His conversation with Tommy about failing "her" is about Ellie but it goes all the way back to Sarah, of course.

Even when Ellie tells him she'll him follow him anywhere once they've seen if she's the cure, his face falls again.

Once again, one of his girls is taking on the responsibility. She's reassuring *him* that everything will be fine, that she still sees a future together even though she's the one that is going to have to make sacrifices and it should probably be the other way round.

It's also why he is so still and sure in the hospital. He knows how he can help his daughter this time, and he sure as hell isn't going to let that opportunity go by.

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Just a Dad calming down his panicked girls.

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The daughter he couldn't save...

And the daughter he could.

I'm not sure I will ever emotionally recover from the fact that after all the horror and chaos he has caused, Joel still takes a moment to hold Ellie. To give himself a second to appreciate that he has her, this girl that has become the centre of his universe, alive and in his arms. It's been 20 years since he's got to have the feeling.

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When Ellie asks Joel if she can ask him a serious question, he responds so quickly. Literally doesn't hesitate to say yes and give her his full attention.

I like to think it's a leftover instinct from raising Sarah. Joel seems like the kind of parent who treated Sarah as an equal, who would be honest with her about everything. Nothing was off the table as they chatted over breakfast or curled up together on the sofa after a long day. Eventually, she overtook him and knew all the answers already, but he liked to think that just meant he was doing his job as a Dad.

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I cannot handle Joel's soft voice when talking to Ellie.

When he asks, "Are you okay?" after Sam's death.

How gently he says "it's me" when calming her down after David.

His little "no, it's fine" when Ellie apologises for being quiet in Episode 9.

His reassuring "I won't" when she asks him not to scare the giraffe.

Cannot handle it.

If they keep in the birthday present scene and his worried "I do okay"? I am not going to make it.

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Bella Ramsey and their soon to be award-winning facial expressions, constantly breaking my heart.

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Ellie's expression when Joel reunites with Tommy, and she clearly thinks Joel will no longer stay with her.

To Ellie's facial expression when Joel basically tells her he loves her and she healed his 20 years of pain.

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Joel really went from this...

to this with Ellie.

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Just Tommy Miller enjoying watching his nieces give his brother shit.