#the last of us part 1

[nihildep]

[elliespuns]

Young Joel Miller, appreciation post [pics: millerstommy]

[ellie-vvilliams]

The Last of Us: Show vs Game (part 1)

[ranna-alga]

I just realised something from the TLOU gameplay that made me so depressed that I needed to share with you all.

Rewind back to the prologue where Sarah is dying, and we see Joel look away from her a total of two times before she dies: the first time is at the same moment the camera pans to solely Tommy, of whom Joel is looking at (first image). Before he is out of shot, Joel can just be seen looking to Sarah again, until the camera turns back to him where he looks away a second time towards Tommy again (second image).

Now, if you go and listen to the audio of the actual scene itself, you'll notice that the second time he looks away is when Sarah draws her last breath and passes away. She's already dead now.

And Joel missed it by looking away for only a second.

The second time he looks away and then looks back at Sarah, she is already gone. He couldn't do anything. He couldn't look into her eyes, still filled with life (albeit hanging on a thread) anymore before becoming absolutely soulless because he missed it. He didn't see the light leave her, he didn’t see her succumb to the bullet wound where she would move on to no longer feel anymore pain in death. He missed it almost instantly. His last good look of her is after the second time he looked away, when she's already passed on.

But then we fast-forward to the very near end of the game where Joel is trying to perform CPR on Ellie after she almost drowned. He's becoming mentally and emotionally frantic because he cannot lose another one and projects this by trying to resuscitate her. He is back to where he was twenty years prior trying to save Sarah. And then the Fireflies appear.

Joel looks away from Ellie one time. He probably doesn’t even realise that these are Fireflies (they could have been Hunters or even FEDRA for all he cared). The look on his face in the second image is heart-breaking, but it only lasts for a second before he immediately looks down to Ellie.

He only looks up at them once. He doesn’t look up a second time.

Again, if you watch the original scene with audio enabled, you can hear the shakiness in Joel's voice, almost tearfully and very much coming from a place of fear. He's literally pleading for Ellie to wake up, all the while keeping his eyes on her - not looking up again - not even with one of the Firefly soldiers approaching him with an armed weapon.

He can't look away a second time because the last time he did, he lost Sarah immediately. He fears that will happen again, but he cannot let that occur. He won't. Not with Ellie: his second chance, his new reason to live, his new love. Joel refuses to tear his eyes away from her, even for another second, if it risks her life suddenly slipping away before he could even realise it.

He cannot afford to have another daughter lay lifeless in his arms and have her drift off to a place where he cannot follow and protect her anymore, even if it means placing his own life on the line.

[stealyourblorbos]

Our houses are haunted, dark and deserted - They're made of my secrets and shame Maybe I want it, but now I'm not worth it I can't even tell you my name.

The Last Of Us as Tarot cards: The Judgement

[perotovar]

@pscentral​ event 18: adaptations -> the last of us (game vs show)

the changes (or expansions) that were made (and it still worked)

bonus:

[halfwayriight]

Hey, there.

[irrrationalfangirl]

give mrs johnson the guest star emmy already

[calkestis]

HBO The Last of Us (2023) The Last of Us, Part I (2022)

[mdawgswizzleinthehizzle]

joel miller liftin’ people but not lookin’ away or lettin’ go until he’s sure they are secure and fully lifted.

it’s the simple things.

[ellies-enrichment]

- Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers

[billy-crudup]

Everyone I have cared for has either died or left me. Everyone - fucking except for you! So don't tell me I would be safer with somebody else, because the truth is I would just be more scared.

[elliespuns]

Joel Miller, game vs. show similarities #4

[thetipsybison]

Here's a silly thought what if Ellie goes back to Jackson and takes on Joel's guitar making business to keep his memory and passion alive through her. She would if she could play it but now that she can't... 👀

[joel-millerr]

People have asked me, “Why would Joel do that when he could have saved the world?” And my answer to them is always this: “He did. He did save the world—it’s just that the world was that girl, and that’s it.” - Troy Baker

[stealyourblorbos]

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