![]() Ellie's brush with David-someone who possesses almost every evil you can think of by the end of the episode-is insanely traumatizing. But deep down, we tend to expect kindness from our fellow humans. ![]() Sure, it's odd that the horrors humanity is capable of can be far worse than any pain a fungus zombie can inflict. Killing a human acting like a monster? That's a different beast entirely. ![]() Killing monsters? Well, they're monsters. Until now, she cracked jokes about having a gun and escaping the Infected, but being attacked by another human is a different kind of violence. I've never played The Last of Us video game-to ensure that I am just as shocked watching this show as everyone else-but my helpful editor, Brady, was kind enough to clue me in that this a pivotal moment for Ellie going forward. Just a simple man grappling with his cannibalistic tendencies. “It’s okay, I got you,” he tells her, as the two walk off bloodied and shell-shocked. Thankfully, she takes him down and stumbles out of the building, finding Joel. Screaming about your level of moral goodness? Definitely something an evil guy does! David attempts to rape Ellie, who stabs him about a million times. “You don’t know how good I am!” David yells at her. Thankfully, Ellie attacks one of her captors and escapes, lighting fire to their messed-up meeting house. Freaky! We don't have time to explore that when Ellie is in the hands of cannibals. Itt's not about the Infected, mind you, but the little mushroom spores. David also has some weird, religious view of the cordyceps virus. “What was I supposed to do? Let them starve?!” Ellie suggests the obvious: that he shouldn’t eat people. He’s doing some light cannibalism in his town by passing human meat off as venison. Big shocker (or not), David is a bad dude. She’s questioned by David, but of course, tells him to fuck right off. Soon after, we cut back to Ellie, who is trapped in a cell. Joel is back, baby! Time to knock out these assholes one by one until he finds Ellie. Then, one of his men walks into the house where Joel was hiding, but our hero surprisingly gets up and defends himself. David yells at his goonies to bring Ellie in alive-and they successfully capture her. So, Ellie prepares for the men to come looking for them. I guess this guy’s word is law, though, because he slaps a kid who suggests that they find and kill the two of them. David lets Ellie escape, believing that it wasn’t her who killed his man, but the town isn't happy with that decision. Apparently, the people who survived the encounter told David that Joel was traveling with a little girl. David mentions to Ellie that the man who attacked Joel-and Joel promptly attacked right back-was from his compound. Don't Despair, But 'The Last of Us' Is Nearly Over.It's another nice easter egg for fans, to distract us from the HBO show's weekly heartbreak. For those not ridden with mushroom brain, that’s the same city where, in The Last of Us video game, we met our old friends Henry and Sam. David tells Ellie that he’s from the Pittsburgh QZ. Side note: it’s kind of nice that there’s no infected people around this part of the country! I guess the fungus monsters hate the cold. David agrees to trade resources for the deer, offering Ellie penicillin to treat Joel’s infection. The two of them go hunting for deer, but they run into an animal that Ellie happened to shoot. So, that's a decent sign that we're heading in the right direction, for now. We're about to find out.ĭavid's buddy is none other than voice actor Troy Baker, AKA the voice of Joel from The Last of Us video game. ![]() Naturally, I don’t trust him-or anyone who isn’t Joel and Ellie, or even poor Henry and Sam. Instead of letting me know that Joel is okay, HBO starts off Episode Eight with the introduction of yet another new character: David, the pastor of a small Wyoming community. I’m not emotionally capable of losing anyone else on this show. We can only hope that Ellie actually knew how to stitch up (and sanitize!) a wound when she haphazardly grabbed that needle and thread in Episode Seven. For a whole week now, I’ve been lying on the floor in pain like Joel-waiting for The Last of Us to return.
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