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userkhael

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hyrules-warrior

Okay but Joel was never awake during any of the time he was injured after falling off the horse in the game

Joel telling her to go and trying to keep his pained noises in check since he is AWAKE during her stitching him up is SOOO much better then the game

barlowstreet

The shove got me so bad. He’s never been rough with her.

The most he’s ever done is pull on the hood of her sweatshirt to make her move (and do you know how often parents steer kids that way? It’s not even zipped, there’s no way for it to hurt her.) The only time, really, is when he grabs her and hauls her out of the State House when Tess tells him to go.

When she lashes out and shoves him, he doesn’t react at all. He just takes it. There’s absolutely no thought in his head, even once, of being physical with her.

But he pushes her away, physically, because he’s so scared of losing her that he’s willing to bleed to death in a basement to save her. He wants her to hate him enough to leave, wants her to be angry enough to leave him. He shakes her to try and get her to take this seriously and then pushes her away and she is pissed, alright.

She’s so pissed that she would save his life out of SPITE now because, seriously, how fucking dare he think she would leave him.

thatblackdress

All the handwringing about morality of Joel choosing Ellie over the world and I’m like… okay but I just don’t care.

What I care about is being emotionally satisfied. We start the story with Joel completely shut off from Ellie, convinced she’s doomed to die, stubborn to her appeals for connection. We start the story with Ellie being passed over from various adults based on her utility, Ellie being defined by her experiences of abandonment. And then we end that story with these two characters completely emotionally entwined and Joel valuing Ellie—as an individual—and him becoming a father figure that would choose her first no matter what.

That relationship and character arc is DELICIOUS. The rest of humanity is just a backdrop to Joel and Ellie for me, like I can’t emphasise how much idgaf about it in this narrative lmfao.

yeine42

THIS. As much as I've been absorbed in the "it's always right to save the kid discourse", this is what the finale means to me.

TOO MEE it is about someone unequivocally choosing ELLIE for herself, not protecting her because of the hope for a cure but because she matters, she's a person and she deserves a real chance at life and happiness.

EYE am watching a show about two complicated and scarred characters growing in themselves and learning to trust and take care of each other and receive love even when it hurts like warm water on frozen fingers. I do not give a fuck about the cure it a fucking device to force proximity between two people as they slowly become family to each other.