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Every time I rewatch Season One, I’m reminded of how perfect of a season it is. Efficient storytelling, gorgeous cinematography, fabulous acting, clear character arcs, concise dialogue, impressive special effects, etc.

Stranger Things: Season One will always be a 10/10 show in my book.

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Mileven - the only couple on the show to have a kiss in all seasons

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El’s room in California🩵

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EVERYBODY MOVED. MANY COLLAPSED.

#yjhd #10 years of yjhd #bollywood #cult classic #ranbir kapoor #deepika padukone #aditya roy kapur #kalki koechlin #rkdp #ayan mukerji #yeh jawaani hai deewani

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Bella Ramsey Reacts to ‘The Last of Us’ Fan Theories Vanity Fair

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Actor A: this scene is romantic and gay

Fandom: ok now because he said it everyone needs to know it is 100% canonically romantic and gay, it is a fact, you can't argue about it or else

Actor B: the character i play is straight

Fandom: nah, we dont believe you, this isnt canon, we can argue against this

#lmaooooo relatable content

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hbo Ellie is so much more childlike in the best endearing way like how her face lights up at escalators and dancing with Riley or Joel testing her grip on a gun. Bella has captured something so special and in a way so much more heartbreaking because when the shift comes when something bad happens and Ellie is screaming or panicked or afraid or has to fight, it hits so much harder how young she is and how much of normal life she has never seen nor experienced. The closest was the mall and even that was ripped away.

Joel too is softer and shows more vulnerability and emotion, something Pedro does SO well and though two Ellies and Joels can and do exist, hbo is really tugging at every emotion and diving so deep with them in the show, its beautiful and painful and is only gonna make the future journeys of them hurt even more because in some ways they feel even more deeply connected. 

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I love when my worlds collide.

So the other day, I was trying to find out if any of the TLOU fam members watch, you know, Stranger Things maybe? Is it too much to ask? Because I know the Duffers are watching TLOU, they are nerds. They are definitely watching it. So I found a common factor, Barrie Gower, who has worked in both shows. So I was going through all of his ST related posts and jumping with joy to find out that Neil Druckman has liked several ST related posts. But then... I went to his own profile and realized something. I realized that I stalked Barrie Gower for almost an hour only to find out this post. And found out that it was also his display picture.

I was speechless. You know, this is what I call true joy. A 27 year old screaming internally because the creator of one her favourite shows had shared something related to her another favourite shows. Totally normal.

#stranger things #the last of us #neil druckman #the duffer brothers #nerd alert #barrie gower #nerd #tlou #netflix #hbomax #television

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just wanted you to know that you’re a lovely person and i hope you have a great week

Thank you so much! You're a lovelier person for spreading positivity around like this! 🤌🏼

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Fandom Problem 3880: I’m sorry but people who say that celebrities are queerbaiting by acting gay are stupid as hell. Gender nonconformity and just being close to your friends is not something you can gatekeep. You’re just mad that the celebrity is a person and not a doll you can play with.

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I can't do this. I am restless. I am not at peace. My brain is doing its thing, stopping me from moving on in life. From a fictional show and fictional characters. It's not healthy.

#the last of us #tlou #tlou ep 9 #tlou season finale #joel and ellie

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Okay so, if you are reading this, be patient because I am about to pour my heart out because I might have just found out one of my favourite tropes used in The Last of Us!! And I had already noticed that there was something about this scene, but when I compared it to what happened in the game, it just hit me way harder.

So, I was watching this scene in the game, and the Firefly guy who escorts Joel out there in the game, tells him where Ellie is, "Top floor. The far end," before dying as Joel had already shot him twice. It makes sense, because you are playing as Joel and in order to save her, you need to have some information about where you should be going. Right.

But here in the show, the guy never gives him that information. And now it is up to Joel to find out where the hell she is in this huge hospital. Fine. Then in the game, again, as you are playing as Joel, you have to face obstacles, and fight for your own survival first, in order to save Ellie. So there is a sense of dread, which changes vastly in the show. You see Joel, being so confident and just killing anyone who comes in his way. I think the reduced sound of the gunshots and people screaming and the intense music playing depicts what is going on inside his head, which is, nothing. It is blank. Because in the podcast, they have said that Joel can dissociate himself when he gets into a situation like this, and he is calm when everyone around him is losing their minds.

You see a confidence in Joel's face, a determination, that no matter what he is going to save Ellie, his daughter, his new-found purpose. He knows he isn't going to get killed, he has this gut feeling that he would obviously be able to save her. So he kills anyone he sees with a weapon, it does not matter if they are surrendering themselves, because, "God help any motherfucker who stands in our way," right?

So he is going forward, not knowing where she is exactly, and he is killing everyone, absolutely cold-blooded. Now when he finally reaches the floor, without knowing that she is there, he spots the pediatric surgery ward. Sure, he sees that. So that is a good point to guess she might be there. But it is the way this scene is filmed and it is the expression on his face that makes me think that it is one of my favourite tropes??!

He gets in, he sees that one door, and his eyes are fixed on that door. It is one loooong ward, there are so many rooms. He does not even turn his head around to see other places. He sees that door, and he is just walking towards it, like he knows, he knows she is there. He is almost in a trance. He can sense Ellie's presence inside that room. It is like their souls are connected. And it just somehow makes their relationship way deeper than it already was.

Now, I don't know if that was the intention behind it. But the way the information was not shared to him about where she is, and he just went there, he did not struggle to think where she could be, he just kept going, and his eyes were fixed on that door, and he did not look in any other room in that long ward, it just makes me think, that it could be.

My heart cannot handle this. I love this trope. Where a character can just somehow sense another's presence without seeing or hearing them, because they love each other so much.

#the last of us #tlou ep 9 #joel and ellie #joel miller #pedro pascal #tlou season finale #tlou season 1 #hbo #tropes #soulmate trope

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#just two grumpy dads and their adopted daughters 

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This scene always cracks me up because her expressions clearly show she knows what he’s trying to say but she wants to hear him say it

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I know there is a debate about whether Joel was right or wrong in saving Ellie and sabotaging their plan to make the vaccine. I know, greater good and blah blah blah, I get it. But he has already lost his own daughter for the 'greater good' (like they said in the podcast) and that almost made him shoot himself because he saw no purpose. But he lived, and 20 years later he felt really nothing, especially joy and peace, until this random girl was given to him as an assignment whom he had to get to the Fireflies. In their journey he found his lost emotions, feelings back for this girl. Forget all the incidents, just look at the last episode solely. That man, who rarely speaks, is being a chatterbox trying to cheer Ellie up, feels genuinely happy in 20 years to see her giggle finally, and then she goes on to say, that after all of this is over, "I'll follow you wherever you go"????? You think he could give that up? Screw everything!! Any parent would do what he did, I am not a parent yet and even I would do that. I acknowledge that the counter argument exists, but do I support it even a bit? HELL NO.

#the last of us #tlou ep 9 #tlou #joel and ellie

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As if we already didn't know it but Craig Mazin confirmed in the podcast that this is their "I love you" to each other and this scene needs to be here because I actually sobbed at this point. And he also said that all this time Ellie knew what he meant to her, but this is when she realizes what she meant to him.

#the last of us #tlou ep 9 #joel and ellie #joel miller #ellie williams #pedro and bella

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I will never get over this particular interaction.

Well, I’m glad that… that didn’t work out. Me, too.

#joel and ellie