So I decided to watch a TLOU part 2 gameplay and I am NOT OKAY.
HEAVY SPOILERS AHEAD MY DUDES:
Start to just before that *scene*:
Joel telling Tommy about everything while meticulously cleaning a guitar. Almost like it’s a touchstone.
Little Ellie drawing everything as a little exercise in therapy
Joel being such a sweet Papa Bear
That facking cover and his voice breaking and Ellie can’t help but respond and smile I cannot
”It did not suck” Young miss Ellie continuing her little shit era proudly
OK Jessie no need to be this hot AND have a southern accent AND being a good bro AND a queer ally of course no one this perfect will last long
Honestly Dina should’ve just dated both of them
Well then! Watched the weed lab scene at work, like a horny dumbass. This scene is perfect but also I am spoilered to death so it just makes it worse.
“You make me want to walk out into the storm”“Who’s stopping ya?”
Godddang it sapphics quit it! (Hits the ladies with the horny stick)Who even needs foreplay here, really?
Dina has got so much game I do not know how Ellie so much as hesitated.
Jessie being annoyed that the girls were smoking and boning on patrol and for no other reason at all is very much the greenest of flags
The look on Abby’s face when they introduce themselves
Tommy and Joel being nice and trusting towards the very beefy lady who knows how to use a gun is peak character development and also very upsetting that this was their true downfall. Joel from five years before would never. Can’t wait for this to be played by our sweet Pedro.
Joel and Tommy being Dads asking Abby if she’s okay and being so concerned.
Joel and Tommy being led by Abby to (their demise) the hideout.
Honestly fack Abby’s dad. Dude had a bachelor’s degree in Biology and didn't even bother to train anyone else in the very likely case he would die. He deserved that death (thematically only not morally) just for that giant god complex.
“You act like you’ve heared of us” Oh Joely, baby, sweet prince. Sorry about your leg man.
I watched cut clips of this scene in video essays years before but yea shit hits different when you watch it like a movie. And Ellie running around the woods. I didn’t play the game but desperately running to look for him must be a new kind of narrative torture.
Thanks this was brutal. Ellie’s screams man. God Ashley did good here. I felt torn apart along with her. And knowing this is gonna happen was as bad as watching the show’s version of Sarah’s death. I had to take a break after that.
Edit: Continued to watch without really recording any coherent thoughts so everything else will be summarized into an “end of watch” review because I always have such bad vertigo after watching for more than 30 minutes of gameplay.
Also I am highkey into Abby and I now understand why we the queers claimed her she is so gosh darn pretty I hope they find an actor who can embody this vulnerability in a tank body.
Before you go inside the farmhouse to talk to Ellie upstairs, her lil footprints can be found outside the porch!! She was chillin on the chair-swing for a bit!