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- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32550887/
- Platform: PRIME VIDEO
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While the scene was emotionally powerful it happens so fast that you don't get enough time to really absorb the horror of whats going on and thats frustating. Ellie's reaction to realizing she killed a pregnant woman is a shocking one and it's one of the few moments where the show actually slows down enough to let the consequences sink in but then the series decides to turbo up things when Tommy and Jesse finds her out of fkn no where, Ellie in shock and it shows how this quest for revenge is destroying everyone involved, not just the targets.
Ellie tries to negotiate for Tommy's life while admitting she killed Owen and Mel shows how much of an innocent girl she still is, cmon; even this climactic moment feels somewhat hollow because we have barely spent any time with Abby this season, so her anger is justified but doesn't carry the emotional weight it should because we don't know sht about what she have been through or doing between killing Joel and now. The episode ends with that gunshot and cuts to full black screen then resets to show Abby's starting from day one in Seattle, I wonder if they would go with a full reset / flashback episode or season, is season three going to be Abby story?, how much of this would be the result of bad pacing and the series trying to make things up for the audience? the shot with the black screen is suppose to be the cliff hanger but the flashback through me off.
Looking back at this season finale I really feel disappointed by how much potential was wasted due to poor pacing and a rushed story. The Last of Us started with season one as this incredible character development series about survival and human connection, but season 2 feels more like a generic revenge seek thriller that happens to have infected in it, that btw had very little to do after episode 1. Episode 7 had some good moments but just that, isolated moments; like Ellie's breakdown after killing Mel and Owen, or her confession to Dina about Joel killing Abb's father, too much of the episode felt like checking boxes rather than organic character and storytelling development. The production quality is for sure still there and the performances are mostly solid, but you can't put aside and not work on fundamental pacing problems that make everything feel rushed and underdeveloped. I trully hope they fix things up on season 3, it looks like its going to be all about Abby, when they killed Joel I always wonder if Ellie would be enough for the story but now Im starting to realize that it was never ment to have a single main character as to develop multiple ones across seasons. Its here where we are essentially starting all over with a character we barely know or care about, the series is starting to feel like it is following The Walking Dead's path of prioritizing plot mechanics over character development, which is exactly what made that show eventually unwatchable and people forgot about its existance, spin off have been better than the last season although there still that stigma. I really hope the writers and production take some time to remember what made the first season so special because right now The Last of Us feels like it's losing its way, I could only give this episode a 7/10, soon I will do a complete overview post about season 2.
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