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HBO’s adaptation of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us reached its climactic finale with Joel and Ellie reaching the hospital in Salt Lake City. Over the nine-episode season, Joel has been escorting Ellie across the country to find this hospital for doctors to study her immunity to Cordyceps and develop a 🔜cure.
The season finale, Look For The Light, is the , clocking in at 43 minutes. The first season of the HBO show covers the entirety of Naughty Dog’s game with the streaming service planning on adapting the second part. We analyze the ending of The Last of Us and break down the impact o💞f Joel’s decision.
The following post contains spoilers for HBO's The Last of Us.
Beginning Of The End
The final episode begins with a flashback showing a young pregnant woman running from an infected. The woman turns out to be Ellie’s mother, as we watch her fight off an infected but get bit in the process. Marlene arrives and the woman gives her Ellie before she turns infected. This scene explains how Marlene and Ellie’s mother knew each other for nearly all their lives and how Marlene knew about Ellie iꦐn the first place.
When the flashback ends, Joel and Ellie are just outside Salt Lake City where the hospital is located. The closer they get to the hospital, the more distant Ellie is becoming. Joel notices this and asks if she’d like to learn how to play guitar one day, foreshadowing her playing the instrume🔯nt in The Last of Us Part ꦰ2.
Joel tells Ellie there might be some risk involved with developing the cure. He suggests they could just go back to Tommy’s settlement and forget the whole thing. But Ellie tells him after all they’ve been through and after everything she’s done that it can’t all be for nothing.
While walking through an army medical camp, Joel tells Ellie how he tried to kill himself. He didn’t see the point of anything anymore after his daughter Sarah died but when he pulled the trigger he flinched and the bullet grazed his head. Ellie says “time heals all wounds I guess” but Joel says it wasn’t time that healed his wounds, implying that it was Ellie that helped him heal over the loss of Sarah.
Protecting Ellie
As Joel and Ellie are reading shitty puns, a stun grenade explodes near them and they’re captured by the Fireflies. Joel wakes up in Saint Mary’s Hospital and Marlene apologizes for Joel getting hit. He asks to see Ellie but Marlene refuses. She explains that the doctor believes the Cordyceps has grown in Ellie since birth and produced some type of chemical message that makes it seem like she’s infected by other Cordyceps. Marlene says Ellie is being prepped for surgery to have it removed so the doctor can multipl🦄y the cells and create a cure.
Joel realizes the operation would kill Ellie because the Cordyceps grows inside the brain. He pleads to her to find someone else but Marlene tells him there is no one else. Marlene orders two of her men to escort Joel back to the highway but he o꧃verpowers them🔯 in the stairwell.
After killing nearly all the Fireflies in the hospital, Joel finds Ellie’s room and orders the doctor to unhook her. The doctor refuses and Joel shoots him in the head. The nurses unhook her and Joel takes her down to the garage to find a vehicle. Marlene stops them and pleads for Joel to reconsider, telling him that he can’t keep her safe forever. She also asks him to think about what Ellie would decide. But Joel kills Marlene and leaveꦫs the hospital with Ellie.
Joel’s Decision
When Ellie wakes up in the car, Joel tells her that there were other people who are immune but the doctors couldn’t make anything work. He says they’ve stopped looking for a cure and the hospital was attacked by raiders. Joel and Ellie make their way back to Tommy’s settlement but Ellie asks Joel to swear to her that everything he♑ said about the hospital is true. Joel commits to his lie and Ellie accepts the an🐓swer.
The impact of Joel’s decision not only impacts Ellie but potentially the rest of humanity. Yes, Joel saved Ellie’s life but condemned everyone else to continue living “in a broken world” as Marlene described it. Joel’s question if Ellie knew she would die is a valid one for Marlene but Marlene is correct in assuming 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ellie would&rsqꦑuo;ve sacrificed herself. Ellie made that clear earlier in the episode when she told Joel everything she went through can't have been for nothing. Joel’s decision was ultimately 🥀a selfish one that will have ripple effects in the next season of The Last of Us.