One of the biggest television hits of the year is The Last of Us. And for good reason. The show starts the loveable Pedro Pascal and the even more loveable Bella Ramsey. The relationship between the two of them, on-screen and off, could not be more wholesome. Watch interviews with them. It almost, but does not ruin their on-screen rough characters. Kind of like when you see that picture of the Fawn from Pan’s Labyrinth in between takes!
The television show streamed every Sunday on HBO Max and is being hailed as one of the greatest video game adaptations. But maybe the people who are saying this never saw the original, live-action Super Mario movie with Dennis Hopper. That thing was a fever dream. People wouldn’t complain about Christopher Pratt being cast as the titular character in the new Mario movie even if they saw the 1990s film or really any of the movies.
Back to The Last of Us. I played a little of The Last of Us and even started up again when I started watching the show. I am not good at that game. I think I am more of a Super Mario person. Back to Mario.
Anyway, here are the things that I didn’t like about the finale:
- The finale should’ve been two parts – The action sequence in the hospital seemed too rushed.
- What did Joel think was going to happen when he brought an immune person to a science center?
- Marlene should have never let two guards take Joel out into the outskirts of town and give him a knife, knowing what he is capable of
- Marlene should have never let two guards escort Joel out of the building on their own, knowing what Joel is capable of
- I do understand how Joel had adrenaline when it came to get Ellie out of the hospital; the same as a mother lifting a car off of her child. However, how did Joel kill every single one of those Fireflies? I know, I know. It’s like watching John Wick and asking, “How exactly did he kill all of those guys with a pencil?” But this isn’t John Wick. How did Joel, a former revolutionary militia member take down all of those other revolutionary militia members? They didn’t split up? One didn’t sneak up behind him? They all were just shooting all willy-nilly. They weren’t taking cover correctly.
- In the garage, Joel was about to take off with Ellie and Marlene stopped him and gave him a speech. Once again, she put her gun down and didn’t think Joel was up to any tricks. She put way too much trust into Joel. And her men.
- Marlene should have locked up Joel until the surgery was over.
- Would Ellie have survived the surgery? Did we know if she would or not?
What is going to happen next season?
- Ellie will eventually find out that Joel was lying to her about the ambush at the hospital and how he had to pull her out of surgery.
- Also, Joel killed Marlene who was pretty much like a mother to her.
- Other people will find out about Ellie. Maybe a Firefly in the hospital radio-ed someone else and let them know about Ellie being immune.
- Joel lied to Ellie saying that there were other immune people. Ellie will find out that this isn’t true, but not until she spends a lot of time looking for these people like her.
- We will meet up with Joel’s brother, sister-in-law, and nephew or niece.
- We will come across more protagonists and more antagonists, obviously, but we won’t be able to tell who is good and who is bad for some time.
- Love interests for the characters? Maybe. It is very, very rare that any television show or movie doesn’t have a love story. And I think that’s because this shows the love story here is different. Joel is like the father that Ellie never had and Ellie is like the daughter that Joel has not had for a long, long time.
- We will find out more about Joel and Ellie’s backgrounds in full flashback episodes.