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Ranch rush game4/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The show left out the part where Ellie gave Joel the photograph of him and Sarah, and it’s the same one that Joel had rejected when Tommy tried handing it to him back when the two brothers united. This wasn’t a part of the game, including the dialogue where Joel said it wasn’t time that healed his scar but the bond with Ellie that saved him. He explained how he got the scar that he had talked about all the way back in Episode 3 and added that he was the one who had tried taking his life but couldn’t go through with it in the last moment and ended up with the scar. The duo headed to a temporary medical unit that was also present in the game, and it’s here that we get to learn a secret that Joel had kept to himself all these years. Joel wanted a sheep ranch, and Ellie was fascinated with the moon. She does mention that after their mission is over, she’ll follow him wherever he heads, including the sheep ranch and the moon, as a callback to Episode 6, where they shared their individual dreams. He then proceeds to offer her the choice of returning to Tommy’s and starting a life as father and daughter, although he doesn’t mention the relationship, but Ellie says they need to see their mission through, exactly like the PlayStation exclusive. The following scene, where Joel helps Ellie feed leaves to the giraffe, is taken exactly from the game, along with Ellie’s line, “You can’t deny that view.” It’s a call-back from Episode 2, where the two stood at a building and looked onto the Capitol Building in the distance, and it hints at how Joel’s life has come full circle. Ellie runs off when she spots something, squealing with excitement, and Joel has to follow nervously, in an almost exact remake of the game, until he finds Ellie staring at a giraffe. Inside the building, Joel boosts Ellie up to the higher floor so that she can drop a ladder down for him, similar to the game mechanics of the duo’s operation. While on their way to a building, Ellie recounts the blueprint of their plan just like Joel would, and she knows the plan by heart because it has been their routine throughout the game. This shall be a big part of the second part of the series, where Joel is seen strumming on a guitar and Ellie follows later. We also find a similarity where Joel says he’s going to teach Ellie how to play the guitar once they’re done with the Fireflies. Much like the game, Joel tries cheering her up with light-hearted conversation, and they make their way through a deserted street packed with abandoned cars as they walk through a signboard that announces they’re in Salt Lake City. ![]() In the game, however, she was found looking at a deer emblem on a wall, and her mind trailed off to when she went hunting for one, which led her to the pack of cannibals and David, their leader. When asked by Anna to kill her before she turns, Marlene initially refuses, but in the end kills her friend after making up her mind, foreshadowing how she promised to protect Ellie forever but, in the end, agreed to sacrifice her for the greater good.īack to the present day, Ellie seems dazed and out of touch with the real world as she deals with the traumas she just suffered in Episode 8 and is found sitting on the back of a truck as Joel scours for supplies. ![]() Additionally, the wallpaper under which Anna gives birth to Ellie is that of a tree spreading its branches, so Ellie is the symbol of life and hope she might bring to the world. Interestingly, Ellie is a fan of the band based on the cassettes of A-ha found in her FEDRA-designated room. Marlene arrives to find Anna singing to Ellie “The Sun Always Shines on TV” by A-ha, and the mother leaves the baby the knife, the green jacket she wears later in life, and the name, Ellie. This is probably the reason she’s immune to the virus, but more on that later. She cuts the umbilical cord with the same switchblade that Ellie treasured as one of her most prized possessions, and her blood mader her brain think she’s cordyceps, as Marlene explained later. ![]() The woman named Anna, played by none other than Ashley Johnson, the VA of Ellie from the 2013 Naughty Dog game of the same name, gives birth to Ellie after killing a zombie that bit her in the leg. The finale opens with a flashback that was never a part of the show but had bits and pieces of it in “The Last of Us” comics titled “American Dreams.” The opening shows a heavily pregnant woman run through the forest and reach a house that’s probably a Firefly safe house because of the Firefly logo on the tanker next to the house. ![]()
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