Our last one Love a good callback, and in the Season 2 finale, it caused heartbreaking connections, from Ellie (Bella Ramsey) to Joel (Pedro Pascal).
The callback comes when Ellie tries to hunt Kaitlyn Dever to her hiding place at the Seattle Aquarium. Instead of finding her goal, she found Abby’s friends, Spencer Lord and Mel (Ariela Barer). To find out where Abby is, she gestures to the nearby Seattle map.
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“You, give me that map,” she told Meyer. “You’re pointing to where Abby is.”
Ellie next spoke to Owen: “Then you have to do it, better fucking game.”
If this strategy sounds familiar, it’s because Joel isn’t once, but twice in Season 1. In episode 6, he first asks an elderly couple (Elaine Miles and Graham Greene) to point out their current location on the map. Later, in episode 8, he pulls out the same trick in a close friend of David’s cronies to see where David takes Ellie.
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What does Joel’s return to map strategy tell us about Ellie?
Bella Ramsey in The Last Us.
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Ellie tried Joel’s map strategy against Owen and Mel, proving how much she learned from Joel together and how her revenge mission made her gradually become Joel, especially in terms of violence. In the Season 2 finale, Ellie also discusses how it feels to hurt Nora (Tati Gabrielle) to understand what she wants. Joel himself is no stranger to torture: his use of map strategy in Season 1, Episode 8 is accompanied by a man who ruthlessly stabs David.
Ramsey discussed Ellie’s similarities to Joel in an interview with Mashable, saying: “Ellie does become Joel in some way and hates if you say to her because she thinks she’s the opposite of him.
To capture this same feeling, Ramsey guides Pascal in these dark scenes.
“I did try it, not really re-watch it [Season 1]just remembering the scenes with whom [Pascal]he is taking this hard, protective stance,” Ramsey said. “I really tried to work with Ellie and think about how she looked up to Joel and how she learned everything she knew from him. ”
Our last one Season 2 is now streaming on HBO Max.
