Like a fable, the journey of Joel and Ellie gives way to another tale, that of Bill and another stranger. The two have escaped a quarantine zone (QZ) and are now on their way to see Bill, a man who because he has long prepared for any global threat to humanity (he calls himself a “survivalist”) is now living alone in a small town barricaded against the world of the infected. ![]() Joel needs to bring Ellie to the Firefly, a rebel group that has been formed during the pandemic, to show them this human that seems to possess immunity to the said fungus. This young girl has been discovered as bearing on her arm the marks of someone infected by the fungus that has nearly destroyed the entire world and remains to threaten the annihilation of the human race. In musicals, some songs are showstoppers in a series, what do we call an episode that “stops” the show?Ī bit of context is needed: rebounding from a great loss (I am trying to avoid falling into spoiler traps) in the previous episode, Joel (Pedro Pascal) is continuing with his journey, bringing along with him Ellie (Bella Ramsey). Or when we forget that next to our gods, there is another almighty around us-the ecology tampered, the environment not only disregarded but taken for granted. ![]() ![]() No one can disagree, however, that this must be one of the tenderest stories ever placed within a series that is meant to be about the hopelessness in humans when they forget how nature can be forbidding when it goes berserk. People may quibble as to how this episode makes sense when placed against the other episodes marked by violence, suspense/surprise, and horror.
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