Monday, March 13, was a bad day, because the first season of The Last of Us on HBO Max was coming to an end, and because its ending was bittersweet. If you have not yet seen the series or have not played the video game, we recommend that you do not continue reading because from here they come spoilers.
Joel, played by Pedro Pascal, finally achieved his goal, that of delivering Ellie, played by Bella Ramsey, to the laboratory of the Fireflies from Salt Lake City to study the girl immune with the aim of obtaining a vaccine against the deadly virus of the cordyceps.
The heartbreaking ending of The Last of Us has a reason
The situation you faced Joel in the last episode of The Last of Us it was really desperate. After so much fighting to get there safely, Ellie she had to die so that the cure could be achieved, and he was not willing to allow the girl he had been caring for all this time to die as his own daughter had already done.
Knowing that this would have gone against Ellie’s will, Joel decided to take her out of the lab, slaughtering all the Firefliesand also had the audacity to lie to his face, telling him that they had not found a cure.
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As stated Peter Pascal In an interview with Empire, Ellie smells that something is not right, she knows it in the depths of her being. When they look at each other and Joel has to confess what really happened, “he has to lie to keep it going.”
“I think Ellie knows”, added Bella Ramsey about her character in the series The Last of Us from HBO Max. “There is a part of her that knows or fears that he is not telling the truth. But she has to believe it (…) because otherwise, I would break your heart“.
