The Last of Us 1×9 “Look for the Light” Reaction
Today the legends are back reacting to episode 9, the grand finale, of The Last of Us!
Today the team is Stu, Rob and Ross.
Joel has a choice to make…..
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0:00 Intro
3:55 Reaction
23:08 Our Thoughts
39:34 Outro
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Theres a The Last of Us comic that mentions the mom.
The Last of Us S1 Episodes Ranked
1. 1×08: "When We Are in Need"
2. 1×01: "When You're Lost in the Darkness"
3. 1×07: "Left Behind"
4. 1×05: "Endure and Survive"
5. 1×09: "Look for the Light"
6. 1×03: "Long, Long Time"
7. 1×06: "Kin"
8. 1×02: "Infected"
9. 1×04: "Please Hold to My Hand"
Such a poetic moment for Ellie's mom to be played by Ashley Johnson
(sigh) Well, at least you're consistent…
Epic epic epic =D
yes the giraffe was 100% real there is behind the scene footage of them feeding it and blue screen round the broken wall
That Giraffe was actually real, they confirmed it through behind the scenes footage.
Whether what Joel did was right or wrong is debatable, with solid arguments on both sides (Marlene's arguments are considerably less solid, but still have some level of validity)…had Ellie known that the surgery would kill her (she didn't know, as Marlene didn't tell her), AND had she made the informed choice to go through with it knowing it would likely not work, AND had she been able to tell Joel face-to-face that she was freely choosing to do this, then MAYBE he wouldn't have gone full-on Terminator on the Fireflies (still very much a coin-toss if he would've allowed it). But regardless of that ethical debate on informed consent, that doctor deserved the bullet he caught. He was handed the literal golden goose of cordyceps research, a legit immune human being, and instead of running tests that would provide solid data without harming Ellie (like blood tests and drawing cerebral-spinal fluid, which would have the "chemical messengers" and bits of her strain of cordyceps in it), his first go-to instinct is "I wanna cut out her brain and poke it with a stick." Dude was the poster child of an incredibly stupid smart person.
Plus, what they describe isn't a cure…at best it's a chemical camouflage that might act as a vaccine (in the extraordinarily unlikely circumstance that the doctor actually could replicate the "chemical messengers" in a post-apocalyptic world with nearly zero resources AND they aren't somehow linked to Ellie's specific DNA), it's not going to un-FUBAR the world. The infected would still be dangerous, and would still attack people. Y'all joke about replicating the events of Ellie's birth to grow a group of people that are immune, but that actually would have a considerably higher chance of working, and could be done in a more humane way: don't have the mother get bitten, just inject a very minute amount–talking a few cells worth–of cordyceps into the baby immediately after birth. It'd be horrible, and the ethics would be highly debatable even with fully informed parental consent, even given the state of the world, but it'd be more likely to work than the doctor's hare-brained idea.
I do wish they'd left in the spores from the game, since without them there's a pretty gaping plothole regarding cordyceps in the show's explanation. After all, if cordyceps evolved just enough to survive the internal body temp of a human, but not enough to survive in a dog or cat (which is only slightly higher), then how did it survive being baked into bread, biscuits, and pancakes, which are all cooked at several hundred degrees higher than human body temp? With the spores, there was a logical answer (you breathed in the spores when using the staple ingredients like flour and pancake mix), but without them….show falls apart a bit when you think about it.
All that aside, amazing show, looking forward to S2. Glad you guys finally got caught up on it. Thanks for the reactions
Fun Fact that Giraffe was real.
Good reaction. You should do a reaction to the gameplay, I always love watching others play the game. I cannot get to the point they are talking about in TLOU2, I had it spoiled unfortunately and have found myself angry before I reach it and not sure if I want to carry on.
Mando S4 is coming before Dave Filoni's film, but there are rumours which I hope don't ring true that they may have to make it into a film instead due to the writers strike and time. I personally don't want Mando to test the waters on how the Mandoverse will be in the cinema, I'd prefer that to be Dave's film.
Above all things, the actress who plays Ellie's mom takes me back to her role as the new little sister in the last season of Growing Pains. Just strange seeing her as an adult. Weird also knowing that the Fireflies have been watching Ellie and her progress since she was born. I imagine Joel lied to Ellie because no one was alive to prove the truth, but you know that the truth is going to come out in the open eventually. All in all, a really good first season. Kudos to you boys for making a re-watch so much fun. Cheers! P.S. Rob rocks