The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 5 REACTION
Added 2025-05-14 06:54:44 +0000 UTCComments
My assumption is she realized after the stalker moment that this could cause them to lose their lives and changes her thoughts on it enough. As for the "after Ellie tortures Nora" scene, it could've still showed up in the next episode, so I don't get why you'd mention it...
Kiera
2025-05-20 22:20:53 +0000 UTCI’m guessing that’s the Pearl Jam song that Joel songs to Ellie as stated in other comment. I love that detail, wonder if they will reference it in a flash back
Lenny
2025-05-14 18:22:25 +0000 UTCIn the theater, Ellie starts singing the lyrics to "Future Days" by Pearl Jam. The end credits is also a Pearl Jam song - "Future Tense" - so it's Edie Vedder singing. "Future Days" came out AFTER the outbreak day, so it theoretically can't exist - but the showrunners thought it was important. Ellie is clearly a Seattle band fan - she was blasting Nirvana in her garage apt and now singing Pearl Jam. The actual theater they are shooting in is one in the Vancouver area, in-game & show it is the "Pinnacle" - but it's based on the real Paramount theater in Seattle, a theater many of the grunge bands played. I really wish they'd done more episodes, but this show has gotta be crazy expensive to shoot & you can have big set-piece scenes like the hoard attacking Jackson OR more episodes - not both sadly.
Michael M
2025-05-14 18:10:11 +0000 UTCI haven’t played the second game, but I’ve seen a lot of bits and pieces. To answer your question, I do think it’s heavily implied that the infected people aren’t fully dead and are at least a little conscious of their situation, but never confirmed fully. A lot of the infected in the second game mumble and cry and sound like they’re trying to communicate or they’re in pain with no control over their bodies. But again, I don’t think its ever fully answered.
Ashton Wizard
2025-05-14 17:26:15 +0000 UTCI loved this episode, but they’re shifting Dina in a way I’m not totally sure about (I’ll withhold judgement until the end of season 3, I know they’re not done yet). I’m perfectly ok with deviations from the source material if they serve the narrative, but a big piece of TLoU is how cycles of violence keep us stuck and slowly erode our humanity. As the audience, we’re meant (hopefully) to become more and more uncomfortable with Ellie’s darkness, and that’s reflected directly by Dina. Game Dina acted as more of a foil for Ellie. She’s still ride-or-die supportive, but you see her discomfort and you start to feel more and more heartsick for both of them: Ellie for losing everything good and light in her life to hatred, Dina for loving her and slowly losing the person she loves to a darkness that crowds out anything else. If Dina is just as vengeance-bound as Ellie, we lose some of that. One of my favorite moments from the game is a cutscene directly after Ellie tortures Nora, where she’s horrified by what she’s done. I’d love to see you react to that in the livestream if you have the chance. It doesn’t spoil anything content-wise, it’s just a beautiful, heartbreakingly tender human moment between the two of them, and I’m worried we’re going to lose it either for time or because it doesn’t make as much narrative sense with how they’re laying things out.
Saj
2025-05-14 17:19:54 +0000 UTCPeople like to highlight all the ways in which the plot differs slightly from the games, but really all the important story beats have been there 1 to 1. With ONE big exception, and that is that by the end of this episode we already had a few flashbacks with Ellie that reveal things the show writers chose to withhold still. Which is surprising given they seem to otherwise stick to the unorthodox, somewhat controversial, but in my opinion genius structure of the game.
Ericsson
2025-05-14 14:19:33 +0000 UTCWhat struck me the most was that I couldn’t stop thinking about Abby while Dina was telling her story. It’s the same side of the coin — both had a 'stranger' in their home. It’s the cycle of violence all over again.
Carol Grein Ericson
2025-05-14 11:52:43 +0000 UTCah okay, i was trying to make sense of it as a standalone piece, but that would make sense if its a game easter egg or we will see the flashback.
Lenny
2025-05-14 10:42:50 +0000 UTCIn the game, at the start of TLoU 2, Joel sings a song to Ellie, wich says "If i ever were to lose you, i'd surely lose myself". So, when she sings it, it might be a reference to the game, or maybe that in a flashback we'll see Joel singing it to her.
Fuliay
2025-05-14 10:22:10 +0000 UTCYeah it has to be. And then that will leave one episode left in the series which im guessing will be a cliffhanger relating to Abby for season 3.
Lenny
2025-05-14 09:31:39 +0000 UTCFlashback episode incoming!!
Mir
2025-05-14 09:26:12 +0000 UTCOnce they become infected and they die with that infection, the body will start to disperse the spores. This mostly happens in enclosed spaces, At least that’s how it worked in the game, in the show they switched the spores out for the infected being able to sense you if you step on the fungus. Now they are finally introducing the spores to the show too!
Mir
2025-05-14 08:38:00 +0000 UTC
