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Warning: This text accommodates spoilers for The Final of Us.
The Final of Us followers are counting on their humorousness to course of the depth of episode seven of the hit HBO collection.
A fan took to r/TheLastOfUsHBOSeries subreddit to share a hilarious meme that summed up the absurd circumstances of the episode. Followers reacted to Ellie Williams (Bella Ramsey) experiencing a flashback revealing the tragic occasions surrounding her an infection by the cordyceps virus as her companion Joel Miller (Pedro Pascal) lays on the bottom within the throes of exsanguination.
The episode begins with Ellie attending to the stab wound Joel sustained in episode seven within the basement of an deserted home when he tells her to return to Tommy (Gabriel Luna) and pushes her away. As Ellie goes upstairs, the considered dropping Joel triggers her post-traumatic stress. She experiences a chronic flashback of the occasions main as much as her an infection that lasts a lot of the episode.
Followers couldn’t resist joking concerning the ideas which may have handed by means of Joel’s thoughts whereas Ellie was dissociating from the current.
Others speculated how Joel would have reacted if Ellie selected to divulge heart’s contents to him about her previous whereas he required medical consideration.
One Redditor prompt that whereas it might have taken a lot of the episode to carry viewers on top of things with Ellie’s previous, her flashback would have lasted seconds.
Some followers would have most well-liked the revelation of Ellie’s backstory as micro-flashbacks interspersed with different occasions within the episode. Of their view, this might make her expression of grief much more shifting.
One other Redditor empathized with the restricted choices Ellie had underneath the circumstances.
Nevertheless, one more fan felt it was necessary for the present to take the time for example the occasions of Ellie’s previous to underscore how important Joel is to her.
Certainly, laughter is the shock absorber of life. It’s no marvel that some followers are reacting to a number of the extra suspenseful scenes in The Final of Us by utilizing their funnybone.
The Final of Us airs on Sundays on HBO Max.