[21.02.23]

A few days after I watched it, it's time for my The Last of Us squee, or the post about how I'm the biggest Ellie stan. :D Or just a list of random things I loved, none of which are actual spoilers for the story. xD

♡ ELLIE IN THE HOTEL is my my number one favorite scene so far. In addition to her being the cutest dork, the flooded hotel is gorgeous! The entire overgrown city is gorgeous.

♡ "The contraaaactor" and "DAAAAAM" and just the way Ellie says things gives me life. :D

♡ Ellie randomly trying to teach herself how to whistle, lol.

♡ Ellie not liking the smell of coffee is extremely relatable. xD

♡ Ellie being 14! It's important to me on a personal level, and also there really aren't many 14-year-old girls in tv shows for adults. The age seems to always be 16 or at least 15.

♡ ELLIE BEING ELLIE, K.

Non-Ellie things I loved:

♡ Joel has such a Sawyer (from Lost) energy that somewhere in the back of my head it always feels like he IS Sawyer, 20 years later in a post-apocalyptic AU. xD Which also means I always want to call him Josh and not Joel because apparently my brain keeps thinking of Josh Holloway. xD

♡ JOEL HAVING PANIC ATTACKS. I knew it was a panic attack (and not a heart attack or anything like that) when he had the first one, and then it was made clear that it's his PTSD, and this is also very important to me on a personal level.

♡ The montage of Bill doing all the things right after he's left alone in the town is so SATISFYING. I'm not a prepper but when I see stuff like that, I wish I were one. xD

♡ Nice to see Tara from True Blood (Rutina Wesley) and Shauna from Yellowjackets (Melanie Lynskey). :D Someone on reddit said that Melanie Lynskey is carving out a niche for herself as the sociopathic soccer mom, and yeah, can't argue with that. xD