On HBO’s eighth episode The last of us It adapts one of the darkest chapters of the 2013 video game that inspired it. – Picking up an unspecified period of time after the events of the seventh installment of the series, The last of us Episode 8 is titled when we needfollows Ellie (Bella Ramsey) as she fights to stay alive in a series of interactions with a madman like priest named David (Scott Shepherd).
David, just like in the original We delay, the predatory leader of a group of post-apocalyptic cannibals. Ellie’s scenes with him are some of the most disturbing and psychologically disturbing The last of us Delivered up to this point. His right-hand man, James, is also played, notably, by Troy Baker, the actor who originally portrayed Joel We delay games.
In addition to a fun Easter egg, here are 5 questions we’re dying to know yet The last of us Episode 8.
What would David say to Alec’s family?
in early time when we needDavid tells a grieving mother and daughter that they will have to wait until spring when the ground goes down to bury Alec, the man who killed Joel (Pedro Pascal) at the end of the episode. The last of us EPISODE 6. The brief look David exchanges with James indicates that Alec’s body has been partially dismembered and fed to David’s henchmen when he says this.
Assuming David wasn’t killed by Ellie, it’s worth wondering: What was he planning to tell Alec’s daughter and wife when they wanted to bury him in the spring? How was he going to explain what happened with Alec’s body? Odds are, David didn’t plan on that anymore. Based on how secure he seemed to be in his position of leadership, though, he probably didn’t have to worry so much about interpreting his actions away.
Since when were David and his followers cannibals?
in The last of us In Episode 8, David tells Ellie that his group has resorted to cannibalism as a result of how hard the winter has been for them. How long he, James, and a number of those close to them have been secretly feeding human meat to their fellow survivors is never revealed, though. At first, it appears that Alec’s corpse was the first to be slaughtered.
This idea is dispelled later in the episode, however, when Joel wanders into one of the group’s buildings and discovers several dismembered human corpses hanging from hooks like pieces of meat. That shot alone indicates that David and his inner circle had turned to cannibalism for a fair amount of time before Ellie and Joel entered the picture.
How long has Joel been injured?
when The last of us Episode 8 begins, Joel’s stab wound has been successfully closed by Ellie. However, not only did his wound become infected, but his and Ellie’s food supplies were also wiped out. These two details indicate that The last of us Episode 8 picks up with Ellie and Joel several days, if not a few weeks, after viewers last saw them.
Unfortunately, when we need Never explicitly reveal how much time has passed between them The last of usThe seventh and eighth episodes.
Is this the first time Joel has encountered cannibals?
Joel is understandably horrified when he discovers the human corpses hidden in one of the Silver Lake resort buildings. However, it’s hard to tell if he was amazed at the fact that he wandered into a community of cannibals.
This question will likely never be answered, but it’s interesting to ask, given how much has been seen and done, and whether Joel’s trip across Silver Lake is the first time he’s actually encountered cannibals in the wild. The last of usPost-apocalyptic world.
Will Ellie be able to recover from moving on?
Ellie manages to kill both David and James single-handedly at the end The last of us Episode 8, but not before confronting the full, devious threat David poses to her. As a result, when she stumbles out of the flaming Silver Lake steakhouse at the end of the episode, she seems traumatized by everything she’s been through. As she quickly embraces Joel once she realizes he’s standing in front of her, it’s clear that all that’s left of Ellie’s innocence has been taken away from her by the events of The last of us Episode 8.
With that in mind, will Ellie be okay by the time The last of usThe next first season begins? It appears that she and Joel’s relationship is as strong as ever, but it’s unclear now if Ellie will still be the same living survivor that fans knew and loved when they saw her again.
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