Warning. Spoilers for The Final of Us Season 2. The Final of Us Season 2 premiere left followers with loads of questions because the HBO present returned to Jackson, Wyoming, after a five-year time leap, to search out Joel and Ellie’s relationship very a lot modified from what we’d final seen in Season 1. In actual fact, the primary episode confirmed an Ellie who’s barely speaking to Joel, and one who a number of characters comment is “offended” at Joel, together with Ellie’s greatest good friend Dina and Joel’s therapist Gail.
However why precisely is Ellie offended? The primary episode doesn’t give us a concrete cause, however the context clues from what occurred on the finish of Season 1 and The Final of Us 2 sport present us with a solution in that regard, and it’s a heartbreaking one, significantly contemplating what we all know is coming for Joel—doubtless sooner fairly than later.
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Right here’s what we learn about why Ellie is mad at Joel and the way that’s prone to play out, contemplating what’s coming for each of them within the subsequent few episodes of The Final of Us.
Why is Ellie mad at Joel in The Final of Us Season 2?
The Final of Us Season 1 ends in a bizarre place for Joel and Ellie. Ellie is sedated as Joel massacres the Fireflies to avoid wasting her, and when she wakes up, Joel lies to her and tells her that the hospital was attacked by contaminated, and he barely simply obtained her out. Nevertheless, Ellie desires to consider Joel, so she does. Viewers, nonetheless, know the reality. Ellie was speculated to die by the hands of the Fireflies, all within the identify of searching for a doable treatment.
When Joel discovered that the Fireflies weren’t even positive they might get a treatment, and that making an attempt would kill Ellie, he determined Ellie’s loss of life was too excessive a value to pay. That’s when he murdered the Fireflies, and the physician who was speculated to function on Ellie, who seems to be Abby’s father. Afterwards, he takes Ellie again to Jackson and by no means tells her about it.
Quick ahead 5 years, and although the present doesn’t explicitly inform it, it’s implied that Ellie has someway discovered concerning the secret Joel is conserving. In The Final of Us 2 sport, we uncover in a flashback that Ellie returned to the Salt Lake Metropolis hospital and uncovered a recording of what occurred. She then confronts Joel about it, and he confirms the reality.
Whether or not the present may have Ellie discover out the identical means or have Joel confess the reality to her, because it appears unlikely that Ellie may have ever made it to Salt Lake Metropolis on her personal, stays to be seen. However contemplating what occurred within the sport, it’s protected to imagine that by the point Season 2 of The Final of Us picks up, Ellie already is aware of that Joel sacrificed a complete workforce of Fireflies, and certain the world, simply to avoid wasting her. Contemplating how critically Ellie took her position as a doable savior of humanity because of her immunity, this have to be weighing on her.
Ellie felt like her immunity gave her a function, and Joel, as a result of he cared an excessive amount of about her to let her go, took that function away from Ellie by saving her. It’s a messed-up state of affairs as a result of he acted out of affection, and but he robbed Ellie of the factor that had outlined her. So, can Ellie forgive him? Might she have? Maybe if she had extra time. Within the sport, she by no means absolutely forgives him, although she does inform him she want to strive. Besides they by no means obtained the time for that, as everyone knows what’s coming for Joel within the type of Abby. And that’s the true tragedy of this.