Look, I’m glad they let you out the house to watch a movie, and that it had an impact on you, but I’m the head editor for a content writing agency in real life, and I swear, if an article like this crossed my desk it’d go straight to another writer to rewrite.

It’s like everything and nothing man...

How on earth did this deserve an A- grade? How much were you paid?

This. Ellie didn’t consent, even if she did tell Joel she wanted to see it through earlier. Without full knowledge of what that means (ie: her death), she cannot make an informed choice or give consent. And like you, I wasn’t nearly confident enough in Marlene’s theory of the “cure” to sacrifice a child for it. (Plus,…

Does Joel go overboard in reclaiming Ellie: Yes.

A little element of the game that was left out in the show: there were a dozen other dead kids who had been experimented on and they were all killed by the Fireflies. Even in the show, they didn’t seem to bother with MRI’s or testing if the gene could be passed down. It made Joel’s decision a lot more justified.

Every time Ellie and Joel encounter humanity, there was nothing worth saving. Bill wrote it in his letter. Humanity isn’t worth the sacrifice. But some humans are.

I liked Marlene’s speech at the end, although it’s a bit ironic since she didn’t ask Ellie either what she wanted (although she’s not wrong that Ellie would probably go through with it). Marlene misjudges Joel until the very end, to her doom.

There better be some serious consequences in season two (and please, no spoilers in reply, not even a confirmation, which is a spoiler in itself).

I think the idea was that they were more of a threat twenty years ago. There are still infected out there but they are less common now. Now the problem is society is fucked and other than in minor settlements the only source of authority are military dictatorships or revolutionary ones that seem to be more or less the…

There have been so many moments in this series between Joel and Ellie, in their long road to build trust, even love. But that scene between them:

Does he somehow end up the ancestor (or otherwise providing the DNA) to all modern humans? Or is it just a coincidence that his species is basically identical?

So he’s future human and travels back in time somehow? Or he’s contemporaneous to the dinosaurs on Earth from another planet/civilization that is advanced and he happens to be/look human? I can’t get my head around the concept.

David was scheming on that Ellie veal. LOL!

I think it was also fitting how Saul remembers the worst parts of Walt. It's stark contrast to Jesse remembering a largely happy meeting with Walt in the ending of el camino. Saul has good reason to remember to worst of Walter. Jesse had his issues with Walter, but he also had a lot of good left in his memories. 

It was beautiful how even when Walter got past the "time travel isn't scientific" rant, his one thing he wishes he could change was grey matter. That's just who Walter was in the end. A man hung up on one bad business decision decades ago. 

If Kim didn’t seem impressed and thought it was stupid, why did she happily visit him in prison using her old NM bar card which is illegal and would’ve gotten her in trouble herself?

Sepinwall made what I thought was a very interesting point: "Sometimes, when spinoffs bring back characters from the parent series, it’s to remind you of why you liked them in the first place. Both of Walt’s appearances here have instead played up his most insufferable qualities, giving you the worst version of Walter…

Oof

It’s kind of nice that, as it turns out, what is almost certainly our last glimpse of Walter White in this world isn’t the Nazi-killer super-scientist managing to effortlessly outwit his enemies one last time, but the pompous, bitter and frustrated pedant who can’t even let a harmless thought experiment about time…