‘The Excellent of Us’: Does Ellie know Joel is lying on the dwell?

By some means, after weeks of navigating monsters, cannibals, and the fixed threat of impending demise from rather great every attitude, Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) got right here out of your entire thing alive. So a overjoyed ending to The Excellent of Us, honest? Time to head on down to that sheep farm and kick aid in Season 2?

Nicely, no longer so like a flash. Our dynamic duo could well also be alive and (principally) in one portion on the stop of Season 1, nonetheless an emotional wedge has been driven between them within the invent of Joel’s lie.

So what precisely did Joel lift out and screech, and — most importantly — does Ellie take into consideration him? Let’s recap.

What happens with Joel and Ellie within the finale?

After at last reaching the Firefly health center that’s been their plot all alongside, Joel and Ellie are impulsively ambushed. Joel wakes to search out Marlene (Merle Dandridge) standing over him with news that Ellie has already gone into surgical draw, as their doctor believes cordyceps has been growing in her mind since starting up. To carry out a treatment for humanity, she’ll possess to die.

Having at last grown to love Ellie love a daughter, though, Joel is no longer about to let that happen. He shoots his strategy by the health center to rescue her, killing every person in his path and then lying to Ellie about what in actuality took self-discipline by telling her that raiders attacked the health center. There are others love her, Joel says, nonetheless the doctors had been unable to search out a treatment.

The topic? As every person knows, Ellie is a pointy child. She clearly detects that one thing about Joel’s narrative is off. So within the final scene of the season, she confronts him without extend.

“Bellow to me,” says Ellie. “Bellow to me that all the pieces you said about the Fireflies is correct.”

“I explain,” responds Joel.

And Ellie’s resolution, which follows a truly long stretch of silence and an extremely appealing-to-be taught facial capabilities?

“OK.”

Does Ellie know Joel is lying?

Ellie’s response to Joel’s narrative is appealing to be taught. When he first tells her his model of occasions she’s lying within the backseat of his automotive, having factual woken up. As he finishes the narrative she rolls over and turns her aid on him, nonetheless it absolutely’s no longer sure if she’s doing that because she’s so upset by the news, or because she doesn’t take into consideration him.

From this point on though she looks withdrawn, and the final scene makes it sure that she’s suspicious of what Joel’s educated her. Her facial capabilities is inscrutable, nonetheless it absolutely’s absolutely no longer thought to be one of uncomplicated acceptance — clearly there’s some form of war going on in her head when Joel swears to her he’s telling the truth.

Fortunately, Bella Ramsey herself has shed some gentle on what Ellie’s thinking in that final scene. Speaking on HBO’s “All the intention by the Episode” video, she confirms that her character is below no conditions sold on Joel’s narrative.

“She knows he’s no longer telling the truth,” Ramsey says. “Nonetheless she can no longer let herself take into consideration it because or no longer it’s too painful and or no longer it’s too upsetting, the postulate that her superb plot in existence hasn’t been fulfilled — that that had been taken far off from her by the actual person that she loves and trusts the most. Or no longer it’s too overwhelming, so she forces herself to take into consideration Joel.”

On this strategy, the resolution to the inquire of of of whether or no longer Ellie knows he’s lying is every sure and no. Deep down, she clearly does. Nonetheless she chooses to take into consideration him in screech to guard herself from further misery. Per chance we are going to glean out extra in Season 2.

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