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  1. I saw people observing it elsewhere (especially since it's 2023) so I think it counts as legit. Happy belated LOST Day!
  2. I think in such a world as this, it's important to do the things that make us happy. If you start again at S01E01 I don't think anyone would throw you out of the fandom. However, I do also like parts of S6, even if the whole was a bit muddled. So my advice is, go where your heart takes you.
  3. I was weirdly fine with this precisely because people made that mistake constantly at the time and it was like swimming upstream to try and explain it, including the idea of no Year 0. If I had a nickel for every time I tried anyway...
  4. I think Isabella stepped aside when she felt that she'd always be the third wheel. She had sex with Luke and then the way he describes the experience is by quoting Megan's favorite movie, which she then also quotes to Isabella later on. I think she was so shaken by that, combined with being jostled by Trevor's arrival, that she decided to pull away to protect herself. I freaking knew Lisa was dead, totally called it. Didn't think we'd be confronting that fact already.
  5. Random predictions: 1. Lisa is in fact a former bestie/possibly something more of Isabella's, but she's no longer with us, possibly due to a falling out with Isabella. Either that, or Lisa is actually the girl we know as Isabella (or the persona she gives her diary), and she's a total fraud. (Pat Highsmith on the fake ID leans me this way) 2. Isabella and Luke did hook up at some point during the Megan and Luke relationship, just not the one caught on tape. 3. Megan is actually jealous about Isabella's affections rather than Luke's at least at the beginning. 4. Parker is the person who made the film using her (ex) boyfriend's equipment.
  6. Quite literally hey-o (here all week, try the mushrooms)
  7. Ellie did bite the Pastor when they were dragging her out of the cell, and he screamed and kneed her in the ribs in return before hauling her up onto the table with Minion #1. It was unclear whether she had successfully transmitted her infection to him--my guess is, probably not--but it gave her the moment of confusion she needed to turn the tables.
  8. FWIW, there's a mall in my neck of the woods (not in Boston) that's still operational, and even has an arcade and movie theater attached. No merry-go-round, but there is a little train thing that kids can ride.
  9. I feel like maybe it could be a combination of both. Like, dogs can sense that their owners or people they're used to being around are infected due to familiarity, but the people misinterpret that as a general ability to sense the fungus?
  10. I think his name was Perry. And yeah, they followed the person who got them results. Michael was probably too decent a person to order the acts that needed to be done to overthrow FEDRA. Once he died, he made a perfectly good martyr that the people were willing to avenge, and Kathleen was willing to commit atrocities in his name. That was the impression I got, at least.
  11. During the scene where the boys are under the car, I was briefly worried by what appeared to be an Infected getting to them, but then it seemed like they were both okay. Of course that couldn't be the case. I really loved the rapport that Ellie and Sam had. She could have been such a great big sister to him. Despite ending roughly the same way as Bill and Frank, this hurt a lot more since they were so young.
  12. I am also a bit hesitant, because strictly speaking, I didn't see it that way, but as I was watching...I definitely thought that it could be seen that way. It didn't give me the wiggins, but I can understand if it did for other people. I don't think you're making something out of nothing. But I also think that there's something that we're supposed to find a bit uncomfortable (though more in a father-daughter sense). I don't believe for a second that he's taking this trip purely because Tess asked him to, even though that's part of it. Like you said, Joel is not Ellie's father, but I think he's really having this sense of transference that is not exactly healthy. It's useful, because it makes him more devoted to the cause of getting her where she needs to go, but it's not coming from a great place. He wants a second chance to be a good man, not a bitter middle aged killer with innocent blood on his hands. Problem is, Ellie isn't Sarah. She's her own person and not a replacement goldfish. I do want to give some props to Bella Ramsey's choices during the aftermath of the skirmish with Bryan's group, because I remember seeing comments that she was relatively unfazed by killing the infected guy last episode. Here, she was incredibly torn up about even just wounding Bryan, which makes sense after hearing that he was just some desperate guy trying to help his community. It's one thing to kill someone who, from the looks of things, was more fungus than person by the time she found him. That guy probably would have thanked her if he could. It's another to hurt a person with a name who screams and cries for his mother. I'm guessing the duo at the end were Henry and Sam. I imagine our duo will end up helping them, which will bring them into more direct conflict with Kathleen and crew. Really felt her turmoil especially with the doctor, and I don't think I consider any of the likely resolutions to this situation a "happy ending." Onward and downward, I suppose.
  13. I have to say I'm a little surprised about the Primetimer article about this episode, but I suppose this world takes all kinds. I thought it was beautiful and breathtaking myself. Edit: anyone who hasn't played the game should probably not read it. I myself haven't and managed to scroll past spoilers, but others might not be so lucky.
  14. I've seen it suggested elsewhere that he didn't know exactly where Ellie and Tess were relative to him at that point, so he might've been putting them in danger by doing that old trick. Presumably he'd have done it if they were all together when he needed to reload.
  15. Two other things: 1) the fungal scientist at the beginning did so much with a short scene. When she revealed that it was way too late for them and the only way out was bombs, I was shattered. I assume they didn't take her advice initially because no one ever listens to the scientist at first, though we do find out later that they used this tactic in Boston. 2) the scene where Joel is reloading his gun and the perspective tightens on his face was one of the most tense things I've watched in recent memory. I was thinking "that thing is going to be right next to him by the time he gets a fresh reload" and whew lad, there it was. Really appreciated the delicate movements as he was trying to make no sound putting the spent casings in his pocket while keeping the flashlight on his shoulder.
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