winterswake: Dina supported Ellie every step of the way, but now she’s prioritizing the baby o
winterswake: Dina supported Ellie every step of the way, but now she’s prioritizing the baby over this journey. Which in fact is what Joel would do. Joel would put protection of the people close to him over this mission. What Tommy was trying to tell Ellie in the very beginning is “Joel wouldn’t do this.” For that scene we had a line we end up cutting where Tommy talked about how Joel never tried to find that soldier that ordered Sarah’s death. “He was never about that. That never crossed his mind, and now you’re trying to do this thing that he would never do.”— Neil Druckmann The arc for Tommy is one of the more interesting pivots to me. In the beginning he represents Joel. We have this line of dialogue after Joel dies where he says to Ellie, something to the effect of — Ellie says, “Joel would be halfway to Seattle by now,” and Tommy said to her, “Joel didn’t even go after the soldiers who killed Sarah. He would stay and protect the town.” He’s only going after these kids to try and get to them before Ellie does, because he knows Ellie is this unstoppable train, and this is the best thing he thinks he can do to try and protect her. — Halley Gross -- source link