en garde, dickhead

COMPLETELY forgot until just now that they just casually dropped that Moff Gideon escaped in this episode. every single thing that happened in the season 2 finale has now been reversed they did that whole thing to facilitate the Luke cameo with absolutely no consideration for how it might affect the story so now they've spent 3 episodes of a completely different show and 3 episodes of this show undoing all that bc they accidentally resolved all their plot arcs and couldn't figure out how to move forward

[ID: a screenshot of two tags: i am also surprised so many of us are at zero! Thought I was a huge outlier in any population! /end ID].

ignoring how emotionally devastating the episode was I love how once joel accepted he was a Dad again he went from reluctant father figure to full blown dad mode. did not hold back. found ellie’s favorite food and a board game for them to play. took her to the zoo (the giraffe feeding scene). asked her if she was ok in the most gentle way possible. told her stories about sarah. compared her to sarah bc they’re both his daughters. told ellie how proud he was of her / how much he cared for her. opened up. said “we’re going home”. murdered dozens of people for her. brought her on a hike. you know. normal dad stuff