Jesus Christ! 
Damn what a gut punch of a season finale
Ellie gets hammered with the message that revenge is a bad thing in this world as it inevitably drags in everyone close to you into that abyss and she just can't let it go. Her recklessness and at this point insanity costs the lives of Jessie and the lives of Abby's crew including a pregnant woman that she inadvertantly shoots.
It seemed though that it finally got into her head after she failed (out of fear and in panic) to rescue the unborn baby by performing an emergency C-Section when disaster struck and Abby found her.
One thing that especially amazed me in this episode is the extreme high production values - the streets they walk through, all the sets believably look like 30+ years of neglect and the special effects truly convey some larger set pieces. One thing i disliked though is the military precision GPS system everybody seems to have that is able to tell you precisely where everybody is so you can get to them right on time, that somehow pissed me off a little and that feeble attempt at explaining it away didn't make it better. It's a small gripe but still.
Now it looks like we will actually see much of season 3 from Abby's view given the final shot of the season and honestly, as much as i miss Pascal, i am really invested in the story now and thinking about it am curious to see Abby's side of things. It seems like she put the Joel business behind her, eye for an eye and be done with it only to be dragged back by Ellie.
Double Spoiler from here on for future season 3 events:
In a behind the scenes Promo one or two weeks ago i saw them filming or rehearsing a fight scene between Abby and Ellie and i was waiting for it for the entire episode but it didn't come. Did they already film scenes from season 3? I have not heard that they were shooting both seasons together as one. It's a bit of a cop out and old trope to hear a shot and then fade to black supposedly leaving us in the dark to the fate of a main character when we all know she will not be shot. It's likely that Dina fired off the shot or that Abby missed on purpose.
Ellie gets hammered with the message that revenge is a bad thing in this world as it inevitably drags in everyone close to you into that abyss and she just can't let it go. Her recklessness and at this point insanity costs the lives of Jessie and the lives of Abby's crew including a pregnant woman that she inadvertantly shoots.
It seemed though that it finally got into her head after she failed (out of fear and in panic) to rescue the unborn baby by performing an emergency C-Section when disaster struck and Abby found her.
One thing that especially amazed me in this episode is the extreme high production values - the streets they walk through, all the sets believably look like 30+ years of neglect and the special effects truly convey some larger set pieces. One thing i disliked though is the military precision GPS system everybody seems to have that is able to tell you precisely where everybody is so you can get to them right on time, that somehow pissed me off a little and that feeble attempt at explaining it away didn't make it better. It's a small gripe but still.
Now it looks like we will actually see much of season 3 from Abby's view given the final shot of the season and honestly, as much as i miss Pascal, i am really invested in the story now and thinking about it am curious to see Abby's side of things. It seems like she put the Joel business behind her, eye for an eye and be done with it only to be dragged back by Ellie.
Double Spoiler from here on for future season 3 events:
In a behind the scenes Promo one or two weeks ago i saw them filming or rehearsing a fight scene between Abby and Ellie and i was waiting for it for the entire episode but it didn't come. Did they already film scenes from season 3? I have not heard that they were shooting both seasons together as one. It's a bit of a cop out and old trope to hear a shot and then fade to black supposedly leaving us in the dark to the fate of a main character when we all know she will not be shot. It's likely that Dina fired off the shot or that Abby missed on purpose.
