I hate the last of us.

[riderz13371]

Wright said:

riderz13371 said:

I enjoyed it. It showed them going back to Tommy's place and setting up camp there. Then it had Ellie confronting Joel on whether or not he had lied to her, and in the end she knew she lied but she still understood why he did it and said "Ok".

She already knews when she wakes up in the car and Joel is so damn nervous. She's confused, but she obviously knows something went wrong, especially when Joel explains to her that for some deus ex machina nothing really happened.

 

The only thing that the forest sequence serves for is to show that Ellie doesn't mind Joel lying to her, which should be obvious at that point given how deeply attached both are.

I disagree. I didn't see that car section as her knowing that Joel is lying. I see it as her being disappointed that they couldn't find a cure. This is why she later asked him in the forest scene if he was telling the truth or not, after she has had some time to think it over. If it had ended with Joel and Ellie driving away it wouldn't have felt like a proper ending. Where would they have ended up? How does Ellie feel about what Joel did? This way with the Forest scene you see they go to Tommy's camp and Ellie comes to terms with Joel lying to her.