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The elephant in the room when adapting The Last of Us games was the question how you adapt something so controversial. This was an extremely ballsy episode and they did it with so much confidence. This episode is a masterpiece. From tension from the start to the action packed middle chunk of the episode to the sucker punch of emotion at the end, it all works. The performances in this episode were top tier. The motivations of characters are all very well understood. The dialogue between companions is also just extremely fun and well written. They sound like real people talking, not like hollow characters having a conversation to move the plot forward. This episode is so fantastic and I respect the hell out of the showrunners for doing the game so much justice despite knowing the reception was mixed.

Arcane could genuinely be the best TV series ever made. This episode enhances everything about the story to the point where I might have to start rewatching this whole show tomorrow. This episode is a clearly a masterpiece and potentially even peak fiction. It's rare for an ending to be truly great and even more rare for an ending to enhance the IP even half as much as this ending. This could legitimately be the best ending of any TV show of all time and it absolutely solidifies the series as a timeless classic. The $250mil budget was felt here. Every character from Jinx to Ambessa to Jayce to Vi got an extremely satisfying conclusion. I'm going to be thinking about this show for decade, it's rare for a gem like this to exist.

This episode is heartbreaking and absolutely enthralling. There's not a dull moment to this episode in its 40 minute run time. This masterpiece of an episode somehow encapsulated human nature by showing both sides of the coin, both love and destruction, order and chaos, life and death. I don't even think one character stood out above the rest. Somehow Jinx, Vi, Ambessa, Caitlyn, Viktor and Isha were able to have standout moments without any clearly standing above the rest. Arcane's writers make things look easy. The way the plot naturally just escalated in this episode as the characters closed in on one location was very well done. This episode and this show are a masterpiece and the bar has been set very high for the final 3 episodes of this show.