Leave Seattle and go ahead if you haven’t watched season 2, episode 5 of “The Last of Us”, entitled “Feel Her Love”. The spoilers are in front!
In the latest episode of “The Last of Us”, we learn much more about Dina, the pivotal character played by Isabela Merced. Despite life in a complete zombie apocalypse, Dina tends to find dark humor and lightness in the worst situations, marking a striking contrast with Ellie deeply intense (Bella Ramsey), Dina’s best friend has become in love. In “Feel Her Love”, the fifth episode of the second season, we learn what happened to the whole family of Dina … and it is appalling. At the age of eight, Dina returned to her family home to find that a raid (which means a human, not a zombie) massacred his mother and sister, then Dina killed him, marking her “first murder”. Like Dina said to Ellie, “would it have made a difference if my family had first injured his people?” For both, the answer does not matter; Dina and Ellie both understand the innate need for revenge (both are hunting for Abby de Kaitlyn Dever, who killed Ellie’s father, Joel, a major character played by Pedro Pascal).
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Keep in mind that Ellie and Dina were born during the Cordycepts infection, so that they do not know a world before the infected zombies roam the earth; As we also know, “The Last of Us” focuses a lot on horrible things that human beings do with each other while They also fight these infected zombies. As Dina says to Ellie, which is why she will help kill Abby, and Dina provides all this information So calmly. In an interview SheMerced discussed the reflection process behind its line delivery.
“What I thought I was important in this scene is that Dina delivers her monologue in a nonchalant way,” said Merced. “It would not be melodramatic. It was a lot like:” I know how spoiled it was, but it’s just the way things are. “”
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“I think that Dina playing in the idea that” the good is good and bad is bad; there is no gray zone; we are looking for justice or we do not do it, and then we regret it the rest of our lives “is really consistent with the rest of the approach of the characters of loss, trauma and sorrow,” continued Merced. ” Above the rest of the characters simply because she seems to be the level of level in her relationship with Ellie. She needed to show her own inability to move on unless she seeks “justice”. “
As Isabela Merced underlines, Dina is just as great as it is Ellie, but in a different way
Isabela Merced continued this thought by saying that, although there is a contrast between Dina and Ellie, they understand each other at a primary level … and as such, they are able to stand up. “In addition to that, I think that the scene establishes how it is for Ellie,” Merced said about the scene where Dina talks to Ellie about her first murder. “One of my favorite moments of all this scene is when Bella puts her hand on my cheek, and all of a sudden, you see the tension removed from me – and Dina returns. It is almost as if she put it back in her sorrow and her ptsd, and then suddenly Ellie founds it.”.
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Dina is a “new” character of the television adaptation of “The Last of Us” – she is charged in the video game Naughty Dog “The Last of Us Part II”, however, the players have known her for a long time – and, for my money, Merced has done a real phenomenal job of the issue of the series. Part of this is the sense of humor of Dina – which, once again, contrasts at the intensity of Ellie. However, the series goes a lot of trouble to show that it is a great fighter; Like Ellie, she can easily send a piece full of zombies cordyceses, and she is incredibly intrepid, despite a sunny behavior. As Merced said, that’s what she really likes about Dina.
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“The happiest people in the play are often the most underestimated,” said Merced. “I think that is what makes Dina so wonderful in my eyes: she is just as strong and potentially terrifying as Ellie, but she goes in a different way. I think she plays for whom people want her to be, while Ellie does not care to do it.”
Dina’s surprise pregnancy makes her commitment to Ellie – and revenge – much more complicated
There is a great thing that could prevent Dina from seeing Ellie’s quest for revenge until the end; As we learned in the fourth episode, “day one”, she carries Jesse’s baby (young Mazino) after putting an end to their relationship all the time. Obviously, knowing that she is pregnant changes all of Dina’s perspective, especially because there is no discussion on the fact of not carrying the baby in the long term. So, what does Isabela think from Dina’s point of view – especially with regard to the quest for Ellie to kill Abby – in this spirit?
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“She is initially terrified, then I think she is accepted,” said Merced about Dina’s state of mind. “That’s also why she is really emotional in the music boutique scene [in episode 4]. This is a large part of the hormones for babies, but it also imagines a future with Ellie and what it might look like. Then she goes through all these imminent death experiences, and by making her love for Ellie, she understands how much … It’s like people like: “I didn’t think I wanted a child, but when I met my partner, suddenly I knew I didn’t want a child without them.” Perhaps the only part that Dina lacked was this Ellie safety, that she will not do it alone. And if they can overcome this mission together, they can overcome a baby, absolutely. By raising a child, it will be easy work in relation to the abandonment of an entire army! “”
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However, despite Dina’s clear love for Ellie – which she expresses verbally for the first time in “Feel Her Love” – knowledge that she will be a mother will undoubtedly begin to affect Dina.
“The Last of Us” broadcasts new episodes on Sunday at 9 p.m. HNE on HBO and Max.
