It was a real giraffe on a CGI background.

The giraffe is a mix of real and CGI! They filmed the up-close shots with Nabo (the giraffe😁) and the vfx artists blended it with CGI seemlessly! So cool they actually got to feed a giraffe 🦒

Ellie's mom is played by the Voice Actress for Ellie in the game, Ashley Johnson. It was a great surprise to see her in the show!

10:27 The used a real giraffe the background is CGI

Real Giraffe.

It's only a maybe that Ellie could save the world but Ellie is Joel's world. Parents do lie to protect their children.

Real world cordyceps does not grow inside the brain. It infests every other tissue of an ant's body but controls the body by directly signaling muscles while leaving the brain completely alone. I find it unlikely that this mutant cordyceps would cross the blood brain barrier. Real world brain surgery is performed with the patient fully conscious, with only local anesthesia for cutting through the skull, as there are no pain receptors inside the skull. Surgeons need to be able to communicate with the patient to have them guide them to the right spot in the brain while minimizing damage to other brain tissue.

you are very good at making content. It was fun to watch this show with your observations (and predictions)

What a great journey with you covering this series! I look forward to more content and more predictions from you!

Is it morally right to ask a 14 year old girl suffering from guilt to end herself for the sake of the world? It's an interesting question. I always pick save Ellie, especially the world they live in where humans are even worse than the monsters, I say you save the people you love because they are really all you have now.

Ellie's mother plays as Ellie in the game, and in the eighth episode James plays as Joel in the game. Just mentioning it. And your reactions, it was good to see you without sceaming and over reacting... Love it!

Joel confesses that the scar on his face was self-inflicted, he tried to end it all. Joel is the biggest infected of the series, at the moment Sarah died... Joel died with her. Ellie is the cure for all humanity, but at the same time is the only cure that exists to heal the wound that the loss of Sarah left in Joel. Joel is the great selfish of the series, and the love of a father is wonderful but can also be terrifying, because when you love someone that way you would be able to burn the world to protect that person. Joel could have saved humanity and decided not to, the world took everything from Joel, so Joel took everything from the world.

The actress portraying one of the nurses actually played a nurse in the same part of the game and played a major unrelated character in the other game.

6:09 I love you intuition Viki. Very good going.

Also one of the best reactions to this series I’ve seen and I’ve watched almost all of them. Such an amazing channel!

It's interesting with predictions... but why such an urge to predict things. It's so much more enriching and enjoyable to let a story play out before you. But, I hope you're right more than you are wrong in life... even if you lose your joy at pure, happy, surprise (let more giraffes happen in your life - BTW, the giraffe was real) This was a great reaction with really great commentary all twisted up in the ethical dalema the season leaves us in afterward. Thank You!

Can’t wait for season 2💜💜

If you like to predict stuff, I suggest HBOs True Detective season 1

Thank you for sharing your reactions to this, your predictions were an interesting angle that I don't see on other channels, and you showed some impressive intuition throughout. Hoping to see your reactions to season 2 eventually, and looking forward to your other videos in the meantime!

What was the 'right' thing to do? Great question. Bitter taste. Great reaction!

I'm surprised you didn't predict giraffes lol. It is a real giraffe at the zoo

It ends exactly like the game. I love seeing your reaction with the whole show!

I like how uncomfy and conflicted this episode and ending made people feel

The giraffe is real! It's from a zoo in Calgary!

Not sure if you are watching the after show BTS clips or listening to the PodCast but this is a love story wrapped in a zombie narrative. The question you should be asking yourself is how will love hold people together and how that same love will doom the world. Ever since the first game came out people have been arguing the right or wrong of the ending. However the story is not over. Just hold on but keep in mind how love keeps us together as people and how that same love can doom us all. Love is this story and it is a tragedy just like Greek tragedies or Italian operas. The human race is done, this is about how we go out via Joel and Ellie's point of view.

Oh no Viki, there goes my sleep... ;) Okay, instead of a weekly funfact, i just wanna thank you for sharing this experience. It was a heartbreaking, funny, charming time and i look forward to whatever comes next!

1) To everyone's' dismay, there was only one infected in this episode... in a backstory in the beginning of the episode XD but the infected were never really the focus of this series. 2) My prediction for S2 is that it will be a backstory to the second game -- I think this is confirmed by HBO or the writers? -- and that Ellie will finally get the truth out of Joel by the last episode, this would make beautiful narrative sense as this season ends on a big lie, while the next season ends on the big lie being popped.

Joel is my hero.

It felt to me like she became immune from getting the cord cut with the knife covered in infected blood. Stem Cell alteration maybe?

I am sure many will disagree but the way I see it, Joel HAD to lie to Ellie. He felt he had to protect Ellie because if he would have told her the truth then one of 2 things were bound to happen. Either she accepted the lie and forgave Joel making her live with the guilt of withholding the cure to mankind in exchange for her life, or just the opposite, not forgiving Joel for what he did, breaking off their father, daughter relationship, and possibly losing another daughter as Ellie would try to return to Salt Lake City and sacrifice her life for the mere chance that the cure might be successful. Joel couldn't allow that to happen. In his mind he was protecting her from taking that chance. From again losing the one person that meant so much to him. Yes, Joel ultimately sacrificed himself for the sinns he committed, but at least he and Ellie got a chance to live those 4 to 5 years together in relative piece and enjoy a little happiness together. As a father that has lost my first child... I would have done the same!

He failed all his mission parameters. He got Tess killed. He did not save his brother. He did not hand Ellie off to the Fireflies. He evern lost Ellie’s trust

Actually Ellie kinda knows that he is lying and she is smart. She has this bullshit detector very strong on Joel. But she suspects that he killed everyone and get her outta there but not the details. She forced herself to believe for loving him but I think she did not believe. And Marlene was not wrong at all, she even gave Joel a chance to survive cause she knew he was gonna do something. Just by her look when he said "I do". So in her eyes she kinda agreed with Joel and that is why she didn't even guarded him with more Fireflies. If I was a father I would do it all over again and again and again. I would KILL the whole fucking world for my child. But if I was someone who just wanted a world without brothers killing their selves and no more child dying in front of their parents or a loved one left behind for the infected... if I was someone like Ellie I would never forgive Joel. At least not in a long time. I get the two of them and it is hard but pointless to debate haha because in the end I dont even think Ellie would have a say if they asked her. Would you accept a no for an answer when you could possibly CURE the entire world from this nightmare that stayed like this for 20 years?? Being a child with doctors and lots of fireflies that probably did a lot to survive too. Everyone has a family. Marlene telling Ellie about her dying wouldn't make any difference at all, but she would give her life for humanity for sure. So its pointless but fascinating at the same time for debate. Most people dont think on Ellie's side of that. Season 2 will be torture and I will LOVE IT! Hahaha Also Joel was just walking in the end because he KNEW that what he's just done was really fucked up. He was dissociating because of every trauma he's had in his life before...

I am glad that the show explained why elli is imun. There was no explanation in the game and that always bothered me.

Exact same ending as the game, music and all.

I, for one, don't believe for a minute that you are predicting these things. No one ever gets 20 predictions in a row right.

Nawwwww you had to of put your predictions in after you watched there’s no wayyyy you literally predicted the entire episode practically 😂 Jk I’m just shocked

This is soooo creepy (I already know). I'd like to know you better, in a personal way, weather becomes a friendship or goes further or nowhere. Looks bad to even try trusting someone like I ask you to. I liked what I saw about you in the last of us reactions, intelligence, empathy, kindness. It's stupid from my part to even think about it, looks desperate as well. I don't know even if you're still looking for someone or even interested in some way. And there are some crazy stories about how people end up knowing each other. Just hope you read it. I wanna know what you think first. But if you'd like just give me a chance, just a try... Sounds crazy as F. I'm hearing myself. And just one more thing, in case you accept. I know you already exposed yourself in public with this channel, in some way. So you're in disadvantage because you don't know anything about me, could be a psycho XD (I am) And I don't want to post any personal contact or social media in this comment, maybe neither you. So, I'll suggest an anonymous mail now, and from there I can send you a telephone number. Tomorrow you'll wake up and say, what's this wirdo tinder thing this crazy guy just did? Ok, I hope you don't ban me for this crazy comment from your channel. I love your reactions, still didn't watch your House of the dragon reactions. Those will be next. Have a nice day, despite the creepy feelings I could have given you. Bye