Depart Seattle and go your individual manner if you have not watched season 2, episode 5 of “The Final of Us,” titled “Really feel Her Love.” Spoilers lie forward!
In the newest episode of “The Final of Us,” we be taught much more about Dina, the pivotal character performed by Isabela Merced. Regardless of residing in a full-on zombie apocalypse, Dina tends to search out the darkish humor and lightness in even the worst conditions, marking a stark distinction to the deeply intense Ellie (Bella Ramsey), Dina’s finest good friend turned lover. In “Really feel Her Love,” the second season’s fifth episode, we be taught what occurred to Dina’s total household … and it is horrifying. On the tender age of eight, Dina returned to her household residence to search out {that a} raider (that means a human, not a zombie) slaughtered her mom and sister, so Dina killed him, marking her “first kill.” As Dina says to Ellie, “Would it not have made a distinction if my household had harm his individuals first?” To each of them, the reply does not matter; each Dina and Ellie perceive the innate want for revenge (the 2 of them occur to be searching Kaitlyn Dever’s Abby, who killed Ellie’s father determine Joel, a significant character performed by Pedro Pascal).
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Keep in mind that each Ellie and Dina have been born throughout the cordyceps an infection, so they do not know of a world earlier than contaminated zombies roamed the earth; as we additionally know, “The Final of Us” locations an unlimited concentrate on the horrible issues human beings do to one another whereas they’re additionally combating off these contaminated zombies. As Dina tells Ellie, that is why she’ll assist kill Abby, and Dina delivers all of this info so calmly. In an interview with Elle, Merced mentioned the thought course of behind her line supply.
“What I believed was essential about this scene was that Dina ship her monologue in a nonchalant manner,” Merced mentioned. “It would not be melodramatic. It was very very similar to, ‘I understand how messed-up of a scenario it was, however that is simply the best way issues are.'”
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“I believe Dina enjoying into the concept of ‘good is nice and unhealthy is unhealthy; there is not any grey space; we both search justice or we do not, after which we remorse it the remainder of our lives’ is de facto in line with the remainder of the characters’ method to loss, trauma, and grief,” Merced continued. “I believed it was essential for Dina to determine that she’s not excessive and mighty above the remainder of the characters just because she appears to be the level-headed one in her relationship with Ellie. She wanted to indicate her personal incapability to maneuver on except she seeks ‘justice.'”
As Isabela Merced factors out, Dina is simply as formidable as Ellie, however differently
Isabela Merced continued that prepare of thought by saying that, although there is a distinction between Dina and Ellie, they perceive one another on a primal degree … and as such, they’re capable of hold one another degree. “On prime of that, I believe the scene establishes what a ride-or-die she is for Ellie,” Merced mentioned of the scene the place Dina tells Ellie about her first kill. “Certainly one of my favourite moments in that complete scene is when Bella places her hand to my cheek, and swiftly you see the stress lifted off of me—and Dina comes again. It is virtually like she was getting sucked again into her grief and PTSD, after which swiftly Ellie grounds her. It is the one second the place Ellie does for Dina what usually Dina does for Ellie.”
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Dina is a “new” character within the tv adaptation of “The Final of Us” — she’s pivotal within the Naughty Canine online game “The Final of Us Half II,” although, so avid gamers have been accustomed to her for a very long time — and, for my cash, Merced has performed a genuinely phenomenal job of constructing Dina brick by brick to the purpose the place it type of looks like she was part of the present this complete time. A part of that’s Dina’s admittedly darkish humorousness — which, once more, offers a distinction to Ellie’s depth. The sequence does go to nice lengths, although, to indicate she’s a formidable fighter; like Ellie, she will be able to simply dispatch a room filled with cordyceps zombies, and he or she’s extremely fearless, regardless of a sunnier demeanor. As Merced put it, that is what she genuinely loves about Dina.
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“The cheeriest individuals within the room are sometimes essentially the most underestimated,” Merced mused. “I believe that is what makes Dina so fantastic in my eyes: She’s equally as sturdy and doubtlessly terrifying as Ellie, however she goes about it differently. I believe she performs into who individuals need her to be, whereas Ellie does not care to try this.”
Dina’s shock being pregnant makes her dedication to Ellie — and revenge — that rather more difficult
There may be one massive factor that would cease Dina from seeing Ellie’s quest for revenge by to the tip, although; as we realized within the fourth episode, “Day One,” she’s carrying Jesse’s (Younger Mazino) child after ending their on-again, off-again relationship. Clearly, understanding she’s pregnant adjustments Dina’s complete perspective, notably as a result of there is not any dialogue of not carrying the infant to time period. So what does Isabela Merced take into consideration Dina’s viewpoint — particularly with regards to Ellie’s quest to kill Abby — with that in thoughts?
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“She’s initially terrified, after which I believe she goes by acceptance,” Merced mentioned of Dina’s mindset. “It is also why she’s actually emotional within the music store scene (in episode 4). A variety of that’s the child hormones, but additionally she’s imagining a future with Ellie and what it might seem like. Then she goes by all these near-death experiences, and in realizing her love for Ellie, she understands how a lot… It is like when individuals are like, ‘I did not suppose I needed a child, however then after I met my accomplice, immediately I knew I did not need a child with out them.’ Perhaps the one piece Dina was lacking was that safety from Ellie, that she’s not going to do it alone. And if they will overcome this mission collectively, they will overcome having a child, completely. Elevating a toddler, it’s going to be simple work in comparison with taking down an entire military!”
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Nonetheless, regardless of Dina’s clear love for Ellie — which she expresses verbally for the primary time in “Really feel Her Love” — the data that she’s going to be a mom will undoubtedly begin to have an effect on Dina.
“The Final of Us” airs new episodes on Sundays at 9 P.M. EST on HBO and Max.
