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Eventually things go awry, of course, and Joel and Ellie find themselves out in the wilderness again.
But before that happens, they take advantage of Jacksons resources to acquire a few new things.
The camera slides briefly past the pamphlet diagrams and then cuts back to Ellie as she examines the cup.
Oh, she says, gently surprised and a little impressed.
She squishes the cup a little, and then folds it as the Diva Cup pamphlet demonstrates.
Gross, she says, smiling.
Its perfectly in keeping with video-game logic without carrying the weight of re-creating a specific, beloved game sequence.
The menstrual cup belongs to TV Ellie alone.
He called his wife What do you use?
How many packages should I get?
and then started considering that same experience in the context ofThe Last of Us.
These are basic items that wed need or would want, he says.
In a postapocalypse, its annoying to have to deal with that and have a shortage of options.
Especially because our co-lead is a 14-year-old girl.
This is part of her life!
Episode sixs menstrual-cup scene is the second time Ellie encounters menstrual products in the postapocalyptic wilderness.
And heres this kid who has no shame attached to it whatsoever.
of other role-playing video games.
How much can you carry?
What items do you really need?
How do you find more bullets or more health packs?
Dealing with the inconvenience of a human body does sometimes go beyond food, bullets, and antibiotics.
The tampons are a fun first salvo, but the menstrual-cup scene is really the pinnacle of this motif.
Its a reusable solution that doesnt require you finding boxes of tampons in Infected-ridden cellars.
But theres very little hand-holding about what the object actually is or does.
We did do one thing, Mazin says.
We enhanced the original paperwork that we had for the cup.
But it goes by very quickly.
Its more for the people whodoknow what it is.
We do this all the time in shows with things like guns, Mazin adds.
People dont know how to load guns, and we dont explain it to them.
Why should we have to explain this?
Acknowledging that makes her and the show just a bit more human.
