A quick look of a woman curiously watching Ellie eat throughout this week’s episode of The Final of Us had followers of the video games excited. And followers of simply the present have been seemingly left a bit of confused as to what all of the fuss is about. In the event you’re right here questioning who the hell this “Dina” the web is yelling about is and whether or not the joy is something greater than hypothesis at this level, we’ve received you coated. Let’s speak about a personality who will seemingly be a giant deal in The Final of Us’ second season.
Was that woman (perhaps) Dina?
After Joel and Ellie arrive in Jackson, they’re handled to a correct meal by Joel’s brother Tommy and his spouse Maria. Whereas they eat, we see a short glimpse of a younger woman watching from afar. Ellie, who’s rightfully off-put by the stranger’s snooping, yells at her from the dinner desk. The woman rapidly leaves, however Maria says she’s “simply curious.” That is all we see of her, however the character’s darkish hair and ponytail have been sufficient to get followers speculating that this might have been Dina, a essential character in The Final of Us Half II.
The woman in query is credited as “staring woman” and is performed by Paolina van Kleef. In accordance with her IMDb profile, van Kleef has appeared in two episodes of The Evening Agent, in addition to the 2018 quick Yasmina.
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Who’s Dina and why is she probably the greatest characters in The Final of Us?
Dina is Ellie’s girlfriend in The Final of Us Half II and is portrayed by Westworld actor Shannon Woodward and modeled by Cascina Caradonna. Due to the sport’s flashback-centric construction, we get a reasonably attention-grabbing view of their relationship, which is first established by way of Ellie’s journal entries earlier than we see them within the varied flashbacks all through the sport.
In The Final of Us Half II, Dina serves as each a companion to Ellie’s revenge quest in Seattle and as animportant foil to her accomplice as an individual who prioritizes her household over Ellie’s insatiable want for revenge. So she’s fairly central to issues past simply being in a relationship with the protagonist.
However is it truly Dina in episode 6?
It’s not 100% clear if this was Dina but, however there’s some foundation that it may very well be her based mostly on the scene in query. In Half II, Dina and Ellie have a dialog about when the latter first arrived on the Jackson settlement. Dina mentions seeing Ellie consuming and stealing meals, to which our hero remarks that she wasn’t used to seeing that a lot meals after rising up in a Boston quarantine zone and touring throughout the nation with Joel. The scene we get within the present and Dina’s description aren’t similar, however they’re shut sufficient that it’s cheap to imagine that is Dina.
Outdoors of the episode itself, showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann spoke concerning the scene on the present’s official podcast and appeared to indicate this may very well be Dina, or on the very least they need us to imagine it may very well be. They cease in need of outright confirming it, nevertheless.
If that is Dina, it’s attention-grabbing to observe the present lay basis for the second season in a means The Final of Us didn’t/couldn’t do for its sequel. The video games really feel fairly properly woven collectively thematically in the best way the primary neatly results in the occasions of the second, however it’s missing something like a attainable cameo for brand new characters that will present up within the second sport.