Spoilers follow The last of us Season two, episode a
The heart of all things The last of usWhether it is the matches or the first season of the HBO adaptation, is the relationship between Joel and Ellie. He was remarkably animated by Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey in season one; The chemistry of the pair was the undeniable highlight of the show. It is therefore a bit of a shock that they only share a few minutes of screen time in the first of the season two “future days” – and that their time together is tense to say the least.
However, all of this is close to the end of the episode. Sifting a little, the show resumes exactly where we stopped, Ellie saying “okay” to Joel’s lies on what happened in the final of season one. This episode saw him decimate the fireflies to save the Immuno Ellie. The fireflies hoped to remedy the Cordyceps infection that devastated the world, but that would have killed him in the process. “Okay,” said that she accepted her story, even if she didn’t quite believe it. Fast advance of five years, and things are tense – so tense that our hardened Joel is in therapy.
We manage to listen to a session with the therapist of Joel, Gail, played by the always wife of Catherine O’hara. I can’t wait to see how it would have been used since Gail was revealed in a first trailer, and she and Joel have a day When they come together. Joel’s relationship with Ellie is apparently what prompted him to meet Gail, and he continues on the distance of their relationship – she barely speaks to him, soup and distant acts, and Gail is not exactly impressed. She notes that Ellie acts like all the other 19 -year -old players towards their father, and also says that it is clear that it goes much more between them.
Gail then opens to Joel in order to make him be honest (and because she takes some drinks) and drops a little bomb in the process: Joel fired her husband Eugene (a character from The last of us part II who we have never met in the game). She says she understood that he had to do it – an involvement but not a confirmation that Eugene had been infected – but cannot forgive her for the way she discovered it and cannot help hate him for what he did. Not the kind of thing you usually hear your therapist, but it is The last of us for you. She then makes Joel admit to tears something To Ellie, but when she asked him if he injured her, he replied, saying that he saved her and then withdraw the hell from his house. The first season has shown Joel a more vulnerable person than his game counterpart, a change that took advantage of him given the drama and the depth of the enlarged program, and I am happy that season two stresses that, in a way that is not conventional for the post-apocalypse world.
We also have an index on discord between Joel and Ellie via Dina, a new character presented as Ellie’s best friend through a conversation she has with Joel. The two get along very well; Joel even calls him “kid”, showing a condition similar to dad similar for Dina that he usually does with Ellie. After a small conversation, she asks him to point a vacuum why Ellie is angry with him, and he responds with more whims of the two to determine what it is to be a father and a girl at her age while asking Dina to keep the therapy sessions, he has a secret – his violin of therapy when he discusses the way he treats everything was just as not to be missed.
But the most crucial scene of this episode in charge of exhibition is the New Year’s Day where Dina and Ellie share a dance, share a kiss and were shouted by the bigot of the drunk city. Just as Ellie is about to treat him as a clicker, Joel intercède, pushes Seth on the ground and asks if she is fine – which gives her a disgusted look and a verbal Smackdown of Ellie, after which he slips in the resolutely un -Joel manner.
Things are decidedly sick between the pair, and although it is an intriguing note to start the story, it is also difficult not to be disappointed with the lack of time together for Pascal and Ramsey. Having them in disagreement is a totally reasonable beat of history – even if she was a normal 19 -year -old, they would have their share of challenges. But the loss of their connection and the lack of interactions between the two have put a moderate mood on everything, something that the writer / director of episode and Showrunner Craig Mazin certainly wanted and will exploit throughout the season.
Mazin also paid tribute to the game in certain ways in this episode, especially with the scene of the party in town. From the start of the first season, I expected to see more scenes from the game almost noted in the show, and my expectations were largely defined throughout, from the start of the first episode of the series. It was clear that the objective of the show is not to reproduce all the emblematic scenes of the game, but to develop it while choosing the right times to deploy certain tributes to the source equipment. The celebration scene is a perfect example, starting with a photo of Ellie’s back while she looks at the cheerfulness in front of her; The following is almost identical to the scene of the Pivot game in the dialog box, design and framing. What East The different timing is different – we get this from the start rather than much later in history as you would find in the game.
Likewise, the episode other The most important scene takes place from the start. After this quick flashback, we are immediately presented in Abby, one of the playable characters of the second game. We learn that she and her friends are survivors of the Firefly massacre in Joel at the Utah hospital, and that Abby in particular wishes to take revenge. Mazin and the Co-showrunner Neil Druckmann have already discussed how they wanted to present Abby and enter his motivations faster in the show than in the game, largely because the players establish a relationship with her thanks to the gameplay. In this case, however, we already know that Abby is after Joel, and the episode ends with his crew reaching Jackson. While “Future Days” focused more on the staging than the action (with the exception of certain fairly tense scenes from Ellie and Dina against some infected), things will clearly push back next week – and not only with Abby, because the show has also teased a major infected threat too. Let’s go these flame throwers for next Sunday.
Infected score: 6/10
One of the main complaints of video game fans during the first season was a relative lack of infected. The showrunners say they have changed things in season two – let’s see if they stick to their word.
Episode 1 was mainly an episode of exhibition without a ton of action, but we saw Ellie and Dina stealthily removing a pair of clicks. But the most exciting song was to see a harasser in action for the first time in the show. He had completely deceived Ellie, even giving her another bite that she had to hide from Dina. Hoping that we will see more of these lianas over the season. And, of course, the threat of spins hiding in the pipe in the middle of Jackson soon promises bigger problems, but we are not there yet. I give this episode one 6 out of 10 – there was not much action, but the revelation of Stalker was intense enough to increase the note of this episode.
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