At no time can you accuse “The Last of Us” of being a happy show, and you could not say the same thing about the video games on which the HBO series is based. There are moments when he seems to be the perseverance of the human mind, our ability to heal and rebuild, and moments of joy hidden in the middle of dark times. But more often than not, the greatest ideas are death, sorrow and revenge.
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Joel (Pedro Pascal) embodies these two sides of history well, showing an affectionate side to Ellie (Bella Ramsey) but brutal each time the violence is called. While Joel’s death in “The Last of Us” season 2, episode 2 is heartbreaking, it is also difficult to see it as out of words in a program like this.
In the wake of this sorrow, Ellie confronts Joel’s coat with new sons of history who grow her more and more towards darkness, even if her emerging relationship with Dina (Isabela Merced) offers an optimistic alternative to her quest for revenge. In “The Last of Us” season 2, Episode 5, Ellie retraces Nora (Tati Gabrielle), part of the crew led by Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) who murdered Joel. So far, their confrontation is one of the darkest scenes of the show, and certainly the darkest for Ellie, showing how ready she is ready to push her own brutality to take revenge. Although the television series takes many liberties with source equipment, those who have not played games can be surprised to learn that this particular scene is essentially a recreation of shots of the same moment of “The Last of Us Part II”.
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Ellie torture Nora in the same way in the last part of US, Part II
There are few differences in the configuration of Ellie’s meeting with Nora in the “The Last of Us Part II”, but it is above all the same thing there. She finds Nora in a fortune hospital for the Washington Liberation Front (WLF). Nora prevails over her and fled, causing prosecution. When Ellie faces armed soldiers, she drags Nora to a deserted soil of the building covered with cordyce spores. The soldiers follow with respiratory masks, and Ellie beats them, then hunts a whistling breathing, infected with Nora to a lonely corridor.
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Except for the additional action of the game (hey, he is a third -person shooter), this is essentially what is happening in the show, although the spore floor obtains a little more punch, because it is the first introduction by the show of the airborne cordycers. All previous meetings in HBO adaptation involve bite infections.
In both versions, Nora tries to assert why Joel had to die, entering a little more details in the show (as in the game, some details are always hidden from the player at this stage). Not in phase, Ellie demands the location of Abby, and when Nora refuses to cooperate, she takes a little pipe and begins to beat her until she gets what she wants. The two scenes are staged and lit in the same way, Abby enjoying a crumpled nora in a dark corridor lit only by a low red warning light. It is an intentionally infernal framework for what is undoubtedly the darkest moment of Ellie, and it plays just as (or horribly, depending on your point of view) in the show as in the game.
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How will HBO manage Ellie’s trauma?
In the game, Ellie is immediately traumatized by her choice to brutally torture Nora. This is the moment when his bluff is called – when circumstances require him to prove his own capacity for serious violence, which turns out to be quite high. Ellie returns to Dina a shell of herself, barely concentrated because the thing she has just made the turmoil. We do not see this meeting in “The Last of Us” Episode 4. Instead, the episode goes from the torture scene to a brief Ellie flashback sharing a happy moment with Joel.
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Presumably, this scene will have an impact on the same way on HBO as in the games, although there are still question points concerning the primordial arc of Ellie. There have been big changes to Tommy (Gabriel Luna) in season 2 of “The Last of Us”, which could mean that it will be less a force in the process of ellie towards revenge later in history, as happened in the games. We will probably have to wait for season 3 to see how these events may have a different impact on the series.
