If you just come from the last episode of The Last of Us … are my thoughts and prayers with you.
The valley showed that new seasonal budget to his full potential, with a swarm infected furious war in the sanctuary of Jackson, Wyoming. However, you may have been more concerned with another explosive plot. Fans of the original game, The Last of Us Part II, knew that this was coming … But maybe not that fast.
Large spoilers for the last of the American season 2 below
When Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) was introduced to us in episode 1, we knew she was out for revenge, and she got it.
After having accidentally activated a huge group, she was at an abandoned school. She was almost a bit at a harrowing moment when she was barricaded by a hurdle, but she was saved … by the person she and her team had searched for – Joel Miller (Pedro Pascal).
She led him back to the lodge where her team was waiting and together they kept the hunter in an ambush. By the time Ellie (Bella Ramsey) found his location, her father figure was already beaten to a pulp, ready to close.
The final shot of Jesse and Ellie that dragging Joel’s body behind a horse makes his death pretty final.
While Joel also dies in the games, there were important differences that I had picked up for the show. If you are curious, keep reading.
Joel was with Dina, not Tommy
One of the biggest remarkable changes was that Joel patroled with Ellie’s Flame Dina, and not his brother Tommy.
Probably this was the case that the episode could show Tommy who defended an attack on his city so a series that the Game of Thrones’ The Long Night to Shame has placed. And of course, so he could have that one-on-one fight with a bloater.
Otherwise the events went almost the same. When Abby Joel shoots in the leg, Tommy is eliminated in the games by being clocked around the head several times, while Dina is drugged by an injection instead.
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Abby’s Golf Club Killing Blow was different
When I saw the golf clubs resting casually against the wall, I had a pretty good idea what would come. Abby’s wild attack on Joel was largely the same, but there was one important difference at the end.
Instead of delivering a last, crushing hit on the head, she puts him in the neck. I can’t really decide what’s worse. My sister made me aware that this death is mentioned online as a ‘Joel in One’, who – Ouch.
What came after was perhaps the most heartbreaking change.
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Ellie was not eliminated
In the original story, when Abby Joel touches one last time, Ellie struggles to come loose and eventually eliminated by being kicked in the head by Jordan.
Instead, director Mark Mylod decided to keep her awake while Abby and her crew run out of the lodge.
Destroyed and dazed, she crawls to Joel’s body and holds him one last time. Knowing how their earlier interactions had been, makes the end all the more tragic.
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