The episode is just as heartwarming and heartbreaking as the extra content, the majority of it playing out inside a Boston-area mall with both Ellie and Riley. Episode 7 Left behind Photo: Liane Hentscher/HBOĮpisode 7 is pulled right from The Last of Us Part 1’s Left Behind downloadable content and it plays out just like the extra content does - the HBO episode is even named after the DLC. Here, Joel only sees how much trauma she’s gone through, positioning him (just before the final episode of the season) as much more clearly the father figure she needs to protect her in this world. In the video game, so much of Joel and Ellie’s bond comes from the actually playing the game, with Ellie being just as violent as Joel out of necessity. The result is the same - Joel comforts Ellie like she’s his daughter and calls her “baby girl” - but the small change feels telling. His game counterpart is actually the one who pulls Ellie off of David while she’s still traumatized and hacking. In the show, however, Joel shows up in the aftermath. Both scenes have Ellie violently stabbing David and splattering blood everywhere, and Ellie at first shrugging Joel off, saying “Don’t you fucking touch me!” when she’s not sure who came up behind her. I believe him.” An emotional reunionĮllie and Joel reunite at the end of the cannibal chapter in both the game and the show. The torture scene is more or less one to one between the game and the show: When Joel goes to the other guy, he delivers the killer line: “It’s OK. But the game used it first in the cannibal chapter. It’s a tool The Last of Us utilized in episode 6 with the incredible grumpy couple they meet in the opening. He tells one of the cult members to mark the resort’s location on the map, and tells him it better be the same as his friend’s. When Joel does come to, he goes on a rampage, killing members of David’s flock and torturing them for information on Ellie’s whereabouts. The Last of Us’ Troy Baker tells us how to make your death scene count “Mark it on the map” Oh hey, it’s Joel from the games Photo: Liane Hentscher/HBOĮpisode 8 features another star-studded cameo from game: Troy Baker, who plays cult disciple James in the show and voices Joel in the games. And it being a video game, Ellie and David fight off some infected together, including a clicker. There’s a few differences: It’s unclear if David actually does have a group of women and children in the game like he purports. Even David’s banner has been faithfully re-created for the show. Much of David and Ellie’s dialogue is used verbatim. She runs into Todds Steakhouse (though in the game it’s “Todd’s”) trying to get away, where David finds her and they ultimately fight while the place burns. David and James try to kill her only for her to pretend to infect them and then kill James. Ellie gets captured and breaks David’s finger when he tries to come on to her. They sit around the fire after dragging the deer in, and he gets creepy talking about how “everything happens for a reason” during this “especially cruel” winter.Īs far as Last of Us adaptations go, episode 8 is one of the more consistent ones. Episode 8 Meeting the cannibals Photo: Liane Hentscher/HBOĮllie meets David (Scott Shepherd) and James (Troy Baker) in nearly the same way she does in the games: They’ve found the deer she’s hunted, they ask if they can share the meat since they have a lot of people to feed, and David sends James off to get some antibiotics for a trade. The Last of Us Part 1 felt like it so badly wanted to be a movie or show, and now the TV show is switching that up - at least in one way. And so it makes sense that HBO’s The Last of Us would do the same, to make subtle (and not-so-subtle) nods to all the The Last of Us-heads out there. Video games are known for their Easter eggs, the small and obscure references hidden as little surprises in the game. For dedicated fans of the game, the appeal of The Last of Us is not necessarily in being surprised by twists and turns of the story rather, it’s to see the franchise in a new light, picking out the little details that point back to the original media. HBO’s The Last of Us is a way to revisit the iconic and beloved video game of the same name - to revel in the ways it’s both unchanged and entirely different.
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