Warning: Major Spoilers to come for “The Last of Us” season two.
The latest episode of “The Last of Us” by HBO adapted a key moment in the video game franchise that fans feared – and it was even more heartbreaking than expected.
Season two, episode two, entitled “Through the Valley”, showed the main character of the series, Joel (Pedro Pascal), being brutally beaten with a golf club and killed by an Avenger Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) while her daughter of substitution Ellie (Bella Ramsey) was deprived of seeing his resignation.
For fans of the game, which the television series follows closely, the death of Joel was inevitable – it was just a question of knowing when exactly the program would incorporate him. Killing a major character so early in a season is a surprising decision, generally reserved later.
However, in an interview with Variety published on Sunday, the co-creators and showrunners of “Tlou” and the Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann showrunners explained why Joel’s death had to perform in this episode.
The showrunners considered every moment possible, but Druckmann said that, from the point of view of the narration, eliminate the character very early “because it is the incident of incentive for this story”.
Pedro Pascal as Joel in “The Last of Us” season two. Hbo
Joel’s mortality was an imminent cloud of the series, so the showrunners also wanted to spare fans to any other agony.
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“There is a danger of tormenting people,” Mazin told Variety. “This is not what we want to do. If people know it happens, they will start to feel tormented. And people who do not know that it will happen that it happens, because people will talk about the fact that it has not yet manifested.”
“Our instinct was to make sure that when we did, it seemed natural in history and was not a metal-function that we want to upset people,” he added.
The scene is still scrutiny that the game, because Abby becomes fully consumed by his rage about Joel killing his father five years ago, in the final of season one. The sadness of the moment is aggravated by Ellie’s reaction to see her father appearing so helpless.
“Joel is brought back here in a way that it is so heartbreaking,” said Mazin.
The showrunners said it was “important to see the brutality” of Joel’s death because it will have training effects in season two and generate the decisions that the other characters make.
“Therefore, we could not spare the public either, because we need it in this same state of mind,” said Druckmann.
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