Return the golf clubs to their bag and leave the lodge if you have not watched “Through the Valley”, the second episode of the second season of “The Last of Us”. Inbound spoilers – Don’t say you were not warned!
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People who played the sequel to 2020 video games “The Last of Us Part II” knew that it was going to happen, but they might not expect it soon. In the second season of the creator of games Neil Druckmann and the adaptation by the veteran of Prestige television, Craig Mazin, of “The Last of Us” on HBO, viewers looked in shock and horror as, at the end of the second episode of the season “Through the Valley,” Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) kills Joel Miller, one of the protagonists Series that played by Pedro Pascal. At the end of the first season of the show, Joel kills the value of an entire rebel fireflies to protect his daughter from substitution Ellie (Bella Ramsey), which is immune to the cordyceps virus … and could be vital to find a remedy, but it should die for this to be possible. Joel decides to assassinate a lot of people, including an unarmed doctor who, we learn in “Through the Valley”, was Abby’s father … and five years later, he pays the ultimate price.
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In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Mazin said that even if anyone knew the video game knew the fate of Joel, he always wanted the scene to be filled with so much suspense and fear that they are wondering if he could survive Abby’s attack. “The public should question everything,” said Mazin before saying that despite Abby’s insistence that she will Kill Joel, she can change her mind. “But what was important here is that when Joel finds himself in this room with Abby and his friends, we are not shocked. We are actually in a state of dread because it happens. We continue to think that there must be a way to go out until the end. “”
It was then that Mazin spoke to one of the saddest – and most crucial moments on the scene. “And it was important, this beautiful moment when Ellie says:” Joel, please, keep yourself “- it’s us,” said Mazin, confirming that this addition was created just for the show. He continued:
“And he tried this movement of the fingers. It’s just heartbreaking. Mark (Mylod, the director of the episode) and I spent so much time talking about where everyone would be. We spent the day on the ground, trying different positions, finding this perfect place of connection and everyone was.
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Joel realizes that he deserves his fate, according to Craig Mazin
Another deeply horrible aspect of the scene of Joel’s death is that he is not only helpless to arrest Abby – she and her friends are more numerous than Dina (Isabela Merced), a resident of Jackson who is both Ellie’s best friend and a new kind of substitution girl to Joel – but he does not appear to want To stop Abby. According to Mazin, Joel’s reluctance and reluctance to Riposter is an important part of the story and the character of Joel.
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“When Abby said to him:” I’m going to kill you, because there are things we all agree, which is simply wrong, “there is this slight moment,” Mazin told interviewer James Hibberd. “Joel knows what he did is a bad guest-w evil. But he did not have the choice either (but the Kill The Fireflies last season), as far as he saw it. He did what he had to do. We already know that he has a certain guilt on this subject of the therapeutic scene in episode one.” (With this last part, Mazin refers to Joel’s scene with Jackson’s resident therapist, Gail, who played by Catherine O’hara; this particularly impactful sequence has actually taken a whole day to film.)
Mazin Also told Hibberd that a big change in “Through the Valley” helps to inform Joel’s mindset-that is to say that, in the game, Joel’s brother, Tommy (Gabriel Luna), is with the gang of Joel and Abby when he dies. The show puts Dina in action in the action, and it simply strengthens that Joel always Protect the people he loves, a category that includes Dina. “This is also one of the reasons why we have changed the game to have Joel in this room with Dina, as opposed to Tommy, who is a great and hard,” said Mazin. “Abby says essentially:” Make a mistake and we will kill her. “And if there is one thing that we know about Joel, it is because he is sort of the ultimate father.
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Craig Mazin thinks that all the connections established in the last of us have made this scene particularly deep
Okay, then Why? Why does it all happen, in addition to the relatively simple explanation (that is to say that Abby loved his father and wants to punish the man who killed him)? For a show that apparently speaks of a zombie apocalypse, “The Last of Us” actually puts a great concentration on the ways in which humans are treated after the collapse of society, and this is a perfect example. Even if Joel saves Abby from an infected horde a little before she kills him brutally, she cannot see beyond her own myopic need for revenge, in a way capable of looking away from the common enemy affecting them both to take revenge.
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“This is how things end,” said Craig Mazin to James Hibberd, putting him frankly before continuing to say that this moment and the sequence in “The Last of Us” is right … What humanity is at the end of the day. He continued:
“We will break all the relationships, all the great loves of our life. The links we have with our parents, our children – they break. And how we treat ourselves is the most specific to human suffering. I thought it was so deep to bring this girl – who had been literally born in the blood, who had been an orphan – who was then given to this guy and to make her a chance and to an experience. This is what it does.
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“The Last of Us”, including this absolutely evisible scene, is in trouble on Max and HBO now – and new episodes fall on Sunday evening at 9 p.m. HNE.
