The last of us“The most recent episode has two types of nightmares. “By the valley” Open on Abby’s bad dream (Kaitlyn Dever) to discover her father’s corpse five years ago in a hospital in Salt Lake City. The current version of Abby, hardened but with tearful eyes, pleads to her young me not to enter the operating room where his father’s brain is splashed on the ground, graceful of Joel (Pedro Pascal) who pulled him in the head Final season final. Of course, Abby knows that she entered, and this moment changed her life forever, but she is desperate to delay misery even if it is not reality. And at the end of the hour, in the most cruel of fate, Tlou Pose Ellie (Bella Ramsey) in a living nightmare similar to that of Abby.
If only Ellie had a warning not to enter the lodge where she hoped to find Joel and Dina (Isabela Merced) live and take refuge during a snowstorm. Unfortunately, she enters the house in “Through the Valley” to watch her father brutally include her creation, unable to do something other than to cry in agony so that a bloody Joel gets up. With this, the adaptation of HBO Presents a tragic symmetry between Abby and Ellie at the beginning in a way that video games have definitely did not. The players did not know why, playing like Abby, they were forced to kill TlouThe main character. The change to reveal the background of Abby almost immediately in the show allows a complex central conflict that works better narratively.
Wearing Abby’s problems in the foreground is a punch to the intestine, in particular because of the way he reflects what she has just put Ellie through. Everything Abby wants is to take revenge, assuming that it will help you. Except now, Ellie is in the same position, promising to kill Abby and her cloth team as they leave the premises after having accomplished their mission. (And it is a promise that she is already trying to make The episode of next week.)
Ellie looks at Joel’s latest hayling while Abby leads the golf club broken in his neck, without any idea of the reason why this foreigner even did it. Charges of guilt, the two young women are now tangled in a violent cycle revenge. Their parallel trips as two people who lost a parental figure at the age of 19 give the series a truly captivating angle that the game did not – at least not at the start, when the players did not know Abby’s motivations. She was described as pure and simple bad guy and rightly so. Here, it is more a defective anti-hero. The show explains to us through its monologue to Joel, and His speech facilitates empathy with Abby’s pain, even if we do not like it or cannot forgive its actions.
Moreover, Watching a bloody Ellie decide to leave after Abby immediately after Joel’s death is a reminder of the way in which, in The opening scene of season twoAbby Also begged his friends to help him do the same. The screenwriters of the program develop a complex story with these two characters. Although there is no way to fill the void left by the absence of Joel, Tlou At least prepared the field for a heavy confrontation that challenges the public on which is good and bad. Why is it normal for Ellie to go after Abby, but not for Abby to go to Joel?
At the logistical level too, The last of us part II The players had to wait several hours in the game to understand the connection of Abby with the fireflies and the incitement incident that led to his quest for revenge. If the co-creators of the Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann series followed a similar chronology, then “Viewers should wait very, for a very long time to get this context. He would probably be spoiled for the seasons, and we didn’t want that, ”said Mazin Weekly entertainment. He is right. Imagine waiting until 2027, when season three will probably have its debut, to learn the details of Joel’s death.
Realistically, Mazin and Druckmann (who also co-created the game) had to take notes of the spitting venom in Laura Bailey, the actor who expressed Abby The last of us part II. The fans were unleashed when this match was released in 2020, Sending death threats in Bailey. Hopefully the simpler dramatic approach to the show will lead to a deeper (and healthier) appreciation of this story.
