The article below contains spoilers In the last season 2, episode 6.
Season 2 The Last of Us has so far presented events in chronological order, a departure from recurrent declines of the game to non -linearity. This means that there are several vital flashbacks that he missed – favorite fans, such as Ellie’s birthday at the Wyoming and Joel Museum, sing future days. Fortunately, they were not sent to the cutting floor: we got a whole mass in the sixth episode, grouped for an hour to the past of Ellie.
To this episode, three key retrospective sequences from the original game have been adapted. Here we compared them with the original source material, analyzing what has changed and what remained the same. Both versions can be seen in the film above or read below for our written explanations.
Prologue
The sixth episode takes us a few years to one of Ellie’s birthday. Now, living in Jackson, he is treated on a birthday cake and a gift of Joel: a musical instrument that some people call Gee-Tar.
This is an adaptation of the second stage of the last part of the US, so it comes much later in history than in the game. The framing of the stage was significantly changed, because in the game it was not Ellie’s birthday, but rather a random tardy night. After talking to Tommy, about what he did at the end of the first game, Joel visits Ellie to bring her guitar. Changing the framing means that the environment is much darker and more gloomy in the game, but otherwise the events of this scene are largely identical.
We see the future days of Joel Pearl Jam in both versions of the stage, and both Troy Baker and Pedro Pascal perform a song in a similar way. In the series Ellie calls Joel to play, while in the game Joel offers. The ellie version of the series is more animated when it listens, while the version of the game is more restrained and stoic. But the differences are miniature; It’s very clearly the same sequence. Both versions of the song end when Ellie said “Well, it wasn’t sucking.”
In the game Joel then gives Ellie a guitar and promises that he will teach her how to play. In the game, the gift is already obvious; After all, it’s Ellie’s birthday.
Birthday present
Originally, it takes place at the end of Seattle Day Day in the game, a birthday retrospective, which occupies the middle of this episode, is a favorite of fans. He sees Joel taking Ellie to the Wyoming Museum of Science and History for his birthday, where he has a close meeting with T-Rex and sows in the outside space (in a sense). Of all the recreated flashbacks in this episode, a birthday present is repeated the most with love. It’s almost 1: 1 the clone of what we played in the game. I regret that they did not make faces pulling in the mirror.
The stage begins outside, and Ellie discovered the overgrown statue of Tyrannosaurus Rex and climbed his head. Dialogue here is almost on the line as in the game, and clothing and backpacks used by both Joel and Ellie are very close.
The stage jumps a bit before the game to take Joel and Ellie to the Museum Space Exhibition, which opens in a perfect recreation in the Orrey room in the game. This mechanical model of the solar system works exactly as in the game, with sunlight lighting and planets moving through their orbit when Ellie turns the crank.
Of course, this is the next room in which vital things happen. There is a great recreation of the overgrown pendulum cockpit from the game. Ellie acquires a helmet in a slightly different way – in the game he simply lifts it from a show in which he breaks the glass cabinet at the show to get it – but both versions notice that the helmet smells like “like space and dust.”
Inside the pendulum, Joel gives Ellie a tape containing a reference recording. He does it exactly with the same dialogue: “This is something that made a powerful effort to find.” Then the stage turns into almost identical recreation of “premiere”, and the camera focuses on Ellie’s face when the lighting repeats the space mission. The only real difference is that the game camera is blocked directly on Ellie’s face for the full duration of the sequence, the program sometimes uses the side angle to show the ferry window and brilliant airy.
Epilogue
The final sequence of this episode reproduces the Epilog Last of Us Part 2, so it arrives much earlier in the program than in the game. Retrospection at the night of Kiss Ellie with a subsequent attack of Dina and Joel at Seth, this scene sees Joel and Ellie Hash their problems and finally a kind of solution occurred. In the game it is a powerful end point – the disclosure that Ellie and Joel did not go out of a bad note. It is compelling that this has led to an earlier moment of history, in which it now resembles this farewell to Joel Season 2.
Despite the transfer, the stage remains largely the same. Ellie arrives at Joel’s porch to find him drinking coffee. Dialogue here is practically identical to the game scenario, and Joel explains that he is “a bit embarrassed” about what he exchanged for coffee. The duo continues to discuss the same topics as in the game; Ellie’s complaints about Joel’s behavior during the dance, Joel asks Ellie about Dina’s intentions. All this leads to a real topic: what Joel did at the end of the first match/season.
Although the script is essentially similar in this part of the conversation, the heroes are particularly more concerned in the series. The tone of the game has always been very subtle, her very restrained and stoic characters. There are tears and broken voices in the series on both sides. When Joel explains that if he receives a chance, he would make the same decision, he would expand these thoughts in the series, saying that Ellie will never understand the way he loves her. He finishes, saying that he hopes he will do better than he if he ever had her own child.
Both in the game and the program, Ellie finishes their conversation, saying that he can never forgive Joel, but she would like to try. Then the scene crosses Black in the series, but there is a little more in the game, because Joel replies that “yes”. It is a line that actually makes the whole sequence seem a bit more uplifting – hope that everything can return to a “normal” or something reminiscent.
To get more from the last of us, check our review of the season -free season and our review of the sixth episode filled with a spoiler.
Matt Purslow is a senior feature editor.
