The last of us is separated from the band’s aid

If you have played both Another of us Games and watching with the show, there is a very strong opportunity because you were waiting to learn how the HBO series treated a very special moment – and you wonder if that moment has been changed at all for TV. Well, it didn’t take a long time to find out.

The second episode of season 2, and Another of usCreators were keen to torn the bandage directly. Not only did not relieve things, but made things more intense, with the use of this moment as an opportunity to expand this world after the end of the world.

Obviously, there will be spoilers to follow Another of usWhich covers both the second match and the show through episode 2 of the second season. To ensure that you do not see this pivotal spoiler, here is another picture of Pedro Pascal like Joel Miller in the show. Don’t go beyond it if you do not want to spoil a great development.

Well, yes, yes, Which – which It happened. Incitement incident in Another of us“The second chapter, which sends Eli in an endless endeavor and skeptical in revenge, is the death of Joel at the hands of (and the golf club, and the rifle) in Abe. Another of us, the second part.

This brutality has not been reduced to HBO view. In fact, it seems more severe in direct work, especially when Joel is played by a magical man like Pascal. Jobs, the scene plays largely as it did in The last part of the secondAs the moments lead to it. There are some small changes, such as how to associate characters when things drop, but the result is the same. This is all about that it stimulates alcohol, full of blood, screaming, and tears.

What the show adds, though, is a completely new story, a story that has been able to raise the density to an interesting new degree. While Joel is kidnapped and tortured, and a huge snowfield disappears, the width offers other wrinkles: a completely giant group of injured people who descend to Jackson, the relatively safe city where Joel and Eli lived.

He adds a new layer of despair until the moment, as – before he realizes that he was excluded in a trap – Joel is uniquely focused on the race to return and help his community. In fact, one of the reasons that make him well with a stranger like Abe in the first place is the promise of weapons and reinforcements.

This new narration thread is part of the display attempt Expand a story Another of us Behind her main characters only. In the game, the players only saw things from Elie’s perspective, so there was no real focus on the city. But in the show, there are multiple views, and therefore, more opportunities to embody the world. Jackson plays a large part of it; In the episode, the city’s residents see every tool at its disposal to repel the attack, and destroy the city after that very clear. This addition makes the moment you feel larger than Joel and Elie, with the addition of an additional layer of tension and violence to a tense scene and violence already.

As the co -author, Neil Drukman, a writer and director in both the game and the show, explained to me before the second season: “One of the things that we was able to do in the show was unable to do a lot in the game was to get to know Jackson as a society, and to understand what is at stake here, what are the threats from abroad.”

Yes, this moment is likely to be a great shock for those who come unaware, as it is rare for such a central character to be killed in a TV program like this. But it is very similar to the famous red wedding ceremony in game of thronesFor many people who already knew what will happen, they can now relax and watch the show without wondering how he will approach the sequence of death, or if he will deal with it at all.

Well, relax a little – This is still Another of us.