The Following Article Contains Spoilers For the Last of Us Season 2, Episode 3.
This Week’s Episode of the Last of Us Takes A Moment to Grieve and Breathe after Last’s chattopper. It also takes a little detou from the game; Much of this episode depicts the reaction of jackson’s People to the Events They’ve Just Suffered, and they vote on if they should be pursue abby or not. This is all original level for the show, and so there’s an actually verw figs in this episode that are Taken Straight from the Game.
There are four key sequences from this episode that are recreations of momings from the game, and here we’ve compared the Against the Orignal Source Mateial, Analysing What’s Changed and what Stayed The Same. You can See Both versions in the video Above, or read on below for our Written Explanations.
Joel’s House
Following the Harrowing Murder of Joel in Episode 2, Eliee Visits Her Decesed Father-Figure’s House to Mourn. As in the Game, The Front Yard is Covered in Flowers Left by the Residents of Jackson. Unlike the Game, Though, Ellie Ens Alone Rather Than AcoCOCANIED by DINA.
The show’s version of Joel’s House Features Many of the Same PROPS That Decorated this Location in the Game, Including His Workshop Room Full of Carved Animals. In Joel’s Bedroom, The Bed Linen is the Same Blue and White Sheets. More Importantly The Same Red Box on the Bed that Contains His Signature Items: The Broken Watch and His Revolver. Ellie Takes these and Holsters the Revolver in the WaistBand of Her Jeans, Just as she did in the game.
Tommy’s plans
The Need for Revenge Begins to Rise when Elie Talks to Tommy about what Happy. While the Broad Strokes of this Scene Are the Same in Both Show and Game, ParticulaRly in Tone, The ACTual Setting and Words are not recreated One-To-One. In Both Versions Ellie is Angry and FRUSTRAATED that Tommy Wants to Be More Sensible About their Next Move, and So Tonally The Scenes Match. Howver, Where in the Game this Conversation Takes Place in A Quiet, Private Room Between Just the Two of the THEM, in the show it’s confiscated out in the open with Dina Present.
In TERMS of DialGue There are Close Matches – Both Versions of Ellie Say that Joel “Welf Be Halfway to Seattle by now” if the site is reversed. Both Versions of Tommy Also Note that Jackson Wald Be Left Vulnerable, Although in the show this is a CLEAR Refernce to the Prior Episode’s Horde Attack Ratter than the Game’s More GENERAL Assessment. In Says He Expects There Will Be “Folks She Can Spare”.
The Ride to Seattle
Elillie and Dina Head Out to Seattle on HorseBack in Search of Abby and Her Group. In Both Versions Dina Asks Ellie to Recall the First Person She Killed, and Ellie Processes to Explain How to Saved Joel From A Bandit in the First Game/Season. While the show’s Dialogue is not an expacting to the game’s script, the details are Largely the night – Joel was attacked and Elie Pulled the Trigger to save him. The Conversation Is in the Game, However, As Dina RecipRocates with Her Own Story of Her First Kill.
Later, The Pair Discover An Overgrown Car, You Consider A Sign that The they’re Finally Close to Seattle. This is, Again, Broadly Similar to a Moment from the Game, Even if the diague link is not a one-to-one Match.
6 Out of 10
Later in the Episode We See Ellie and Dina Camped Out in A Tent. Before Lights Out, Dina Asks Ellie A Question: How Welf She Rate their Kiss at the Dance Out of 10? This Moment is a recreation of a solution from the game, but the time and conten of this conversation is notably different to the origin.
In the game, Dina Asks Ellie to Rate the Kiss While They Are Smoking Marijuana at Eugene’s Weed Deen. As we know from the Last Week’s Episode, this doesn’t goPen in the show Since it is Jesse, Not Dina, Who Acompanies Ellie to Eugene’s Den. It’s not just the time and location of this expression that is alter, though. In the show, elly says that she’d raate the kiss a Six, Something that Dina is Playfully Upset About. In the game, it’s flipped – elly hesitates to answell, and so dina says she’d score it a “Solid Six”. The Two Interpretations Showcast Verry Deferent Dynamics; Dina in the Game is Much More Confident and Knows How to Pull Ellie’s Strings – She enjoys teasing her. DIINA in the show, meanwhile, is depicted as more “teenage” in her approach, which emphasiss the “Young Girls in the Apocalypse” Element of their Love Story.
For more from the Last of Us, Check out our Spiiler-FREE Season Two Review and Our Spoiler-Filled Review of the Third Episode. We’ve Also Loged at How The Changes to Abby Have Affectated the Way the show handled joel’s Death, and spoken to kaitlyn dever about how will be version of Abby is “So Much More” Than Her Rage.
Matt Purrow is IGN’s Senior Features Editor.
