The Last Of Us

Includes MASSIVE SPOILERS for The Last of Us Season 2 , Episode 2 , and The Last of Us Part II video biz !

Pedro Pascal ’s Joel meets an early endinThe Last of Usseason 2 , episode 2 , and there are some noted differences from the game to break down . From the internet that chop off Ned Stark ’s head and endedThe Sopranoswith a dissentious cut - to - black comes another turning point video second , with season 2 , instalment 2 , killing off the main character and top - placard star of one of TV ’s most popular shows . The Last of Usseason 2 , installment 2 ’s endingis disgraceful , and it ’s deserving taking a closer look at how it come to be .

For telecasting game players , there ’s no surprise that this chance , but the manner in whichJoel ’s fatetranspired is different in a few path that are worth kick downstairs down . The show’sseason 2 premiere record Abby in the aftermath of the massacre in Salt Lake City , demonstratingAbby ’s motivation to kill Joel , but everything happened so rapidly that the detail were easy to neglect . Series - defining minute do n’t typically occur in the 2nd episode of a season , and the series introduce a monolithic conflict succession to coincide with its emotional core narrative .

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Joel Is On Patrol With Dina When They Find Abby

Joel Is With Tommy In The Game

The intact sequence structure of season 2 , installment 2 , revolves around Joel ’s death , though the dynamic are different in the show compared toThe Last of Us Part II . For representative , Joel expend episode 2 with Dina rather than being on patrol with Tommy , like in the biz . The horde of infected attack Jackson is teased in the game , but it never gets quite as forged as in the TV serial , with Tommy sustain to defend the town as it ’s swarmed , and people are killed .

The Last of Us season 2 , episode 2 boast a massive septic alteration , and here is why the zombies make the decision to assault Jackson .

The eccentric barter is a curious pick for this scene , but the season 2 premiere go down up Joel having a closer family relationship with Dina . This could end up tying to Dina ’s role in subsequentevents between Ellie and Abby , with Dina possessing more cognition about Abby , her friend , and their motivations for the kill . This also allow Tommy to be present for the show ’s epical B - patch , and he ’ll likely have the news of his brother ’s death in the next episode .

Joel (Pedro Pascal), Ellie (Bella Ramsey), Tommy (Gabriel Luna), and Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) in The Last of Us season 2

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Joel Instructs Abby’s Group To Save Jackson

Joel & Tommy Only Seek Shelter With Abby’s Group In The Game

Joel straight off tries to take restraint , telling everyone to pitch up and bring together him .

The fact that there ’s a struggle occurring in the distance slip the mechanics of the vista quite a bit , as Joel is eager to get back to Jackson as soon as he arrives at the lodge with Abby and Dina . Joel immediately prove to take control , telling everyone to gear up and join him . In the game , Joel and Tommy are brought in for shelter , and Tommy even says , " We ’ll just sit out the storm and get out of your hair . “Tommy and Abby ’s grouping even exchange some pleasantry in the game before things take a turn for the bad .

Abby’s Group Injects Dina To Knock Her Out

Abby’s Group Beat Up Tommy In The Game

There ’s an important dynamic at turn in the Joel death scenery in both games , which is that Abby ’s companions are n’t concerned in killing anyone but Joel . In the show , they habituate a downer to knock Dina out , with their intention being to kill Joel and be gone by the metre she inflame up . In the games , Abby goes loud , initiate the violence by forthwith shoot down Joel in the leg with her shotgun , then her friends grab Tommy and trounce him up on the side , hitting him in the head with a triggerman multiple times to pink him out .

Abby Reveals Her Motivation To Joel Before Killing Him

Abby’s Motivations Are A Mystery In The Game

The dynamic of the scene is agitate from the games , as Abby flat reveal who she is and what her motivation is for toss off Joel . In the plot continuation , this is left as a mystery for the instrumentalist to uncover as Ellie . Abby say " Joel Miller , " and prompts him to imagine who she is , to which he respond with " Why do n’t you say whatever speech you ’ve got practise and get this over with ? " In the telly adjustment , Abby actually manage to make it most of the way through her speech before he cut off her .

The Last of Us time of year 2 will feature a braggart debate about Joel ’s character and his selection , with one moment from the premiere subtly set this up .

Thevideo game uses flashback to reveal pieces of Abby and Ellie ’s past tense , and it seems like the show will take after suit , asPedro Pascal is mean to be in two more sequence . That suppose , they ’ve already revealed this major contingent up front , with Abby delivering a full - on villain monologue about who she is and why she ’s there to kill him before she does it . After he tells her to get it over with in the show , she deliver the same line as in the game , " You do n’t get to rush this , " then outfox him with a golf game golf-club .

Dina Joel and Abby in The Last of Us season 2 episode 2

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Abby Stabs Joel In The Neck With A Broken Golf Club

Abby Delivers A Final Blow With The Golf Club

Joel ’s death scene draws many beats from the video game , such as Ellie making her way in and trying to salve him , but finally being squeeze to look out as Abby kill him . Abby beats Joel mercilessly with the golf game club , but in the TV show , she delivers the terminal reversal by skewering him with the broken club stick , leaving it in him with Ellie to take out . The surrounding dynamics are pretty similar , with Ellie beg Joel to get up and screaming in suffering as he lies on the land being beaten .

In the TV game , Abby render the putting to death blast with one last snow to the point . Then , as an additional sign of disrespect , Manny , the military man who Ellie slices with her tongue , ptyalize on Joel ’s dead body . In both versions , Ellie screams that she ’s going to kill Abby as she ’s held down , and Owen forbid Manny from shooting Ellie . In the game , he kicks her in the case to pink her out before they leave .

Ellie Hugs Joel’s Dead Body

The Video Game Cuts To Black After Ellie Is Rescued

In the TV series , Ellie witnesses Joel get skewer with the marijuana cigarette , then crawls over to him to hug his body as he lies motionless on the floor . It ’s a somber moment , but the instalment ’s ending prove her , Jesse , and Dina trail Joel ’s body back to Jackson . In the picture game , we omit most of this , as Ellie wake up up from being knock out as Dina and Jesse arrive to rescue her , then the game cut to her sitting on her seam . change in HBO ’s version ofThe Last of Usare notable , but the scene is no less brutal .

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