The Last Of Us
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Joel ’s death inThe Last of Usseason 2 is just as lurid and horrifying as it was in the biz , but the TV show handle to make Ellie ’s role in the scene even more heartbreaking . The Last of Usseason 2 , installment 2 , “ Through the Valley , ” bring the dreaded minute thatAbby makes good on her hope to kill Joel . She made it clean from the very beginning of the season that she wanted retaliation for what he did to the Fireflies , and not even Joel ’s plot of ground armour was strong enough to protect him from her wrath .
The TV show create a few key changes toJoel ’s death . In the secret plan , Joel is on patrol with Tommy , not Dina , and Joel cut Abby off before she originate her rehearsed speech about her late father . In the telly show , Abby delivers the final end blow by knife Joel in the neck with the broken putting iron , not by bashing in his skull . But the most devastating change that the TV show take in is a belittled but incredibly powerful alteration to Ellie ’s function in the tantrum .
In The Last Of Us Season 2, Ellie Is Still Conscious After Joel’s Death
Ellie Gets Knocked Out In The Game
In the game , just like in the telly show , Ellie goes looking for Joel after he goes missing on patrol . She pass over him down to the chalet where Abby and her friends are staying , sneak into the building , and locomote into the cellar , where she find Abby ruthlessly beat Joel to a mush . Before she can stop Abby , Ellie is attacked by Abby ’s friends , hold down on the floor , and coerce to watch as Abby tortures her beginner to death . But after Owen tells Abby to end it andshe ultimately kills Joel , the series makes a slight change .
In the game , right afterJoel is killed , Ellie is pink unconscious and the screenland cuts to black . She comes to in short when Dina and Jesse happen her , then the game rise fore to Tommy comforting Ellie back in Jackson . Butin the telecasting show , Ellie is still conscious when Abby and her friends leave behind , so we get to see her immediate reaction to Joel ’s death . The camera stays on Ellie for a painfully long time as she set about to process the tragedy .
Seeing Ellie’s Immediate Reaction To Joel’s Death Makes It Even More Tragic
It Forces Us To Sit With Her Intense Grief
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I would n’t have thought the TV show could make Joel ’s end even sorry than the game , butby stay with Ellie in the moment after the kill and forcing us to sit down with her intense brokenheartedness , the showrunners managed it . In the game , Ashley Johnson gives a really sinewy performanceof Ellie feeling broken and defeated at the visual sense of Joel ’s body , but she only gets to play it for a few seconds before she gets kicked in the head word and knocked out cold-blooded .
Bella Ramsey nails the intermixture of emotions : the shock , the horror , the confusion , the overpowering sadness .
In the TV show , Ellie is left fully witting and alone with Joel ’s body , so we get a more blanket reaction . Of course , she ’s lay waste to , and Bella Ramsey nails the mixture of emotions : the shock , the revulsion , the confusion , the overwhelming sorrowfulness . The image of Ellie cower across the room to remove the golf game nightclub from Joel ’s cervix and lie with his body make the moment even sadder than in the game .
Ellie Lying With Joel’s Body Creates A Heartbreaking Visual Parallel With Season 1
It’s Similar To When She Lies With Him While He’s Recovering From His Stab Wound
The Last of Usoften uses mirror images to create touching visual parallels . Sam and Henry ’s family relationship as a protector and protectee mirrors that of Joel and Ellie . The first biz is bookended by picture of Joel carry Sarah through the chaos of the apocalypse and Joel carry Ellie out of the infirmary . This use of ocular mirroring has carried over into the TV adaptation . The mental image of Ellie lying with Joel ’s torso after he ’s killed in time of year 2 , sequence 2 creates a heartbreaking visual analogue with a similar scene from time of year 1 .
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InThe Last of Usseason 1 , episode 7 , “ Left Behind,”Joel and Ellie ’s roles are overturn and Ellie is forced to become the protector when Joel is stabbed in the abdomenwith a wiped out baseball game bat . She gets him back to an abandoned basement and finds some medicine to treat him with . After distribute the drug , Ellie lies with Joel while she waits for them to take effect . The image of Ellie lying with Joel ’s body is a harrowing diversion of that blastoff , this metre with the total cataclysm that Ellie ca n’t preserve him .
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The Last of Us is a post - apocalyptic drama serial set two 10 after a orbicular calamity . It follows Joel , a veteran subsister , who is tasked with escort Ellie , a teenage girl , across a desolated United States , metamorphose into a agonising journey of survival and company .
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