Last of us 2 season improves Dina’s novel and Eli in one key way

Warning: This article contains spoilers For the “last of us” 2 season and video game “last of us: part II”.

Both seasons of “last of us” were caught between the rock and heavy place. The show is forced to balance the wishes of fans who just wanted a direct rest 1: 1 each individual cat adaptation About history, change and all. As I posted in my review 2 season for /movieThe series remains at best when he remembers following this last approach. For their money, showcurrenters Neil Primman and Craig Mazin make all this enterprise worth when they make a bold election such as the invention of whole characters Taking gambling on antagonists such as Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) to account for the needs of a completely different environment.

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The next round of discourse in social media, at best or at worst,, most likely, will rotate around Eli Bella Ramsey and Dina Isabella’s relationship. Gamers remember how before Joel is on the wrong end of the golf -buzz, their video game colleagues are combined with their feelings for each other while hanging in a home house, when the blizzard is furious outside. Both fans who rolled over which Like an touch, you are perverts) where they become innocent teens, for changes: smoking weeds, comparing scars and flirting, as if the apocalypse zombie did not happen.

While most of the “last of us” 2 season has So far, the continuation of the game continued, including their great kiss on the dance of the community, one important part of Dina and Eli’s dynamics has undergone a little adjustment. The show misses the obvious moment of sexual tension in the tent on the way to Seattle during episode 3, choosing instead to show the scene of intimacy at the very end of the episode 4. That’s why this change makes the best journey for both characters.

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Does no hard news here, but what if I told you it What works in video games is not necessarily translated into live action? Although this applies to the various aspects of the “last of us”, the most subtle of them concerns the other simple romance between Eli and Dina. In “Last of us: Part II”, Jackson’s storyline that has no games that should play a little to catch up to take into account the four -year gap between games. Eli and Joel are in bad conditions for initial reasons. Abby becomes a game character without any explanation. And Eli is clearly there some Like a story with our bestie Dina, which we are not fully aware of. However, the last part is the easiest way to go because we literally in Eli’s head almost at every step and are already inclined to see things in her eyes. The show, however, is a strange other experience to passively watch the two actors who do their best to sell viewers in the love story we are unlikely to see on the screen.

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This is where the “last of us” 2 season comes in 2 season. Instead of stuffing the biggest moments of their relationship in a relatively short time before they went to Seattle to avenge Abby, the show carefully exceeds them along the way. Episode 3 gives them a lot of time and spaces while traveling on horseback no Forcing them to act as hormonal teens. After Joel’s death, we see how Dean and Eli are developing a more adult partnership one that will hit all over the season and in season 3. Of course, they still flirt over their drunken kiss from earlier and even make big hearty eyes at each other during the famous sequence “Take me”. But are these cases not feel even more like important milestones in their relationship when they actually haven’t sex with each other?

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Contrary to the widespread belief, the art of adaptation of history such as the “last of us” requires more effort than just following the contour of the original game. It would be the simplest in the world just refers to the original material, like the storyboard and shoot it all the same. (In my house we call the “approach” of the Snyder’s guards.

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Nowhere is it more clear than the ending of the episode 4. Although the broad strikes remain the same as in the game – Eli and Dina collided with Washington’s front soldiers In Seattle, run into a nearby subway tunnel full of infected, and only narrowly running into the nearest theater, which they turn into their shelter – changes made in terms of drama and stress, hit much differently and much stronger. Not only was it a reasonable writing, so that Dina is so skeptical of Eli’s immunity that she literally holds her under the target, refusing to believe that her biting wound is not what seems like it seems. But as soon as it is clear what she is telling the truth, the show goes back and falls another An emotional bomb on us: Dean admits that a pregnant child Jesse (young Mazun). And only if he feels that the rates could not get higher, the writers choose this moment to give the characters (and us) release valve from constantly set pressure. When they finally have sex, it is up to four entire episodes of the setting.

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Name me crazy, but I would say it is a general improvement compared to the way it goes in the game. The data speak for themselves, frankly. When the episode ends, when Eli and Dina decided to explore Seattle on their Abby hunting “Together”, hand -to -hand, viewers were probably never more invested as a couple than that moment.

New Episodes of the Last of Us Season 2 Season in HBO every Sunday.