What song plays Eli in the last of the US 2 episode?

Music is an important element in both the “Last of US” video games and through HBO-Action adaptation. Both have a strong style of basic background music, which rests on a lot of acoustic guitar to play NEO-Zombie Wibe. In addition to the assessment, the “last of us” also greatly relies on dietary music. Joel (Pedro Pascal) plays on the guitar and tells Eli (Bella Rams) in 1 season that he would like him to be a singer. In the 2 season, she also learned to play after many years of study in him, although the split in their relationship pushes her off the instrument.

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There are other noticeable examples, such as the use of Linda Ronstadt’s “long time” during the law (Nick proposal) and Frank (Murray Bartlet) in the season 1, in which the Heartbreaker tune serves both the episode name and the thematic line.

Now that we get into later parts “Last of us” 2 seasonEli had several guitar points, first playing the acoustic cover A-Ha “Take On Me” for Dina (Isabella Merced) in episode 4. In the episode 5, she pulls another guitar in the old theater where they hide in Seattle, but it gets only a few notes before you appear. Her words are difficult to understand if you do not know what you are listening to, but the song she starts singing is the “Future Days” Pearl Jam – a track with a deep meaning in the video game “The Last of Us”, and now it seems to be in the show.

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“If I lost you, I have definitely lost myself.” This is the introductory line of “future days”, which seems to Eli cannot survive without thinking about Joel’s death and their unresolved tension again. Although we do not know it, probably in the show, it is so in games, and it is safe to assume that the song is used the same on HBO. Eli does not try to reproduce it to the 5th episode, but the song shares its title with the first episode of “last of us” 2 season, giving its value from the beginning. What Pearl Jam comes from Seattle only makes the context of the song in history more appropriate.

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The value of the “future days” in the franchise returns to the live event organized by the developer of the Naughty Dog and Sony games a year after the first game, at which the original actors performed the main scenes of the plots that emphasized the live orchestra. At the end of the event, the director of the game Neil Printman, the acting and the crew added a small bonus scene after the end of the game, which presents “Future Days” as some sending for Eli and Joel. After the years when “the last of us, part II” was released, this scene and more meaning of the song became a huge part of the sequel.

This is a devastating choice, given all the coming days that Joel and Eli can’t share together. “When I felt broken, I focused on prayer,” Eddie Veder sings in a later poem. “Have you come deep like any ocean that heard there?” It is clear why Printman chose this specific song, given his relevance for Joel, in particular. As Eli tries and doesn’t get words in Seattle, we fully understand why it is so fixed Revenge Joel’s death.

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While “Future Days” is a great and lyrically apt song for anchor The story of “last of us”, In fact, this did not make sense in video games, and it makes less sense in the show. Let me explain.

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“Future Days” is the last track on the “Lightning” album Pearl Jam, which they released in October 2013. In the temporary scale of Games, where the Cardesic outbreak occurred the same year that it made it anachronistic, because the world would collapse before the song actually reached the air. The HBO series pushes out the outbreaks from decades to 2003, making it even more prominent, as much as temporarily inappropriately.

Printman and co -chairman of Craig Mazin series addressed this issue in the first HBO’s episode Last of us podcast Season 2 – the need for their eyes, given the episode that shares the same name as the Pearl Jam. “Such a song was not in 2003 when the world was over,” Mazin said directly. “Neil and I had a solid conversation and came to the following conclusion: we did not give so ***, because it is an important song for history, and it is incredibly important.”

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In the grand scheme of things, one song, inappropriate in time, it certainly does not seem to stand up for weapons, especially in history where we have already suspended the incredible to fight all the mushroom zombies.