Why did the last of us 2 -—o the season added a huge battle scene that is not in the game

Put your flamethrower if you did not look “through the valley”, the last episode to date “the last of us”. Spoilers are included!

Something really happened at the Valley, the second episode of the second -year mass popular HBO series “The last of us” (based on the Naughty Dog video game). I’m not really talking about Joel Miller, allegedly hero shows and one of the favorite dads of the Internet, played Pedro Pascal, forcing the head of Abby (Caitlin Dever). I’m talking about Attack on Stagers’ Studies in Jackson, Wyoming, where a huge, disgusting army of infected cordicoes is invaded.

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It is noteworthy that this sequence is no In a video game that makes sense. At this point, this story is completely focused on the death of Joel, Revenge Abby and Eli (Bella Ramsi in the series) promise of retribution. So why add it? According to an interview with Craig Masin – “Chernobyl” Shovruner, which Gelms “last of us” with the original creator of the game Nile Prikman – in in in VultureThe intention behind this large -scale (and sincere) combat sequence is to make sure that the audience knows that no place and the person in this show is really safe. (As if we didn’t get this when Abby will go to the golf bubble in Joel’s neck.)

“We wanted to feel that everyone was wounded, that everyone fought with a sense of recovery and recovery,” said Mazin Roxan Khadidi, who deeply immersed in the consistency sequence for exit. “In the game, Eli wounded and we didn’t want to feel that everyone else was in order. The reason for drawing the fight to Jackson was to create a sense of vulnerability for everyone.”

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This is a good moment, and frankly, I love this explanation of Craig Mazin’s relatively great battle in Jackson – and it’s no accident he decided to hold this battle during Joel’s death. “It is interesting to see how one person who makes the choice is faced with this choice, while a completely different bunch of people feels direct and negative impact of this choice – not just one person, not just the people we do not know, but may not like, but the people we love,” said Mazzin, referring to what he has made. “There was a value to pull out the carpet from -under all, and to feel at the end of this episode that everything collapsed.”

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The whole case also notes another small shift of the game; Dina Isabella Mercedes is with Joel on patrol when they meet with Abby, and in the game it is his brother Tommy, played by Gabriel Luna. It releases Tommy to fight with her wife Maria (Rutin Wesley), and, as Wesley said, she found that she was really able to hone the moon as her co -authors even in the height of a clear, mass picture.

“We are leading for each other. Although he barely saw my face on the roof, he knew I was looking at him and I was closed at him,” Wesley showed. Luna agreed: “You can tell the story through these very specific points of the action. All you see on the screen matters, and in every fired round the decision is made.”

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Both Tommy and Mary take responsibility during this battle in two different ways. At one of the most victorious moments of episode, Maria unlocks a bunch of cells and sends a pack of German Shepherds to attack the infected horde (if you are like me, there is excellent Sensitive to violence against dogs in the media, we have reason to believe that dogs are in order because we do not see that one of them is injured). Tommy ends in trap in oil with Bloater – a definite type of infected, which is as rough and huge as it follows – And he takes it on the fire, barely surviving the trials. According to Gabriel Luna, this scene, which was removed with a stunt that took the explosion after the explosion, left the impression; Within a few weeks after the shooting, he apparently “visions” of the fiery man who stumbled upon him. “I always joke about it, and my wife looks like,” I think you are injured, “the moon said.” And I liked, “Yes, you are probably right.”

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As awful as the battle, Joel’s death still the central part of this episode; From the 1st season of the 1st season from the 1 season, but also the performance of Pedro Pascal, because Pedro’s performance Pedro, because initially not wanting his father for Eli is really great. That is why, as Craig Mazzin showed, he realized that he should show the conclusion of the battle before returning to Joel and not constantly change between two events. “At the moment when Abby shoots Joel, you can’t get out of this room,” Mazin said. “Our investment in Joel is so deep that we don’t care when we go there.”

After all, Mazin said the fact that Jackson is still standing – and Tommy and Mary survive – helps compensate for Joel’s loss awesome. Basically it gives a narrative balance. “There is a victory … There is something else that falls apart,” Mazin said. “This is the limit, and they understood things, which means Jackson has the opportunity to win. The question is what cost?”

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“The Last of Us” aired new episodes every Sunday at 9 pm EST on HBO and Max.