Joel’s death was explained in episode 2

If you are not updated on “The Last of Us” – specifically, if you do not see “through the valley”, the second episode of Season 2 – Stop reading this now. Huge, major spoilers walk in the future.

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I did not play “The Last of Us Part II”, and I did not play the original game that made this riotous dog a sense. (Fighting, fighting video games stressed me, even in games like “Breath of the Wild”, I spend a huge amount of time running and being just a small man instead of fighting monsters or presidents.) This means, when it comes to the huge death that occurs in “The Last of Us Part II”, “I was not available at all. When this happened on TV, I could not To look far away, regardless of how I want it.

The ordeal is running this way: ABBY, a new figure in the second season of HBO air conditioning with “The Last of Us” played by Kaitlyn Dever, at the beginning of the second year’s season in the show as a girl who hunts Joel Pascal – specifically, seeks to take revenge on a group of brilliance and medical professionals who kill at the end of the season. Elie (Bella Ramsey) of the Cordesis Virus was to find Abe’s treatment, for a period of five years, was looking for Joel to settle the result. When you come to face with him, it is an inverted stomach sequence-it is done by Dever and Pascal-which is directly from a horror movie, especially for the viewers who arrived at Joel (And understanding his decision at the conclusion of the first season). The way director Mark Miloud launched is an incomparable, terrifying and destructive thing … There is no doubt that this will be one of the most favorable TV moments that spoke in 2025.

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Something is particularly noticeable about the way Abe Joel is killed in the HBO TV adaptation of “The Last of Us” – which is led by Neil Drogman, the origin of the original game, along with the deformed scriptwriter and exhibition Craig Mazin – is that Significantly More brutal than it is in the video game. This does not mean that it is not a terrifying violent moment in the game; It is a horrific thing to see there, but in the show, Mazin and Druckmann allowed my father a little.

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After beating her bare hands and shooting him in the leg – and Dina (Isabella Mercyid), who was doing patrols with Joel before him Abe saved from an infected crowd – Abe Joel told exactly why she was literal and metaphorical. Elie, who ends at the abandoned house where Abe and her squatting friends and watches sit and scream on the ground, where Abe takes the golf club that she was using to determine the completely broken Joel now … and takes the sharp and broken end and Joel stabbed in the neck. The really amazing thing at this moment is that there is impossible Joel to survive this; Like NED Stark from Sean Bean years ago, he died very conclusively.

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This is, undoubtedly, an amazing moment to watch the fans of the “Last of Us” TV who did not play the games (or, in this regard, fans who did not play the games and Those who brilliantly avoided seeing any spoilers related to the game 2020). For those who OwnershipIt is also amazing because the fans who are waiting for this moment may have imagined that they will come later this season. Not so: Joel dies in the season The second episodeThe way he dies brutally, violent and villain, and appears in its complete bloody glory. It is tragic – especially seeing Elie’s reaction – and is not completely forgotten. So, where does the offer move from here, especially when it comes to Abe?

It is clear that the loss of one of the main characters of the exhibition – which the fans are already associated throughout the first season of “The Last of Us” – is great. We have learned in the first show of the second season, “The Future Days”, that something has come between Joel and Eli over the past five years, and watching Eli Watch Joel dies in the most brutal ways that they can only imagine, in the event that this is not clearly clarified, terrible. With all this in mind, it is easy to imagine this The fans will have some complex feelings about Abe, and lovers of the video game already have a complex vision for them.

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In the video game, players start playing as a father with a few preambles at the beginning of the game after the focus turns from ELLIE to (no, I did not play the game, but YouTube exists for some reason). It is clear that the offer had to change this by presenting Abe at the beginning of “future days” We immediately informed that her goal is to kill Joel. Joel’s death scene serves a few things. It gives Eli a new task (now she The person who is trying to take revenge on a person will be) will give Joel to end his story, and put Abe as a opponent (at the present time). It is easy to flounder that the masses will not feel the warmth and mysterious towards Abe – which is partially a testament to the fact that Kaitlyn Dever, whose characters are usually more loved than this, genuinely Shocking performance of such an evil angry character. While Eli, Dina and the rest of Jackson’s residents are struggling with Joel’s death by a girl who was deeply destroyed by a girl, fans will have to know how to feel about Abe, the character who killed a character we follow for a while.

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“Last of us” was planned for this moment – because, as you know, it is adapting to a game in which this same thing happens! – But there is no doubt that the series described Joel’s deathly ambitious. Its repercussions will continue with the movement of the second season of the exhibition; New episodes on Sunday at 9 pm EST on Max and HBO.