Why Joel deserves to die at the end of the United States season 2

This post contains The main spoilers For “The Last of Us” Season 2, Episode 2.

“The Last of Us” is a width full of sorrow, and a dark post -fractured drama for injury (infected (Do not call them zombiesWhere death in every corner. From the first episode, where we see Joel (Pedro Pascal), his only child loses his only child, forced the audience to get used to not attaching to anyone. It is possible that everyone we met with him, whether they are the elderly friends of Joel, Elliz (Bella Ramsey), crushed the first, or the friendly strangers they met on the road. No one was safe.

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However, Season 2 took this idea more than ever, as the second episode was undoubtedly presented the most exciting and emotional moment in the entire show – a moment that reflects the shock and the early “game of thrones”. It comes during what is already a horrific, violent and amazing story, as Jackson is attacked by a crowd of amazingly smart. The vision of Jackson, a safe haven and one society apparently at the end of the world in Kordisis, which is not run by human meat or dictators, has been destroyed in an attack like this is terrible.

However, this is not the emotionally shocking and destructive moment in the episode. This comes when Joel is subjected to brutal beating to death and eventually stabbed with a broken golf club by Abe (Kaitlin Dever).

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It is a moment that the players have been scarying since the announcement of the television adaptation, and this led to a lot Very stupid controversy over AbeBoth in the game and when Kaitlyn Dever was filmed as a live version. However, it is a moment that fits the spirit of “The Last of Chie” completely. No, Joel did not deserve to be killed in this way. However, he certainly came after the life he lived.

HBO “The Last Of” makes many changes in its adaptation. Since the first episode, where we get an introduction about one of the scientists who warn of fungi, the show knows where to expand and where the game is corrected. Examples of this, the second season begins with Abe and her friends, grieves the death of the wreaths at the hands of Joel and perform revenge. This is a completely different approach to the game, which Abe suddenly appeared and suddenly killing Joel brutally without any reason,, With players, they only discover it at a later time.

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Including Abe’s early motivation from the exhibition, forcing the audience at the expense of the fact that Joel not only saved Eli from killing, he slaughtered comrades, husbands, brothers and fathers to do so. None of them had to have a person who cares about Joel to Elie, who wanted to take revenge on his loved ones. Did Abe had to kill Joel? Of course not, but it is completely understood that if the “Last of BS” is, we will root her to hunt Joel regardless of what it takes.

This is the key to television adaptation and why Joel’s death makes the objective influential than the game: from the opening scene, the show does not allow either Joel or the audience forgets what he did. Instead of just going to get the value of the shock, the “The Last of Us” program makes Joel’s death inevitable, as the first two episodes make sure that Joel does not leave the hook to his previous actions.

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Throughout the first episode, it is clear that something weighted to Joel down, not just the fact that his relationship with Elie has separated. He will even treat with the generation (Catherine Ohara), which can clearly say that there is a great thing that worries it. By the time Joel realizes that Abe’s group of wreaths, there is a look at the resignation in his eyes, as if he was known throughout these years that what happened in the end in Salt Lake City will catch him. When Abe tells him who she is, Joel does not care about hearing any big speeches, he just wants her to kill him and this is done.

This is a blatant difference on how to start the game. The first show for the second season of “The Last of Us” begins, before we meet ABBY, with a short appearance of Joel lying to Ellie about what happened in the hospital. This is similar to the start of the game, which is a brief cancellation of the first game events. The difference is that Joel tells this opening scene, because he tells his brother Tommy what happened in the hospital, and instead of expressing frankly he shot a group of people, he says he saved Eli.

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Joel knows the price he paid to save his alternative daughter, but by starting from Joel’s point of view and excuses his actions, both the game and Joel cry what happened. This erases some of the guilt in order for the public to sympathize with him before being brutally killed.

It is worth praising that the width, which owns Pedo Pascal and its handsome face is easily available, will instead choose Joel for the ARM length for most of the first episode. In addition, the first two episodes continue naturally to offer what he did, even if the characters do not always say out loud. “The Last of Us” does not allow Joel from the hook, but it forces the audience to think of the Salt Lake City every time he is on the screen, expecting his account. “Another of us” are great games (very good You cannot blame Pedro Pascal to ignore requests and try to play them) But decisions like this help to justify TV adaptation and make them feel that they have their own identity.

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Joel did not deserve brutally killing, especially with Elie Al -Majber to watch. However, the moment Joel decided that Eli’s life deserved to kill 18 soldiers and one doctor, he had sealed his fate. Whoever searches for revenge digs two graves, or in the case of “another of us”, much more. Now, just like Joel’s actions inevitably led to Abe for revenge, her killing of Joel had a retaliatory fire in Eli. It seems that the course must repeat itself.

New episodes of “The Last of Us”, the second season, struck HBO and Max on Sunday nights.