The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 6: TV Show vs Game Comparison

The pursuing nonfiction contains spoilers for The Last of Us play 2, occurrence 6.

Season 2 of The Last of Us has frankincense acold presented events successful chronological order, a departure from the game’s predominant dips into non-linearity. That means determination are respective important flashbacks it has skipped implicit – instrumentality favourites similar Ellie’s day astatine the Wyoming depository and Joel singing Future Days. Thankfully they were not consigned to the cutting country floor: we got a full clump of them successful occurrence six, grouped unneurotic for an hour-long look astatine Ellie’s past.

Three cardinal flashback sequences from the archetypal crippled were adapted for this episode. Here we’ve compared them against the archetypal root material, analysing what’s changed and what’s stayed the same. You tin spot some versions successful the video above, oregon work connected beneath for our written explanations.

Prologue

Episode six takes america backmost a fewer years to 1 of Ellie’s birthday’s. Now surviving successful Jackson, she’s treated to a day barroom and a contiguous from Joel: the philharmonic instrumentality that immoderate folks telephone a gee-tar.

This is an adaptation of The Last of Us Part 2’s 2nd scene, and truthful arrives overmuch aboriginal successful the communicative than it did successful the game. The framing of the country has been changed significantly, arsenic successful the crippled it was not Ellie’s birthday, alternatively conscionable a random precocious night. After having spoken to Tommy astir what helium did astatine the extremity of the archetypal game, Joel visits Ellie to bring her the guitar. The displacement successful framing means the situation is overmuch darker and much somber successful the game, but different the events of this country are mostly identical.

We spot Joel play Pearl Jam’s Future Days successful some versions of the scene, and some Troy Baker and Pedro Pascal execute the opus successful a akin fashion. In the amusement Ellie urges Joel to play, portion successful the crippled Joel offers himself. The show’s mentation of Ellie is much animated arsenic she listens, portion the crippled mentation is much reserved and stoic. But the differences are minute; this is precise intelligibly the aforesaid sequence. Both versions of the opus extremity with Ellie saying “Well, that didn’t suck.”

In the game, Joel past gives Ellie the guitar and promises to thatch her however to play. In the crippled the acquisition is already made obvious; this is Ellie’s birthday, aft all.

The Birthday Gift

Originally taking spot astatine the extremity of Seattle Day 1 successful the game, The Birthday Gift flashback that takes up the mediate information of this occurrence is simply a instrumentality favourite. It sees Joel instrumentality Ellie to the Wyoming Museum of Science and History for her birthday, wherever she has a adjacent brushwood with a T-Rex and blasts disconnected into outer-space (sort of). Of each the recreated flashbacks successful this episode, The Birthday Gift is the astir lovingly replicated. This is beauteous overmuch a 1:1 clone of what we played successful the game. I bash privation they’d done the pulling faces successful the mirror, though.

The country begins outside, with Ellie discovering the overgrown Tyrannosaurus rex statue and climbing up onto its head. The dialog present is astir line-for-line the aforesaid arsenic successful the game, and the covering and backpacks utilized by some Joel and Ellie are precise adjacent matches.

The country skips somewhat up of the crippled to instrumentality Joel and Ellie to the museum’s abstraction exhibition, which opens connected a cleanable recreation of the game’s orrey room. This mechanical exemplary of the star strategy functions precisely arsenic it does successful the game, with the prima orb lighting up and the planets moving done their orbits erstwhile Ellie turns the crank.

Of course, it’s the adjacent country wherever the important worldly happens. There we find a large recreation of the overgrown rocket shuttle cockpit from the game. Ellie acquires her helmet successful a precise somewhat antithetic manner – successful the crippled she simply picks it up from a display, wherever successful the amusement she breaks a solid furniture to get 1 – but some versions remark that the helmet smells “like abstraction and dust”.

Inside the shuttle, Joel gives Ellie the portion that contains the lift-off recording. He does truthful with precisely the aforesaid dialogue: “This is thing that took a mighty effort to find.” The country past proceeds into a adjacent identical recreation of the “launch”, with the camera focused connected Ellie’s look arsenic the lighting replicates that of a abstraction mission. The lone existent quality is that wherever the game’s camera is locked straight connected Ellie’s look for the afloat duration of the sequence, the amusement sometimes uses a broadside space to amusement the shuttle’s model and the agleam airy pouring in.

Epilogue

The last series of this occurrence recreates The Last of Us Part 2’s epilogue, and truthful arrives overmuch earlier successful the amusement than it did successful the game. A flashback to the nighttime of Ellie’s buss with Dina and Joel’s consequent onslaught connected Seth, this country sees Joel and Ellie hash retired their issues and yet get astatine immoderate benignant of resolution. In the crippled it’s a almighty extremity constituent – a uncover that Ellie and Joel didn’t portion connected a atrocious note. It’s absorbing to spot that brought guardant to an earlier infinitesimal successful the story, wherever it present feels much similar play 2’s farewell to Joel.

Despite the relocation, the country remains mostly the same. Ellie arrives astatine Joel’s structure to find him drinking coffee. The dialog present is practically identical to the game’s script, with Joel explaining that he’s “a small embarrassed” astir what helium traded for the coffee. The duo proceed to sermon the aforesaid topics arsenic they did successful the game; Ellie’s complaints astir Joel’s behaviour astatine the dance, Joel quizzing Ellie connected Dina’s intentions. This each leads to the existent taxable astatine hand: what Joel did astatine the extremity of the archetypal game/season.

While the publication is broadly akin for this portion of the conversation, the characters are notably much distressed successful the show. The game’s code has ever been precise subtle, its characters precise reserved and stoic. In the show, there’s tears and breached voices from some sides. When Joel explains that, if fixed the chance, he’d marque the aforesaid determination again, successful the amusement helium expands connected those thoughts, saying that Ellie volition ne'er recognize the mode helium loves her. He ends by saying helium hopes that she’ll bash amended than helium did, should she ever person a kid of her own.

Both successful the crippled and show, Ellie concludes their speech by saying that she tin ne'er forgive Joel, but that she would similar to try. The country past cuts to achromatic successful the show, but there’s a small other successful the game, arsenic Joel responds that he’d “like that”. It’s a enactment that really makes the full series consciousness a small much uplifting – a anticipation that things whitethorn instrumentality to “normal”, oregon thing resembling it.

For much from The Last of Us, cheque retired our spoiler-free play 2 reappraisal and our spoiler-filled reappraisal of the sixth episode.

Matt Purslow is IGN's Senior Features Editor.