The Last of Us actually did it – you know what I’m talking about – in Season 2 Episode 2, and if you played the game, you may have noticed two big differences.
Last week’s The Last of Us Season 2 premiere introduced audiences to a pivotal character: Abby, an ex-Firefly hellbent on killing Joel “slowly” after the Salt Lake City massacre.
In Episode 2, she finally gets her revenge. After inadvertently leading himself to his own execution when he saved Abby from a horde, she shoots him in the leg and beats him to death with a golf club – and Ellie is forced to watch as he dies.
It is a horrific scene that’ll no doubt become infamous, much like its video game counterpart. However, the series did make two important changes.
Joel’s death had two changes in The Last of Us Season 2
Joel’s death is almost exactly the same as The Last of Us game… apart from Abby finishing him off by stabbing him in the neck, and the fact he was on patrol with Dina.
In Part 2, the order is a bit different. Joel goes on patrol with Tommy, which is when he finds and saves Abby from a horde of infected, and she leads them back to the house where Owen and the rest of her group are staying.
Just like in the episode, everything is very civil at first… until everyone realizes that it’s Joel. Abby shoots him in the leg with a shotgun, and Tommy gets knocked out before he can do anything.
From there, it goes down very similarly, bar a couple of lines of dialogue that didn’t make it into the show; for example, Joel telling her, “Why don’t you say whatever speech you’ve got rehearsed and get this over with.”
In the game, just like in the show, Ellie finds the house and gets pinned to the ground before she can stop Abby. She begs him to get up, but Abby batters his head with the golf club and “ends it.” In Episode 2, it’s implied that Abby beat him so hard with the club that it broke the head off of it, hence why she uses the sharp remainder of the club to stab him.
The change with Joel and Dina is especially interesting, and it speaks to the show’s expansion of their dynamic; in the game, they barely speak to each other.
HBO“There’s a lot of creative liberties they took with, obviously, [Neil Druckmann’s] consent, because I think they wanted everything to just be more well-rounded,” Isabela Merced told Screen Rant.
“If she’s Ellie’s best friend, they would have interacted. And so this is an opportunity to see how and I think they have a very light, warm relationship, where he’s like the fun uncle, and she can confide in him, and he can confide in her.
“But mostly, you know their point where they really connect is their love for Ellie that they both have and share. And I think Dina, when we see her, she’s sort of noticing this rift between them and trying to mend that.”
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