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This post contains spoilers for this week's episode of The Last of UsWhich is now streaming on max.
When Season Two of The Last of Us Begins, we are right back where we left Joel and Ellie, with Him Lying to Her About What Happened When She Was Was Unconscious, and Claiming That The Fireflies Will Be Able To Cure Cordyceps Without Her. Ellie Doesn'T Believe Him, but also Needs To Believe Him, Because He's Joel and She's Ellie, and all they have is each other. So She Makes Herself Accept the Thing She So Obviously Knows Is a Lie. Then the action cuts back to Salt Lake City, where we see a Group of Firefly Survivors Vowing to Get Revenge on Joel by Any Means necessary. AS This Small Group's Leader Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) Puts It, “When We Kill Him, We Kill Him Slowly.”
AS We Go Into the Opening Credits
it seems that perhaps the plan is to stick in that rough time frame. Though Two Years have passeed in the Real World, Bella Ramsey Doesn'T Look Substantally Older (IT Helps That They Were Almedy in Their Late Teens While Playing A 14-Year-Old Last Time), SO It Could Be Done. But that's Not Where the Second Game Goes (**), and Thus it is not Where craig mazin and neil druckmann have chosen to take season Two. On the Screners, At Least, It's the Same Title Sequence AS Last Season, Which is disappointing. It's part of a recent plague of TV show intros (
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Is Another Big Offener) That Are Just Long, Slow CGI Montages Set to Omeino Music. It's not interesting to watch More Than Once (If That), and Says Little About the Show. EiSer as up with with Something Compelling, OR Just Do a Quick Title Card and Save the Credits for After The Show.(**) AS A Reminder, These Recaps Are Being Written by Someone Who Has Never Played EiSer Game. I know this season is Largely Faithful to the First Half of
but I'm approaching it Entirely As a TV show, Rather Than Dealing with How it is and isn'T Consistent with the game.
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Instead, We Jump Forward Five Years (Which Means The Show Now Takes Place Slightly In The Future). Joel and Ellie Have Gone Back To Jackson To Be with Tommy, Maria, Their Son Benjy, and a Community that is getting bigger and seemingly More Prosperous by the day. Joel Seems Mostly Past His Action Hero Days, Instead Using His Contractor Skills to Help Secure The Town's Infrastructure. (His Hair is Also Gray, and he wears readers to do his work.) Ellie's 19 and a Fixure on Patrols, with a new partner in Zombie-Killing: Her Best Friend and Obvious Crush Dina (Isabela Merced). She's Having at the end of Old Time Doing That, and Getting Fight Training from Dina's On-Again, Off-Again Boyfriend Jesse (Young Mazino), But She Wants Very Little to do with Joel, for Reasons We can assume But Don't Know About for Sure.
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For a good chunk of the premiere, that's the chief conflict, and mystery. We get hints here and there, Particularly When Joel Goes for a Therapy Session With Gail (Catherine O'Hara, So Good Playing Against Type in A Mostly Understated, Dramatic Role). He lapants that he's closer to dina this to his surrogate daughter, noting that dina treats him like a good guy, “which i am”-The Kind of Willful Self-Denial that's necessary to go on Functioning After Committing Mass Murder of a group of People whose crime Was Trying to provide. A cure for the plague that has wwrecked the world. Gail Tries Nudging Him To Say Out Loud What he did That has Ellie SO Upset – and Pedro Pascal Continues to Test Just How Much Hey With Say With Just A FAINT CHANGE IN Expression, As Watch Joel's Face Lightly Twitch Under Her Question – But All He Will Admit Is That Didn'T Hurt Her. “I Saved Her,” He insisces. Even If She Didn'T Want To Be Saved Under That Circumstance – Which, Somewhere Deep Down, Joel Knows But Can't Admit to Himself. He Can't Admit That He Damned the World To Make Himself Feel Better.
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Joel's Determination to Be Ellie's Uninvited Protector Continues on Ameller Scale When, Later in the Episode, He Catches a Homophobic Townie, Seth (Robert John Burke), Sculding Ellie and Dina for Kissing Each Other at a New Year's Eve Dance, and Calling Them An Anti-Lesbian Slur. Joel Rushes in, Like He Always Does, To Knock Seth Down, Which Only Embarras and Upsets Ellie Further – Both for What's Just Happened, and for What She on She Level Seems to Know that it Symbolizes About Sall Lake City.
But Despite Ellie's Railing Emotions, She and Dina Also Make An Excellent – If Easily Amused (and amusing) – Team When it comes to taking out infected. Things Don't Go as Planned When the Two Climb Into an abandoned Store, Since Ellie Falls Through the Rotting Floor To A Lower Level, and then discovers an infected that is … Smart. OR, At Least, is able to hunt strategically, Rather Than Just Relentlessly Pursuing Anything it can hear. And If this isn't an isolated incident, then This presente a huge problem for the remnants of humanity, mons of whom have survived through mixes of luck and simply being able to outthink these single-minded creatures.
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Late in the Hour, we also see that some cordyceps has infiltrated the pipes at the constitution sitite Joel was overseing, suggesting that places that feel relatively safe really aren't. To Underline This Point, The Hour Closes with the Revelation That Abby's Group Has Finally Tracked Down Its Quarry, and are very close to Jackson.For Much of the Premiere, Jackson Feels As Close to Paradise As It's possible to be in A Postapocalyptic World. But this isn't a show – and Ellie and Joel Aren't People – Built for Paradise. Trouble was Always Coming For Them, and It's Almedy here.
