Do not go out on patrol if you have not seen the first of season 2 of “The Last of Us” or that you have not played “The Last of Us Part II”. Spoilers Lie.

When “The Last of Us Part II” released in 2020, fans could have been a unconfused When, after having played as an element for a little while, the game suddenly passes to a character who is initially identified only as “woman”. As she crosses a snowy tundra behind “man”, the two bicker a little before crossing a steep mountainside; When “woman” almost falls, we learn that her name is Abby, and hers is Owen.

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If you have played all of the Naughty Dog Game – produced by Neil Druckmann, who directs the HBO adaptation with a small screen with the showrunner “Chernobyl” Craig Mazin – you know that the mission of the pair, such as, is to find Joel in the colony of Jackson, Wyoming and try to take revenge. Now let’s go to the first season of the HBO Show, which ends with Joel – played in the series of Pedro Pascal – Massaging his way through a Fortune Hospital in Firemen to save her parish and her alternative daughter, Ellie (Bella Ramsey) as Fireflies are preparing to kill Ellie in surgery, using his immunity from the cordyceps virus to find a remedy. Joel ends up killing everyone … including an unarmed doctor. The doctor’s daughter, Abby, is played in the series by the new actor Kaitlyn Dever, and the way the series manages her introduction is very differentmarking a huge change in the game.

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The game leaves you in darkness like Abby for a while in large part because it strengthens the suspense masterfully; You do not fully understand how Abby relates to the main story, Joel or Ellie for a good time but because you play Like his characterIt is in your interest to keep it alive. However, when you discover Abby d’Abby, you might want to let her die in the hands of an infected horde … But again, the show changes the perspective with a new interpretation of the material.

If you not Played for matches, it may seem a very small adjustment for the second season of “The Last of Us”. Why is it important that Abby and his crew are among the first people we see during the first of season 2, and also, why do we know with certainty that Abby hunts Joel in the series, but it left a mystery in the game?

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These two different approaches in the same story give exactly a perfect example of how to adapt something like a video game for the small screen. By having the ABBY player controlled without any information towards the start of the game, it increases the plot around his character, forcing the players to guess who she is, why she is even relevant and sympathizing with her while the tension is built. THE Perfect The way of expressing this tension in the show is that viewers immediately learn that Joel is in Abby’s reticle for having killed his father; In this way, We Know that he is in danger, but he Has no idea – and Ellie, who does not find himself in disagreement with his paternal figure of fortune after the time jump which starts season 2 of “The Last of Us” in seriousness.

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The fact that Joel is prey instead of Predator for the first episode of season 2 of “The Last of Us” – especially when you consider that the final blow is Abby and his gang which looks at the Jackson New Year’s festivities – sets up a confrontation between him and Abby, although we do not know when he will come to a head. So what is the intention behind this change? Fortunately, we TO DO Know why the show changed things.

During a press conference by / film before the premiere of season 2 of “The Last of Us”, showrunner Neil Druckmann explained why they made this change, and again, it really managed to create the same story in two different mediums.

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“There are two reasons why we have changed certain contexts or moved certain things in history,” said Druckmann. “One of them, in the game … You start the game and you play as Abby, so you immediately form an empathetic connection with it because you survive like it. You are browsing the snow, you are fighting infected. And we could support certain things and make a mystery that will be revealed later in history. We could not do this in the series because you don’t need it. context gave us that the short duration. “

Druckmann then stressed that they had done something similar in the first season of the show. Joel’s daughter, Sarah, has played on the series by Nico Parker, is the point of view for the start of the 2013 game “The Last of Us”, but you cannot reproduce this in the series; Instead, we follow Sarah throughout her day during the television series driverOnly to be video when it was killed at the start of the epidemic. Finally, Druckmann said that everything was summed up in timing.

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“And another reason is where this revelation [about Abby’s backstory] Performs in the game, if we were to stick to a very similar chronology, viewers should wait very, very long to obtain this context. He would probably be spoiled for the seasons, and we didn’t want this. It therefore seemed appropriate for these reasons to move it and give viewers this context from the start. “”

“The Last of Us” broadcasts new episodes on Sunday at 9 p.m. HNE on Max and HBO.