Stop reading now if you haven’t watched the second episode of season 2 of “The Last of Us” – major spoilers Lie.
In the second episode of The second season of “The Last of Us” ,, “ Something huge happens … and I am not Talking about the major death that occurs just before the end of the episode. What me am Talking About is the Assault on the Protecté Fortress in Jackson, Wyoming where Pretty Much All of the Show’s Main Characters Now Live, Including Joel Miller (Pedro Pascal), His surrogate Daughter Ellie (Bella Ramsey), Joel’s Brother Tommy (Gabriel Luna) and Tommy’s Wife Maria (Rutina Wesley), and Ellie’s Friends (and Newcomers in Season 2) Dina and Jesse, Played respectively by Isabela Merced and Young Mazino.
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While Joel and Dina are on a follow -up mission, Ellie and Jesse are also blocked in the same snowstorm affecting the visibility of the previous duo in the woods, Tommy, Maria and the rest of Jackson face an invasion of an infected crowd. (In the premiere of the season, “Future Days”, we see emerging spins of a pipe in the center of Jackson, and we know from season 1 that those who act essentially as a homing tag for infected hordes). While women and children snuggle up in a bunker to hide from the infected “army”, Tommy and other fighters put themselves in the ramparts, armed with explosives, flame throwers and all kinds of long-range tools intended to attack the infected; Once the extremely heavy reinforced door of Jackson is raped, Tommy fights on the ground with everyone and Jackson dogs even join the fray (although, fortunately, it does not seem that one of them was seriously injured).
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The Co -showrunner Craig Mazin (who wrote the script) and the daring choice of director Mark Mylod to include this scene – which, in particular, Does not happen In The Naughty Dog Game “The Last of Us Part II” – in the episode that presents the death of Joel is daring, and yet the episode does not feel overloaded. Instead, it simply looks like an ode to large battle scenes that we have seen before … twinned with the culmination of the revenge mission of Abby (Kaitlyn Dever).
This battle scene on the last of us starts classic sequences in other television and films sequences
An interesting thing about “The Last of Us” is that, at its nominal value, it is a program on “an apocalypse zombie”, but the spectacle concerns much more the emotional life of the survivors of a zombie apocalypse with some action and combat scenes launched from time to time. This is why the battle scene of this episode is so important – and once again, it was a play created exclusively for the HBO series (which is supervised by Mazin and the director of the original game, Neil Druckmann. While watching this episode, “Game of Thrones” came in mind, just like “The Two Towers”, the second installation in the “Lord of the Rings”.
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“Game of Thrones” presented a tonne Battles throughout its race, from the first major battle sequence of season 2 “Blackwater” at the Battle of the bastards of season 6 between Jon Snowston (Kit Harington) and Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon) at the battle of Winterfell in the last season of the series. The siege of Jackson had the impression of being inspired by several of them, women and children hiding on the battlefield (as they do both in Blackwater and the Battle of Winterfell) on the massive scale of blood effusion, but it is also important to remember that these battles were mainly fought between humans (with a few dragons thrown for the right measure).
The battle of Helm’s Deep, which is the main objective of “The Two Towers”, “ was also clearly an inspiration here – especially because this battle is one of the most famous and influential battles on the screen in any film or television program in the modern era. The point here is that Mark Mylod, who produced this episode (and worked on non-Battetant episodes of “Game of Thrones”), was inspired by the main television and films for this sequence, and he shows; It is a spectacular and unforgettable sequence even when you consider what is happening elsewhere in this episode.
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This episode of The Last of Us presents a huge death – but the battle scene also has an incredible impact
I mentioned earlier that, in this episode of “The Last of Us”, Joel dies. He is brutally murdered by Abby, who has been driving him away for several years after Joel killed his father in a deadly outburst in a Firefly hospital. (He did it to save EllieBut not only does Abby not know that, he probably should not have killed all these people.) Joel’s death in the hands of Abby East A major part of “The Last of Us Part II”, so whoever knows the game knows that it happens in the second season of the HBO adaptation (and probably started to fight after Abby and Joel meet and just escape a horde of infects in the desert). Obviously, Joel’s death will have a lasting impact on the program in the future … But the seat also on Jackson!
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As Joel and Ellie crossed a breakdown United States, they were in danger almost constant – and Jackson, before the headquarters, is one of the only safe places we saw in the show. It was, until the attack, very well protected, and considering that Tommy and many other fighters TO DO Survive the assault, their protections have also clearly worked, to a certain extent … But what happens now? Jackson still houses a whole group of survivors, and they need a place to live functional and not a weak target. This battle scene is incredible to see, but it also has major ramifications for the season, and proves that nowhere is really safe in the world of “The Last of Us”.
You can watch new episodes of “The Last of Us” every Sunday on HBO and Max at 9 p.m. HNE.
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