Hey you! Stop reading this if you haven’t watched “Through the Valley”, the second episode of season 2 of “The Last of Us”, because We are about to spoil very great things! Seriously! I warned you!

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Well, it happened. Fans of the naughty dog ​​game “The Last of Us Part II”, the largely acclaimed sequence of “The Last of Us” from 2013, knew that it was going to happen for a while, but that did not look easier. Joel Miller, the protagonist of history to this point played in the HBO adaptation of Pedro Pascal, died, killed by a girl named Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) after killing Abby’s father, years earlier. This takes place in front of the daughter of Joel’s substitution, Ellie, played in the series of Bella Ramsey, and watching her scream at Joel for “Get Up” – And crawl to his bloody corpse after Abby led the sharp stem of a golf club in his neck – is simply incredibly brutal.

On the social media platform Twitter (or x, if you are a nerd), people have made their feelings knownlike the user @URBLUESTDAYS Who twinned photos of Joel with Abby, Ellie, Dina (Isabela Merced), and his own daughter Sarah (Nico Parker) with austere thought: “[Joel] could not save his daughter, so he protected each adolescent fucking * MN until she kills him. “Critical @zoerosebrantant Adding a photo of the novel Roy of Kieran Culkin to his father’s funeral on the “succession” begging people to take out the body of his father “from his coffin with the legend” to see [Joel’s] body in this bag at the end of the episode.

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In the meantime, @Jarettsays Was just exasperated that no one gave them a warning: “#Thelastofus the players of the game knew all this time that Joel was going to die and you did not warn me?!?” @ Lec16rcz realized that Ellie missed time with her substitution father, simply noting: “[Ellie] wanted to go patrolling with [Joel] And he said he let her sleep and died. @Kiescleo estimated: “The way you can see Joel try to lift his body from the ground … for her. Even at the end.” So you have @SunFlWrpascalwho took a special note from something that Abby said to Joel before killing him: “At least [Joel] knew people thought it was beautiful before his death.

Obviously, there will always be a gap between longtime fans of video games and the HBO series, and with regard to Joel’s death on the screen on “The Last of Us”, some of the first came on social networks to discuss how they think that the show managed it. A bit like @ElliesbagpinPrefer the game version: “I think [Joel’s] Death has been well executed, but I personally do not think that in mind or in competition with the game kinematics and people who have never played the game never feel what the players felt. “”

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On the reverse, @giannaispunk mentioned a specific choice made by Bella Ramsey and said it was Righter than the game, saying: “[Ellie] crawl [Joel’s] body and hugs next to him … It was much worse than the game. “(slap in the middle, @shivmcavoy Published a compilation of people who were screaming with horror with the succinct legend, “Me looking at Joel Die even if I played the game.”)

Then there is @HumentuilaumeWho wrote an ode to the version of the series of this scene and started by renting the sequence to be as heartbreaking as that of the game (and also saying: “Kaitlyn Dever is exceptional”, which is absolutely correct). He continued, however:

“But if you like the show, please also play the game, whether you are a player or not. Although the show is fantastic, playing the character of Ellie, then playing as a abby, gives a depth and a perspective that you cannot feel without being even aware. Shoes.

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The point here is that the Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann showrunners – the latter, helped create the original naughty dog ​​games to start – worked alongside the director of the Mark Mylod episode and his stars Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey and Kaitlyn Dever to create something incredibly unforgettable. In fact, it is SO Unforgettable that some fans, such as the magazine People Magazine Digital News Writer @raventbrunnerseems to be fair in denial: “Everything is fine [because] He’s going to wake up right? He will recover, and everything will be fine. Joel and Ellie forever, right? “” @pascalcoded Had two devastating sockets, starting with an achievement that gives to think: “The way Joel tried to move when Ellie said” getting up “, as he wanted, as he would do if he could … who broke me.” Their other position was still dark and sad, but furious; As they wrote“”[Joel] Has literally saved the life of his own killer and the more I think about it, the more I get angry. “”

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Another fan, @Elliespunditreferenced the fact that “Through the Valley” adds a huge battle sequence in Jackson’s bastionLeaving Joel’s brother, Tommy (Gabriel Luna) fighting for his life among an infected horde. “The image of Jackson Burning was one of the last things Joel saw before his death,” they wrote. “He died without knowing if Tommy was safe.” In the game, Tommy is with Joel when they meet Abby and his friends, and Abby takes revenge; In the show, Joel is with Ellie’s best friend and another figure of substitution girl, Dina, rather. At least one spectator loved this choice; as @Noradominick wrote: “The [Joel] And [Dina] Dynamic in the show is my favorite addition until now and it is absolutely overwhelming soul. The fact that [Dina] was in the room now, unable to do anything. “In the end, we can all agree on a feeling, expressed beautifully by @Madinthemoon: “No one could have played Joel Miller as Pedro Pascal did.” That is to say without a doubt true.

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