![]() ![]() ![]() We get a close-up of her conflicted face before she simply says: “OK.” Episode 8 Meeting the cannibals Photo: Liane Hentscher/HBOĮllie meets David (Scott Shepherd) and James (Troy Baker) in nearly the same way she does in the games: They’ve found the deer she’s hunted, they ask if they can share the meat since they have a lot of people to feed, and David sends James off to get some antibiotics for a trade. Ultimately, the game ends right where season 1 does: Ellie makes Joel swear that he’s telling the truth about the Fireflies, which he does. ![]() Next, Ellie wakes up in a car, and the dialogue is near identical to that of the game, in which Joel makes his big lie to Ellie: that there’s no hope for a cure. This happens in the video game as well: Joel kills the doctor (and the player can choose to kill the nurses, too - a grim choice). ![]() He quickly shoots the doctor before moving on. Joel’s murder spree is shown in the show very similarly to how it plays out in the video game, with Joel creeping through corridors to make his way up to the surgery room. It all happens so fast, and before you know it, Joel’s woken up in the hospital - and we all know what happens there. HBO’s The Last of Us skips through a huge playable section in the video game but gets right back on track with Joel getting knocked out and Ellie pulled into surgery. It’s painful to make the decision to move on from the scene while playing the game, pushing the two back into the violent world. We move through it pretty quickly in the adaptation, but it was exceptionally meaningful in the game - it comes as a reprieve from violent fighting, lingering on a moment where Ellie can just be happy. There was no doubt in anyone’s mind that this scene, where Ellie and Joel encounter a wild herd of giraffes in Salt Lake City, would make it into the show. It’s a famous part of The Last of Us, and it’s been memed for years. The infamous giraffe scene Photo: Liane Hentscher/HBO The ladder drop gets a nod in episode 9, too, in a moment that plays out exactly as it did in the game. Joel’s always boosting Ellie up for her to drop a ladder or crawl through a small window or crack in the wall to unlock a door. It happens over and over and over in The Last of Us. Anyone who has played the game will absolutely know: Cut through a building, find a skyscraper, and search out the city from there. Cut through the buildingĮllie makes a joke in episode 9 that’s a callback to the video game - talking to Joel about how they’re to go through the city. HBO’s The Last of Us teases that while Joel and Ellie are walking on the highway before getting to Seattle: Joel wants to teach Ellie how to play guitar (and flex those pipes of his). Photo: Liane Hentscher/HBO Learning to play guitarĮllie and her guitar are significant to The Last of Us Part 2 in the game, Joel teaches her to play between the events of Part 1 and Part 2. Anna in HBO’s The Last of Us is played by the original voice actor for Ellie, Ashley Johnson. Anna is first seen running through the woods and into an abandoned house, where she’s attacked by an infected person before giving birth to Ellie. Players never see Ellie’s mom in The Last of Us, but the HBO version starts its ninth episode with her giving birth to Ellie. Episode 9 Ellie’s mom (and Ellie’s voice actor) The Last of Us Part 1 felt like it so badly wanted to be a movie or show, and now the TV show is switching that up - at least in one way. And so it makes sense that HBO’s The Last of Us would do the same, to make subtle (and not-so-subtle) nods to all the The Last of Us-heads out there. Video games are known for their Easter eggs, the small and obscure references hidden as little surprises in the game. For dedicated fans of the game, the appeal of The Last of Us is not necessarily in being surprised by twists and turns of the story rather, it’s to see the franchise in a new light, picking out the little details that point back to the original media. HBO’s The Last of Us is a way to revisit the iconic and beloved video game of the same name - to revel in the ways it’s both unchanged and entirely different. ![]()
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