The first season of The Last of Us ended in one breath. Nine weeks we’ve had this dystopian and post-apocalyptic world created by him cordyceps fungus. I have yet to experience the pleasure of playing the video game that spawned this new hit. HBO (by the way, will they really be able to kill the platform name after the merge? discovery?), but it seems that throughout these chapters we are told the same thing as in the first installment of the game’s iconic title. play station. Viewer data for this latest episode confirms the show’s success: eight million viewers worldwide in a night competing with Oscar premiere. In round numbers, it’s a million less viewers than the end of The House of the Dragon (the prequel to Game of Thrones), but it’s clearly one of the series of the year. The machinery of the industry is already working so that the goose that lays the golden egg continues to lay eggs, and that the goose that lays the golden egg lays eggs. season two more than confirmed. Of course, the events in the sequel will be split into two more seasons, as there are currently only two episodes of the game. This gives programmers time to develop. Third part for playguarantees the series will continue for a few more years. We have fewer books ahead of us than Game of Thrones, and nothing goes to waste.
I still haven’t watched the last season of The Walking Dead. He’s making me ball. However, the arrival of The Last of Us shows us that the apocalyptic genre is far from extinct or that it tires its audience. The problem with the series of living dead he created Robert Kirkman The main thing is that their characters stop caring about us. It caused so much relief in distribution that we no longer even remember where the leftovers came from. In The Last of Us, everything is always Joel and Ellie (Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey). Deep down, the HBO series is a lot like the procedural titles of a lifetime, where their protagonists come to a new place every week where everything turns upside down. We met new secondary characters in each episode and had to never return in the next episodes.
HE Third part It made a big impact especially because of the usual homophobic crowds who were outraged by this love story between two men who were already in their fifties at the apocalypse. The only thing that disappointed me about the episode in question was that everything we were told had little effect on what happened next, other than explaining why the heroes died. a vehicle and weapons. And the secret code of the songs broadcast on the radio cooled me a little. At least it was the perfect excuse to put on that great song. Depeche Mode. yes good episode
Since genre canons prevail, the underlying maxim of the series is: Man is a wolf to man. It’s scary to come across infected people, yes, but human villains are much worse. And all will be discovered at the end of this first season our hero is not as heroic as we think. Or maybe yes? That’s why we’re already entering the sensitive spoiler realm. It remains alert.
Joel and Tess warned Ellie from the very beginning: “we are not good“. And the last episode showed us the most human side of Joel. Whether there’s a heroic aspect remains debatable. The entire series revolved around that quest. fireflies because in the little girl’s body is the key to ending the nightmare of the world-ending infection. As always, there is a problem. To find the cure, Ellie has to die. We’re so used to seeing this ultimate sacrifice your heroes to save the world. (We’ll talk about the outcome of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which is very different from that in the coming weeks.) Somehow, we assumed that Ellie would agree to sacrifice herself or that there would be a way to get the cure without her having to. to die.
But Joel has something to say about it. During these months of travel, he has forged a bond with Ellie that he never suspected. His relationship with the young woman has succeeded in closing the great void that has caused him in his soul. death of his daughter at the beginning of the series and now is not willing to relive all this. And if you have to fuck everybody for it, so be it. Joel’s final rescue of Ellie is very similar to what we saw in the first season of The Mandalorian, the other big success of Pedro Pascal, the protagonist of both series. After Mando surrenders Grogu (Baby Yoda) to the Empire, he regrets it and goes to save the little green man from the clutches of evil scientists who want to clone him. And since then, the two of them have been traveling the galaxy, having new adventures and avoiding their pursuers until we arrive. at the beginning of the third season.
Joel also saved Ellie but saved the world from the possibility of a cure. Is it worth a world that sacrifices the life of an innocent to save itself? The problem is Joel shuns any possibility of Ellie making any decisionsgoes so far as to lie to him about the effectiveness of the treatment in his blood. She is secretly afraid that Ellie, who knows the truth, might decide otherwise. Joel will do anything to keep her by his side, even kill him in cold blood, and we can’t blame him for that.