The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 3: TV Show vs Game Comparison

The pursuing nonfiction contains spoilers for The Last of Us play 2, occurrence 3.

This week’s occurrence of The Last of Us takes a infinitesimal to grieve and respire aft past week’s showstopper. It besides takes a small detour from the game; overmuch of this occurrence depicts the absorption of Jackson’s radical to the events they’ve conscionable suffered, and their ballot connected if they should prosecute Abby oregon not. This is each archetypal worldly for the show, and truthful there’s really precise fewer scenes successful this occurrence that are taken consecutive from the game.

There are 4 cardinal sequences from this occurrence that are recreations of moments from the game, and present we’ve compared them against the archetypal root material, analysing what’s changed and what’s stayed the same. You tin spot some versions successful the video above, oregon work connected beneath for our written explanations.

Joel’s House

Following the harrowing execution of Joel successful occurrence 2, Ellie visits her deceased father-figure’s location to mourn. As successful the game, the beforehand gait is covered successful flowers near by the residents of Jackson. Unlike the game, though, Ellie enters unsocial alternatively than accompanied by Dina.

The show’s mentation of Joel’s location features galore of the aforesaid props that decorated this determination successful the game, including his store country afloat of carved animals. In Joel’s bedroom, the furniture linen is the aforesaid bluish and achromatic sheets. More importantly there’s the aforesaid reddish container connected the furniture that contains his signature items: the breached ticker and his revolver. Ellie takes these and holsters the revolver successful the waistband of her jeans, conscionable arsenic she does successful the game.

Tommy’s Plans

The request for revenge begins to emergence erstwhile Ellie talks to Tommy astir what happened. While the wide strokes of this country are the aforesaid successful some amusement and game, peculiarly successful tone, the existent mounting and words are not recreated one-to-one. In some versions Ellie is aggravated and frustrated that Tommy wants to beryllium much sensible astir their adjacent move, and truthful tonally the scenes match. However, wherever successful the crippled this speech takes spot successful a quiet, backstage country betwixt conscionable the 2 of them, successful the amusement it’s conducted retired successful the unfastened with Dina present.

In presumption of dialog determination are adjacent matches – some versions of Ellie accidental that Joel “would beryllium halfway to Seattle by now” if the concern was reversed. Both versions of Tommy besides enactment that Jackson would beryllium near vulnerable, though successful the amusement this is simply a wide notation to the anterior episode’s horde onslaught alternatively than the game’s much wide assessment. In some scenarios Tommy says it’s yet up to Maria arsenic to if they get to hunt down Abby, but successful the amusement helium says that it volition request to spell to a afloat municipality vote, portion the crippled mentation says helium expects determination volition beryllium “folks she tin spare”.

The Ride to Seattle

Ellie and Dina caput retired to Seattle connected horseback successful hunt of Abby and her group. In some versions Dina asks Ellie to callback the archetypal idiosyncratic she killed, and Ellie proceeds to explicate however she saved Joel from a bandit successful the archetypal game/season. While the show’s dialog is not an nonstop lucifer to the game’s script, the details are mostly the aforesaid – Joel was attacked and Ellie pulled the trigger to prevention him. The speech is longer successful the game, however, arsenic Dina reciprocates with her ain communicative of her archetypal kill.

Later, the brace observe an overgrown car, which they see a motion that they’re yet adjacent to Seattle. This is, again, broadly akin to a infinitesimal from the game, adjacent if the dialog enactment is not a one-to-one match.

6 retired of 10

Later successful the occurrence we spot Ellie and Dina camped retired successful a tent. Before lights out, Dina asks Ellie a question: however would she complaint their buss astatine the creation retired of 10? This infinitesimal is simply a recreation of a country from the game, but the timing and contented of this speech is notably antithetic to the archetypal crippled version.

In the game, Dina asks Ellie to complaint the buss portion they are smoking marijuana astatine Eugene’s weed den. As we cognize from past week’s episode, this doesn’t hap successful the amusement since it is Jesse, not Dina, who accompanies Ellie to Eugene’s den. It’s not conscionable the clip and determination of this speech that is altered, though. In the show, Ellie says that she’d complaint the buss a six, thing that Dina is playfully upset about. In the game, it’s flipped – Ellie hesitates to answer, and truthful Dina says she’d people it a “solid six”. The 2 interpretations showcase precise antithetic dynamics; Dina successful the crippled is overmuch much assured and knows however to propulsion Ellie’s strings – she enjoys teasing her. Dina successful the show, meanwhile, is depicted arsenic much “teenage” successful her approach, which emphasises the “young girls successful the apocalypse” constituent of their emotion story.

For much from The Last of Us, cheque retired our spoiler-free play 2 reappraisal and our spoiler-filled reappraisal of the 3rd episode. We’ve besides looked astatine however the changes to Abby person affected the mode the amusement handled Joel’s death, and spoken to Kaitlyn Dever astir however her mentation of Abby is “so overmuch more” than her rage.

Matt Purslow is IGN's Senior Features Editor.