Joel Flashback explained in the last episode of the United States in the second season.

Do not go to the museum or hang on the balcony if you don’t see the “price”, the penultimate episode of the second season of “The Last of Us”. The main spoilers I am waiting.

In “The Price”, the second episode to the event of the Sophomore season of “The Last of Us”, we see a familiar face: Joel Miller, the champion of the previous series Pedro Pascal plays. When you think about it Joel dies Incredible Lynn death in episode 2, “Through the Valley”, “ Thanks to Kaitlyn Dever, this may seem to be reckless … but the episode is listed in Flashback, highlighting his highest level in Joel’s relationship and his alternative daughter Elie (Bella Ramsey). In an interview with Neil Drukman, who created the 2013 video game “The Last of Us” for Naughty Dog and completed the year 2020 and “Price” – Druckmann spoke to the way they changed the game structure, which disintegrates its memories intermittently. Instead, we get everyone From the unseen content Joel and Eli in the “price”. As Drotman said Hollywood ObserverThis was an essential part of adaptation, which is also I did not want the audience to be used to the presence of Joel again.

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“Yes, let me talk to you about our thinking,” said Druckmann after the interview. “You are right that in the game, these scenes are diverged, and sometimes hours away from it. If we diverge these scenes and planted them throughout the season, I think they will not go down strongly because they are short moments and work better when they are next to each other, and you can only remember what is last again.

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And continuing his thinking, Nile Drogman said that he and Crigij Mazin needed Joel to be severely wrapped on “The Last of Us”, which is logical; His death is horrific and stagnant in each of the game and the offer. “It was important that the audience, like the characters, Miss Joel,” Drukman went. “So we were killing him early in this season, we decided not to show him again until the end of the season. Then the issue of where it should have landed. It was appropriate to land after Elie committed only from the darker, and the most violent act of her in her life – the appearance” look at this character. “

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Elie “Get Destroy and More Work” It happens in the previous episode, “I felt her love”, when a group of Abe, Nora (Tatti Gabriel) was tormented for the place of Abe. Although Nora has cheese, and she is about to become a coma, Elie is unabated, surpassing the woman with a tube for information. This moment until It is difficult, as well as Joel’s death, after watching the “price”. Yes, by the time when the episode ends, we fell completely on the tremendous rift between Joel and Eli, and its climax in their conversation on Joel Shafa (more about it in a second) shortly before Joel’s death. before Nevertheless, we see a handful of Christmas that Elie and Joel celebrated together and see some of their sweetest moments, such as when Joel Elie takes to the abandoned air and space museum or when he calms her after her arm is burned strongly (the person who suffers from the affected sting that afflicts it as immunity). As for the scene of this balcony, it is possible that the last minute that we will see between Joel and Eli, and watching it playing in this series amazingly emotional, is somewhat due to the shows of Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal.

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Elsewhere, Thr’s interview, James Hebird focuses on the balcony scene between Joel and Elie and asks why Neil Drogman and Criging Mazin did not save this very important moment at the end of the second season. Drukman said is Not Ludiation to do that. “No, but let’s assume that we can shoot, carry it and reveal it later,” he said. “Craig brought this to me and I bought it immediately: (indicated) that when you buy the game, you have the entire story. You can play everything in two days. We have to take into account that the story is delivered a week after week, and its season by a season, with more story that is possible after years.

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After Hibberd indicated that some online criticism noted that Abby not only robbed the Ellie’s father, but an opportunity for Elie to forgive Joel – Specifically, to save her life at the end of the first season and is likely to prevent the treatment of Cordycep Virus – Druckmann was on board. “I agree with this interpretation, because we see that Joel is harmful to Elie, perhaps the worst possible way – by taking the choice away from her to honor the people who died on her journey to hand her to the wreaths,” said DroCan. “Eli is very angry, and she means that when she says:” I don’t know whether I can forgive you for that, but I would like to try. “She wanted to move towards this forgiveness, because I think she understood – as much as Joel hurts her – his motivation was unconditional love, and she shares this unconditional love for him.

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In the end, it provides the balcony scene some ending. Joel tells Elie’s tears that he will take the same option in Al -Yaure Hospital a thousand times because of the amount of what he loves, and Elie, says Druckmann, towards forgiveness. However, nothing is arranged or clean at all on “The Last of Us”, which Druckmann explains exactly: “It is sweet and it was because he was finally honest with it and confessed to their love for each other in this scene, but they did not return to that when we saw them in their happiest in the Space Museum.”

The conclusion of the second season of “The Last Of Us” is decreased on the appropriate HBO Max and HBO on Sunday, May 25 at 9 pm