The science seems dubious ( nothing new for this show), but the origin story lends the episode a sad symmetry. This week, we saw that happen: Evidently, the few seconds between the bite and the cutting of the umbilical cord were enough for Anna to make antibodies that imparted protection to Ellie. By then, Anna had already been bitten, which fueled fan theories that Anna had been infected just before Ellie’s birth, leading to Ellie being born immune. In the game, Ellie carries a letter that her mother wrote to her less than a day after Ellie was born. There’s a lot of TV out there. We want to help: Every week, we’ll tell you the best and most urgent shows to stream so you can stay on top of the ever-expanding heap of Peak TV. (If you thought Joel’s recovery from an infected stab wound was quick, time Anna’s labor I’m pretty sure my wife would’ve opted for the farmhouse-floor delivery-even with the Infected midwife-when our daughter was born if she knew it would be over that fast.)
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As Druckmann said in 2013, “Through Ashley’s input, Ellie became much more capable than we initially conceived.” Just as Johnson helped give life to digital Ellie, she brings TV Ellie into the world. Her appearance, following original Joel actor Troy Baker’s turn as James last week, is a fitting tribute to an actor who had a huge impact on not only Ellie’s look, but also her personality.
Ashley Johnson, who played Ellie in the game, plays Ellie’s similarly foul-mouthed mother, Anna. The first comes early on, when we witness Ellie’s birth. In addition to recreating some of the game’s most memorable moments, the finale confirms a couple of character details that the game only hints at in optional readings and dialogues that many players never encountered. Let’s back up a bit from Joel’s decision to save Ellie at humanity’s expense-and his even-more-devastating decision to deceive her about what he did, at the possible expense of their relationship. Its potential to provoke and dissatisfy is precisely what made it indelible in 2013, and it’s just as ambiguous and agonizing in 2023. The ending of the series, Bella Ramsey predicted before the finale, would “divide people massively-massively.” That was a safe bet because the game’s ending already divided its audience a decade ago. That’s never been more true than in the series’ faithful last act, which preserved the game denouement’s moments of joy and despair, connection and schism, and catharsis and discontent. At the end of the short and bittersweet “Look for the Light,” only three things matter: Joel, Ellie, and the monstrous-yet entirely fathomable-lie that lives between them.Ĭocreated by the writer of the game and one of its fans, The Last of Us has always known when not to mess with its source material, which was uncommonly well-suited to TV. It’s rare for the finale to be a season’s most succinct episode, but by the conclusion of Joel and Ellie’s cross-country road trip/killing spree, there are no more detours to take and no more supplementary stories to tell. It’s telling, then, that the finale runs a relatively trim 43 minutes-the same length as the last episode of a Druckmann-approved cinematic playthrough. Those studies of the one-time NPCs in the leading duo’s orbit turned TLOU into a must-see series, even for fans who had the game memorized, bolstering the beats of the existing story without making the show miss the marks it had to hit.
Within those extra hours are the additive digressions that cocreators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann wove into the TV version to flesh out the journey of Joel and Ellie: the decades-long romance of Bill and Frank, the character of Kathleen, and the backstories of Sam and Henry. It takes almost nine hours (counting the title sequences and credits) to watch the HBO adaptation. It takes somewhere in the vicinity of six to seven hours to watch a cinematic playthrough of The Last of Us and its downloadable story expansion, Left Behind.
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