Don't go out on a patrol if you haven't seen the premiere of Season 2 of "The Last of Us" or you haven't played "the last of us Part II". Spoilers Lies forward.

When the "Last of Us Part II" was released in 2020, fans may have been A. a little confused When, after playing like Eli for a while, the game changes the focus of a character who only originally identified as "a woman". As she passes with a snowy tundra behind the "man", the two are quarreling a little before crossing the steep mountain; When the "Woman" falls almost, we learn that her name is Abi and his ram.

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If you have played in full for the disobedient game with dogs - directed by Neil Drrakman, who used the HBO small screen adaptation with the Chernobyl Mersian show - you know that the couple's mission, as it is, is to find ELOEL in the Aksex, Wygskon neighborhood. Let's now turn now in the first season of the HBO show, which ends with ELOEL - played in the Pedro Pascal series Killing his way through a makeshift hospital at fireflies to save his department and surrogate daughter, Eli (White Ramsey) like Firefighters are preparing to kill Eli in surgery using her immunity from the Cordyceps virus to find a cure. ELOEL ends up killing everyone ... including an unarmed doctor. Doctor's Daughter's Doctor, Abi, plays on the show of new acting member Caitlin Dever, and the way the series deals with her introduction is Very differentMarking a huge switch from the game.

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The game leaves you in the dark as Abi has a great deal of time because he masterfully builds uncertainty; You do not fully understand how Abi refer to the main story, ELOEL or Eli for a long time, but because you are playing like her characterIt is in your best interest to keep it alive. However, when you find out the final game of Abi, you may want to let her die in the hands of the infected horde ... But again, the show changes the perspective with new downloading of the material.

If you no He played the games, this may seem like a really little change for the second season of "The Last of Us". Why is it important what Abi and her team are some of the first people we see in the premiere of Season 2, and also why is it important that we know for sure that Abi hunted Eloel in the show, but left mystery in the game?

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These two different approaches to the same story set a perfect example of how to adjust something like a video game for the small screen. As the player controls Abi without any information at the beginning of the game, he increases the intrigue around her character, forcing the players to guess who she is, why she is even relevant and sympathizes with her while the tension is being built. The Perfect A way to express that tension in the show is to immediately learn that Elloel is at Abi's intersections for her father's murder; that way, We know that he is in danger but He There is no idea - nor Eli, who finds herself contrary to her improvised father's figure after the time jump that begins season 2 of "The Last of Us" seriously.

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The fact that ELOEL is prey instead of a predator for the first episode of Season 2 "The Last of Us" - especially when you think the last blow is Abi and her gang looking at the New Year's festivities at Acksexon - sets a confrontation between him and Abi, though we do not know when to come to the head. What is the intention behind this change? Fortunately, we do Know why the show turned things on.

During a press conference attending /film before Season 2 of the premiere "The Last of Us", the show opened up -Neil Drakman's show about why they made this change, and again, really reduced the same story within two different media.

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"There are two reasons why we changed certain contexts or moved certain things to the story," Drakman said. "One of them, in the game ... you start the game and play like Abi, so you immediately form a empathetic connection with her because you survive like her. You run through the snow, you fight infected. And we could keep some things and make a mystery that would be revealed later in the story. short.

Drakman then noted that they had done something similar in the first season of the show. ELOEL's Daughier, Sarah, played on the Nico Parker series, is a look at the start of the 2013 game "The Last of Us", but you can't replicate it in the series; Instead, we follow Sarah during her day during the pilot of the TV seriesJust to be relaxed when shot and killed at the beginning of the outbreak. Finally, Drakman said that all this was reduced to timing.

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"And another reason is that when that discovery (around Abi's backstew) happens in the game, if we wanted to stick to a very similar time schedule, viewers would have to wait a very, very long time to get that context. It would probably be spoiled for them between seasons, and we didn't want it.

"The Last of Us" broadcasts new episodes on Sunday at 9pm EST on Max and HBO.