This article contains spoilers For the "last of us" season 2, episode 5.

Cordyceps brain infection is quite clear. In both the "Last of Us" and the show, it originated with the origin of spoiled cultures, but soon began to spread itself, courtesy of infected people. After this initial infection, the poor person with mutated cordyceps is now growing in their brain is slowly being taken, leading to a hellish life cycle of various Types of infected zombies of "the last of us".

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However, until now, the show has dropped a key component of Cordyceps infection. In the games, all non-immune characters should retain the gas mask, whenever they explore indoor areas in case they stumble in a place where the air is polluted by cordyceps spores. Breathing on them is a sure way to infect, making spores dangerous (and a fairly common) environmental threat.

According to any probability, the FBO "The Last of Us" has decided to gain the situation with the dispute over the economic economy by storytelling, similar to that there are much less direct meetings with infected than in the games. But Season 2, Episode 5 forces the show's hand. This is where the plot progresses to the point where Cordyceps' spores simply cannot be avoided if the series wants to faithfully adapt the big blows to Eli (White Ramsey) in Seattle. Season 2 of us "chooses accuracy, and as a result, Eli's Cold Meeting with Nora (Tati Gabriel) introduces spores into the permanent widespread cordyceps.

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The video game version of the Encounter in "The Last of Us Part II" Kicks Off When Ellie (Ashley Johnson) Infiltrates the Lakehill Seattle Hospital to Encounter Nora (Chelsea Tavares), a former has joined the washington liberation front and was part of Abby's (Laura bailey, played by Kaitlyn Dever on the Show) Mission to Kill Joel (Troy Baker in the Game, Pedro Pascal on the Show). After a tense face and a desperate chase through the corridors, the couple ends up in a polluted area where the air spreads with spores. This, of course, does not mind immunity Eli. On the contrary, she turns the situation into a interrogation tactic, promising to kill Nora and thereby spare her to turn into zombies in a substitute for information.

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This scene, especially the death of Nora at the end of it, signifies a key moment in Eli's character's arc because although it is not the first time to kill a human being, it is the first time self -defense has not been involved. In one way or another, Nora Chase will always be an integral component of the season. But it is worth noting that the show finds a way to both have their cake and eat it.

The episode shows the essential components of the chase and its heinous consequences with almost surprising accuracy, going so far as being thrown into some extraordinary images in the form of an infected WLF soldier stuck in the ID. On the other hand, the dispute-intended area is framed as something of an anomaly, which gives the show the opportunity to return to ignoring the concept after this if it wants. After all, though her hand was forced for this particular scene, "The Last of Us" is completely good without spores.

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It is understandable that the HBO show wants to avoid piling its episodes with spores affected areas. After all, even the adaptation as faithful as "the last of us" should take significant freedoms, simply because video games and TV shows are so different media. In a way, the show was correct about the life cycle of Cordyceps, while in others, it was added to its own torque.

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The version of the infection games is a well -established life cycle that the victim brings about the recently infected racer's phase in the phase of the Fienna, Stalker's strategic phase and the phase of a terrible, blind click. The precious few that endure it will reach the rare stages of a block or shambler, depending on the conditions of moisture in the area they haunt it. The show is largely fitted to this, introducing Stalker's frightening stage in season 2 of "Last of Us" Nevertheless, he briefly appeared in the first game, and the characters of the show treat him as a new and frightening threat, which implies a mutation of some sort.

But the outcome of the show is the way runners spread the cordyceps infection with the spacing stretched from the mouth. The episode of season 1 "infected" introduced the concept of the infected area in Boston, such as a basket that is able to point out uninfected people with sensitive fungal lastaries. Season 2 even restores that concept with revenge in the form of Cordyps hiding in a tube and calling on infected armies to attack the Survivor in Acksecson, Wyoming. All in all, the show built such an impressive arsenal in ways that it can expand to the cordyceps that could actually be better to avoid complicating things further with regular spores views.

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Season 2 "The Last of Us" continues with a new episode next week at HBO and Max.