Music is also an important element through video games "Last of Us" and HBO Live Adaptation. Both have a strong style of primary music in the background, which relies on a very acoustic guitar to play in the neo-zombie-west vibration of the story. In addition to the result, "the last of us" also relies on digetic music. ELOEL (Pedro Pascal) plays guitar himself and tells Eli (White Ramsey) in Season 1 that he would like to be a singer. In Season 2, she learned to play too much after years of learning from him, though the schism in their relationship moves her away from the instrument.

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There are other significant examples, such as the use of Linda Ronstadt's "Long Long Time" during Bill (Nick Bidder) and Frank (Murray Bartlett) Episode of Season 1, in which the Heartbreaker melody serves as an episode and thematic title.

Now that we enter the later parts of "The Last of Us" Season 2Eli had a few moments on the guitar, first playing the acoustic title of A-Ja's Take One (Isabella Merced) in Episode 4. In Episode 5, she pulls out another guitar in the old theater where they hide in Seattle, but she only gets a few notes before she appears. Her words are difficult to get out if you don't know what you hear, but the song she starts singing is "The Future Days" of Pearl Jamm - a deep -meaning song in the video "Last of Us", and now, it seems, and in the show.

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"If I have ever lost you, I will surely get lost." It is the starting line of the "future days", which Eli may not seem to break through without thinking about the death of ELOEL and their unresolved tension once again. Although we do not know it certainly in the show, this is the case in the games and it is safe to assume that the song is used in the same way of HBO. Eli is not trying to play it to episode 5, but the song shares his title with the first episode of season 2 of "The Last of Us", setting its relevance from the beginning. The fact that Pearl Jam is from Seattle only makes the context of the song in the story more appropriate.

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The importance of "future days" in the franchise goes everything back to the live event, organized by Naughty Dog and Sony Games developer, a year after the announcement of the first match, in which key stories were set by the original actors, underlined by the Living Orchestra. At the end of the event, Games Director Neil Drakman and the cast and crew added a slightly bonus scene set after the end of the game, featuring "Future Days" as a kind of sending for Eli and Elloel. A few years later, when the "Last of Us Part II" was released, that scene and greater importance of the song became a huge piece of the sequel.

It is a catastrophic choice given all the next days, Elloel and Eli do not have to share them together. "Even when I felt broken, I focused on prayer," Singi Weder sings in a later verse. "You came as deeply like any ocean, did you hear something there?" It is understandable why Drukman has chosen this concrete song given its relevance to ELOEL in particular. Because Eli is trying and fails to take out the words in Seattle, we understand completely why she became so fixed Revenge of the death of ELOEL.

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While "future days" is a beautiful and lyrical appropriate fastening song The story of "the last of us", It actually made no sense in video games and it makes even less sense in the show. Let me explain.

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"Future Days" is the last song of Pearl Jamm's album "Lightning Bolt", which was released in October 2013. In the timeframe of the games, where Cordyceps appears earlier that year, which made it anachronistic, as the world will crash in front of the song, actually made the "Airvers". The HBO series is pushing the appearance of a decade by 2003, making it even more noticeable how time the song is inappropriate.

Co-creator of Drukman and Series Craig Mazin referred to this number of HBO's first episode The last of us podcast Season 2 - Necessity in their eyes given the episode, sharing the same title as Pearl Jam's song. "That song did not exist in 2003 when the world ended," said Mazin, open to podcast. "Neil and I had a solid conversation and came to the following conclusion: we didn't give as *** because it's an important song for the story and thematic, it's incredibly important."

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In the great pattern of things, a song set up in time of time, of course, does not seem to be worth waking up, especially in a story where we have already suspended our disbelief enough to counter all work with mushroom zombies.