If you're not up to date with the "last of us" - and specifically, if you haven't seen "through the valley", the second episode of Season 2 - Stop reading this now. Massive, large, huge spoilers are predicted.

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I haven't played "the last of us part II", nor did I play the original game that made this disobedient dog in sensation. (Fight video games in struggle highlight me; even in games like "Breath of the Wild", I spend inappropriate time running around and I'm just a little boy instead of fighting monsters or bosses.) This is all to say that, when it comes to the huge death of ". controller. When it happened on my TV, I couldn't see aside, no matter how desperate I wanted.

Clothes go like this: Abi, a new character in Season 2 of the FBO's adaptation to the "Last of Us" played by Caitlin Dever, is presented at the beginning of the Sofor Season of the show as a girl who hunted Eloel Miller (Pedro Pascal) - specifically demanding that we have a breakthrough. Eli's immunity (white Ramsey) of the Cordyceps virus to find the cure was Abi's father, and for five years, she was looking for ELOEL to solve the result. When he comes face to face with him, it's a sequence that turns on the intestines, turning the stomach-noted flawlessly both by the Dever and Pascal-and it is directly from a horror movie, especially for viewers who loved ELOEL (and understand his decision in the final of the season 1). The way it is filmed by director Mark Milod is incessant, terrible and fatal ... And there is no doubt that this will be one of the most talked about TV moments in 2025.

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Particularly noticeable work on the way Abi kills ELOEL in the TV adaptation of the FBO to "The Last of Us" - which is handled by Neil Drakman, creator of the original game, along with praised screenwriter and shower Craig Mazin - is what is that Significantly more brutal than in the video game. That is not to say that it is not a frighteningly violent moment in the game; It is terrible to be a witness there, but in the show, Mazin and Drakman have let Abi have a little experienced by Ante.

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After beating him with bare hands and shooting him in his leg - and disabled Dina (Isabella Merced), who patrolled ELOEL before he saved Abi from infected horde - Abi tells Eloel exactly why she literally and figuratively deals with him. Eli, who ends up in an abandoned house where Abi and her friends are squatting, watches, screaming and hanging on the floor, as Abi takes the golf club he uses to absolutely deny ELOEL that is now broken ... and occupies a sharp, broken end and pierced ELOEL in the neck. A really striking thing about this moment is that there are By no means For ELOEL to survive this; Like Ned Stark of John Bean, a few years ago, he is very, very definitely dead.

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This is, no doubt, an amazing moment to see the fans of the TV's "Last of Us" Verification that did not play the games (or, on that matter, fans who did not play the games And Which studio have avoided seeing any game -related spoilers in 2020). For those who haveIt is also quite stunning because the audience waiting for this moment may have imagined that it would come later in the season. Not the case: ELOEL dies in the season Second episodeAnd the way he dies is brutal, violent, evil and shown in full bloody fame. It's heart - especially to see Eli's reaction - and completely memorable. Well, where does the show go from here, especially when it comes to Abi?

Losing one of the two main characters on the show - with whom the audience really connected during the first season of "The Last of Us" - obviously great. We have learned in the premiere of Season 2, "Future Days", that something has happened between Elloel and Eli over the past five years, and watching Eli sees ELOEL dying in the most brutal way that can be imagined is, in case I do not make this explicitly clear, clear, clear, clearly, clearly, clearly, clearly, clearly, clearly, clearly, clearly, clearly, clearly, clearly, clearly scary. Given all that, it's easy to imagine that The audience will have some pretty complicated feelings for Abi, and video game fans already have a complex view of it.

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In the video game, the players just start playing as ABI with a small preamble to the start of the game after the focus from Eli to it (no, I haven't played the game, but YouTube exists for a reason). Obviously, the show had to change that by introducing Abi at the beginning of "future days" And, informing us immediately that her goal is to kill Eloel. ELOEL's death scene serves for several purposes. Gives gives to Eli a new mission (now She is I am going to be the one trying to avenge the person he loves), ends Elloel in his story and sets Abi as an antagonist (for now). It is easy to assume that the audience will not feel warm and unclear about Abi - which is partly testimony to the fact that Caitlin Dever, whose characters are typical, good, more beautiful than this, delivers a Real Shocking performance like this furious, wicked character. Since Eli, Dina and other Acksecson residents deal with ELOEL's death in the hands of a girl who has been wrong for years, fans will have to understand how to feel about Abi, the character who killed the character we followed for some time.

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"The Last of Us" had a plan for this moment - because, you know, it's an adaptation of a game where the same thing happens! - But there is really no doubt that the series called ELOEL's death to an ambitiously daunting degree. The consequences will continue while the second season of the show is moving; New episodes are aired on Sunday at 9 pm MAX and HBO.