Lower the golf clubs and stop reading immediately if you haven't watched "through the valley", the second episode of the second season of "The Last of Us". This article contains a whole bunch of huge spoilers!

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Through "The Last of Us" - HBO's adaptation to the video game with naughty dogs of the same name - The series, guided by the creator of the game Neil Drakman along with TV veteran Craig Mazin ("Chernobyl"), made some necessary changes. By doing so, I think it's hard to customize a video game where you play as the main characters ELOEL, Abi and Eli, featured in the show, respectively by Pedro Pascal, Caitlin Dever and Bella Ramsey, and keeping the same thing. A small change occurs in "Valley", episode with A. Huge Moment - the death of Elloel in the hands of Abi, a Witness in full by the screaming Eli - which is that in the game, the brother of ELOEL is present. (Tommy plays Gabriel Luna in the show.) Instead, Elloel meets Abi while on patrol with another daughter who appears surrogate, Dina, shown in the Isabella Merced series.

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So why did Mazine decide to make this change? In an interview with Fun weeklyHe said he wanted to highlight the bourgeois connection between Dina and Elloel, who share a sweet scene in the premiere of season 2 "Future Days" (there is a noticeable division between Eli and Elloel, and Dina is, apparently stepping into the gap left by Eli). This also, by the way, releases Tommy to fight The attack on Acksexone's stronghold, which has been attacked by infected cordyceps (sequence that is unique to the show).

"Early, we talked a lot about clarification, or at least demonstrating how much Dune cared for ELOEL," Mazin told Nick Romano, who was set during the production of the episode. "Dinah took deeply for ELOEL. To put Dune in that place and make her an anterior in this murder, she connects us more with her. Her choice to stay by Eli's side through the dense and thin from this point forward is as motivated as her loss as her friendship."

Has an absolutely zero question that ELOEL Miller's death, the obvious protagonist of the story and one of the only people that Eli really lovesThere will be Huge Messages about the story of "The Last of Us" goes forward. By entering the dine in the mixture and leting it left to be present for the death of Elloel - though I should note that she was pronounced unconscious by one of Abi's friends, because they do not actually intend to hurt her - it approaches Dina and Eli even closer. It says something, given that the two are already best friends and, in "future days", they share a kiss during the celebration of new years of Acksecson, hinting that they will lead a romantic relationship before a long time.

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White Ramsey also talked about "fun weekly" about this thorough piece and said their understanding of this change is that Eli has now complicated feelings towards Dinah; Due to the clear division of Elloel and Eli, Dina had to spend the last day of ELOEL with the man, and Eli missed in time with one of the only parental figures he knew so far. "They have become tied to trauma, in some way, but there is also an element of resentment," Ramsey said. "I think there was a real alubmorrhemia. Dina had to be with him, Dina had to spend that last day with him, and there was a lot of guilt and regret by Eli. It was just a little bit of a glued, which I took after that, especially when talking about it for the first time."

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This is a fascinating perspective for Ramsey to bring it to the rest of the season and only confirms that Craig Mazin is wise to bring Dune to this situation for a dramatic effect. Not only that, but Mazin said it helps create a line between not only Eli and Dina, but Eli, Dinah, And Abi.

After five years of hunting, Abi finally gets what she wants in "through the valley", which means she Finally She retaliates against ELOEL for the murder of her father. (As she reveals in her tirade in front of the killer, Elloel killed her father, an unarmed doctor who was trying to use Eli's brain to find a cure for the Cordyceps virus, at the Hospital of Shelkka; we saw this game in the final of the season 1 " Abi probably thinks he will get closed from the murder of ELOEL, but that's not how this works; Violence only causes more violence and given that Eli does Quite clear That she would hunt Abi and make her pay for killing Elloel, this will only continue to continue the cycle. That cycle now includes Dinah, because of her connection to Eli ... and the fact that, as Craig Mazz said, all three of these girls are "stuck" in some way, just as Elloel was before she met and basically adopted Eli. (I should say that mazin does not Specifically They say Eli is stuck, but her thirst for revenge will certainly mean she is stuck in a certain way of thinking for a long time.)

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"We know ELOEL gets stuck for the longest time until Eli came together and resting him," Mazin explains, citing ELOEL's daughter's loss, Sarah, played by Nico Parker, in the 2023 premiere. "We see in the season as Dina, in a sense, it's stuck. And we clearly see that Abi is very stuck. This is part of our human weakness. We are disturbed by these wounds, and if we cannot stop walking around the hallway, what chance should we move besides this?"

"The Last of Us" continues to work on Sunday at Max and FBO at 9pm EST, so we'll see Abi, Eli and Dina all move forward after the incredibly traumatic episode of this week.