With the exception of a few scattered set pieces, The Last Of Us has been fairly light on zombies (or “infected,” if you prefer) this season. Photo: Liane Hentscher/HBO Will there be any more zombie action? Will Joel let himself slip into dad mode permanently to help her through it? Has their bond fully evolved into its final form? And will that be enough to save the last shreds of Ellie’s youthful spirit or is her innocence lost for good? The horrors she barely escaped are going to stick with her, maybe even well into the next season. She may be tougher than most kids, but she’s still just a kid. Something inside her snapped.Īlthough Joel was able to bring her back to her senses we can’t help but feel like what’s now broken in Ellie won’t be easily fixed. Everything Ellie has been holding inside came out in a mess of frenzied blows as she hacked him to pieces in that burning restaurant. Tess, Bryan, Sam, Henry-they all hit hard in different ways, but her ordeal with David was by far the worst of it. Death has been a part of this journey from the beginning. We didn’t see it, but we know that Ellie had to kill her best friend. When we (and Joel) first meet her in Firefly custody it’s only been three weeks since she and Riley got attacked at that abandoned mall. How will Ellie be affected by her ordeal with David?Įllie has been through a lot in a relatively short amount of time. The scene or scenes could also answer other lingering questions about Ellie’s past too, like how well Marlene knew her mother and whether she was aware that Ellie was special before she was bitten. We know from the cast listing that Ashley Johnson, who played Ellie in the game, will be playing Anna Williams (in a flashback, we assume), so maybe this mystery will finally be solved. In an interview with Newsweek, Druckmann said that he had written a scene about Ellie’s mom, Anna, that he couldn’t fit into the game but was able to include in the show. Was Ellie born with a genetic mutation? Was her mother bitten while she was in utero? Did it have something to do with the circumstances of her birth? There are hints, but no real evidence to back up any of these claims.
Fans have been speculating about the cause for years. The reason for Ellie’s immunity to the cordyceps fungus has never been explicitly explained in the games, or in any supplemental material for that matter. But they’re not the only ones.īella Ramsey Will we find out why Ellie is immune? What happens in this last stretch and what awaits them if and when they get there are big questions looming over the end of the season. At the end of their long road is a hospital in Salt Lake City and a lab where the Fireflies are supposedly working on a cure for the cordyceps infection. With Joel still healing up from the physical wound he sustained way back in episode five and Ellie dealing with fresh psychological wounds after her ordeal with David in the previous episode, neither of them is in top shape as they approach their final destination. The details are out there if you want to know, and besides, there’s no guarantee that showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann are going to go the same way anyway. We’re going to cover those areas of common ground without giving away any spoilers for the end of the game. Each camp is naturally going to have different questions about what’s in store in episode nine, but there’s plenty of overlap too. It’s been a wild and emotional ride with some unexpected-but not unwelcome-detours that surprised fans of the game as much as newcomers. It feels like just yesterday we were getting ready to head out of the Boston QZ with Ellie, Joel, and Tess (remember Tess?) and now here we are, heading into the first season finale of The Last Of Us.
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