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It’s a heartbreaking scene that makes the already emotional opening sequence even more effective a tall task that didn’t seem possible when the show was originally announced.So I had initially had a few pics up, but I don't think anyone actually clicks on links. The sheer rage that comes through when he’s beating the man down comes from the fact that he wasn’t able to save his daughter. More importantly, it puts a familiar face in a dire situation, as we see that even though it’s clear that Joel knows this man after several encounters, his anger based on the obvious parallels of his daughter’s death means that he might as well be just another faceless soldier. This makes the scene even more intense, as we see Joel try and calm him down and barter with him in hopes of him letting them go. Instead, the adaptation takes a familiar face that audiences get to know briefly from earlier in the episode, as the show ends up putting him directly in our main trio’s path, creating an even tenser situation than if it was some soldier that we hadn’t even known. More importantly, the player had no connection to those characters in the game. Rather than have two soldiers catch our trio like in the original game, this was instead streamlined into one person. We see him wrestle one of them to the ground for his gun, while Tess shoots the other one.Īnother fascinating expansion of the original source material was the alteration of the FEDRA soldier that Joel sells drugs to earlier in the episode.

In the game, while Joel does end up killing a FEDRA soldier, there's really not much to it in regard to emotional impact.

Most importantly is that this comparison can’t be drawn when talking about the original game, as there’s never really meant to be a line that could be drawn between that moment and Sarah’s death. It’s a truly stark comparison to the heart-wrenching scene when Joel loses his daughter. After Ellie’s result comes up positive, Joel tries to talk down the FEDRA soldier, as he stands between him and Ellie. That scene puts the audience in a familiar place that those who have played the game would also immediately recognize, while simultaneously turning it on its head.ĭuring that scene, we see Joel ( Pedro Pascal), Tess ( Anna Torv), and Ellie ( Bella Ramsey) being tested for the cordyceps virus. Where the adaptation does deviate is instead related to how it connects to the final scene of the premiere. Co-creators of the series, Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, stick pretty much exactly to the source material when it comes to this particular scene, as perhaps the old adage of 'you don't mess with perfection' comes into play. The scene in question that gets so much attention, and is expanded upon in unexpected ways in the show, is of course Sarah’s death.

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