Warning: Spoilers ahead!
Even though there will be some contrasting differences with the new HBO series, The Last of Us, this will still be an outstanding series to continue watching. Apparently, there have been some leaked photos on the internet that point to the issues that fans are in an uproar over.
Questions arise about the looks of certain characters, which characters, when new characters are going to be introduced and when will a certain protagonist be killed. There is quite a bit of speculation with the leaked photos of where characters are in the story and who will be killed off.
The Last of Us first started as a video game on PS3 and was later remastered for PS4. The video game was such a hit that they decided to make an HBO series based on the video game with some changes, of course. Either way, the story is compelling.
The Last of Us: Recap
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The Last of Us, as stated above, was a video game first done by Naughty Dog. I have personally played through both Part I and Part II. I found the story drawing me in further with each turn of the game. It was so important at the beginning of the first game to find a group called The Fireflies. Of course, we battled through a world of zombies, puzzles, and chase scenes. In the end, Joel kills Fireflies because they want to kill Ellie to figure out why she hasn’t turned after being bitten. However, in order to figure that out, the Fireflies would have to end Ellie’s life.
Joel was like a father figure to Ellie and Ellie loves Joel. However, Joel is not forthcoming with Ellie on what happened to the Fireflies and if there was a cure made or not. All Ellie knows is that she wakes up in the back of Joel’s truck confused. The first game deal with this first part of the story ending with Joel rescuing Ellie from the very people they were trying to find.
The beginning of the second part of the story is several years later after the fireflies attempted to kill Ellie. Ellie, still in the dark about what happened, has a strained relationship with Joel. We are not sure why they have such a strained relationship right away. It is later revealed why as the story unfolds. However, before they can really patch things up, the remnants of the Fireflies have tracked Joel down after all those years and they kill him in front of Ellie. Ellie, then, goes on a revenge quest with Dina, her love interest.
The Last of Us: Leaked Content Part 1
The story with Ellie and Joel stirs up a lot of emotions. However, what has stirred up emotions further is the leaked pictures of the second season of The Last Of Us. What happened is that the pictures show us HBO’s depiction of the characters and how they look years later. Bella Ramsey’s character, Ellie, so far, shows no signs of aging from the first season to the second.
HBO seems to be picking up the second part of the series and adapting it from Naughty Dog’s video game Part II of The Last of Us. However, like most adaptations, fans are not welcoming of certain changes to characters’ looks that may or may not be central to the story. Most of the time people don’t like to see changes in their characters. They like to experience the same thrill they got when they played the game first and see it adapted on the screen in much the same way.
When characters don’t look the same, fans freak out because the original story gave them all the feels. This includes Dina’s hairstyle being the same! We are introduced to Dina in the second part of the series. Dina is going to be played by Isabela Maerced and is the love interest of Ellie who helps Ellie through her struggles and travels for revenge against a woman named Abbey played by Kaitlyn Dever.
The Last of Us: Leaked Content Part 2
The other batch of leaked photos appears to show Ellie and Dina in Seattle following Abby’s trail. The photos confirm a disturbing but accurate detail in the game: Joel’s death at the hands of Abby who was a part of the Fireflies. In the video game, Abby and her cohorts kill Joel brutally in front of Ellie. Ellie then goes on a revenge rampage and tracks Abby down with Dina’s help. However, Ellie still doesn’t understand the full story but knows Joel is keeping something from her.
As the game unfolds, so does the rest of the story. Many suspect that the same as the game, the HBO series will have Joel’s death very early on. The other photo that was leaked showed Ellie and Dina on Ellie’s horse, possibly named Shimmer, and it looks like they’re about to enter Seattle right before they come across the Washington Liberation Front. Abby is actually a part of a faction called the Washington Liberation Front.
Many viewers and fans who have seen the photos assume that Ellie and Dina are just outside of Seattle, but nothing will be certain yet. Except, of course, Joel’s death, but exactly WHEN that occurs in the HBO series is sketchy at best. However, the series may have flashbacks that help bridge the plot just like the game did. So it’s possible to see Joel throughout season two. The new season will come out sometime in 2025.
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