What's worse?
I'm all turned around. Don't look at the street maps.
Stop.
This has gone too far.
It has to stop.
Where is he?
Please help.
We're going to help him.
Slow down.
We'll get through this.
I know.
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This happened on the last of us so far.
If you haven't caught up with the episodes,
but at the end of episode three, join Ellie arrived at Bill
and Frank's in Lincoln just outside of Boston a little while
after they killed themselves,
finding Bill's letter to Joel, giving him all his supplies, his car
that they desperately needed to get them the rest of the way to Wyoming.
The episode in general was a big departure from the video game story
because it is so much a Bill and Frank's backstory.
You didn't really get that in the games,
but the end result of the episode was pretty much the same.
But in the game, Bill really only gave them the car itself and that was it.
In the episode,
they got a ton of supplies, including Ellie's T-shirt from the games.
Most of everyone's
costumes, though, and all the props are based on versions of the game,
but they are changing where some of the items actually came from it.
If it wasn't clear in the episode, Bill's car is meant to be the exact same
version of his car in the video game, like it looks exactly the same.
But here's the next big change.
So in episode four, there's a huge change in the video games
for that next part of the story in the game.
The next major encounter happens in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia,
but the showrunner and Neil Druckman made it sound like this next major fight
that they have in this trailer
you see all these scenes in the city is actually Kansas City, and it's
against the hunters, who are a group from Pittsburgh in the games.
It seems like they just wanted them to move across
the United States a little bit more,
like they wanted the city itself to feel much different.
And Pittsburgh is relatively close to Boston.
So on the show,
they will have gone way further by the time that the encounter the hunters
what are the other big changes is they've added a brand new character
that was in the games played by Melanie Lynskey here, who's named Kathleen.
She's meant to be the leader of the Hunters.
Now, like I said, the hunters themselves are a huge group in the Games.
It is possible that they drive past Pittsburgh in remark on it
like this, some sort of reference to that part of the video game.
But a lot of what happens in the trailer is part of their encounter
with the hunters in Pittsburgh in the game.
So they are doing video game stuff.
They're just changing the location In a few of the characters.
The hunters are an antagonist.
The group ruling over Pittsburgh in the game after they overthrew Fedora,
the governmental force, they're on the show.
It's going to be Kansas City, like I said, and they are a huge group.
They're meant to be like an opposing faction to the Fireflies,
Making the Walking Dead comparison again, because we're talking about characters
that are kind of like zombies, but they're being controlled by fungus.
And the last of us, the hunters would be kind of like Negan's
group of saviors compared to Rick's group of the survivors.
The hunters are meant to be way more antagonistic, but they're a huge group.
Like, Imagine if Negan swooped in The Walking
Dead, started covering way more cities.
The hunters, when they encounter them, are meant to control this entire city.
But later you find their group
has continued to spread across the United States.
So they get bigger and bigger and more powerful.
At the beginning of the trailer, they're camping in the woods overnight.
Ellie gets disgusted by the coffee, is another reference to her,
remarking that she's never been
in the woods, been camping, or even been in a car for that matter.
So everything they're doing on this mission is just totally new to her.
And she's worried about the fungus in general.
Like she's not totally fearless.
There's this sense of existential dread
hanging over everybody living in the apocalypse just in general,
but just compare to Jill in all of their scenes.
You can tell she's having way more fun at all
this than he is to him, it's still more of an obligation
that he's fulfilling a promise that he made to test to complete the job.
So he's mostly doing this for Tess, not so much for Ellie.
Get her the rest of the way, at least at this point in their story.
He's not really doing it because he cares about Ellie or anything like that.
He's only protecting her
because he promised Tess to get her to the other fireflies alive.
But Joel does have that funny moment briefly with her.
When she's complaining
about the coffee in the car, talking about how it smells and looks terrible,
slurping loudly just to mess with her
a little, showing you that he does actually have a sense of humor.
It is still so early
in the series in their story that will slowly start to come out
more by the finale as they continue to drive across the landscape.
We get wider shots of the Midwest.
They pass across the country just showing you how nature slowly started
to take back the earth, even though it's only been about 20 years.
The reason why you don't see
giant roving bands of infected, unlike the Walking Dead with the Walkers,
is that the infected aren't guaranteed to just keep on living indefinitely.
As Joel and Test said previously in Episodes, a lot of them die
relatively soon for various reasons before they can evolve into higher states.
But the general rule of thumb is that the infected
will evolve into higher states as long as they continue to live
the most dangerous one from the game so far is the Rat King.
Like you probably seen jokes about the Rat King,
even if you haven't played the games, which is what they call the infected,
who's lived for over 20 years and becomes its hybrid amalgamation
of a bunch of different types of infected like a super fungus warrior
within the context of the last of US, the Fireflies consider it
something of an anomaly like nobody truly understands
Exactly how the fungus works at that stage of development.
But the idea is that the Rat King has this whole bunch of extra weapons
and armor growing around its body because it's continued to evolve so much
and because it's meant to be the fusion
of a couple different types of infected that'll kind of bond and grow together.
It's way, way bigger.
Maybe.
Maybe we'll see a Rat King in like season two or season three.
Then in the trailer, Ellie gets them lost.
They start yelling at each other
because she's never been outside the quarantine zone.
She's never tried to read a map like this.
Naturally, she's not going to be a dynamite navigator on her first try.
They get lost in Kansas City, like in the actual city.
They slam on the brakes to avoid hitting someone, calling for help.
And this is a scene taken directly from the games.
But it's happening in Pittsburgh, in the games.
And it's part of the way the hunters lay traps for unsuspecting guests,
luring people who they refer to as tourists,
like people who aren't part of their group already into a false sense of security,
helping the helpless and preying on their good will.
But Joel correctly, smartly tells Ellie they're not going to help him,
which is super smart on his part.
It's not him being an asshole.
It's just that paranoia, like the joke that they reference in episode
three where he's talking to Bill in the flashbacks.
Oh, I'm just like you.
We're extra careful in situations like this, but here in this moment,
the wheels are turning in Joel's head and he's thinking,
This is the way that I would play it if I were trying to trap people in.
That's why they try to bail on it.
The Hunters group generally kills anybody
they can find, like shoot first, ask questions later, even on their truck.
Here it says run in spray
paint on the front, kind of mocking the people that they mow down with it.
Basically, anybody that travels into their city, Kansas City, in this case
in the TV show, the hunters will kill and they just try to take all their stuff.
And Joel and Ellie rolled in with a truck full of supplies
in a big part of Joel and Ellie's story during the next part, during episode
four, Episode five and beyond, is them bonding
more as a pair while they're busy trying to escape the hunters across the city?
Like they're literally fighting their way across the city.
And they also use those moments for Joel to start
answering more of Ellie's questions that she keeps badgering him with.
They kind of had some of that energy in episode three,
couple of scenes where they're walking down the road,
and she kept asking him about his history, just being really inquisitive.
There are way more moments like that in episode four.
The only difference is that in the last episode
he was still very reluctant, didn't fully answer.
A lot of the questions are answered very quickly
or was vague about some of his answers.
In episode four, he starts to open up to her more in the sheer trauma
of what they go through trying to escape the hunters in all their heartfelt chats
as they're running from all the bullets, brings them much closer together.
Ultimately, the scene of Joel getting stuck in the traffic jam
on the highway is earlier in the episode before they make it into the city.
And it's the whole reason
why they have to go into the city instead of just using the highway.
Because back in 2003, when things went crazy with the fungus,
everyone started turning.
You had all these people driving around at the time,
which led to a bunch of pileups on the highway,
making portions of the highway system unusable.
In present day.
We get the scene of Melanie Lynskey is Kathleen, leader
of the Hunters holding someone captive, another new character.
When he says this has to stop, it's gone too far.
And she asks him where they are.
I'm assuming she's talking
about Joel and Ellie, and it's happening later in the episode.
There's a couple fight scenes of them running
through the buildings, escaping the hunters, trying to kill them.
And I believe the next two episodes will be here around this location
in Kansas City, around the Hunters Episode four in episode five,
because there are a couple of big characters in the game
that we've seen in the trailers they encounter
in this same larger encounter against the hunters.
So they've confirmed that they're going to be characters on the show.
I'm assuming that happens relatively
soon after the events of this particular episode.
Like it'll be the next episode after this.
No spoilers from what's going on with their story.
We'll just wait till they drop the Episode five trailer to talk about them.
I don't know if Melanie Lynskey is supposed to be in multiple episodes
because she has a brand new character that wasn't in the games
and in the games after they make it through the Hunters portion of the story,
at least in the first game, you only hear about the hunters briefly,
but they are still a huge antagonistic faction looming in the background.
In a big rival to the Fireflies,
the group continues to get bigger and spread through other cities
in the United States, getting larger, controlling more territory.
In in the second game Last of US, do they encounter another separate group
of hunters? Eventually.
So because they just confirmed season two is going to be adapting
The Last of US to our part of Last of US two,
they're going to break the second game into a couple of different seasons.
I wouldn't be surprised if they keep Melanie Lynskey as character
around longer term in future seasons, but we'll see.
They've already been changing a lot of stuff from the game,
so we'll see how they continue to change stuff on the show.
But there are so many huge actors that show up on this show.
We've only had three episodes, but they're like a couple
really big actors that only came for a couple of episodes.
There is some other footage from previous trailers with Ella
using Bill's gun while they're running through the streets.
I'm assuming this is from episode four two in.
They're still in Kansas City against the Hunters.
And it's just the show not waiting long to pay off the scene of her finding a gun
after asking Joe and test for one so many times
like, Oh, I found a gun, this will come in handy.
And then boom, next episode it comes in real handy.
A lot of her arc, especially early in the game
here, is experiencing things for the first time as she literally says
both cool stuff and experiencing traumatic stuff for the first time.
One of them is actually having to kill a regular person for the first time.
She's killed, infected before she met Joel.
She was traumatized by that, and we'll see that in future flashbacks.
But up to this point, she's never actually had to kill a regular person
that was not infected like these Hunter characters.
And it's just another step on her
path to toughening up and learning to survive on her own.
She's not completely helpless.
But as you see in the trailer so far, in all the episodes,
she can barely read a map, so she has a long way to go before
she could survive completely on her own long term.
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that I didn't mention in the video.
Right them below in the comments
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