Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show, I'm your host Paul and this video we're breakdown down
the final Last Of Us Season One trailer. The new look has just released online and it's packed
with easter eggs and callbacks to the game that give away a lot of what's gonna be happening in
the episode. By the looks of it this is really similar to how the game plays out and because
of this I'm dropping a heavy spoilers warning for the ending. This will probably give the game away
literally if you haven't played it so if you don't want things ruined then turn off now.
With that out the way thanks for clicking this,
now let's get into the Last of Us Episode 9 trailer.
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Ok so throughout this we can hear Ellies voice over which
is identical to these lines in the game.
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This happens in a scene in which Joel and Ellie come across some giraffes
and we get a major moment with them in which we see some of the beauty in the
world. This scene was just the pair taking a breath from all the mayhem that had gone on
and it showed us that though humanity was on it's last legs the rest of the world wasn't.
This was the final push to the fireflies and at this point Joel offered Ellie a
chance to turn back so that they could go and live the rest of their lives together
as quote unqute father and daughter. Ellie said they had to keep pushing
though and that all the deaths had to be for a reason and so they kept going ahead.
It seems like they're pulling lots of elements from that final part of the game and the trailer
starts off on a highway like that chapter does at the end. We open with Ellie looking
at deer engraving on the wall and she's clearly zoning out and remembering the time she ran into
David after chasing one. Joel then interrupts her and throughout this section he does most
of the talking whilst she's quite withdrawn and clearly realising that this is the end.
Gonna be me after next Sunday cos them channel views about to tank.
We see Joel in a dark grey shirt and Ellie in a red checkered one and these are the clothes
that the pair both wore at this point in the game. They're on a long road which is how that
chapter opens and we can see a road sign saying Salt Lake which is where everything goes down.
if you cast your mind back to the end of episode 6 then you'll remember they came across a map of
Salt Lake and a pin with St Mary's written on it. This is St Marys hospital which is where
the fireflies are holed up at and this is also a location where they can manufacture a vaccine.
Now we then see them moving through a tunnel and on the other side of this you can see a
couple grey military trucks. My guess is that this the Fedra Qz that they pass through in
the game which is where Joel finally opens up about Sarah. Ellie ended up passing him a
photograph of his daughter that she stole from Tommy and it's very much him realising that he
can't out run his past. This photo is something that Tommy tried to give him back in Jackson
but he refused to take it whereas here he finally acknowledges her death and moves on from the pain.
This is because of Ellie but the pair don't get much more time together. They're captured
by Firefly soldiers and I'm guessing that this happens when the flash bang rolls towards them.
In the game they went underground into a tunnel which is where they came across the infected.
After making your way past them you found that another tunnel had burst and water was piling
through which is when you tried to get across it by jumping on a bus that was caught in the stream.
This came loose and Ellie ended up saving Joel but the pair were
both pushed underwater and Joel had to swim her to the surface. She was
unconscious and as he tried to save her the fireflies arrived and knocked him out.
Joel then woke up in hospital with Marlene at his bedside and she told
him that Ellie was being rushed into surgery. Good news is that they were
going to create a vaccine but the bad news is that Ellie had to die in order to do this.
Joel was then escorted outside by a guard and he ended up going full on rambo mode and moving
through the hospital using it as a shooting gallery. We see this playing out in the trailer
with him walking through the corridors firing a gun and this is him basically making sure he
doesn't relive through the pain he experienced in Sarahs death. Joel then rescued Ellie,
killed Marlene and drove away which is when he lied about everything that went down there.
Ellie was completely deflated and we get a shot with her sat in a car looking at her arm. This
pulls from the game too with it happening after their ride breaks down just outside of Jackson.
So it seems like it's all going down that way and
we have a couple of extra shots in the trailer that we haven't discussed yet.
The first of these is a woman running through some trees. We then see her
pushed up against a wall with an infected person scrambling towards her. Now playing
this woman is none other than Ashley Johnson who also voiced Ellie in the game. After Troy Bakers
performance as James we're following things up with Ashley playing who is
rumoured to be a pretty pivotal character. According to reports she will be playing
Ellies mother Anna and thus this is likely a flashback to when she gave birth to her.
Little is known about Anna but she was mentioned in the last of us comic American Dreams.
We found out that she was a nurse before the outbreak and that she'd been friends
with Marlene for a long time. An important thing to bear in mind as well is that Ellie's
switch blade belonged to her so we might see some stuff being set up in this cene.
They're clearly trying to make her resemble Ellie a bit and she even has a dark green
jacket on. This is something that Ellie has worn throughout the show and f**k it,
this might even end up being the another hand me down that's given to Ellie.
Now another thing that we know about Anna is that she died within a day of giving birth
to Ellie. I'm guessing this is connected to the infected person and this creature could
end up biting her whilst she's about to give birth which would then give Ellie a mutated
version of the cordyseps. This could then explain the characters immunity and this
flashback with her could basically explain more of Ellie's origin story and how she's
the only person who doesn't get infected by the Funghi.
We also have a shot of Joel looking worried moving through a building with orange sheets
hanging up behind him. It creates this feeling of panic due to the screen being almost awash
with red lighting and I think this could happen at one of two points. The most obvious of these
is at the end when Joel moves through the hospital and hospitals having this colour scheme has popped
up in the franchise. During The Last Of Us Part 2 Ellie chases a character called Nora through a WLF
hospital and this ends up having red lighting once they get further into the infected zones.
Could be something like that or it could be just before the giraffe scene happens.
Ellie ends up running off after spotting one and then Joel has to chase after her.
Pretty much a nothing burger but it makes a great trailer
shot with the lighting and panic on Joels face.
This then leads into the last conversation before
everything goes down and it looks like that's how it's playing out.
They don't really show the ending scene in this trailer but they do show lots of things
leading up to it so I'm guessing that lots of things are gonna play out similar to it.
I am very excited as the games ending is my favourite of all time and it carries such
ambiguity with it due to us constatnly wrestling back and forth over whether Joel did the right
thing or not in saving Ellie. Add to this he also lied as well and there's a lot of
complex and complicated character moments that happen in the final few scenes.
I think that the series has really knocked it out of the
park at points and if they can recapture what made the games ending so good then I
think we're gonna have a really brilliant episode. Plus we have the Ashley Johnson
cameo and it looks like this is gonna be an amazing way to close out the season.
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