Welcome back everyone, it's Charlie.
This will be my last of us Season 2 video.
They've already explained what's happening with the season.
They're changing it dramatically from the plot of the Last of Us to game.
So we'll explain why they're changing it, how they're changing it.
Of course, I'll be doing videos for season two episodes, just like I did
for season one, so be sure to subscribe to get everything
and careful for spoilers for the Season one episodes.
If you haven't seen the finale yet, the only thing we can be sure of
is that we understand why he did it
and we understand that Ellie would not have wanted him to do it.
So the big news is that Neil Druckmann and the showrunner HBO just in general
have said that they do plan on doing a completely different
storyline than the last of Us to game, or at least at the beginning.
Originally, they'd also said that they were going
to split the story of the second game into multiple future seasons.
So in the way that they changed some of the storyline for the first game
for season one, they'll do that even more during season 2.
Part of the reason why they're splitting the story
into multiple seasons, they didn't do that during season one
is because the story of the first game
is so much shorter than the story of the second game.
People who hated the second game will be really happy
to know that they are changing the plot
dramatically for a couple of different reasons.
One of the big things about the second game is also that it was very divisive
with the fan base, so people either loved it or they absolutely hated it.
So have you seen a lot of talk online like, oh, people
love season one, but they're going to hate season 2
because they've been expecting season
two to directly adapt the exact same plot as the second video game.
That's why because it was so much blowback in the fandom for the second game,
and largely it's because the game takes a dramatic left
turn and really only follows the lead character.
So it just feels like complete
different vibe, like a totally different type of game,
different story than what people were expecting
after the events of the first game.
Like, wait a minute,
this is a story about Joe and Ellie having adventures in is very likely
that HBO just does not want to completely turn the show on Bella Ramsey.
She did a great job as Ellie during season one, but I don't think that
she could hold up an entire show for like another 3 to 4 seasons by herself.
Pedro Pascal is on fire right now.
If you haven't been watching My Mandalorian Season
three episode videos, he is fantastic in pretty much everything that he does.
We are full Pedro Pascal
into the Pascal verse right now with him just blowing it up all over the place.
The funny thing about that too, is that the plot of The Mandalorian
is very similar to the plot of The Last of Us, with him
protecting Grogu you on The Mandalorian and protecting Ellie.
He's like a protective dad on both series protecting children.
So when they see
the dramatically changing the plot of the second game for season 2,
what they might be doing is using a lot of the flashbacks
in the missing period during a time jump between season one and season 2,
that the game just skips completely over the events of the second game
pick up after a five year time jump after the end of season one.
In the end of season one ends pretty much where you saw
the end of the finale with them looking out over time, the settlement,
the promise, the lie that Joe tells to Ellie again
if they still plan on adapting most of the characters
from the second game, they can use that five year time jump to tell more story,
more development of Ellie, and develop Abby's character,
who winds up being the main antagonist of the second game.
There was actually a brief reference to Abby in the finale,
but not the kind of Easter egg that you would expect to see. Like she is.
A character did not appear in the finale, but Laura Bailey, the voice actor
who played Abby in the games, did cameo as one of the nurses in the finale.
In in the games.
Abby is meant to be the daughter of the Fireflies lead surgeon
that Joel killed, setting up this revenge arc for her character,
where she becomes the main antagonist in the second game.
But this character that Laura Bailey was playing,
which is meant to be a regular nurse, it was just a bit of an Easter egg
behind the scenes that she herself was the voice actor who played Abby.
I don't expect her to play Abby on the TV show in Season 2.
Speaking of video game actors cameos and big connections in other productions,
some of you might remember Laura Bailey from Critical Role, which she also does
was Ashley Johnson, who cameoed as Ellie's mother in the episode.
In What they can do during season 2 is Tell More the story
during that missing five year time jump, develop Abby's character and just delay
the meeting between Abby, Joel and Ellie until much later in the games.
And without getting into big spoilers, they can always say the big twist
with Joel and Abby's character to the very end of the series,
like season four, Season five, they wanted to however many seasons they want to go.
So that's probably what they mean when they say they're going to radically
change the plot of the second game for season 2, season three and beyond.
For those that complained about this, they also confirmed that season
two will have way more infected in different kinds of infected,
which is meant to be a reference to the other stages
of the infection in types of infect that you run into in the games.
Stage one are meant to be the runners Stage two or the stalkers, after a little
bit of time has gone by, after more time goes by, they develop into clickers.
And then the most powerful stage that we saw was stage four, the blotters,
which we saw back in episode five
when they were teasing the other types of infected.
They were talking mostly about Shamblers, which are stage four,
which become more powerful and harder to kill
and potentially stage five, which is basically like the Rat King.
The ranking is meant to be this amalgam of a bunch of different types of infected
that kind of morph together and turn into a giant hybrid
infected sort of like a transformer infected.
He's more like a boss level character, so they probably save him for much.
Later in the series.
They said the main reason why there weren't
as many infected during season one that people were expecting
is mostly because they said when they were writing the season, John
Elliott fight against the infected in the game and those different parts
felt ancillary or to extra for what was happening with the plot.
Well, they had a hard time justifying a lot of those fights during the episodes,
like why would they go off and fight this other group of infected for like
another 15 minutes of the episode when it's not necessary?
So I think they heard a lot of fans complaints like, wait a minute,
they're supposed to be infected, fungus all over the place.
Why aren't we seeing more of that?
HBO said note taken way more infected coming to season 2.
But during the five year time jump, it's meant to be a period of relative
quiet safety in which Joel nurtures and raises Ellie.
He pays off his reference earlier in the finale by teaching her how to play guitar.
A lot of the songs that they play are cover songs featured in both games,
which they also use during the Last of Us Season one episodes.
During this time, Ellie keeps her immunity secret from everyone
else, and time is community.
Tommy knows, but everybody else doesn't know about it yet.
She even winds up
masking her bite mark with the tattoo, but it's meant to be a good life.
Over those next five years.
After the end of season one, she makes good friends like Deena and Jessie.
They add an Easter Egg quick cameo scene for Dina.
Earlier, when they first visited
Tommy's settlement, fans spotted this and Neil Druckmann kind of confirmed it.
He implied this girl peeking at Ellie,
who she yells at because her social skills are non-existent at this point.
It's supposed to be DNA from later in the games.
Both and Ellie spend a lot of time just working the regular
odd jobs, helping protect the community from random infected.
They show up in the area.
There are infected in fungus in the area.
There's not quite as many as you would expect in a large city.
Joel continues to nurture his hobbies like woodworking, wildlife,
guitar playing, trying to nurture Ellie's interest like outer space dinosaurs.
But slowly, more and more of a wedge grows
between the two of them over Ellie's perceived loss of her destiny.
Her grand purpose for existing in the Season one finale.
She knows
deep down he's not telling the truth, but she can't let herself believe it.
Too scary.
The idea that the only purpose in life hasn't been fulfilled.
And then Joel puts all of that on the line.
Like a parent, you feel like you need to lie to your children to protect them.
And that's what Joel does at the very end that that had been taken away
from her by the person that she loves and trusts the most.
It's too overwhelming.
So she forces herself to believe Joe, and
she's assumed that whole time
during season one, she'd helped the Fireflies save the entire human race.
And even during their initial escape, she had started to suspect
everything that Joel told her about.
What happened wasn't totally true.
And slowly over time, that feeling begins to fester in her
as she grows complacent and directionless with no sense of real purpose anymore.
Like, what is she supposed to be doing? What is life going to be?
Now that she doesn't have a grand purpose anymore?
She starts to probe him for more details and answers
until finally he admits everything he told her was a lie.
And why he did it.
You find out the year before the second game picks up about year
four into the time jump, she went back to the Salt Lake City
Hospital, St Mary's Hospital herself to get her own answers
about what happened and discovers the truth.
Joel winds up telling her the whole truth and it destroys their relationship.
Ellie There's one of anything to do with them any more.
But Joel continues to watch over her, still caring about her like a daughter,
and he still believes what he did was best for her.
All the single dads out there, like I believe in Joel, he did the right thing.
It's after this that you meet the Abby Anderson
character in the Washington Liberation Front, her group or the love.
They had traveled 800 miles from Seattle to find Joel
so that Abby could get revenge for him killing her father,
the fireflies lead surgeon that he killed in the finale
during a random winter storm at Tommy's settlement.
A herd of infected attack in the chaos, Joel and Tommy wind up helping Abby
without realizing who she is.
Putting the man that she was trying to find right where she wanted him.
With Ellie, finding them too late in having to witness what goes down,
and it winds up being this big revenge arc for Ellie against Abby in her group.
So it's at this point that the W left the Washington Liberation Front
in the Abby character become the main villains of the second game
and is basically here where the plot of the second game
just completely takes a left turn direction where fans
just were completely flabbergasted like wait a minute,
we were not expecting the game to take this direction.
What's going on?
It is basically right
at the beginning of the second game, like very little time goes by, then boom.
So this is why I'm saying
that HBO wants to change the plot dramatically of the second game.
Like we don't want one episode
and then the show to completely just follow Bella Ramsey by herself.
Thematically, though, the whole second game is meant to be about
the trauma of what Ellie is forced to witness
and how it consumes her for the rest of the events of the games.
Probably the third game too.
If they make the Last of Us 3 putting her and Abby on parallel arcs,
it takes Ellie to a very dark place in the way that Joel was
a very dark person at the beginning of the first season,
and they try to use the story of the second game to show you how revenge
often winds up destroying the very people who are seeking it.
Like if you're seeking revenge,
dig two graves, one for the other person and one for yourself.
But the leaders of this other group, the w l, that will probably wind up becoming
one of the main antagonist of future seasons are Isaac Dixon, Marcus Wilson.
Luis Sanchez.
Jason Emma Patterson in Isaac's story is actually very similar to Kathleen
in The Hunters, in that he winds up being kind of a tyrant that the W
of holds up as a really awesome person that was able to get rid of Phaedra
because the w l f in the Seattle quarantine zone
was successful, kind of like the hunters were in getting rid of HYDRA.
Agents implied that the Isaac character
was every bit as stabby, every bit as much of a tyrant as Kathleen was.
So they might do a season 2 in future seasons is just start earlier
in that five year time gap between the first and the second game
to show more development, show more of Ellie's relationship
with these other characters like Jessie and Dina,
so that when they become bigger characters later in the story, fans care about them
way more.
And so when the Abby character shows up in the story,
people care about her way more, too.
And also, when the plot starts turning more around,
Ellie versus Abby, if they do go in that direction,
eventually fans will just care about it more.
Won't feel like a knee jerk left turn.
Abby Kind of like on Game of Thrones if you follow the Jon Snow character
and a lot of these are the main characters for the first five seasons,
then he dies at the end of season five and he doesn't come back in.
They follow the Little Bear character and you're like,
Wait a minute, Why is the story following the Little Bear now?
It feels like, No, no, we're not going to do that.
They want to keep their Pedro
Pascal Joel character on the show as long as possible.
The other path they might be taking is they do pick up
after the five year time jump because Bella Ramsay in real life is actually
about as old as Ellie is in the second game.
It's just that she still looks like a little girl.
Physically,
they could follow
the plot of the second game very closely like they did during season
one in the first game, but they just don't do the big Jo Abby Twist
and they leave that for the very end of the series
so that during season 2,
season three, you spend all this time traveling around with Ellie.
But Pedro Pascal is Jo is with her, or they could substitute
someone else for that big Joel Twist like Tommy's character,
and they could always do something completely different with Abby playing
a totally different role in the narrative, and she's not the main villain.
In Season 2,
they created the Kathleen character out of whole cloth, out of nothing
for the show.
She wasn't part of the games.
They could do the same thing in season two with the Washington Liberation Front,
or they could delay their group and bring back the hunters as more revenge
villains in season 2
and replace some of the Abby storyline with more Hunters revenge stuff.
Let me know
in the comments, though,
if HBO says they're going to radically change the plot of the second game
for season
two in future seasons, what do you think they're going to change about the plot?
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