It left for 7 weeks of broadcasting. This April 14 marks the start of season 2 of The Last of Us On max after two years of waiting. Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey are back on our screens to interpret Joel and Ellie, two survivors in a post apocalyptic world filled with zombies. We see them here after the events of the first season, surprisingly in bad term.
Indeed, the spectators followed the relationship of the two characters, first foreigners, then weaving links similar to those of a father and his daughter. Two years ago, they were still seen very accomplices, the man having saved the life of the young teenager when she had to be killed by an armed group. But now, there is water in gas and this first episode does not explain the reasons for it. What is hidden from Ellie’s anger ?
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Remember the rescue
As a reminder, Ellie is immune Against the virus that infects the whole world and transforms the population into the undead. After being bitten, she has never presented the slightest symptom, which makes her the only person known to date with her condition. This is why the fireflies, a group armed with survivalists, wanted to get their hands on it, examine it and try to develop a remedy or a vaccine against infection using your body. The only problem is that the girl should have died to get there.
This destiny was obviously hidden from her so as not to dissuade her from giving her life, but when Joel learned it, he did everything in his power to save her, just as she had already done for him. This involved a good dose of fighting, and especially shovel murders in the hospital of Salt Lake City, the spotlight of fireflies. Once recovered, Ellie asked Joel why she was no longer with the group, to which her adoptive father replied that they had other volunteer immunized to search for a vaccine and that the fireflies did not need her. Of course, Everything is false. It is this lie that will cost Joel the sympathy of Ellie.
The Price of truth
We have not yet seen it with the first episode, but in the 5 years that separate the end of season 1 and the start of season 2, Ellie ultimately learns the truth About the day of its rescue. Joel hid Ellie for years all the dead he caused just by saving the teenager from the claws of the fireflies, but above all took the possibility of choosing her destiny. Marlène, the Lucioles head, had herself hidden the truth about her compulsory sacrifice. This is a lie by omission because of which Ellie almost offered her life without informed consent. Joel therefore believed to act in his interest by protecting it as well.
However, Ellie is a benevolent person, ready to give meaning to his existence and his immunity “unique in the world” for the good of humanity. At least that’s what she claims. Would she have refused to help the fireflies if she had known the consequences? Nothing is less certain. The very reason for Joel’s lie proves that he too knew that she would surely have accepted his fate. What she criticizes for Joel is therefore to have removed this choice from her, although the fireflies would have done it in her place in all cases.
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