One more week here we find the new episode of The Last of Us for HBO. He ellie and joel trip continues on its way to the west, so it is time to look at the different details that this adaptation of the video game hides in its sixth episode. References, curiosities and all kinds of winks, one by one.
WARNING SPOILERS: from this point on, the plot of both the series and the two video games will be discussed without any kind of restriction.
All the winks, references and curiosities in the sixth episode of The Last of Us
- Three months have passed since the events that led to the death of sam and henrycausing the ellipsis that also happens in the game towards the fall.
- We can see that the man who lives in a cabin with his wife hunts rabbits with a bow, which is exactly the same as Ellie does in the video game. A deer appears hanging next to his house, which is a very precious animal and which is a dispute between Ellie and David in the game.
- The scene in which both have camped next to a cave with a bonfire is a reference to the first concept art that existed of the game. It was incorporated as a model in the museum of the PS5 remake.
- Joel says that he would like to live on a sheep ranch when it’s all over, which is precisely what Ellie does in the final installment of The Last of Us Part II.
- Ellie mentions that her dream is to be an astronaut, just like Sally Ride. We are talking about a reference to flashback from the second game where Joel and Ellie visit an abandoned museum and the young woman is completely fascinated by the space section.
- When both characters spot the hydroelectric dam, Joel admits that he has no idea how electricity can be generated from running water. In the video game he makes a comment to the same effect.
- A Jackson survivor is accompanied by a dog, one of Jackson’s most annoying and speedy enemies. The Last of Us Parte II. In the first game they did not appear.
- The Jackson settlement is tremendously faithful to its virtual version, being able to clearly recognize the main avenue where the bustle of the community that lives there is. On the other hand, the bar where Joel and Ellie eat is exactly the same one where she and Dina kiss in the second part, including Christmas lights on the ceiling.
- respect to Dina, appears behind a column looking restlessly at Ellie and their particular behavior. Paolina van Kleef is the name of the actress who gives life to her, although we must take into account the words of Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin in the weekly podcast. Both directors acknowledge that she is Dina and that this situation is very similar to the one the two young women refer to regarding how they met.
- We see Shimmer, the mare that will belong to Ellie a few years later in The Last of Us Parte II.
- The movie they’re playing at the Jackson theater is The Goodbye Girla 1977 film starring Richard Dreyfuss and it is a romantic comedy.
- The room in which Ellie sleeps in Jackson is very similar to the one in the house she flees to in the game after learning that Joel no longer wants to accompany her. In fact, right there the tense scene is recreated about the fact that he is not her father and she is not her daughter.
- In said conversation, in the game, Ellie reveals that Maria told her what had happened with Sarah. The series has been in charge of revealing to us what they both do while Joel and Tommy catch up. Maria cuts Ellie’s hair and reveals that Joel lost her daughter, along with the fact that she herself lost her three-year-old son Kevin to the cordyceps outbreak.
- An iconic scene is that of Joel and Ellie riding together and of course the HBO production has been in charge of recreating it perfectly.
- During the drive, Joel comments that his dream was to be a singer, which he also mentions in the game. Ellie encourages him to sing and it is something that will happen in the initial section of The Last of Us Parte II.
- He group of monkeys running around the University of Colorado they also appear in the video game and freak out in the same way as soon as Ellie and Joel get close. A couple of them make noise on a higher floor, just like in the video game.
- When the looters show up, Joel drowns one of them in the same way we can do in the title. On this occasion, the serious wound he received in the abdomen was not caused by an iron after a fall, but by the handle of a split bat that stuck into him.
- The person who sings the song Never Let Me Down Again during the end credits is Craig Mazin’s daughter.
