Although all fans of “The Last of Us“They knew that the most shocking and heartbreaking event of The second season of “The Last of Us” It would be the brutal death of Joel (Pedro Pascal), they did not expect it to happen so soon. “Through The Valley”, the second episode of the new installment of the successful HBO series, was chosen for Abby Anderson (Kaitlyn Dever) would complete his terrible revenge for his father’s murder and cause an imone pain to Ellie (Bella Ramsey), who also promised revenge.
While an intense snowstorm looms over Jackson, Joel saves Abby from a horde of infected. She takes advantage of the encounter to convince Joel and Dina (Isabela Merced) to take refuge in an abandoned mansion. Upon arriving at the place, he knocked out Dina and shoots Joel in her leg.
After revealing that she is the daughter of the doctor who Joel murdered to save Ellie and exclaim a speech full of pain and anger, Abby brutally hits Joel with a golf stick. Ellie appears just in time to witness the lethal blow.
Dina (Isabela Merced) and Joel (Pedro Pascal) fell into ABBy’s trap in “The Last of Us” season (Photo: HBO)
In an interview with Variety, Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, the creators of “The Last of Us”, Explained their reasons after the decision to kill Joel in the second chapter of the second season. “In short, I think we needed to return to the series. Because even in the game, there is about an hour or something before reaching this moment. But we also knew that it had to be early enough, because this is the incident that triggers this story”.
“So yes, we always chose all the variants, but as the season progressed, we felt that we were taking a bit in place of reaching the crux of the story”Druckmann said.
For his part, Mazin said: “There is a danger of tormenting people. It is not what we want to do. If people know what will happen, it will begin to feel tormented. And those who do not know them will discover it, because they will talk that it has not yet appeared. Our instinct was to make sure that, in doing so, he felt natural in history and it was not a metaphunction of our desire to bother people.”
Joel’s death was also a shocking moment for the protagonists of “The Last of Us”. “I am in full denial”, Said Pedro Pascal to EW.“I realize this more and more as I aged; I find myself falling into the denial that everything is over. I know that I am forever connected with many members of the experience and I simply have to see them in other circumstances, but I will never interpret it in ‘The Last of Us’. And no, I don’t think much about it because it saddens me”.
“I knew that Joel was going to die, but when reading it on the script I was afraid to reach that moment … and I cried. In fact, I cried inconsolably. It is the first time I cry reading a text”Bella Ramsey confessed to HBO.
The scene was also difficult for Kaitlyn Dever, since a few weeks before filming he had lost his mother. “Weeks A before shooting the scene his mother sick of cancer had died. In fact, initially the funeral coincided with the beginning of the filming, so the team the series adapted to its circumstances and delayed the dates. In addition to postponing the filming of the scene, they made sure to have a more intimate set in which only the strictly necessary team was”, He told Entertainment Weekly.
Ellie (Bella Ramsey) cries the death of Joel (Pedro Pascal) in the second episode of Season 2 of “The Last of Us” (Photo: HBO)
