There is a reason why [REDACTED] didn’t die a painful death.
Warning: Spoilers fromThe Last of Usepisode 2 are discussed in this article.
But no one is there to meet them.
Anna Torv as Tess in HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’.Liane Hentscher/HBO
No one living, anyway.
So Joel has to make a decision.
Tess makes this decision for him.
An Infected.HBO
Before the infection overtakes her, Tess makes a dying wish for Joel to keep going with Ellie.
In the game, Tess dies holding off invading FEDRA soldiers while Joel and Ellie make their escape.
“That is realized in this beautiful, yet horrific way with Anna.”
The tendrils are a newer element to the show that Druckmann and Mazin blew out from the source material.
“Craig smartly said, ‘What can we do to separate our infected even further from zombies?’
It’s more than just a bite.
There’s something else going on,” Druckmann recalls.
“Some of them were pretty outlandish.”
The cordyceps tendrils on the show create a hive mind effect, as viewers saw in episode 2.
It’s rooted in science.
“We thought it was pretty cool,” he says.
“It’s very visual and it is very creepy, which I love.”
Druckmann clarifies that the tendril conversation was completely separate from the spores conversation.
(Except for Ellie, of course.)
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“We just haven’t gotten there yet.
It’s possible that they may come back.
We may have a plan, is my point.”
“So we’ve had some conversations recently.
I was like, ‘Is there a way to pull it off?’
If enough people show up on day 1, we might get to show the spores.”
By the end of the second day, that number ballooned to 10 million viewers.
Says Mazin, “If you want spores, watch the show.”
