![]() Infected still roam parts of the neighborhood.Īs for Frank, well…he never even appears in the game while he’s alive. He doesn’t have his town on total lockdown, but instead has several safehouses scattered throughout. Bill is a much crasser, slightly crazier character in the game. In the game, Joel and Ellie find Bill, who is very much alive, and then have to go scrounging for a car battery together. We’ve already dissected how the show changed Bill and Frank at length, but we’ll repaint the broad strokes. In many ways, Bill and Frank’s love story watches like an alternate universe to the video game. It’s also completely different from the way the pair is presented in the game. Spanning the entire middle 45 minutes of “Long, Long Time,” the story of how these two men found each other amidst the rubble and built a life together is an absolute tear-jerker. ![]() Now we get into the Bill and Frank section of the episode. The Last of Us Episode 3 Bill and Frank’s post-apocalyptic adventure There are comparable bits when scouring Bill’s town in the game, Joel can find a note which details how people were shuttled off in trucks to the QZ, and at times discusses how society collapsed with Ellie as they ransack homes for supplies, but much of the details in these scenes are fresh. Much of the rest of Joel and Ellie’s stuff - the pair stumbling on a crashed plane, Joel explaining the outbreak, and finding the mass grave - is new for the show. The show has mentioned Riley already, so it feels like it’s building to a reveal. In the game, Ellie is with Riley in the mall when she’s bitten, which is the basis for The Last of Us: Left Behind expansion. The “friend” she’s referencing is named Riley. In the show she talks about the Mortal Kombat character Mileena, whereas in the game it’s the made-up character Angel Knives. In the show, Ellie gets excited about a Mortal Kombat knockoff called “The Turning,” while the show has the real thing. Her little rant about how one of her friends loved the game is taken directly from the source material, albeit with some slight changes. The biggest game reference in this section is Ellie’s excited reaction to the Mortal Kombat arcade game. There are lots of fun easter eggs in the basement where Ellie finds the infected shelves and lockers are plentiful throughout the video game and often hold supplies, The infected itself is a Stalker, an infected halfway to become a Clicker. Then there’s the scavenging session inside Cumberland Farms while there weren’t any Cumbies in the video game, that sort of scrounging for supplies is something that Joel and Ellie do at every opportunity. The ethereal guitar music by Gustavo Santaolalla in this section is very reminiscent of the game. The HBO show takes more time with some character beats in this section, like Joel nursing his knuckles and Ellie urging him not to blame her for Tess’ death. This lines right up with what happens in the game after Tess’ death, when the pair walk away from the ruins of Boston and the scene cuts to them going off-road into the wilds. ![]() “Long, Long Time” spends its first act with Joel and Ellie wandering through the wilderness 10 miles west of Boston. The changes weren’t apparent at first, though. The third episode of HBO’s The Last of Us marks the first time that the television show has deviated in major ways from the 2013 video game. The Last of Us Episode 3 The Last of Us Episode 3: Video game vs.
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