Yesterday the second episode of The Last of Us, the series that adapts the match original of Naughty Dog y su DLC, Left Behind.
This week’s episode, entitled “Infected”, has had a high tragic component due to the death of Tessthe character embodied by Anna Torvwho leaves Joel and Ellie alone to continue their journey.
Tess’s own death is different from what we see in the game, where she faces off against a platoon of soldiers from FEDRA for what Joel y Ellie escape. In the series, he does the same, but sacrificing himself to dispatch a horde of infected who are going to hunt them down at Boston City Hall.
However, The Last of Us was about to include more changes regarding the game, although they were left out of the final cut that we saw in the episode.
Tess’s changes we almost saw in The Last of Us
Via the series’ official podcast (via Collider), The Last of Us coshowrunner, Craig Mazincreator of Chernobyl, highlights two relevant changes that were about to include.
The most striking is that Tess’s character had a husband and son, both infected. Tess would have killed her husband, but she was unable to kill her son and locked him in the basement of her house, where she continued to wander like a clicker.
“We wrote it, we never filmed it… It was like a backstory for Tess, and the fact that she had a son. She had a husband and a son, and they were infected and she had to kill them. She killed her husband, but she couldn’t kill son. He locked him in the basement, where, theoretically, he’s still a clicker.”
The other change was directly related to Tess’s son, and was a “cold start” for the character by Anna Torv in the HBO Max series.
“We had a cold opening where the camera was just pushing on the door and you just hear these banging coming from the basement. And then Tess would tell the story of how she couldn’t kill her son. It just didn’t fit, but it was fun to think about. On it”.
The Last of Us will return next Monday to HBO Max with its third episode, with Joel and Ellie facing new dangers after losing their traveling companion.
