Released on September 11, The Walking Dead fans couldn’t help but compare the new spin-off focused on Daryl Dixon with the hit HBO Max series The Last of Us.
AMC recently premiered The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, the new serie spin-off of the famous zombie franchise based on the comic universe of Robert Kirkman.
Starring Norman Reedusthe plot of this spin-off shows us Daryl Dixon in Europe, who appears on the French coast after an unexpected shipwreck.
Daryl begins his journey through a ruined France in which he tries to understand how and why he ended up there while trying to find his way back home.. However, the relationships he will establish along the way will complicate his plan.
¿Es The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon similar a The Last of Us?
Shortly after the series premiered on AMC, there have been many who have compared the new spin-off of The Walking Dead with The Last of Us, the successful HBO Max series based on the no less famous Naughty Dog video game franchise. .
In the series we see how the gruff and lonely character played by Norman Reedus is tasked with escorting a 12-year-old boy named Laurent, who is supposedly immune to walker bites.. Does it look familiar to you?
Indeed, in The Last of Us Joel has the mission of escorting the 13-year-old girl Ellie and take her to the group of Fireflies to search for a cure for cordyceps because the girl is immune.
The similarities with the series HBO Max They seem to be more evident with the revelations shown in the episode of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon titled Alouette, as it follows similar guidelines to the story of Ellie’s mother in The Last of Us.
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In the episode Look for the Light of The Last of Us it is revealed that Ellie’s mother, Anna, was bitten and infected while giving birth, explaining Ellie’s unique immunity to cordyceps.
For its part, The Walking Dead episode Alouette: Daryl Dixon shows equally unique circumstances surrounding Laurent’s “miraculous” birth: his mother Lily, bitten by a walker, succumbed to infection from the bite and revived while giving birth. However, despite being born to a zombified mother, Laurent is not believed to be immune to bites.
Instead, the network of believers who belong to the religious Union Del’Espoir (Union of Hope) see Laurent as “an answer to the prophecy” predicted by their leader, the Buddhist monk Lama Rinpoche, who affirms that the child is destined to free humanity from “the hungry.”
After this, quite a few fans have shared on social networks the similarities that the new AMC series has with The Last of Us.
“Oh, so this is just The Last of Us, but with Daryl and in France.”
“Como Ellie en The Last of Us”.
“This would be such a surprising ending if they hadn’t used this plot in The Last of Us first. I still loved it.”
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon airs a new episode every week on AMC. Do you think the development of the new series is very similar to that of The Last of Us?
