The Last of Us co-creator says one of the franchise's darkest moments was cut from the season 2 finale because violence is more "graphic" in live-action: "It's not like there's an animation between you and it"
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澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Last of Us season 2 packed in plenty of dark moments ཧfrom the game across its seven-episode run, but one in particular was left out of the finale.
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In𝓀 episode 7 of season 2, Ellie goes 🌱to an abandoned aquarium on her hunt for Abby. She ends up accidentally killing two of Abby's friends – one of whom, Mel, was pregnant, to Ellie's horror. But, as those who've played the game will know, in The Last of Us Part 2, there's one more casualty: Alice the dog.
Alice doesn't make an appearance aಌt all 🔯in the show (so far), but in the game, Ellie kills the good pup, who you actually play alongside for a while as Abby.
"You get one dog murdꦡering 🍨episode a lifetime," co-showrunner Craig Mazin said in a press conference attended by GamesRadar+. Mazin also created the show Chernobyl, which saw multiple dogs culled in the aftermath of the nuclear tragedy. "There are two cardinal rules in Hollywood. One, don't spend your own money. Two, don't kill the dog."
But, there's a more serious reason, too. "We had a situation where a number of horrible things were happening. Plus, because it's live action, the nature of violence becomes much more graphic. It's more graphic. Because it's not like there's aඣn animation between you and it; it's people. And it's very disturbing."
Plus, with how dark the rest of the episode was, it just ended up being ove🍸rkill.
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"Sometimes adding something that was cut from the game requires you to remove something that was in the game," added 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann. "So here, that sequence where Ellie drifts to the Seraphite island and almost gets lynched herself was something we used to have in the game and cut it for just production… purposes. And then now we had three horrible things in a row. We had th🍬at sequence, Alice, and then Mel. And in our conversation, we're like, this is probablꦓy one one too many."
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I'm the Deputy Entertainment Editor here at GamesRadar+, covering all things film and TV for the site's T♋otal Film and SFX sections. I previously worked on the Disney magazines team at Immediate Media, and also wrote on the CBeebies,𒅌 MEGA!, and Star Wars Galaxy titles after graduating with a BA in English.
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