11/25/2023 0 Comments What happened in the last of us part 1Unlike the video game version, the tragedy in The Last of Us does not hit suddenly and shockingly it comes slowly at a snail's pace. By doing so, a lot of world-building is already achieved without digressing too much from the source material. Although the period between the interview and the night when Joel ( Pedro Pascal) and Sarah ( Nico Parker) experienced what was predicted way back is not shown, the exposition in the opening scene helps the natural progression seem evident to those who are unaware of the science of it all. While this is a harsh truth resonated and repeated in many sci-fi stories, The Last of Us uses the same to make the context and in turn, the consequences feel more real and more plausible. In essence, it's communicated in big red letters that humanity is very well capable of ushering its own extinction. Within moments into the premiere, the opening scene achieves the level of the claustrophobic atmosphere experienced in the game by making the audience complacent in the suffering that dawns upon humanity in 2003 as it's established that a situation ideal for the evolution of the Cordyceps fungus could be created if the temperature of the earth rose. Schoenheiss, soon enters the space where it transcends the territory of hypothesis and enters the realm of possibility - a remote but terrifying one. As the talk show host attempts to sneak a joke or two to evoke laughter from the audience, the conversation between the epidemiologists, Dr. ![]() Neuman claims the possibility that fungi may evolve if they are pushed to do as a result of an increase in Earth's temperature. Schoenheiss ( Christopher Heyerdahl), is quick to point out that fungi are incapable of surviving inside the human body due to the higher temperature. The opposition is quick as the other expert, Dr. Neuman ( John Hannah) points out the grave threat that fungi, such as Cordyceps, pose to humanity as a virtue of the reality that no preventive treatment or cure exists for a fungal infection. ![]() Furthermore, two scientists discussing the possibility of a potential threat, in a talk show that's meant to be humorous at best, highlight the trivial treatment that warnings from the scientific community receive from the masses. Although a risky attempt at establishing context to the events that will follow eventually, the opening scene of The Last of Us on HBO Max becomes a great example of how a video game adaptation must build on its source and deviate from it, if at all.Ī talk show interview from 1968 wouldn’t seem the best way to start off a highly anticipated show that is expected to deliver some heart-stopping adrenaline-packed sequences. The importance of the scene amplifies by the fact that it held the potential of making or breaking the expectations as a virtue of being the first reflection of Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann's vision behind this adaptation. From this perspective, the pre-credits scene, which is not there in the game, sets a great pretext for the events in the distant future. Even for those who know nothing about the game, it's tough to not know that The Last of Us was going to be about a future where humanity would be made to kneel on its knees by another zombie apocalypse. HBO's The Last of Us finds the answer to the problems that makers often face, while introducing television audiences to already well-known stories, through its stellar pre-credits scene.
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