The Last of Us fans are divided over the clicker moment in the second episode of the HBO series
This article contains spoilers for The Last of Us Episode 2 and The Last of Us game.
Episode 2 of The Last of Us premiered a few days ago, and some fans were a bit confused by its closing scene.
GMs Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann have claimed that they will remain largely faithful to the story of the original PlayStation 3 game, but have also said they will make changes where necessary, and the first of these major changes arrived at the end of Episode II.
But it may come as a surprise to some, as the scene is set up to match almost exactly the game. Here’s one final spoiler warning before we discuss the finale of The Last of Us, Episode 2.
In the series, we see Tess die in a horrific way after being infected, as one of the infected takes a trellis of fungus out of his mouth and places his mouth over hers in the kiss of death. Some fans liked this change, while others were disgusted by it.
god i have so many questions did it recognize her as infected was it just hoping to spread it to her faster why wasn’t it violent why’d it go through her mouth are they going to be connected now how long does it take to transfer how did she stay lucid that long h #TheLastOfUsHBO pic.twitter.com/DGZHtItstD
— ? loverboy? (@bitchboyblues) January 23, 2023
That Last of Us episode was so damn good, but can anyone give me one solid reason as to why that infected had to shove its tongue down Tess’ throat and deliver the one of the most disgusting looking kisses I’ve ever seen on live TV ?? ?? #TheLastofUs #HBO pic.twitter.com/SwnwYcvDxO
– Jordy (@JordyD127) January 23, 2023
killing zombies bc they were once ppl and he was never able to answer the question bc Tess interrupted him. It was like a full circle of moment showing some sort of humanity in the zombie, almost like this kiss was this instinctive human action even tho the purpose was to infect
– ♡ auntie gay ♡ (@ASVPxBocky) January 23, 2023
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i will 100% percent say it was unnecessary having the infected kiss tess for some stupid ass reason. like sure it was gross and creepy but like…. what was the reason lol— ? hidden ? (@hidytxt) January 23, 2023
I don’t get the hate over the kiss scene in last of us, Tess was nearing the end the infection would have been covering her brain at that point and that’s why most infected ran past her it’s obvious they can sense and not attack other infected , the one that kissed
– Maher (@UhAhhhmm) January 23, 2023
But Mazin said that this kiss made more sense than having them tear Tess to pieces.
“We were already talking about taking out Trellis [من أفواه المصابين] And we used to ask ourselves these philosophical questions: ‘Why do infected people act violently? If the goal is to spread fungus, why should they be violent?’ . And we decided they didn’t have to be that. They’re violent because we fight back, but what if you don’t? What would it be like if you stood up completely calmly and allowed them to do this to you?”
Druckmann added that the departure from the game (where Tess is killed in the same scene and in the same building but by soldiers) was also in keeping with the theme of the episode, which is clearly titled Infected.
He continued, “Because we are so hard on the characters we love so much, it seems like she knows she’s done, so the lighter won’t work, and we drive her to the brink of terror before finally giving her a way out.”
Nevertheless, Mazin concedes He said: “It’s okay” for fans to be upset about the changes. where he said to Variety: “I don’t blame them. Everyone dreams of working on something where the fan interaction is on that level, where people will argue about these things or get emotional about them. I feel sometimes if you see how it goes, I think you’ll be fine.”