No, They Are Not Going To Change Joel’s Story In ‘The Final Of Us’ Season 2

Due to a single line from showrunner Craig Mazin in a brand new Esquire interview about The Final of Us targeted on Pedro Pascal, a zillion different websites are taking it and working with the concept that there are going to be some MAJOR and INSANE and WILD adjustments to the storyline of the second season of present, adapting the second recreation of the collection.

No, no, no. No.

Earlier than we discuss any of this, now we have to get into spoiler territory for each the video games and the present. Like, a few of the greatest spoilers potential, so flee now.

The concept right here is that Joel’s dying may very well be altered in season 2 of The Final of Us. That possibly this time round he doesn’t die. The quote at hand is from Mazin, who first says “This must be pretty apparent to anybody by now, however I don’t concern killing characters,” however then says “However the essential factor to notice is that neither Neil [Druckmann] nor I really feel constrained by the supply materials.”

That is simply Mazin hedging, as I imply, you’re not going to anticipate him to say in an interview “oh yeah we’re completely killing Joel.” And whereas I do have my issues about how a Final of Us TV viewers might react to the brutal beating dying of Pedro Pascal’s beloved Joel by Abby, much like how Glenn’s dying by the hands of Negan made many individuals stop The Strolling Lifeless, I’m going to say it’s roughly inconceivable that this plot level is modified.

I imply have you ever performed The Final of Us Half 2? What about that recreation means that the total storyline may occur if Joel was nonetheless alive? Altering it so Joel lives erases your complete plot, which targeted on Abby getting revenge on Joel for the dying of her father (the Firefly surgeon working on Ellie that he shot) and Ellie then making an attempt to get revenge on Abby for killing Joel. The concept is that revenge and rage is an infinite cycle you may’t escape, and with out this you will have…no story? You would need to rewrite the second season of the present as some weird alternate universe the place Joel survives and he and Ellie go off on some new journey that has nothing to do with the second recreation.

Guys, they’re simply not going to do this. There’s a zero % probability. The one adjustments I can see taking place is possibly Abby beats him to dying with a hammer as an alternative of a golf membership however Joel can not escape his destiny right here. It’s inconceivable for the storyline of the second recreation they’re adapting to not be completely shattered. Once more, I fear about how this shall be acquired, as even a Sport of Thrones-hardened TV viewers goes to viscerally react to this, however it’s going to occur. There’s no avoiding it, I’m sorry, irrespective of what number of clickbait headlines might recommend in any other case.

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