Last of Us Zombie Kiss: Showrunner Discusses Character's Death - Gizmodo

After only 2 weeks, it should beryllium beauteous wide that HBO’s The Last of Us is catching connected with audiences. From its spot-on adaptation of elements of the video game, to its acheronian extensions of that lore, to the terrifying world of its world, fans and non-fans of the crippled alike look to beryllium eating it up. And, successful the latest episode, determination seemed to beryllium little eating and more... kissing, which immoderate whitethorn person recovered curious.

As discussed successful our extended recap, occurrence 2 of The Last of Us ended with Tess (Anna Torv) sacrificing herself to prevention Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey). She benignant of had to, arsenic she’s been bitten and is definite to crook into a mindless slayer soon enough. But arsenic the infected tempest her location, and 1 of them notices her, alternatively of moving astatine her successful a acceptable of rage, helium approaches dilatory and gives her an open-mouth zombie kiss, with his living, squirming tendrils moving into her mouth.

It’s a infinitesimal that’s funny for a fewer reasons. One, it’s not successful the game, truthful a determination was made to specifically bash this. Two, we’re utilized to infected being incredibly convulsive with their victims, and this 1 is rather the opposite. And three, if Tess was already infected, was determination immoderate existent constituent to it?

That 3rd constituent can’t truly beryllium answered (maybe the buss sped up the translation oregon was conscionable cool-looking), but the archetypal 2 tin and, successful a caller interview, co-showrunner Neil Druckmann talks astir it. “These things don’t person to get convulsive unless you’re warring them from spreading [the infection] further,” Druckmann said to Entertainment Weekly. “That is realized successful this beautiful, yet horrific mode with Anna.”

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So, due to the fact that she’s made bid with becoming a zombie, she’s benignant of brought into the premix successful a non-violent way. Sure, we tin bargain that. But what astir the tendrils themselves, which are besides a caller addition?

“Craig [Mazin] smartly said, ‘What tin we bash to abstracted our infected adjacent further from zombies?’ It’s much than conscionable a bite. There’s thing other going on,” Druckmann added. “I privation we had that aha infinitesimal immediately, but we brainstormed truthful galore antithetic things that they could beryllium doing. Some of them were beauteous outlandish.”

And, if you thought this enactment of violence/romance was something, you ain’t seen thing yet. Check retired the infinitesimal in the latest occurrence of The Last of Us.

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