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The Last of Us’s New Beginning
Right on cue, HBO’s adaptation arrives at the source material’s definitive spoiler — and its most controversial.
Most notably, we also see Abby end Joel’s life in the episode, her golf-club shank sliding into his neck like cake, in a way that’s more punishing than the original, which opted to render the killing as a silhouette on the periphery of the shot. There were other strands of bigotry at play: A trans character factors prominently much later in the story, plus the fact that Ellie is queer, a trait established in Left Behind, an add-on chapter to Part I that was also incorporated into the show’s first season. Video-game fandom has historically featured venomous wings of extremism, and the online vitriol got so bad that Abby’s voice actor and motion-capture performer, Laura Bailey, started receiving death threats, some even targeting her newborn son.
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