The Last Of Us, which became a phenomenon with its release and was cited as one of the best game-adapted productions to date, won the hearts of the players, especially with its similarities with the first game. Moreover, the fact that both the series and the movie are inspired by a mushroom that exists in real life makes this story realistic enough.

The story line, which developed almost the same as the game until the 3rd episode, created the perception of many viewers that the other episodes would proceed in the same way. However, this perception was broken with the 3rd episode.

Warning: There are plenty of spoilers for both The Last of Us series and the first game in the rest of the article.

So what is the difference between Episode 3 and the game?

You remember Bill and his partner Frank, who both drive the players crazy with their paranoid attitudes and win the hearts of some with their paternalistic attitudes. For those who don’t know, Joel and Ellie, who met Bill for the first time in the game, were cleaning his house full of infected after escaping the traps of our paranoid hunter, in return, they repaired a car by taking the car parts they needed and continued on their way. Frank, Bill’s ex-partner, appeared in the game hanging himself in order not to be infected.

However, in the series, we see that Joel and Tess have met Bill and Frank before. A large part of the series focuses on the story of Bill and Frank instead of focusing on the story of Ellie and Joel. This is where our story begins to move in completely opposite directions to the game. In the game, we see Bill and Frank, two old friends and partners, as lovers in the series. Throughout the series, we witness the good and bad things that the duo goes through. Of course, with the death of the two of us later, Ellie never gets to meet Bill.

Of course, this situation seemed strange to almost everyone who loved the game and knew the story. Although some argue that this is a different point of view or an alternative story, many players who love and know the original story began to argue on the forums that the 3rd episode was a fiasco.

A statement came from the director of the series and the writer of the play.

Of course, these complex ideas about episode 3 quickly turned into a small-scale fight among The Last of Us fans. While the parties clashed on the Reddit and 4Chan forums, Craig Mazin, the producer and director of the series, and Neil Druckmann, who both wrote the story of the original game and directed and wrote the series, made statements to IGN on the subject.

The duo stated that they deliberately designed this episode differently and said, “We wanted to deal realistically with two people finding love in a hopeless post-apocalyptic world,” and stated that they wanted to show the audience different sides of the TLOU universe.

The author of the original game, Neil Druckmann, states that in the first two episodes of the series, he shows what people will lose in this post-apocalyptic world and they are fighting not to lose it, while in the third episode, they aim to show what people can gain and what they can do to keep what they have won.

Although the 3rd episode attracted the attention of the viewers who did not play the game, many of the actors who played the games, laughed at Bill’s funny fights with Ellie, and saw for the first time how much the post-apocalyptic world can destroy a person with Bill, criticized this episode. kept it.