Warning. Main spoilers for The Final of Us Season 2. Pedro Pascal is booked and busy as of late. In every single place you look, Pascal is in one thing. He was within the film Freaky Tales not that way back. He’s set to seem in one other film, Materialists, with Dakota Johnson. He’s, after all, starring as Joel in The Final of Us, a job he has performed for the reason that groundbreaking present’s first season. Oh, and naturally, Pascal can even headline Marvel’s Implausible 4: First Steps within the function of Reed Richards, aka Mr. Implausible.
In reality, the actual query ought to be how Pascal had time to do all of this? How might he movie all of this stuff? And maybe the reply is that he didn’t should movie all that a lot for HBO‘s The Final of Us Season 2, contemplating his character’s destiny.
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However why did Pedro Pascal depart The Final of Us? What occurred to Joel? We break all of it down.
Why did Pedro Pascal depart The Final of Us?
It’s much less correct to say that Pascal left The Final of Us than it’s to say that his time as Joel was at all times numbered. When Pascal took the function of Joel, it was at all times with the information that the character could be killed off sooner or later in Season 2—probably early. Within the recreation, Joel is killed off about 5% into it. So, it’s not that Pascal was written off in a artistic resolution made for the season, or that he requested to depart the present as a result of he was too busy. This was simply the best way his character was at all times going to go.
However what occurred to Joel? On the finish of Season 1, Joel rescues Ellie from dying by the hands of a bunch of Fireflies who’re on the lookout for a treatment for the virus and imagine that Ellie is the important thing to all of it. They don’t seem to be certain if they’ll develop a treatment from Ellie, who’s immune, however they’re keen to attempt. When Joel finds out that presumably growing a treatment will kill Ellie, he decides that’s too excessive a value to pay, and he kills all of the Fireflies in addition to the physician working on Ellie, after which takes her to Jackson, the place his brother is.
It simply so occurs that the physician he kills has a daughter, Abby, who then comes after Joel on the lookout for revenge. She kills Joel in a brutal style, whereas Ellie will get to witness how the one parental determine she has ever had is taken from her. That, in flip, units Ellie in her personal quest for revenge on Abby and everybody in her crew, which is principally what the complete second The Final of Us recreation is about. An eye fixed for an eye fixed and all that.
We’re nonetheless going to see a bit extra of Pascal, as HBO has proven some scenes in trailers and stills which are more likely to be Joel and Ellie flashbacks to higher moments of their relationships. Realizing the present, these flashbacks are more likely to come after they damage us most, maybe in the previous few episodes of the season, after Ellie’s path of revenge is already firmly established. The flashbacks are additionally more likely to embody the complete porch scene we didn’t get to see within the first episode, with Joel and Ellie’s final dialog about what occurred with the Fireflies, one of the vital iconic moments within the second recreation.
