Let's discuss The Last of Us episode six
The Last of Us episode six, known as «Kin», reunites us with Joel and Ellie as they continue their search for Tommy and the Fireflies.
After a definite pick up in action and episode five's emotional finale, episode six reverts back to a slightly slower pace of storytelling with a heavier focus on character development and world building.
The bulk of the episode once again uses Naughty Dog's source material as a flexible framework — it remains true to the game's core narrative, but adjusts and embellishes certain aspects of its story.
As always, it leaves plenty of things for us to pick apart and discuss, so let's get into it.
THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR BOTH THE SHOW AND THE GAME SERIES IT IS BASED ON. ADDITIONALLY, THERE ARE DISCUSSIONS OF SUICIDE BELOW. PLEASE READ ON AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION.
As I said, this episode sticks to the core ideas of The Last of Us the game, but expands beyond the original story. This is done in several ways, but I will start with discussing two new characters.
After a flashback to Henry's suicide in episode five, the show skips forward three months. Unlike this point in the game, we are now clearly in Winter, with the camera showing us a snow covered landscape. A lone character with a brace of dead rabbits then approaches a remote cabin. At first I assumed this was Joel, but it actually turns out to be Graham Greene's new character Marlon.
Ahead of the show's release we were told that Greene, along with actor Elaine Miles, would guest star in the show as «a married couple surviving alone in the wilderness of post-apocalyptic Wyoming». Their inclusion here tells us we are getting closer to Tommy (who we know to be somewhere in the same state).
When Marlon enters the cabin, his wife
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