'The Last of Us' made a major change to a game character. The showrunners explain why it was important to expand on Bill and his love story.
made a major change from the video game in the series' best episode yet, which is sure to be an early contender for one of the year's finest hours of television.
In the game, Joel and Ellie seek out Bill, shown as a paranoid loner who speaks to himself, to help them fix up a vehicle and carry on across the country. Frank, also his partner in the game, is only seen dead, hanging after committing suicide some time ago after the infected bit him. In the game, we learn the two had a nasty falling out, resulting in Frank's eventual death.
"There's this lovely thread that indicated this hint of a relationship between Bill and Frank in the game," Mazin said,"I just suggested to Neil that maybe we pull that thread and we take it in a different direction in terms of the way it was depicted in the game, and use it to show the passage of time and use it to explore some of these themes that are so important to the length of the show, themes about what it means to love somebody, the different kinds of love, including...
Not only did it give us Bill's backstory, but it also gave us a slightly different, more optimistic version of Bill who we gradually see grow from a skeptical survivalist to a protective partner who has found something worth fighting for even at the world's end.
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