TheLastOfUs co-creator Craig Mazin details the changes made to the game's sniper sequence for episode 5. '...this wasn't us going, 'Hey, we're going to subvert expectations.' It was really more like, 'Well, what if there is a sadness to this?''
Spoilers for The Last of Us episode 5 below!The Last of Us adaptation's co-creator, Craig Mazin, has explained why episode 5 changed the iconic sniper scene from the original video game. HBO's popular zombie horror drama is based on the award-winning 2013 PlayStation 3 game of the same name.
In the original game, Joel, Ellie, Henry, and Sam are pinned down by a skilled sniper at the end of a cul-de-sac in a residential area. The player as Joel must sneak through various houses, eliminating Hunters, and kill the sniper. Like the game, the HBO series saw the group forced behind a car by the sniper, but Joel quickly realizes that the shooter isn't that skilled and quickly flanks and confronts the old sniper.
Then the thought was, "Well, what if he stinks? What if the sniper is really bad and all Joel has to do is just get around and get in there?" And then the next question is, "Well, why is he bad?" The answer is, he's really old. He can't see. And this is sad because when you are dealing with the citizen brigade, this is often what you're dealing with. It's not trained military soldiers, these are people. And this guy...
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