Season 2 begins with an infect that does not grow … study and that is generating much more tension and terror among the spectators
Since HBO wore The last of us On the small screen, Sunday they stopped being calm. But what is coming to the The second season promises to bring us an even more disturbing territory. Because yes, we thought we had already seen everything with Chasqueadores and runners, but no. Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin have still maintained an ace on the sleeve: Stalking.
Yes, it looks bad. And it’s worse.
Stalking comes to change the rules of the game
Imagine this: Ellie and Dina cross a supermarket like those who are going for bread. They have confidence. They dominate the ground. They feel safe. Five years have passed since the horrors of the first season and, as Mazin said in the official podcast of the series “,These humans have become quite good by solving the problem of the infected“. Serious error.
Because this new type of infect Does not attack in front or mad. Look at you. Measures you. And at least you expect it … Zas.
“We wanted to emphasize that they think, and this is a problem,” Mazin explained. “Even the sound they emit has a little sadness … There is still humanity in them. There is still brain.“
This was defined by the showrunner and only to think about chills. This new bug Don’t growl: shut up. Not RAM: Stalk. And this makes it infinitely more dangerous.
A bite that changes everything
The most disturbing was not only his appearance, but he managed to bite Ellie. Is Our Ellie. Don’t be immune, It would be over. “This being wins, in a certain sense. If Ellie was any other person on the planet, he would have been infected,” Mazin ended. And this is the great turning point: for confident, Ellie paid a price.
Because, however much it has grown, which has been hardened, It is still vulnerable. The scene is not just a very performed fright. It is a brutal reminder: The world has changed and also its horrors.
And this, for those who already knew the video game stalkkers, is a gift and a threat. Because in the series they are bringing this concept to the next level, With a more psychological and more disturbing approach, in which the enemy not only scares, but also generates empathy. This new design is not limited to replicating the terror of the game, amplifies it and reinterprets it with a rough that leaves us with our hearts in a fist.
Neil Druckmann clarified: “They are silent. They flee. Floor. Hiding places.“
A type of infect that does not respond to instinct but to the strategy. Something sounds like you? Exactly, now the enemy It seems more a human being than a monster. And this makes it the worst of the monsters.
A darker future
The presentation of the stalking at this beginning of the season is, without a doubt, a Declaration of intentions. Why if the first chapter already launches this bomb, what awaits us in the next?
The general feeling that transmits the series is that The infected are no longer just obstacles or wild threats. Now they represent An evolutionA dark mirror of what humanity could have been if the infection had not devoured it inside and outside.
And this opens the doors to more complex and more emotional plots and, why not, more philosophical. What happens when the monster understands you? When do you study you? When do you hear?
We will have to wait to see how stalkkers evolve, but it is clear They will not be a simple episodic fright. They came to stay. And to transform every corner into a deadly trap.