well thats it the last of us season 1 has concluded and its safe to say that the hbo adaptation has gone over well with fans of the game and newbies alike for the most part its been super faithful to the source material lifting scenes lines and even some frames but of course there have been some tweaks along the way to better suit it to tvthe finale only differs slightly from the game as joel pedro pascal and ellie bella ramsey finally make it to the fireflies and discover the groups true intentions with the latter hey they even found time to squeeze the giraffe scene in below though we go into the latest installments small changes from the game from original ellie actor ashley johnsons role to certain missing momentsunsurprisingly this article contains spoilers for the last of us episode 9 so proceed with caution if youve yet to tune in and dont want to know exactly what happens all up to date lets dive inashley johnson plays anna not ellieimage credit hboin both the last of us and the last of us part 2 ashley johnson brings ellie to life but in the show she plays ellies mother anna a character we dont ever see in the gamesepisode 9 titled look for the light opens on a heavily pregnant anna running through the woods soon she stumbles across a rundown farmhouse and holes herself up in there as she realizes shes in labor as she sits down and starts to give birth a runner starts snarling outside the bedroom door before eventually busting its way in the runner and anna get into a brawl but the latter manages to overpower the infected and stab it in the headin the chaos anna realizes newborn ellie has arrived and shes been bitten on the inside of her thigh in a desperate attempt to stop the infection spreading to the littlun anna cuts the umbilical cord before soothing ellie after the opening credits the episode sees marlene merle dandridge find anna and ellie in the house and anna orders marlene to kill her and take ellie to bostonmarlene hesitates but eventually does as anna says shooting her in the head offcamera none of this happens in the gamejoels scarimage credit hboattention this section contains mentions of suicide which some readers may find distressing the last of us season 1 has been full of heartbreaking moments from sarahs death in the opening episode and sams turning to joels emotionally charged hearttoheart with his brother over the latters future fatherhood the finale however features one of its most tearjerking sequence yet as joel reveals to ellie how he got a certain scar on his head while wandering through an abandoned military camp in salt lake city the pair spot a bunch of hospital beds which leads joel to admit that he was once sent to a place like it two days into the outbreak when ellie asks what