Who would have thought… Series inspired by video games tend to adapt the plot with some creative freedom, but that doesn’t seem to be the case The Last of Us on the HBO platform. The first episode actually solves several mysteries that were not explained in the Naughty Dog video game, and here we will tell you what they are.
Only in the opening scene, set in 1968, do we see two scientists debating the greatest threat to humanity on a TV show. One of them states that he believes that yeast infections could eventually be more dangerous than those from bacteria or viruses. The scientist is questioned because fungal infections cannot withstand higher temperatures, hence their tendency to be parasites of insects and other cold-blooded arthropods such as the Cordyceps virus of The Last of Us.
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In response to this, the scientist states that certain conditions could mean that common parasitic fungi could mutate and evolve, learning to live inside the human body. The expert insists that if the Earth as a whole warmed, these fungi could evolve to withstand higher temperatures, which would allow them to have a human host.
Interested in continuing to know more? We invite you to play the Dale Play podcast to find out about the other facts that the episode revealed about the video game.
The Last of Us is a horror, action and adventure video game developed by Naughty Dog and distributed by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3 console in 2013. In mid-2014 The Last of Us Remastered was released, an improved version for PlayStation 4 and two years later it was announced the sequel The Last of Us Part II, which was released on June 19, 2020.
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