Why Ellie sings the start of ‘Future Days’ in The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 5

Ellie sings the beginning of ‘Future Days’ in The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 5, and it’s setting up an emotional scene from the game.

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The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 5 features another scene with Ellie and a guitar – but it’s incredibly brief, and there’s a secret reason she starts to sing ‘Future Days’.

In last week’s episode of The Last of Us, Ellie found a guitar while exploring Seattle. Instinctively, she picked it up and started playing ‘Take on Me’, even singing it for Dina.

It’s one of the best scenes in the show, and it comes straight from the game (if you cast your mind back to the first trailer for the series in 2022, it used ‘Take on Me’). Music plays a bigger role in the story than you may realize; after all, Ellie’s original actress returned to sing ‘Through the Valley’ after Joel’s death in Episode 2.

‘Future Days’ was also the title of the first episode, and while its lyrics have parallels with Ellie’s arc (“If I ever were to lose you, I’d surely lose myself”), there’s another reason Ellie sings it in Episode 5. Game spoilers to follow…

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In the game, ‘Future Days’ is the first song Joel plays to Ellie when he gives her a guitar. We haven’t seen this scene in the show… yet, but there’s a good chance it’ll happen in Episode 6.

If you go back and watch the trailer for Season 2, you’ll see a brief shot of Joel and Ellie sitting together while she holds a guitar. While unconfirmed, this will probably be the scene where Joel sings ‘Future Days.’

Here’s the thing: ‘Future Days’ is a Pearl Jam song released in 2013. In the show, the Cordyceps outbreak began in 2003, so technically, it wouldn’t exist.

While appearing on the Kinda Funny show, Neil Druckmann addressed the song’s inclusion in Season 2.

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“Now, it makes no sense for Joel to know that song. We could say, ‘Okay it’s a parallel dimension, the song came out earlier’, but that feels a little bit like a cheat,” he said.

“I will say that Pearl Jam specifically has been ingrained into the story and the world of The Last of Us… if we don’t do that song, there’s other songs we can play with.”

In another interview with Eurogamer, Druckmann explained where the inspiration for using ‘Future Days’ in Part 2 came from.

“It’s actually kind of a weird story. When we finished the first game, Geoff Keighley reached out to us – he wanted to do The Last of Us: One Night Live, where we would bring the actors on stage and they would act out scenes from the game,” he said.

“Now I thought, yeah, that’s kind of interesting, but maybe there’s a way to take advantage of it and just write something unique for the stage. I’m gonna have Troy [Baker] and Ashley [Johnson] there – what if we could explore a scene after the events of the first game?

“I wrote this scene where Joel brings this guitar to Ellie. There’s this tension between them and there’s a song… and I am obsessed with Pearl Jam at the time and just in love with the song.”

For more coverage, find out if Abby dies in The Last of Us game and check out our breakdowns on when The Last of Us takes place and the show’s soundtrack.

You can also find out why Ellie left coffee beans on Joel’s grave and what happens to Shimmer in the game.

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