HBO's The Last Of Us: 10 Things We Need To See

10. Joel and Tommy's origin story

While this subplot is unlikely to be given the amount of time it deserves due to the impending arrival of Ellie on the scene, one origin story that audiences are particularly desperate to explore is that of Joel and his brother Tommy. The games leave the events of the 20 years between Sarah's death and Joel meeting Ellie untouched.

Joel was a compassionate, gentle man before his daughter Sarah died in his arms. While obviously retaining these qualities, it is not until Ellie arrives on the scene and gradually melts his icy exterior that they resurface. Players are initially confronted with a hardened survivor, a man who embraced his inner savagery in order to outlast the game's apocalyptic events. As Pedro Pascal fiddles with Sarah's watch in the trailer, his haunted expression is all audiences need as confirmation that HBO will bring this iteration of Joel to life.

While Sarah's death was obviously the flashpoint that precipitated this personality transition, audiences are dying to see some more of the unseen events that turned Joel and Tommy into a pair of ruthless killers. 20 years is a long time and this blank canvas is simply too large and too promising for the showrunners to skip over its entirety with a time jump. Who doesn't want to see Joel's hunter origin story or the sequence of events that led to Tommy joining the Fireflies?