I really admire the changes they made to Henry and Sam for their arc to be fruitful in such a short amount of time. In particular, the reason why Kathleen is after Henry foreshadows exactly what happens with Joel and Ellie. Henry sacrificed Kathleen’s brother for leukemia medicine to save Sam, and Joel will eventually ‘sacrifice’ everyone in the hospital (Fireflies, the surgeon and doctors, Marlene) to save Ellie. One regarding the acquisition of medicine, and the other regarding the prevention of developing medicine. Complete mirrors.
We already knew the fate of Henry and Sam, but it is no less moving. Ellie knowing the fate of Sam before anyone else is crucial because it gave Sam some sense of hope, and Ellie becomes more in touch with her destiny of being the key to a vaccine. In the show it appears that Sam and Henry became, in some aspects, closer to each other than they did in the game. Camping out in the sewers where they read, played soccer, found cool toys, bonded them quicker in a shorter time frame. Also, having Sam characterized as younger and deaf makes him so much more reliant on Henry. And I specifically remember in the game where Henry gets angry at Sam for wanting the toy robot, and that they can only carry what is necessary. That dynamic is completely missing in the show. Sam had room to express himself as a KID who loved to draw, paint, write, and read. Sam was allowed to be a kid in the show, despite its horrors, which makes his and Henry’s death that more heartbreaking.
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