Ellie doesn’t “overpower these adults” by physical fighting. She either shoots them, threatens them with the rifle, or stabs them from behind.

If Ellie doesn’t tell David and James that she’s infected and show them her wound, she is 100% killed there.  They are so shocked seeing her wound, knowing that everyone turns within 2 days, that it gives Ellie the chance to grab the knife and kill James and escape.

As others have mentioned, in the game Joel and Ellie have already killed most of the adult males in this town. You hear David telling someone to gather the women and children and put them somewhere safe while they hunt down Ellie.

“I liked how they kept the creepy pedophile aspect of David just simmering beneath the surface until it finally comes out at the end before Ellie kills him.”

In the game the restaurant is not the same building where Ellie is caged. She escapes that building, moves through town, and ends up in an empty restaurant.

The survivors of this group will eventually join a non-cannibalisms group.  The first time they are served deer and they taste it they’ll say “This doesn’t taste like the deer I ate in David’s group” and they’ll suddenly realize they were eating people. 

James had already told David earlier that they had enough deer meat to last a few weeks.  They are alone when they say this so they wouldn’t need to be talking code.

“In the game, David claims there are women and children in the group but we never see them, and it seems like that’s a lie to try to put Ellie at ease when they first meet. In fact, it seems like the group is only men”

I do like that in the game and in the show, Joel never meets David.

I’ve watched a lot of playthroughs of the game, and when you meet David most players don’t trust him because (a) most people you’ve met up to this point have either tried to kill you immediately, and (b) you don’t know if Joel is alive or dead and it feels like the game is trying to replace Joel with David here.

In the game David tells Ellie that he’s sorry for shooting her horse but it will provide lots of meat for his group.

She sewed him back up, but the wound was infected, so the penicillin was all he needed.

In the game Joel is wounded and then we flash forward from FALL to WINTER, which starts with Ellie hunting in the forest.  So Joel has been recuperating for 2-3 months after Ellie sewed him up.

All of Ellie’s rage we see in this episode is there in the corresponding parts of the game.

More likely Callus’ hoofprints.

This is one time where the game did it better. When you meet David in the game you are attacked by Infected so there are multiple battles where you and David fight together to kill the Infected, including lots of times where you save David and vice versa. So when David gives his “everything happens for a reason”…

David decides to kill Ellie because he realizes that she will never “come around” and join his group. Having two grown men take on a 14-year-old girl is not “goofy and incompetent” - the only reason she escapes is because they see her wound and don’t know how to react, which gives her enough time to kill James and run…

Once Ellie bites him and he sees her wound, David thinks that he may be infected and therefore a dead man walking. So his only goal here is to find Ellie and kill her (and rape her first).

Joel:  “We are the walking dead! -er- I mean, we are the last of us!”

“I didn’t find him gentle or decent in the first scene”