{"id":671452,"date":"2025-05-26T11:40:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T08:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-last-of-us-creators-on-that-finale-death-ending-and-season-3-changes\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T11:40:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T08:40:23","slug":"the-last-of-us-creators-on-that-finale-death-ending-and-season-3-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-last-of-us-creators-on-that-finale-death-ending-and-season-3-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Last of Us\u2019 Creators on That Finale Death, Ending and Season 3 Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t[This story contains spoilers for The Last of Us<\/em> season two, episode seven.]<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tThe Last of Us<\/em> season two ended with a gunshot and a cryptic title card: \u201cSeattle Day One.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat does it all mean? The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> first spoke to co-creator Craig Mazin, and Mazin and co-creator Neil Druckmann also took questions from reporters during a finale press conference tackling several burning questions. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe first question, of course, is whether Ellie (Bella Ramsey) is dead from what seemed to be Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) shooting her (with a searing, \u201cI let you live \u2014 and you wasted it<\/em>!\u201d). <\/p>\n

\n\tIf you don\u2019t want to know the answer to that one, skip the rest of this paragraph. Mazin firmly says we haven\u2019t seen the last of Ellie. Also, the show has been extremely faithful in its adaptation of its source material, the PlayStation game<\/a>s The Last of Us<\/em> and The Last of Us Part II<\/em>. In the game, Ellie survives this encounter with Abby and has a major role to play in the rest of the story. <\/p>\n

\n\tAs for the ending showing Abby being roused from sleeping and a \u201cSeattle Day One\u201d title card, this likely signals another shift in the show\u2019s narrative focus. While the creators declined to explicitly confirm this during interviews, just as the show\u2019s perspective shifted from Joel (Pedro Pascal) to Ellie, season three will likely shift again to tell Abby\u2019s story \u2014 assuming the show follows the tracks laid down by the game. This isn\u2019t just a clever narrative device, but part of the theme<\/a> of the show. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t think television is supposed to work like this,\u201d Mazin says. \u201cWe\u2019re clearly breaking quite a few rules, and I love that. And I love it because that is the point<\/em>. This is not something we\u2019re doing as a gimmick. The point of this story \u2014 and this is looked at from so many different angles in so many different ways \u2014 is that the entire concept of protagonist is flawed. The entire concept of villain is flawed. Our way of processing the world through heroes and villains is a mistake. It ends up creating these barriers between people that shouldn\u2019t be there. It ends up giving ourselves justifications and conveniences for bad behavior, and it ends up allowing us to judge others summarily for things that we don\u2019t quite understand the motivation behind it. We know this is a challenging thing to keep track of emotionally. We understand people are going to be provoked. But part of this story is about examining why we\u2019re so comfortable with following one person\u2019s point of view about everything.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAbby is the hero of her story,\u201d Mazin added later. \u201cWherever we go next, we\u2019ll always be centering on somebody, whether it\u2019s Ellie and Dina, or Abby and Owen \u2026 [But] everything is under the cloud or sunlight of Joel \u2014 what Joel did to Abby and what Abby did to Joel.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe finale also saw the death of Jesse (Young Mazino), who was shot by Abby. \u201cIt\u2019s an interesting situation because Jesse dies in part because of Ellie, but Ellie doesn\u2019t pull the trigger \u2014 Abby does,\u201d Mazin says. \u201cAnd we understand that Dina had this great relationship with Joel and she has gone in pursuit of Abby out of a sense of justice for that. So now the question is: Who does she blame [for Jesse\u2019s death]? Jesse\u2019s death is going to change things for her.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tAnother big moment \u2014 and a very different one from the game \u2014 was the traumatic death of Abby\u2019s pregnant friend Mel (Ariela Barer). <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn the game, Ellie fights Owen (Spencer Lord), and then fights Mel, and it\u2019s only after Mel dies that her coat opens and Ellie realizes she\u2019s pregnant,\u201d Mazin says. \u201cBut for this, Ellie is not really capable of killing Owen \u2014 you look at Bella and you look at Spencer Lord, he\u2019s 6\u20194\u2033 and just incredibly imposing. A physical struggle wasn\u2019t going to go well, and she\u2019s not there to kill them. She just wants to kill Abby. I remember saying to Neil that as fucked up as that moment was in the game, I think it can be more fucked up and not to be a tormentor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tContinued Mazin: \u201cNot to be a tormentor, but to just reflect reality, Mel is a doctor and understands in that moment as she\u2019s dying that there is a chance to save her child. This is ingrained in our theme \u2014 parents doing whatever they can to save their child. And poor Ellie in this circumstance is confronted by the horrible consequences of her pursuit and also a terrible panic. This is like my worst nightmare \u2014somebody telling me how to save their child, and I don\u2019t understand what they\u2019re saying because they\u2019re running out of oxygen and slipping away. Bella sits back understanding the totality of her failure here, and what\u2019s even more heartbreaking is her failure isn\u2019t over yet. She just doesn\u2019t realize it.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tWe also asked Mazin if Ellie \u2014 given her crushing experience with Mel \u2014 would have still killed Abby if Ellie had gotten the drop on her rather than the other way around. \u201cI would say unquestionably,\u201d Mazin says. \u201cIt wouldn\u2019t even be about whether she had it in her, it would be about what she doesn\u2019t<\/em> have in her \u2014 which is any ability to restrain herself in the pursuit of that. I think Ellie would\u2019ve crouched down right next to Abby and given a very similar speech to the one Abby gave to Joel.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for ending on a cliffhanger, Mazin says they did consider other ways to end the season. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe considered everything,\u201d Mazin says. \u201cMaybe we should just interlace the stories [of Ellie and Abby]? I just remember saying, \u2018Isn\u2019t [switching perspectives] part of the genetics of how this story functions?\u2019 It\u2019s just part of the genetics. Now what it means is we have to take risks as a television show, and HBO is backing us taking risks. But then again, we just did kill Pedro Pascal. Like [HBO] understands that this show is going to be a different show every season, which is a tricky thing to do when you\u2019re a hit show. You keep asking people like, \u2018I know you love this, we\u2019re taking it away and giving you this now.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnother key question: Will Joel appear in season three? Mazin made it sound like a potential flashback side trip<\/a> featuring Joel and Tommy (Gabriel Luna) isn\u2019t off the table. \u201cNext season we probably will have a lot more flexibility [to tell side stories],\u201d Mazin says. \u201cMaybe a side trip to do Joel and Tommy terrorizing the countryside, we\u2019ll never know. I wouldn\u2019t have guessed we\u2019d have a short story about Joel\u2019s dad before we wrote the season.\u201d And then later he said: \u201c[Tommy\u2019s] been in war, and we also know that for some time, he and Joel were doing some pretty bad things. So there is the potential of seeing this other side of Tommy, and that is now about him delivering on his understood promise to his brother.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe duo also teased season three \u2014 to some extent, as they didn\u2019t want to give anything crucial away. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re telling you that next season, one, there\u2019s an epic nature to everything that\u2019s about to happen,\u201d Druckmann said. \u201cBut this other story is going to be really important coming backing to Joel and Ellie and everything we\u2019ve seen so far.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAdds Mazin: \u201cAll I can say is we haven\u2019t seen the last of Kaitlyn Dever, and we haven\u2019t seen the last of Bella Ramsey, and we haven\u2019t seen the last of Isabela Merced, and we haven\u2019t even seen the last of a lot of people who are currently dead in the story.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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