Warning: This publish comprises spoilers from The Final of Us‘ Season 1 finale. Proceed accordingly.
If the final 10 minutes of The Last of Us‘ Season 1 finale have you ever feeling some sort of approach, know that the HBO collection’ co-creator is correct there with you.
Craig Mazin, who with Neil Druckmann tailored Naughty Canine’s online game for TV, mentioned that he has felt various things at totally different occasions about Joel’s daring (to place it properly) selections on the finish of Episode 9.
“Unconditional love, we give that approach an excessive amount of credit score, prefer it’s the best type of love,” he informed reporters at a press convention forward of the finale. “‘Unconditional’ means actually no situations. None. Together with situations the place you actually ought to be doing one thing that isn’t inside one of the best curiosity of the particular person you’re keen on, no less than based on some form of ethical code or a typical of ethics.”
In case you want a refresher: After the Fireflies ambushed Joel and Ellie, they separated the pair and prepped Ellie for surgical procedure to reap a few of her cells, in hopes of making a treatment for Cordyceps an infection. However when Joel discovered that doing so would imply ending her life — and that the Fireflies hadn’t informed Ellie that collaborating within the analysis would guarantee her dying — he went on a murderous rampage. He killed almost everybody within the hospital to get to Ellie, who was already anesthetized in preparation for the process. When Marlene put up a last-ditch struggle for the woman, Joel killed her, as properly.
When she woke, Joel informed Ellie that the process hadn’t labored and that raiders had attacked the hospital, requiring a hasty exit. Simply earlier than they drew close to to Jackson, Wyo., she demanded that he swear to her that his model of occasions was true. He swore that it was. Although she mentioned “OK” in response, the look on Ellie’s face within the hour’s remaining moments made it look like she didn’t consider him. (Learn a full recap here and hear from game OG/Ellie’s mom Ashley Johnson here.)
“I’m not suggesting that I’ve a tough opinion about how issues go on the finish, and I don’t,” Mazin mentioned. “I’m confused about it morally. I believe it’s a troublesome alternative. I trip, and I believe lots of people will trip on it.”
Druckmann mentioned that the sport was at all times attempting to make the participant “really feel the unconditional love a guardian feels for his or her little one, and this fear and worry and love that may include it. However then typically, you understand, whenever you love one thing unconditionally, logic goes out the window. And you’ll do actually horrible issues to guard those you’re keen on, and there’s a number of examples worldwide of this taking place on a regular basis.”
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