Was Joel right to save Eli? The last of us, creators, reveal their sincere thoughts

At the end of the first season of “The Last of Us” (the widely famous drama based on the similar popular video game), Joel (Pedro Pascal) apparently made an impossible option. After transferring his young man Eli (Bella Ramsay) to a group of rebellious wrestling on the orders of their leader Marilyn (Merl Dandridge, which reactivates her voice role from the game), Joel realizes something that disturbs him. Look, Elie, fortified against the Cordesis infection that is sweeping the world (which turns the people who affects them into a blood -thirsty zombie), thus gathering the bridges a team of medical professionals to see if they can use genetic materials to create a treatment. In order to do this, Elie must die, and Joel, who lost his daughter Sarah (Niko Parker) at the beginning of the game and the showHe cannot bring himself to allow Eli to give her life to this issue. On his way to a temporary hospital, Joel Eli carries unconsciousness from the facility … and when she asks what happened later, he does not give her the full story.

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Be amazing Finishing the first season of “The Last of Us” And prepare the second season, completely imminent; Elie still does not know the full truth about what Joel did to save her, and Joel is now carrying this secret with him. In an interview with IGNThe exhibitors, Craig Mazin and Nile Drukman, sat with some of their stars – Ramsay, Gabriel Luna, Kaitlein Diver, Isabella Mercyid, and Yong Mazino (who plays Elie, Joel, Tommy’s brother, and new characters named Abe, Dina, Jesse, respectively) – respectively.

“If Joel was right,” said Drogman.

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“This is interesting, because I think if I was in Joel’s position, you may be doing what he did,” Mazin contributed. “But I would like to think I will not do it. This is the intense batch and withdrawal of his morals. That is why the end of the first game is very provocative and very wonderful. It does not allow you to get out of the hook as a player.”

It is clear that the option granted to Joel at this moment Fully. In the wake of Sarah’s loss, Joel Joel turned inside until Elie met, and In the first season, episode 8 (penultimate chapter of the season)It helps her to save her from the killer of human meat, and during their emotional reunification, it is called “a child”, a likable term that he kept for his daughter. It is clear that despite the closure of himself from the world after Sarah, Joel grows to love Eli as if he was his daughter, and it seems that the feeling is mutual. The idea that Cordyceps can be Completely eliminating By sacrificing Ellie, her private life is to find an incredible treatment in a world destroyed by this virus, and Joel knows very well that Eli will agree, without a doubt, to death if the infection can be stopped in its paths as a result.

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So, what should actors, the returnees and the new, say about Joel’s decision? They all agreed that it is not black and white. Gabriel Luna, who plays the role of Joel younger brother Tommy, spoke both as his personality and himself, saying: “I am biased. I am his brother and I understand and you cannot see the whole world. Young Mazino, the star whom Amy nominated from “Beef” who plays the role of Eli Jesse’s friend in the second season, gave an answer that makes the people the most frankly logical regarding Joel’s decision not only to save Eli, but also killing anyone trying to stop him: “I feel he was on an ACONON.

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Later in the same interview IGN, Craig Mazin said that both forms of “The Last of Us” – the game and the TV program – compel you to think about what You He will do in this case. (In this scene in the game, you play the role of Joel).

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Young Mazino added: “It seems as if death generates death generates death and I think this is just an ideal example,” Yong Mazino added. “And yes, he is his world. Who cares about the world if your world is not there?” Again, mazino mainly strikes the nail on the head; In the Distopian world is damaged and frighteningly frankly, Elie is everything, and he will frankly disturb his personality, in many ways, if she is allowed to die. However, this issue is certainly To reach the second season. We really know that The character of Kaitlin Diver Abe He has a specific reason to search for Joel after his hospital massacre – if you are not accustomed to a conspiracy of season source materials 2, “the last of us, the second part,” I will not explain that – and there is no doubt that, if Illi discover the truth, you will be unusually angered by Joel to make the decision to pay it.

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The second season of “The Last of Us” for the first time on HBO and Max on April 13, 2025, and viewers will witness the effects of Joel’s selection across the seven episodes of the season.