You may not know based on mine Networked reviews of The last of us'second seasonBut I love this series. I love the moral puzzles that it presents, the violent grief that she represents, and the excellent letter of the games that brings all these complicated emotions on the surface. What I do not like is, pretty much one of the creative teams about hearing about the series, especially when it comes to weighing the decades of discourse on its complex storylines. Even if I agree with the series Director Neil Druckmann's interpretation of something, we would all just leave bad readings in the corners of the Internet than to tell us exactly what something means. Nevertheless, he continues this in interviews.
In a discussion with the Holy symbols Podcast (thank you, IGN), Druckmann spoke about the end of The last of us part IWhat was adapted for television In the first season of the HBO show. At this climatic moment, Joel-a smuggler, who transformed the replacement father into Ellie, became the young girl who is immune to a fungal infection, who paved the post-apocalyptic world of the series-massacres of a revolutionary group called the fireflies who wanted to use the immunity of Ellie to create a vaccine. They might have saved millions of lives and rebuilt society after decades of ruin. After months of travel through the United States to reach the basis of the group in Salt Lake City, Joel was not ready to lose Ellie for something as small as the possibility of a world saving vaccine. After the player fought through the facility and escapes with Ellie, Joel lies in front of what happened, and at least they live happily after (?) Jackson, Wyoming … until the sequel.
It is a nuanced situation and since then The last of us The fans introduced in 2013 discussed the ethics of pretty much every figure in this final. However, part of the discussion that existed is the question of whether the fireflies can successfully create a healing or vaccine. This is the post-apocalypse. You have a surgeon here who claims to do the job and even if you managed to capture a vaccine, how would you distribute it? All of this is an interesting logistical discussion, but some fans have led this topic of conversation one step further and tried to always claim the potential success of the plan part of Joel's motivations. It is very obvious that the man mainly takes care of Ellie's life and did not stop the vagueries of vaccine effectiveness in a zombie apocalypse.
But now Druckmann has confirmed that it was always the intention that the group's medical team will create healing and essentially nuking this topic of conversation. Am I upset that we can now bring this obviously desperate theory to bed? I wish that Druckmann would stop to give final answers to a story that has been in amamily and interpretation? Absolutely.
“Our intention was, they could be able to [make a cure]”, Druckmann said.” Is our science a little shaky now that people are now questioning it? Sure. Our science is a little shaky and people question them now. I can't say anything. I can say that our intention was that they had made a healing. That makes the most interesting philosophical question about what Joel does. “
Sure, it is the most interesting interpretation because she actually interviews everything she knows about Joel how he presents. Giving him an out is only refused to deal with the text. Would you like to discuss if the fireflies were? equipped To save the world with a vaccine? This is a completely separate discussion of Joel's motivations. Nevertheless, we don't need every detail that is written. Perhaps it is because Druckmann is constantly interviewed about this series after two games. I don't want to know whether Druckmann believes that Joel are right. I don't need the author to tell myself what to feel. It's a main reason why The show bothers me so muchBecause it loves to tell you which lessons you should learn instead of giving you a second to think about what you feel.
I wish we had lived in a world in the The last of us'Marketing had to be as brave as the games. Just let it speak for yourself.
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