#craig mazin neil druckmann

[risingoftime]

they should have a talk show segment after the last of us similar to talking dead where they bring Druckmann, Pedro, and Bella on to discuss the recent episode.

[gay-mafia-stickball]

Can we spend a few minutes on the giraffe scene? Because right before this, ellie is completely checked out. She’s traumatized, she’s distant, and she’s so completely absent. But beneath all of this trauma, she’s still a kid, and now she’s a kid who just saw a weird, fucked up leopard camel llama thing, probably for the first time, and it’s eating out of her hand with a weird, fucked up blue tongue as long as her forearm. She may be traumatized out of her mind and living in a post-apocalyptic hellscape, but that childlike wonder is still there, and Joel hasn’t looked more proud in the entire series.

[toointojoelmiller]

things to look at here: Joel's face when they turn around, and how it changes when he realizes what he's looking at the way they're walking so close that Ellie's touching his shirt casually, comfortably, affectionately the way he becomes a human shield and covers her body with his ouch.❤️‍🩹

[scootkiddo]

ellie just confirmed that this wasn’t the first time she had shot/killed someone.

OH GOD NO. NO. DONT TELL ME ELLIE HAD TO SHOOT RILEY

[nepotismbabyy]

“There’s nothing more hopeless than having the solution and having no idea how to use it.”

This is a quote from Troy from the episode 8 podcast that hit me so hard. Ellie gets the solution to help Joel, she gets the penicillin, but she has no idea how to use it. This cure is right at her fingertips and she’s doing what she thinks is right, what she thinks might work, without actually knowing anything for certain. This is exactly what she did with Sam. The saving grace, the “cure” was quite literally entirely in her hands; she cuts her hand open and lets herself bleed directly into Sam’s bite, she fills the syringe and injects it right into Joel’s wound. Neither are the right ways to save these people, but she doesn’t know and she’s operating on instinct and urgency because she is still a kid and she doesn’t have enough experience to know what to do. She’s just doing what she thinks might work because the prospect of losing these people when the opportunity to try, even without any certainty is right in front of her is too much to handle.

[hbothelastofus]

The Last Of Us | Inside Episode 2

[astaerion]

♪ I'm taking a ride with my best friend, I hope he never lets me down again ♪

THE LAST OF US (2023-) 1.06 • “Kin”

[captainsatspeed]

underrated + interesting moment from the ep is when joel is standing in front of ellie and the soldier points the gun at them, the camera lingers on tess for a moment. you can see in her face she’s thinking “oh no, here we go again”.

it makes me think about what craig mazin said on the podcast about tess previously telling joel to “breath” and the foreshadowing of his violent capabilities. she knows joel is about to lose control. she knows exactly what is going through his mind, what he sees when the soldier points the gun. 10/10 editing/acting, even if it’s for just a second

[onwardshimmer]

WAIT WAIT WAIT SO (thank u anon)

JAKARTA/FLOUR = mentioned on radio, start of the outbreak, happens to have the largest flour mill in the world

FLOUR/ERGOT = the fungus the epidemiologist mentioned in the opening, ergot, affects wheat

ERGOT/BISCUITS = neighbor guy is force-feeding granny those biscuits in the beginning and offers some to Joel and Sarah, who DECLINE (biscuits have flour in them, wild, I know)

BISCUITS/MF CRAIG MAZIN = said in tlou podcast that “careful viewers” will be rewarded- in reference to the biscuit scene.

Of course the fungus we see in TLOU is Corycep, but maybe it was able to mutate or just feed off of the other fungus?

[jadeinretrogrde]

[gretaripley9890]

It's fun to see people discuss whether what Joel did was right or wrong when that's hardly the point.

The point is: if you had a daughter, and that daughter was taken for a potential cure of a zombie apocalypse and had to die for it without even knowing, after you've already lost another daughter, wouldn't you kill every fucking accomplice ? Because I would, I'd probably kill anyone who represented even a distant menace to her safety.

And,

I sincerely do not think they would've found a cure. It takes years and a large, indefinite number of doctors, biologists, chemists and labs to develop anything, and you seriously expect that a single man, who doesn't wait a second before killing the only glimmer of hope for humanity, who has formulated a very vague hypothesis and has not run one test that could suggest that hypothesis to be correct, to actually find a cure?

[whisky-soul]

The Last of Us Season 1 Wrap-Up Feature - Empire Magazine

Featuring new interviews and more in the reblog as it’s long.

[scootkiddo]

screaming crying throwing up. Joel getting injured and rendered helpless reaffirmed his crippling sense of failure. he clutched on to Ellie just like Sarah had to him 20 years ago. and he told her leave. not just leave as in “I’m a goner so you have to go and find the closest person that can actually keep you safe.” it was definitively altruistic but not exclusively altruistic. that was a fine line between selflessness… and self-loathing. he might as well have said “don’t help me for failing to keep you protected.” his self-fulfilling prophecy of insufficiency and failing to take care of Ellie was in full swing as he bled out on the ground and he was resigning himself to his fate because at that point there was no other point in being… around. there was no purpose in giving instruction to circumvent the wound. there was no waiting things out to tend to his puncture and then take her back to Tommy. all that mattered was being readily able to tend to Ellie’s needs. and here was the exact opposite. so he told Ellie to leave, to leave this bleeding, worn man weathered by his years behind because her safety was all that mattered and he no longer thought he could offer that. so she began to leave.

but then she came back. she came back to apply stitching as Joel gave her this look of… almost confusion. this nonplussed expression of “why would you try to help me? why waste your breathe? I’m dead but you don’t have to be.” and Ellie returned a look of reassurance. a look of calm. a look of you healed me so let me heal you

[amozon28]

listening to the behind the scenes podcast of Craig and Neil changing Sam to being deaf and OMG the amount of work and respect they put into it.

firstly Craig was first inspired to make Sam deaf because he had previously watched the show “This Close” which is a show where the two main characters are deaf. and by watching that show, learning how intimate a scene can be when only ASL is spoken between two characters, he wanted that for Henry and Sams relationships. so representation begets representation, very cool.

they had a sensitivity reader to go over the scripts before hand to make sure how they wrote a deaf character was ok.

they got a ASL director who was also deaf themselves to make sure all the asl was correct and done right in the show

the actor for Henry has NEVER learned ASL before but it was SO IMPORTANT for him to speak it right so that it looked like he was fluent with it. so whenever they finished a scene even if the scene director was happy with it, Henry would ask the ASL director if it was good enough, and if not they’d reshoot the scene until the ASL was perfect.

and not only did they make sure to cast a deaf kid to play Sam. but finding a kid that was 1. Deaf, 2. Black, 3. shorter than Bella Ramsey, 4. was fluent in either ASL or BASL (black american sign language) 5. AND COULD ACT.  they LITERALLY could not find anyone through regular casting means, and Craig had to make a casting post on TWITTER to find kids who fit all the above, and they only got FIVE to pick from and they kid they found was PERFECT. both Craig and Neil said they hope other casting directors pick him for other works because they were so impressed with him.

i am so impressed the amount of work and respect they put into getting sams deafness right, for a SINGLE EPISODE for ONE TIME characters. this is the bar that should be set, holy shit

[nepotismbabyy]

the episode being titled when we are in need and the banner saying when we are in need he shall provide and Ellie being in need and Joel being there at the most unlikely time when all she needed was him I’m unwell I’m dizzy I’m passing out

[pedropascal24-7]