#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.❤️‍🩹

[furiroad]

important, character-informing, deep and meaningful, significant to the story abby muscle appreciation post

[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.

[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.

[pedropascal24-7]

[june-girl-86]

couldn’t pass up on sharing some outtakes 😂 Both parts of Creator to Creator: The Last of Us

[billysjoel]

The Last of Us (2023-)

After a global pandemic destroys civilization, a hardened survivor takes charge of a 14-year-old girl who may be humanity's last hope.

[daddy-joel-miller]

You will respect

[vassilis-dimitros]

“I swear…”

[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

[scootkiddo]

spoilers for TLOU Part II but something that never sat well with me was how in one of the flashbacks Joel didn’t have a strong reaction to Ellie nearly getting killed by a bloater. like,,,,,,excuse me? I’m normally up to bat for this game, I am its personal defense attorney until my last breath, but this has always irked me. we’ve seen Joel react to Ellie being put in dire situations prior and the initial response would ALWAYS have a profoundly emotional reaction. remember how he desperately gave Ellie CPR after she nearly drowned? remember how he responded when he was told she would die in the operating room? Joel has almost always helmed that penchant of protectiveness, that protector role, so seeing Ellie amidst any potential threat should elicit that emotional response that defines him. but all he essentially said was “oop that was too close.” THAT WAS YOUR SURROGATE DAUGHTER NEARLY DYING VIA *THAT* DEATH ANIMATION?? HUH?? his protective nature was on display whilst saving her but no where was it present in the immediate aftermath. but it absolutely should’ve

basically what I’m saying is assuming this scene is adapted for season 2 of the hbo series I can picture Pedro “I fail her in my sleep” Pascal putting this to rights. grabbing Ellie into an embrace. breathlessly calling out her name, saying “are you okay, are you hurt” repeatedly. reminiscing the trauma that retroactively formed him as he had nearly lost his daughter all over again. the response should be immediate and emphatic. they are two stray cats that cannot be adopted separately. Joel should always be malleable to the fear of losing her. I hope they cook

[dgct2]

When Season 2 finally arrives in 2025, it will be shorter than Season 1, consisting of seven episodes. But the good news is that a potential third season will be “significantly larger” and possibly bigger in scope, and there could very well be a Season 4 coming behind it 

“The story material that we got from Part II of the game is way more than the story material that was in the first game, so part of what we had to do from the start was figure out how to tell that story across seasons,” Mazin said. “When you do that, you look for natural breakpoints, and as we laid it out, this season, the national breakpoint felt like it came after seven episodes.”

“We don’t think that we’re going to be able to tell the story even within two seasons [2 and 3] because we’re taking our time and go down interesting pathways which we did a little bit in Season 1 too,” Mazin said. “We feel like it’s almost assuredly going to be the case that — as long as people keep watching and we can keep making more television — Season 3 will be significantly larger. And indeed, the story may require Season 4.”

Mazin and Druckmann are keeping the themes of the game’s two existing parts, which have been described as unconditional love (Part I) and revenge (Part II). “More specifically, it’s a continuation of love from the first season, and this is just the dark side of that coin, the pursuit of justice at any cost for the ones you love and the exploration of that,” Druckmann said of Season 2.

[pedropascal24-7]