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And the long wait for season three begins. Sunday, HBO aired the season two finale of The Final of Us, and it was a lot. Tons to digest for people who find themselves watching this present on their very own, and doubtless much more for people who find themselves watching as fans of the game. Earlier than our bigger recap on Monday, we wished to present you an opportunity to speak about your emotions, and we even received showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann concerned. Spoilers observe.

Season two of The Final of Us ended very very like the halfway (ish) level of The Final of Us Half II. After discovering and killing two extra of Abby’s mates—Mel and Owen—Ellie’s Seattle journey feels prefer it could be coming to an finish. Particularly as a result of Mel was pregnant. That was not Ellie’s intention. And so she, Tommy, Dina, and Jesse regroup and determine it’s time to move again to Jackson, though Abby remains to be on the market.

Simply then, Abby arrives. She kills Jesse and threatens to kill the remainder. It’s a tense second that we don’t see the top of. That’s as a result of the present cuts to black and flashes again two days. Abby wakes up at a significant WLF base and we all know that, subsequent season, we’re going to see what she has been doing all this time.

So, how did that make you’re feeling? Did you want the choice? Did you even get it? At a press convention final week, showrunner Craig Mazin chimed in about how he hopes the viewers feels as season two involves an in depth.

“What I would like the viewers to really feel thematically on the finish of the season is that [the characters] aren’t the place they have been, however they’re not but the place they’ll go,” Mazin stated. “That there has all the time been a narrative that we’ve been telling concerning the good and unhealthy of affection, however we swap which aspect is nice and unhealthy generally. As a result of generally we do want anyone to punish somebody for us. Typically we do want anyone to guard us. Typically violence have to be achieved to avoid wasting the harmless. These are tough moments. However after all, then there are occasions the place sacrifice is named for. The place placing different individuals first is named for. The place creation does greater than destruction.”

“And we’re, particularly with the porch scene previous to the final episode, and the way in which we now perceive that there’s this concept that perhaps you would perform a little bit higher than me, we perceive that each Ellie and Abby are transferring ahead in hassle,” Mazin continues. “They’re in ethical hassle as a result of their certainty is starting to fail them. And we are able to see it right here with Ellie, for certain, as a result of confronted with the implications of the factor she’s achieved and people who didn’t should die dying, she’s beginning to really feel perhaps a swing of the pendulum. And we don’t know the place these two are going to finish. However what I might hope the viewers feels is that they don’t seem to be achieved. They’re not achieved rising or they don’t seem to be achieved falling. We’ll have to attend and see which it’s.”

“The query that we’re asking and the factor we’re interrogating on this story is: while you’ve dedicated such horrible issues, relying in your circumstance, are you able to ever come again from that?” Neil Druckmann added. “And we see in that porch scene, Joel is attempting to come back again from what he’s achieved though he doesn’t remorse it. And now we’ve got these two characters which can be on this downward spiral, attempting to do justice for the people who they love and we’ll see how far that goes.”

Do you agree with Mazin and Druckmann right here? Discuss that, or no matter else you wish to discuss, under. Then test again Monday for not simply our ultimate breakdown/recap, however extra from the showrunners on the ending of the season.

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