HBO’s The Final of Us not too long ago concluded its second season, and followers are eagerly awaiting the present’s return, regardless that it might not be for whereas. Whereas followers wait, author and showrunner Craig Mazin has provided new perception right into a key sequence from the S2 finale, and defined why the workforce determined to make a significant change. This story comprises main spoilers.
Within the Season 2 finale, Ellie (Bella Ramsey) has a tense standoff with Owen (Spencer Lord) and Mel (Ariela Barer) as she hunts down Abby (Kaitlyn Dever). Ellie shoots and kills Owen after he attracts a gun on her, and he or she by chance kills Mel within the course of. As Mel is dying, she tells Ellie that she’s pregnant and that she wants her to chop the infant out of her womb. Ellie panics, as she has no medical coaching, and doesn’t do that.
Within the recreation, Ellie confronts Owen and Mel, nevertheless it performs out in another way. Ellie brawls with Owen briefly earlier than taking pictures and killing him. Ellie and Mel combat subsequent, and Ellie in the end stabs her within the neck with a knife, killing her, solely to find later that she is pregnant.
For the TV present, Mazin informed The Hollywood Reporter that Ramsey being a lot bodily smaller than Lord meant that Ellie and Owen having a hand-to-hand combat may not appear plausible to the viewers.
“Ellie will not be actually able to killing Owen–you take a look at Bella and also you take a look at Spencer Lord–he’s 6’4″ and simply extremely imposing. A bodily battle wasn’t going to go properly, and he or she’s not there to kill them. She simply needs to kill Abby,” Mazin mentioned.
Mazin mentioned he recalled speaking to Neil Druckmann about how the scene, because it performs out within the recreation, is admittedly heavy and intense, however he had an concept to make it “extra f**ked up.”
“Mel is a health care provider and understands in that second as she’s dying that there’s a probability to avoid wasting her baby,” Mazin mentioned. “That is ingrained in our theme–parents doing no matter they will to avoid wasting their baby. And poor Ellie on this circumstance is confronted by the horrible penalties of her pursuit and in addition a horrible panic.”
“Bella sits again understanding the totality of her failure right here, and what’s much more heartbreaking is her failure is not over but. She simply does not notice it.”
This is not the one factor that the workforce modified for the TV present, because it was determined that Ellie would not kill Alice the dog as a result of the S2 finale already had a lot bloodshed.
The Final of Us is coming again for a 3rd season, nevertheless it does not have a launch date but. Mazin wants to make a fourth season as well, however after the present concludes, he says he is done making video game adaptations.