HBO The Last of Us (Season 2)

Added to Calendar: 04-13-25

Kind of weird to see that word being used that way when the fans would rather the intended female actress to be bulkier/butch/muscular/etc.

Usually I see it when the character is more elegant and they change it. So it's like being reversed
 
They keep asking and I'm glad he's been consistent and learned from the GoT showrunners
Neil suggested there isn’t going to be a Last of Us Part III video game. Previously, the idea was the show would never get ahead of the game. You were eyeing two seasons for Part II, maybe three. So does that mean season 3 could be the end? Or are you considering, “Well, maybe we do go past the game?”

I am not going to go past the game. I’ll just say that flat out. So if people are thinking, “Oh, these guys are planning the old cash grab thing—”

It’s not necessarily cash grab if you genuinely think you could have a better ending — especially considering that Neil was long considering doing more story with another game.

I’m basically setting a decade of my rapidly dwindling life on fire to tell this story. The show is so hard to make. It has to have an end. So I’m not going to go past. Who knows me, there might be a Dunk and Egg The Last of Us show that happens that somebody does. But for me, the only question is: Is it going to be one more season or will it require two more? If this can happen all in one more season, great. If we feel like it makes sense to break it into two, then we will do that.
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@Chi-Town B
You mentioned Bella’s size. There’s been this thing on social media where some of the game’s fans say: “Bella isn’t right for adapting The Last of Us Part II because they’re not big and strong enough to be that character after the story takes a four-year time jump.” I was thinking, watching the first episode of the new season, that somebody appearing physically vulnerable in this world is more interesting and makes you lean in more. Like if a character is in a dark room with an Infected, and they’re built like Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road, how worried are you about them, really? I think people discount how vulnerability can be additive.



Correct. I agree with you. One of the reasons why we show a fight scene early is to address what I think is a question that gets glossed over all the time by action movies and shows. How does a small person fight with a big person? It’s not going to be karate. It’s not going to be awesome punches and kicks — they’ll lose. The answer is Juujitsu. I watch a lot of jiujitsu and I’ve specifically watched sessions where a small person is taking down a big person. That’s how that would happen because nobody’s fucking around in this world.

So I understand the difficulty that some people have where they say, “She looked like she was 14 in season one. She still looks roughly the same to us, even though now she’s 19.” Ellie in the game looks much older. Some people do change quite dramatically and some people don’t. I’m not interested in the physical aspect — although I’ve been looking at Bella’s face for years while editing, and I can see that she’s certainly grown. I’m interested in the emotional maturity, and the change in personality. I’ve watched Bella grow and become independent and start to find her own two feet separate and apart from her parents, who are amazing — How do I figure out how to be my own person now and test that full independence? And I feel that in Ellie completely. So I understand where people are coming from, but when they watch this year, I think they’re going to see the difference.
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So this is his reasoning for not casting someone older for part 2
 
I don't remember Ellie and Dina going out with a group

Don't like the change they did to the store scene. There was no need to change that and it would have been a great scene for the show

Also the group outside should have heard the gunshots and screams

I agree with I think chitown's view that they should have recasted Ellie

She's a great Dina though

Strange that they changed the scene of Abby and Owen finding Jackson City
 
I don’t like the address playing Abby. I knew she wasn’t going to be built but she’s like 5’2” too. She’s not intimidating at all and I can’t see her ordering around anybody.

Other than that, I think they cast everybody perfectly. Didn’t realize Rutina was playing ol’ boy’s wife. That was a good change.

The video game didn’t have the threat of the cordyseps getting into the camp. Also don’t remember it being revealed Joel killed Eugene.
 
RandomOne said:
I don't remember Ellie and Dina going out with a group

Don't like the change they did to the store scene. There was no need to change that and it would have been a great scene for the show

Also the group outside should have heard the gunshots and screams

I agree with I think chitown's view that they should have recasted Ellie

She's a great Dina though

Strange that they changed the scene of Abby and Owen finding Jackson City
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been a while since I played.. what scene you talking about in the store?
 
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