Don't go to the museum or hang out on the porch if you haven't watched the "price", the penultimate episode of Season 2 of "The Last of Us". Large spoilers Lies forward.

In the "price", the second to the last episode of the sophomorial season of "The Last of Us", we see a famous face: Eloel Miller, the previous series of protagonist Pedro Pascal. When you take into account the fact that ELOEL dies Incredible Brutal death in episode 2, "through the valley", Thanks to Caitlin Dever's retaliatory ABI Anderson, this may seem tricky ... But the episode is told in retrospectives, chronic heights and lows of ELOEL's relationship with his surrogate daughter Eli (Bella Ramsey). In an interview with Neil Drrakman, who created the video game in 2013 "The Last of Us" for a naughty dog ​​and his 2020 sequel "Last of Us Part II" - and shares the duties of the show with Craig Mazin And Directed by "Price" - Drakman talked about the way they changed the structure of the game, which sporadically disperses its retrospective. Instead, we get All to the unprecedented content of ELOEL and Eli in the "price". As Drukman said Hollywood reporterThis was a necessary part of the adaptation and he Also The audience did not want to get used to the presence of ELOEL.

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"Yes, let me talk to you about our thinking process," Drukman said after interviewer Jameseshei Hiberd asked about the similarities and differences between the video game and HBO's adaptation. "You're right that in the game, these scenes are deployed, sometimes hours separated. If we deployed these scenes and planted them throughout the season, I believe they wouldn't land so powerful because they are short moments and work better when they are next to each other, and you can only see them.

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Continuing his thought, Neil Drakman said that he and Craig Mazin need the presence of ELOEL to be very missed on the "last of us", which makes sense; His death is shocking and stunning in both game And The show. "The audience, like the characters, Miss Elloel, was important," Drukman continued. "So, we'll kill him at the beginning of the season, we decided not to show him by the end of the end of the season. Then he became a question of where he should land. He felt appropriate to land after Eli had just performed the toughest, most violent act he had ever done in life - torture of an unarmed woman to get information. Joel.

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Eli's most darkest, most violent act " It happens in the previous episode, "Feel Her Loveubo" when he troubles one of the groups of Abi, Nora (Tati Gabriel) for Abi's place. Although Nora is infected by spores and becomes a zombie, relentless, retaliatory Eli beats the woman with an information tube. This moment is Even It is harder to bear, such as Elloel's death, after seeing the "price". Yes, by the time the episode ends, we are fully caught up of mass growth between ELOEL and Eli, culminating in their speech on the porch of ELOEL (more about it per second) shortly before ELOEL's death. Before That, however, we see a few birthdays that Eli and Elloel celebrated together and see some of their sweetest moments, as when Eloel takes Eli to the abandoned Museum of Air and Space or when he calms her after she seriously lit his hand (the one with an infected bite). As for that scene in the porch, however, it is probably the last moment we will ever see between Elloel and Eli, and watching the game in a series are strikingly emotional, thanks to any small part of Pedro Pascal's incredible performances.

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Elsewhere in the interview Thr, Jameseims Hiberd focuses on the porch scene between Elloel and Eli and asks why Neil Drakman and Craig Mazin did not save this deeply important moment for the final of the Season 2. Dracman said he said he wasn't Tempted to do so. "No, but suppose we can shoot and hold it and discover it later," he prompted. "Craig brought this to me and I immediately bought it in it: he (stressed) that when you buy the game, you have the whole story. You can play for the whole thing in two days. It must be taken into account that the story is delivered week to week, season after a season, with more story that comes potentially years later.

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After Hiberd noted that some criticism on the internet noticed that Abi not only had taken Eli's father's figure, but also a chance for Eloel to forgive ELOEL - Specifically, to preserve her life at the end of season 1 and potentially preventing cure for the Cordyceps virus - Drukman was on the ship. "I agree with that interpretation, because we can see that Elloel has harmed Eli perhaps the worst possible way - by taking her choice to honor people who died on her journey to be handed over to the fireflies," Drukman said. "Eli is so angry and she means when she says," I don't know if I could ever forgive you, but I would like to try. " She wanted to move towards that forgiveness, because I think she understood it - as much as Elloel hurt her - his motivation was unconditional LOVEUBOV and shared that unconditional LOVEBOOK.

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After all, the porch scene provides some closure. Elloel Tears tells Eli that he will make the same choice at the Firefly Hospital a thousand times because he loves her, and Eli is doing, as Drukman says, relies on forgiveness. However, nothing is never neat or purely to the "last of us", which Drakman makes it clear: "It's bitter because he was finally honest with her and they recognized their loveubeube to each other in that scene, but they never returned when we saw them in their space museum."

Season 2 Final of "The Last of Us" falls on HBO Max and HBO appropriate on Sunday, May 25 at 9pm