At the end of the inaugural season of "The Last of Us", Elloel Miller, the protagonist in the series played by Pedro Pascal, faces a truly impossible choice. After Successfully Escorting a Young Girl Named Ellie (Bella Ramsey) Across the post-Apocalyptic United States (which is no easy story considering that country, like the rest of the world, is being torn apart. Cordyceps Virus and the Zombies It Spawns), Joel Meets Up With His Old Friend Marlene (Merle Dandridge, Reprising Her Role From The Original Video Games by Naughty Ellie in the first place, and gets some Beautiful Rough news. It turns out that the reason Eli had to safely reach Salt Lake City of Boston is that the firefighters located in Utah plan to operate her brain, watching it immune to the Cordissus virus ... And as Marlene tells Eloel, she will not survive the surgery.

No one tells Eli this before going under the proverb knife, but knowing her, she will sacrifice her life to find a cure - what is what doctors intend to do. Eloel deprives him of this choice, whisking it from the hospital and killed everyone on his way (more about it soon). Anyone who watched this scene was probably asking one big thing: Can the doctors and nurses who killed ELOEL even Find Cure using Eli's brain?

Neil Drakman - who used both matches "Last of Us" to a naughty dog ​​and serves as a show - Show for HBO adaptation along with Craig Mazin - appeared on Podcast "secret symbols" And, among other things, he referred to this issue. "All I can say is, our intention was to make a cure - which makes the most interesting philosophical question about what ELOEL is doing," Docan confirmed, that is, to steal his expression, Exceptional Interesting. Before the season 2 begins, both Dracman and Mazz are measured after the election of ELOEL, and even they (sight) agreed that it ELOEL's decision, savage as it was, Whether It makes sense.

In an interview with IGN It was moving ahead of the "Last of us" 2 season on April 13, 2025, Neil Drakman, Craig Mazin and several key members of the cast - including newcomers Caitlin Dever, Isabella Merced and the young Masino, who shows Abi, Dina and Essesi. As Drukman revealed, he and Mazin feel a a little Different about the road chosen by ELOEL.

"We have different opinions on this," Drakman said before continuing his position on this issue. "I believe Eloel was right," the show admitted. "If I was in the position of ELOEL, I hope I can do what he did to save my daughter."

"That's so interesting, because I think if I was in the position of ELOEL, I would probably do what he did," Mazz added before saying he hoped he could avoid committing an act of mass violence. "But I would like to think that I wouldn't do it is interesting pressure and withdrawal of morality. And therefore, the end of the first game is so provocative and so wonderful. It just doesn't allow you to turn off the hook as a player."

The bottom line is that we can sit down here and argue about ELOEL's choice all day, but with Drakman confirmed that the faction of Salt Lake City's firefly City Firefly would They found a cure, absolutely complicating the whole issue. Plus, let's throw in the fact that, as Eli and Elloel leave behind his massacre at the Firefly Hospital, she has no idea what is happening and asks Eloel for clarification, at that moment he lies for her for the whole thing. Yes, we Know That ELOEL selection has much to do with the fact that he lost his daughter Sarah (Nico Parker) during the violent and chaotic start of the Cordissus virus decades before, but he still doesn't do it really rightDidn't it? Anyway, ELOEL gets its score in season 2 of the series.

When Season 2 Opens, we get a short reminder that ELOEL lied to Eli after the Salt Lake City massacre ... And then the narrative is changing for five years, giving us a look at the now -division between the once -closed Joel and Eli. During the first two episodes we can Clear See that there is a problem between them, but in the end it becomes unimportant when ELOEL, on the patrol of the Acksexone protected neighborhood during the mass snowstorm, saves a girl who turns out to be Abi from an infected horde.

Unknown to Elloel, Abi has been hunting for five years after hearing he is responsible for the murder of her father, the doctor who planned to work on Eli and find the drug in the first place. After successfully returning ELOEL and his patrol dine to the castle where her group was sheltered earlier, Abi Finally gets revenge, Beating ELOEL in one centimeter of his life beforeUnexpectedly, Eli appears. All the hostility between the two disappears at the moment when Eli begs his surrogate father to rise from the floor and fight for his life, but it is too late; Abi, who broke a golf club, beating Eloel, drives the stuck, a broken shaft in the neck, killing it.

All this is to say that whether Eloel was "upright" or not, to save Eli, it is obviously quite subjective ... such as the question of whether Abi is right or not brutally killing him. That is, in the end, the "last of us" is about. In a world crumbled with a zombie of cordyceps, as well as a normal human war and turmoil, people will love However Make selfish choices, and ELOEL thought about yourself and Eli instead of considering the good of the world. In the penultimate episode of Season 2, "Price", we see a retrospective where ELOEL and Eli Finally Talk about his decision, and Eli is nervous, telling him that if she was sacrificing, her "life would be important". However, Elloel Tells says he will do it a thousand times again because he loves it. Neil Drakman, surprisingly, was right: the fact that the cure was It makes the decision of ELOEL a very philosophical full, but for parents around the world, it is easy to understand why he did.

"The Last of Us" is now on HBO Max.