The Final of Us showrunner Craig Mazin says it was vital to incorporate a very disturbing scene that was lower from the sport within the season 2 finale.
Warning: Spoilers for The Final of Us season 2 episode 7 under!
“That is one thing that we had within the recreation and lower it out due to time constraints, the place Ellie received swept away to the place the scars, the Seraphites reside,” Mazin stated on the official The Final of Us TV present companion podcast.
Within the scene, Ellie finally ends up on the island that belongs to the Seraphites, the spiritual cult that tends kills to intruders – particularly these they contemplate to be a part of the WLF, their essential enemy. Within the scene, Ellie asks the younger Seraphite little one to inform his mom than she is not a part of the WLF, which he is aware of, however provides her the go-ahead to tie up Ellie and disembowel her anyway. Fortunately, she will get away. Although, with The Final of Us season 3 on the horizon, this is not the final we have seen of the Seraphites.
“It was vital to incorporate this. It is like one, it simply exhibits, here is one other neighborhood that is so xenophobic, that they’re about to kill somebody that might have fought for them moments earlier, that wished to guard one in all them. However they don’t seem to be even curious to interrogate any of that. That is an outsider and the outsider should be killed. Is not that proper, little one? And proper, that the kid agrees instantly.”
Continued Mazin: “And the opposite factor this scene achieves is it exhibits, once more, Ellie’s obsessive desperation to seek out Abby. It is as if the universe is telling her, ‘Cease. Look how far you have come. You’ve got nearly died. Cease. Return.’ And what does Ellie do? She retains going to the aquarium.”
The Final of Us season 2 is streaming now on HBO Max within the US, and on Sky and NOW within the UK. For extra, take a look at our The Final of Us season 2 evaluation.