The Final of Us season finale, “Look For the Mild,” introduced us the tip of Joel and Ellie’s cross-country journey, Joel’s heartbreaking alternative when confronted with Ellie’s imminent loss of life, and all of the ethical and moral debates that give you it. However it additionally confirmed us the starting of this story, together with components of it that weren’t proven in The Final of Us video games. Particularly, “Look For the Mild”’s opening scenes revealing the delivery of Ellie, and the circumstances round her one-of-a-kind immunity to the Cordyceps fungus.
The sequence exhibits Ellie’s mom, Anna (performed by Ashley Johnson, the voice of Ellie in The Final of Us video video games) working away from an contaminated zombie right into a home with a purpose to give delivery. However the zombie follows her and assaults. Anna wards it off with a knife and delivers her child — Ellie — however the zombie manages to chunk Anna on the leg within the course of. The implication appears to be that one thing about this very uncommon delivery and simultaneous zombie assault made Ellie resistant to no matter in Cordyceps fungus turns everybody else it is available in contact with right into a raging mushroom monster.
The “Contained in the Episode” video from HBO all about The Final of Us finale takes us behind the scenes of that sequence, and reveals among the selections that went into it. Collection co-creator Craig Mazin says that the viewers “wants to know why [Ellie] is immune, however [they] additionally want to know how a lot she was cherished” by her mom. That’s all proven in that heartbreaking opening sequence from the episode. You may try that making-of video beneath:
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