Episode 9 - "Look For The Light"

HBO's The Last of Us Podcast

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Tv & Film

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Host Troy Baker and showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann are joined by special guest Ashley Johnson, who played Ellie in the game and plays a pivotal character in the finale episode of the season. The group unpacks the origin of Ellie’s immunity and the story of Joel’s scar. They also debate the morality of Joel’s decisions at the end of the show and what his actions do to his relationship with Ellie. HBO’s The Last of Us podcast is produced by HBO and Pineapple Street Studios.

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0:00.0	No matter how hard you try, no matter how many people you kill, she's gonna grow up, Joel.
0:11.0	And then you'll die, or she'll leave, then what?
0:15.0	How long till she's torn apart by infected or murdered by raiders?
0:19.0	Because she lives in a broken world that you could have saved.
0:23.0	Maybe. But it isn't for you to decide.
0:26.0	Or you.
0:30.0	So what would she decide?
0:33.0	Because I think she'd want to do what's right.
0:44.0	Welcome back everybody to HBO's The Last of Us podcast.
0:48.0	I am your host Troy Baker, and I'm joined not only this week by the showrunners Craig Mason and Neil Drucken,
0:55.0	but by one of the most cherished people in my life.
0:59.0	Oh my goodness, that's so nice.
1:01.0	The inimitable Ashley Johnson who played Ellie in the game, and in this episode plays the character Anna Ellie's mom.
1:11.0	Hello.
1:14.0	And it's that character Anna that I want to talk about just off the very beginning is the top of her episode.
1:19.0	And I want to kind of go around the room and get everybody's perspective on it starting off with you, Neil.
1:25.0	Where did Anna come from?
1:27.0	Where did Anna come from?
1:29.0	It was definitely while working on the first game.
1:32.0	You're trying to define more of the world than what you're actually going to experience.
1:37.0	So for Ellie, it was a lot about kind of going backwards and defining her history, including some other stuff that we've never seen before.
1:43.0	Like what are some other people she's been attached to?
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