"Look for the Light" proves some disappointments work out for the best, since the sequence enrichens Ellie's story and transforms how we view Marlene (Merle Dandridge), the Fireflies' leader. Originally Druckmann intended Anna's story to be an animated short or another game, but those deals fell apart. The finale also holds a valentine to devoted gamers in the form of Ashley Johnson, the actor who originally voiced Ellie in the video game, on the show playing Anna, the mother Ellie never knew. He and Mazin answer this by showing the circumstances surrounding Ellie's birth in "Look for the Light," the season finale that also closes this chapter with Joel ( Pedro Pascal) saving Ellie ( Bella Ramsey), ransoming his heroic image to do so. In creating the game his and his team's main focus was, how can we make the player feel the unconditional love that parents feel for a child, along with "the worry and fear and love and joy that can come with it?" Love, he says, the impetus driving the video game and the show he co-created with Neil Mazin, and the reason he suspects their adaptation succeeded where others fell short. This is how Neil Druckmann sums up " The Last of Us" during a virtual press conference to discuss the finale. "Sometimes, when you love something unconditionally, logic goes out the window and you will do really horrible things to protect the ones you love." The following contains spoilers from "The Last of Us" Season 1 finale, "Look for the Light."
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