In The Last of Us—Part II, players spend a long time playing as Abby and discovering her secrets. But, of course, in a TV series, it’s a bit hard to suddenly shift to a totally new perspective in the middle of a show. But The Last of Us season two finale does send us off the deep end and right into Abby’s perspective, with a slight implication that we’re about to experience the events of season two from her perspective. In a press conference for season two, The Last of Us‘ showrunners Neil Druckmann and Carl Mazin wouldn’t commit to The Last of Us season three taking place from Abby’s point of view. But they do seem to hint this is a likely direction for the show to go. Neil Druckmann even notes that the finale shift to Abby is a “promise of where we’re going to go next.”
Abby’s Final Scene is “A Promise” About The Last of Us Season 3
He shares about The Last of Us season two switching to Abby’s perspective in its last minute, “I think we often talk about what- what are we promising the audience going forward? For example, you know, it was important for Craig in episode five that we show Joel in that last scene because then there’s a promise of where we’re going to next. And had we ended the season somewhere else; I mean like a few moments before, I think that we wouldn’t be making the right promise of what this is about. And we’re telling you next season [LAUGHS], one, there’s just an epic nature to it of what’s about to happen, but this other story is going to be really important coming back to Joel and Ellie and everything that you’ve seen so far.”
When You Have a Kaitlyn Dever, You Use a Kaitlyn Dever
Additionally, as we noted in the last response, Craig Mazin pointed out in his discussion of the future of The Last of Us series on HBO (which includes season three), “there is another side to this story that we have yet to really delve into. And there’s no question that Abby is the hero of her story, Kaitlyn Dever is the hero of a story always, you know. I mean, if you have a Kaitlyn Dever, you use a Kaitlyn Dever. So, I think where we go next, all I can say is, it will always be centering somebody, whether it’s Ellie and Dina, or whether it’s Abby and Abby’s relationship with Owen, or new relationships. If you play the game, you probably know what I’m talking about.” It sounds like there’s a pretty good chance we’ll get at least some Abby POV in The Last of Us season three.
The Last of Us‘ Showrunners Won’t YET Commit to Whether Season 3 Will Feature More of Abby’s POV
But when it came down to confirming this for sure, Mazin wouldn’t commit to saying The Last of Us season three would 100% feature Abby as a POV character.
He firmly noted he would give no defined answers to the following question: “Since the season ends very similarly to how The Last of Us—Part II game transitions between Ellie and Abby’s storylines, where does that leave Ellie in season three? Will the third season act like Abby’s portion of the game, in which it’s just told from her point of view, so, what anything, are you guys prepared to say out loud, as Gail would say, about that future balance?”
Mazin demurred, “I’m not going… I’m not going to… nope. I remember when people were asking about season two, they were like, and what about Joel, I’m like… and when we dies? I’m like, wait, what do you mean when? You mean ‘if’ [LAUGHS]. The season… The season will arrive, and it will do what it does, even if I thought I knew now exactly how it was going to go, I’m experienced enough to know that two weeks from now, we may have a different idea of how it should go.”
He concludes saying, “All I can say is we haven’t seen the last of Kaitlyn Dever, and we haven’t seen the last of Bella Ramsey, and we haven’t seen the last of Isabela Merced, and we haven’t seen the last of a lot of people who are currently dead in the story. And so, I guess the short answer to that question that everyone is asking is, no, I’m not answering [LAUGHS].”
We Bet Abby WILL Be Our Next Perspective Character, Though
There you have it. Will The Last of Us season three switch to Abby’s point of view for at least an episode… Probably! We can’t yet swear to it, but it does feel extremely likely. What we can swear to is that The Last of Us seasons one and two are streaming in full on HBO Max, and you can relive them all right now.
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