During an appearance on HBO’s official “Last of Us” podcast, Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann revealed that they both think Ellie is aware that Joel is lying to her in the final scene of the “Last of Us” Season 1 finale. “There was never an option of her believing it,” Mazin said. Druckmann, meanwhile, added, “[Ellie’s] a smart girl. I agree with each interpretation, and she’s going through every one in her head — but at no point do we ever feel she believes the lie. That is not on the table.”
Their certainty about Ellie’s lie detector skills doesn’t mean Druckmann and Mazin don’t still see the final scene of the “Last of Us” finale as incredibly ambiguous. “I’m not sure if Ellie is saying, ‘You’re lying to me and I’ll move on,’ or, ‘You’re lying and we’re now changed forever in a negative way,’ or, ‘You’re lying and it’s incredibly important to you, and because I love you I won’t dwell on it,'” Mazin said. “It can be any of those things, and that’s why I love it.”
Gamers have, of course, been debating the nature of Ellie’s final line ever since the original “Last of Us” was released in 2013. Now, thanks to the “Last of Us” Season 1 finale, it seems safe to assume that the scene in question will only be the topic of even more conversations moving forward. After all, the only thing about the immensely complicated scene that doesn’t seem to be up for debate at this point is whether or not Ellie buys into Joel’s lie.
The rest is, as Druckmann and Mazin say, up to each viewer’s interpretation.
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