The Last of Us Part II sets the stage for Ellie’s complex journey as she confronts Abby in Season 2. Showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann suggest that conventional notions of hero and villain are flawed, arguing that this binary thinking limits understanding and creates barriers. They indicate that Abby's perspective will be crucial moving forward, asserting her role as a 'hero' in her own story. The narrative aims to push audiences to reconsider their emotional responses to the characters and their motivations, exploring deeper complexities in morality and perspective.
The point of this story--and this is looked at from so many different angles in so many different ways--is that the entire concept of protagonist is flawed.
Our way of processing the world through heroes and villains is a mistake. It ends up creating these barriers between people that shouldn't be there.
Abby is the hero of her story. Wherever we go next, we'll always be centering on somebody.
Part of this story is about examining why we're so comfortable with following one person's point of view about everything.
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