The Last of Us - Is This the Powerful Moment in the Story?

The episode was written by Neil Druckman, the creative director at Naughty Dog. He's clearly a really talented writer. I would love to have a conversation with him about what his intention was there. It just felt like an odd choice. And and look, writing for TV is hard. So you're going to make choices that other people are going to see as mistakes. Even if you didn't in the moment,Look, I've done it too. I'm not coming after this guy like he's bad at it or something. He's great at it."