The Last of Us Star Bella Ramsey Tells Season 2 Haters They Don't Have to Watch Season 3: 'If You Hate It That Much, the Game Exists'

Bella Ramsey has issued a short, crisp connection to the louder critics of The Last of Us Season 2, insisting those who hatred it tin play the video crippled upon which it is based alternatively of watching Season 3.

Warning! Spoilers for The Last of Us Season 2 follow.

The Last of Us Season 2 has been and gone, and though astir of america who played the 2nd crippled knew what was coming, it seems galore viewers did not. Showrunner Craig Mazin has said he’s inactive getting bewildered fans asking: "Why did you termination Pedro Pascal?"

"[Game creator and chap showrunner Neil Druckmann] did a thing. Everyone mislaid their sh*t, and past I had to bash that aforesaid thing, due to the fact that helium did the thing. I loved doing the thing, I thought it was great," Mazin said of Joel's decease astatine a Variety panel.

"The large ailment that I've gotten is, 'Why did you termination Pedro Pascal?' And I support explaining, we didn't termination him! He's a man, he's alive. He's fine. And he's successful virtually everything else. So I don't cognize what the occupation is!"

“People had precise beardown reactions to immoderate arguable communicative determination we made,” added Druckmann.

(Check retired IGN’s The Last of Us Season 2 finale reappraisal to spot what we thought of it.)

Speaking to The Awardist podcast (via GamesRadar), Ramsey began by dismissing the interaction of Season 2’s online criticism.

"I tried to steer wide arsenic overmuch arsenic I could, to beryllium honest," Ramsey said. “Because there’s thing I tin bash astir it anyway. The amusement is out. There’s thing that tin beryllium changed oregon altered. So I’m like, there’s not truly immoderate constituent successful speechmaking oregon looking astatine anything.

“People are of people entitled to their opinions. But it doesn’t impact the show, it doesn’t impact however the amusement continues oregon thing successful immoderate way. They’re precise abstracted things to me. So no, I conscionable don’t truly engage.”

Ramsey was past asked what they would archer the “louder critics” of Season 2 going into Season 3. "I would say, you don't person to ticker it," Ramsey responded. "If you hatred it that much, the crippled exists. You tin conscionable play the crippled again. You don’t person to ticker it, but if you bash privation to ticker it, past I anticipation you bask it."

Despite the mixed effect to Season 2 and the consequent departure of Naughty Dog franchise creator Neil Druckmann, HBO brag Casey Bloys has backed showrunner Craig Mazin's quality to proceed connected — and to bash truthful successfully contempt the series' pb actors changing.

Exactly however agelong the bid volition proceed remains uncertain. Mazin, meanwhile, has said Season 3 volition beryllium longer than Season 2. “We’re benignant of fiddling astir with that — it’s a small spot of a commercialized concealed astatine the moment,” Mazin said erstwhile asked astir pacing and occurrence number for The Last of Us Season 3. “But I volition accidental that play 3 volition beryllium longer than Season 2. Season 3 volition beryllium much connected par with Season 1. More bang for the buck.”

The Season 2 finale teased that, similar the game, Season 3 volition displacement absorption to Abby (Kaitlyn Dever). It’s unclear precisely however Mazin plans to retell the Seattle conception of The Last of Us Part 2 done Abby’s perspective.

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