"The Last of Us 2 has proven that 2012's Mass Effect 3 ending uproar was but a canary in the coal mine." Druckmann has already talked about re-interpreting the story of the original game for The Last of Us TV show, in fact, suggesting that all the bile thrown his way by the loudest and angriest online aggressors has only inspired him to avoid ever capitulating to their demands. Thankfully, Naughty Dog doesn't strike me as the kind of studio that would answer to that backlash in the way Disney did, namely with the heavily sanitized, toothless non-entity that was Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. It's the same kind of fan-servicing mentality that has crept into Hollywood, too you only have to look to the equally incensed reactions to Star Wars: The Last Jedi to see the parallels. If anything, The Last of Us 2 has proven that 2012's Mass Effect 3 ending uproar was but a canary in the coal mine, the first victim of a culture that now says a fan's entitlement to the story they have in their head overrules a creator's right to subvert those expectations entirely. There's no denying that lead writers Neil Druckmann and Haley Gross wanted to provoke a strong reaction to Joel's death, but they couldn't have predicted how venomous and nasty the response would be from certain corners of The Last of Us' fanbase, poisoning the discourse while steering it into laughable debates over the plausibility of muscle mass in the apocalypse. This isn't to join the chorus of various internet circles still smoldering over the mere existence of Abby's character, whose murder of Joel incited a wave of harassment thrown towards various Naughty Dog staff members, in addition to that of actress Laura Bailey.
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