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Warning: The next article incorporates spoilers for The Final of Us episode eight, “When We Are In Want.”
The penultimate episode of HBO’s The Final of Us launched its viewers to doubtlessly probably the most deplorable and vile character within the collection to date within the type of David – performed by Scott Shepherd.
From the second the episode begins, the much less religiously inclined among the many present’s viewership could have been questioning why all these individuals selected to observe this preacher. Because the episode trudges alongside, just about everybody is definitely questioning why there’s a whole group of individuals in thrall to this manipulative and child-abusing cannibal.
Properly, within the view of The Final of Us showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, all of it boils right down to his professional manipulation and use of scripture to maintain his ‘flock’ reined in. In HBO’s The Final of Us Podcast, the pair dissect what drew David in direction of Ellie, which in flip results in them dishing about how he gained his following:
CM: I believe he appears at this child who’s so far-off from any of the individuals that he’s presently the pastor for, and he’s lit up. I believe he’s intensely drawn to her drive of nature, her energy, her confidence.
ND: He has damaged all of the individuals round him, proper? It’s like, sheep. And right here, he sees a wolf – like him.
CM: The folks that got here to him, got here to him as a result of they had been sheep. So these sheep hold huddling in direction of David.
ND: However Ellie is completely different.
CM: Sure, Ellie is completely different.
So there you’ve it – a fast dive into the psyche of arguably probably the most purely evil individuals on the planet of The Final of Us. Later within the podcast, Mazin, Druckmann, and podcast host, Troy Baker, talk about how David has contempt for the entire individuals he leads, and that is among the causes he’s so drawn to Ellie particularly.
Fortunately, he was dealt a fairly change butcher’s knife to the top (repeatedly) by the point the credit rolled. Joel has known as Ellie his child woman, and now we sit and wait in anticipation of the grand finale of the primary season of The Final of Us, coming subsequent Sunday on HBO Max.