Spoiler alert! Warning: spoilers ahead for 'The Last of Us' episode 3, titled 'Long Long Time.' Do not proceed if you haven't watched!
ET's Ash Crossan spoke with show creator Craig Mazin about the creative decision to alter Bill's storyline, which Mazin said he and co-creator Neil Druckmann -- who developed the game series at Naughty Dog -- was not something they took lightly.
"It was something that I proposed to Neil because I thought there was an opportunity there," Mazin noted."The Bill section [of the game], a lot of it was based around game play and we obviously don't have that, but also Bill was unique. He had created safety and I was fascinated by the idea of somebody who had eliminated the major problem and was safe. But now what?"
"And I loved that there was this hint of a relationship, and I suggested that we show something else," he added of expanding the character of Frank and the pair's relationship."I wanted to show what love looked like as the product of commitment. I wanted to show what it looked like to be middle-aged and to be in love. And I also wanted to show the passage of time and a conclusion that showed us both sides of what love is.
Mazin explained that, despite the pair's fate, the"duality of Bill and Frank" is a recurring theme throughout the season. "You keep seeing the dynamic popping up over and over and over, every time we meet people," he noted. "And Neil, being the incredibly generous and flexible guy that he is, just zeroed in on it and said yes. I remember sending him the script and him going, 'This one's my favorite.'"
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