While I also sympathise with Ellie, I've played through TLOU2 3 times now and I am totally Team Abby in terms of the events of the game. Also part of the point of it is to draw a parallel between them / the cycle of revenge, and get you to see that Ellie would 100% have done exactly the same as Abby in the same situation ... and what she ends up doing in in places morally very dark. 'cept "Manny" (the guy who swore at Joel's dead body as they left) that a-hole totally deserved to die. In the game he spits on him as they leave... guess the show writers thought that was a step too far ... though I actually think it was written as one of the things that fully pushes Ellie over the edge.
But yeah basically as much as I love TLOU1 Ellie, I found myself ever-so-slightly siding with Abby's POV in 2 . What Joel did was horrific. Joel himself knew it and it left him kinda broken. There's a reason he knew straight away that they were ex-Fireflies... probably always suspected they might come for him if there were any left.
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…it’ll be interesting to see…(…if they’re following that same storyline as the game…)…how it translates to all of us who aren’t familiar with the game…because gaming is a different perspective in that the player has an active part and that active part gives other perspectives that we can’t feel as just viewers of the TV story …and also, those who have played the game and are familiar etc…?… will have already made that transition if you like, to see Abby in a more positive way…so going forward, whatever path the story takes, it’ll be easier to slot into it and find an understanding of it… on the screen, that image of her atm is only that of disturbing and brutal and cruel …I understand that Joel killed her father …?… and an eye for an eye in revenge etc…but she didn’t want that eye for an eye, did she…her aim as she said, wasn’t to kill him…it was to kill him slowly and painfully and brutally…that’s not something that ever entered his head in killing Abby’s father …even her fellow fireflies who knew her search for revenge…?..were seen looking sickened with what she was doing…/…the method…so yeah, it’ll be interesting to see going forward how any or enough positive light with Abby can translate to any non game players…
... though I actually think it was written as one of the things that fully pushes Ellie over the edge.
. What Joel did was horrific. Joel himself knew it and it left him kinda broken. There's a reason he knew straight away that they were ex-Fireflies... probably always suspected they might come for him if there were any left.
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