[ChristmasNeeve]

I know this might be a bit controversial but

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I find Ellie kind of annoying I feel like I might like Abby more

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I know this might be a bit controversial but

Spoiler:

I find Ellie kind of annoying I feel like I might like Abby more

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I tried really, really hard not to feel that way during this season but... yeah Bella Ramsay's Ellie is annoying. I do maintain that she played a great mid-teens Ellie in S1 (and the flashback episode confirmed that - best Ellie of the season by far) but she's not captured older/rageful Ellie at all... it's coming across entitled and irritating... like her relationship with Jessie is totally different in show (they're friends with deep respect for each other in game) and I can see WHY that is... like... he's not wrong? In the game yes she acts selfishly but it's much, much more clear that she's not thinking clearly/is totally blinded by grief, it's not "her".

Also doesn't help that I do actually slightly side Team Abby in the game narrative but it's very close "both sides have a point/both sides are also wrong" thing. In the show I'm worried people will just end up going full Team Abby .

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Quantum Boy

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I tried really, really hard not to feel that way during this season but... yeah Bella Ramsay's Ellie is annoying. I do maintain that she played a great mid-teens Ellie in S1 (and the flashback episode confirmed that - best Ellie of the season by far) but she's not captured older/rageful Ellie at all... it's coming across entitled and irritating... like her relationship with Jessie is totally different in show (they're friends with deep respect for each other in game) and I can see WHY that is... like... he's not wrong? In the game yes she acts selfishly but it's much, much more clear that she's not thinking clearly/is totally blinded by grief, it's not "her".

Also doesn't help that I do actually slightly side Team Abby in the game narrative but it's very close "both sides have a point/both sides are also wrong" thing. In the show I'm worried people will just end up going full Team Abby .

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Yeah I agree with you about her S1 Vs S2. I liked her a lot more then and yeah I totally get Abbys POV already even without seeing S3, I mean he murdered her dad, he wasn't a soldier and he wasn't armed

[Ammi]

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…I like the actress who plays Abby…(…I realise that physically she doesn’t resemble the Abby of the game play…)….but it was Pedro Pascal that she brutally and coldly and torturously beat to death so I don’t know how I’ll come to feel about her when we follow her story…I mean, it was Pedro Pascal…that’s a lot and I’m still processing….

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Ammi

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…I like the actress who plays Abby…(…I realise that physically she doesn’t resemble the Abby of the game play…)….but it was Pedro Pascal that she brutally and coldly and torturously beat to death so I don’t know how I’ll come to feel about her when we follow her story…I mean, it was Pedro Pascal…that’s a lot and I’m still processing….

If it helps (though this is an actual spoiler)

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To be fair Abby comes to the conclusion that vengeance/killing Joel did nothing to help her and felt empty, that it's just a pointless cycle of violence, waaaaaaay quicker than Ellie... so it's not like she's going around happy/celebrating being a Joel-killer.

I think they can work around the physical differences in the character to be fair, though they'll need to lean more into her being a good tactician/leader to justify the comments about her being such a great soldier, since she's not in straight up "super soldier territory" like game Abby.

I think one of the saddest parts about it is that we'll (surely) never get to see show Abby kill a clicker with her bare fists like she can on a few occasions in game. Just swaggering around punching them square in the throat until they die .

They've DEFINITELY set up Abby vs "The Rat King" though - which is a big/messed up infected in the hospital basement, I suspect the show version is going to be (...partly... ...) the son of that ALF deputy lady, who she had to trap down there (and Ellie saw starting to look suspiciously Rat-Kingy).

Spoiler for what the Rat King is if you don't want to know

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It's basically a blob of multiple infected that have grown/fused together into one big... multi-headed thing... Abby fights it in the hospital, it's horrific

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Quantum Boy

If it helps (though this is an actual spoiler)

Spoiler:

To be fair Abby comes to the conclusion that vengeance/killing Joel did nothing to help her and felt empty, that it's just a pointless cycle of violence, waaaaaaay quicker than Ellie... so it's not like she's going around happy/celebrating being a Joel-killer.

I think they can work around the physical differences in the character to be fair, though they'll need to lean more into her being a good tactician/leader to justify the comments about her being such a great soldier, since she's not in straight up "super soldier territory" like game Abby.

I think one of the saddest parts about it is that we'll (surely) never get to see show Abby kill a clicker with her bare fists like she can on a few occasions in game. Just swaggering around punching them square in the throat until they die .

They've DEFINITELY set up Abby vs "The Rat King" though - which is a big/messed up infected in the hospital basement, I suspect the show version is going to be (...partly... ...) the son of that ALF deputy lady, who she had to trap down there (and Ellie saw starting to look suspiciously Rat-Kingy).

Spoiler for what the Rat King is if you don't want to know

Spoiler:

It's basically a blob of multiple infected that have grown/fused together into one big... multi-headed thing... Abby fights it in the hospital, it's horrific

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…I’m guessing that it it was touched on in the finale in that Abby has leadership skills that the no one else has so she was always the one that would lead them, rather than focus on any physical aspect…I mean, she’s a great soldier as well but maybe the focus will be more with leadership qualities than physical might…