I don't know, man...

This double standard seems to show up in how performances are judged too. Pedro Pascal can cry on screen and be praised for being tender and vulnerable (I mean, who can say no to that puppy face, right?). Meanwhile, Bella Ramsey shows the same raw emotion but gets mocked for their appearance or accused of bad acting, when their emotional scenes were just as powerful and honest as Pedro’s, evoking just as much pain.

Throughout episode 6, it’s shown time and time again how Ellie is dealing with survivor’s guilt and has a bit of suicidal idealization after her experiences last season. She saw all the people close to her die or abandon her, was almost s*xually abused by a creep, and had two adults she trusted basically decide things for her without having the balls to ask her how she feels. All of this comes through when she says, "Then I was supposed to die! That was my purpose. My life would've fucking mattered but you took that from me." She was even willing to try to forgive Joel for keeping her in the dark about the Fireflies for so many years but she still doesn’t get nearly as much love as he does. Why? Because she’s not tender enough about her feelings and is 'such a crybaby'. But like realistically, who wouldn't be a crybaby in her place!??

Y’all want your “complex female characters” and you can’t handle them when you get them.

Like… so many people justify Joel… and also the doctor.

That doctor was going to sacrifice a kid without asking her consent.

Everyone acted terribly but none of that is acknowledged by people.

Ellie can’t do nothing and Bella Ramsey was amazing as fuck, and even with that she was still ridiculed and her character reduced.

I also hate how people wanted her to be like a Rambo on screen… guys! In a video game that is a fucking shooter that’s fine… but imagine how normies would react after seeing Bella kill 30 people on a tv show? At the end no one would be with her lmao.

With Bella’s version of Ellie, that Ellie forgives Abby at the end and doesn’t kill her will be waaay more believable.

I agree that we could have more action scenes, and it would have been good to have one more episode and not just 7… and I don’t know why they took the riffle scenes too, and made the scene of Mel and the other guy less violent (I guess maybe is because of how currently there is a problem with shootings in the US???). But still… the series as its own thing it’s actually fine.