Hopefully someone else has already said this but I’m going to say it anyway:
If you’re being hateful about Bella Ramsey and/or Kaitlyn Dever, you’re a piece of shit and a fucking deplorable human being who should go fuck themselves.
So far in the last few weeks alone, I’ve seen:
People claiming Bella is terribly cast, claiming they cannot act, and wanting them to be recast by someone like Cailee Spaeny
People saying Bella is “too ugly” to play Ellie, that the Ellie played by Bella is too ugly to date Dina (aka: “Dina is too hot for her”), people saying Ellie looks like she has Down Syndrome
Way too many people are comfortable with using the r slur to describe Bella and the version of Ellie they’re playing. “She looks r*tarded”, “she acts r*tarded”
^ following the news that Bella is autistic, a lot of people were saying things like “of course she is” “makes sense” etc.
People editing pictures of Bella as Ellie to make their forehead bigger, eyes further apart, chin bigger etc. to reiterate how “ugly” they are
Already Kaitlyn Dever is getting hateful comments on her social media, people saying they hope she dies for killing Joel etc. (did we learn NOTHING from when it happened to Laura Bailey?!?)
This is coming from both game fans and show fans as far as I know. I understand having opinions if you’re genuinely a fan who wants to see their favourite games adapted well, but that doesn’t give you the right to make such horrific comments about the actors.
I’m speaking as someone who loves the games and yes, I do have my own criticisms about the show just as I do with the game - but the level of hatred for Bella in particular is disgusting.
For one thing, people’s horrible comments about Bella have been going on since S1 when they were playing a 14 year old - far too many people were mad show!Ellie wasn’t “hot enough”…why do you want a 14 year old character to be hot?!? Why are you openly admitting to wanting to jack off to a teenager??? That’s so fucked up and worrying, seek help if you’re someone saying shit like that. “Bella doesn’t look old enough” - they are 21 playing a 19 year old, they are literally age appropriate for the role - you’re just mad it’s not a woman in her late 20s you can sexualize and salivate over.
It’s just infuriating to see how much vitriol Bella especially is getting - Pedro doesn’t look 100% like Joel, Gabriel Luna doesn’t look like Tommy, Kaitlyn doesn’t look like Abby, Isabela Merced doesn’t actually look like Dina, most of the cast doesn’t look anything like their game counterparts quite frankly… but for some reason it’s Bella who’s getting all of the hatred.
No matter how much you all bitch and moan, Bella IS Ellie in the show. They’re not recasting them. If you don’t like that, don’t watch it - if you want to see people who look like the game, then just play the game, it’s that fucking simple.