#tlou rant

and when are we going to address the facts that ellie's character arc, ellie, who is the core of the story, of the last of us universe, gets reduced storyline that is basically focused on everyone within the mile radius but her but abby, who didn't even need to get buffed because suddenly that's not important, gets longer and entire dedicated season? and you want me to think craig didn't cave into the male incels online? i'm so fucking pissed. so fucking pissed that he keeps patting himself on the back for doing such a marvellous job when he turned a beloved character into sidekick, despite knowing how pivotal ellie's arch is and how important she was for bella. it's like all the progress we've seen with ellie in season one was shoved out of the window? that's the girl that survived david? that's the girl who's been hardened by the year she spent outside?

and when are some of you going to address the fact that the one of the dellie duo has been fucking rewritten for male gaze and turned into main character? dina in the game wasn't just tagging along -- she was ellie's ride or die, she had her back, she was strong and crafty. dina in the show is turned into main character who's basically acting like ellie's fucking parent. i'm so sick of this and disappointed.

Ellie is immune but you can’t get a cure out of her via surgery.

The fireflies did two things before settling on surgery. A blood test and an MRI. That was it.

Plus cordycepts (spell bad) is a parasite so killing the host would’ve just killed Ellie’s immunity too so they would’ve been back a square one.

This is why I’m a Jerry Anderson hater ppl. He wouldn’t have sacrificed Abby, he wanted to be known as the man who cured humanity, he was a surgeon not a scientist.

Anyway, keeping Ellie sedated in case she disagreed or refused to die like that is inherently a little cowardly. They should’ve asked her consent or at least informed her of what was going on. Then they can be fucked up and disregard that because why the fuck would these people listen to a child that could save all their lives?

craig mazin literally describes their relationship as mother and daughter, in terms that dina is the responsible and mature one there, whilst ellie’s immature kid on random revenge quest. ellie’s clever, sneaky, she’s not an ammateur. for christ’s sake, she spent year with joel travelling across the states. and you want to tell me she has no idea how to pack her back or how to stay quiet in open space in order to not attract infected or wlf/seraphites?

at this point, ellie’s side character in her own journey. she does not have chance nor space to be fleshed out and be shown as matured from the last time we saw her, because all those qualities are given to people around her. there is no point for dina to be present in the hospital when ellie kills nora. watching ellie work alone, would give the audience peek into seeing how ellie puts on a brave face, lying to everybody around that she’s okay. but she does not get space for that. when jesse shows up, craig literally says that it shows how ellie just wanted him to save her, like joel did. it goes further into letting the audience know that ellie can’t do shit by herself.

they could have given her the hillcrest sequence, where the audience could finally get a peak of ellie’s approach to violence. it’s not who she is. the premise of the game is that she tries to be like joel, when avenging him. but she’s not. ellie’s not like him and it’s tearing her apart (the theatre sequence when she comes back from the hospital). that’s why the comment gail makes about her and joel walking the same path does not make sense.

ellie’s actions are supposed to be unlikable. yes you’re supposed to understand where she’s coming from but you don’t need to agree with her, you’re allowed to be pissed at her for being a dick a to dina. the show does nothing of that. they have got three episodes left to show us ellie falling into the cycle of revenge.