LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]

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  • Spoilers for season 2

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    So far, my biggest problem with Season 2 is that Ellie’s slow turn to obsession over revenge is seemingly nonexistent. At this point in the game, she’s already had numerous chances to stop and go home. Dina has told her. Jessie tells her. Everyone is like, hey this is a bad idea, maybe lets just go home and she pushes them away literally and figuratively on her quest. None of that has been present and I feel like its really undercutting the whole message.

    And! They for some reason cut out the entire conversation between Dina and Ellie about “do you think you could make someone talk?” even though in season 1, we saw the torture method Joel and Tommy used in game to get people to talk. Cutting this takes away from the brutality of the end of the Hospital sequence, where Ellie forces Nora to talk. I don’t get it.

    I was so happy with season 1, and I thought all the changes and cuts served to better tell the story. So far, I think they’ve left too many important tidbits on the cutting room floor and its got me really soured on season 2.


  • That’s because it isn’t. His comments say it was inspired by, but he’s talking about the themes, and yes is certainly a zionist, but neither the game or the show have anything that can even tangentially tied to Palestine. The narrative has you realizing that none of the factions are “good”, they’re all fucked, and revenge is bad.

    Hell, if it were Isreali propaganda, the show wouldn’t feature the very scene OP mentions, with Isaac torturing and murdering a Seraphite. Maybe you could argue its propaganda in that the idea that there are no good guys leads to apathy over the genocide, and while that would be quite insidious, its not quite the same as Isreali propaganda. Isreali propaganda is always going to have Isreal as the one true king, god’s favorite little girl, etc. This show aint that