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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.
It isn’t to stop her PTSD, I didn’t get that at all. She couldn’t leave Joel unavenged, then she realizes the futility of it in the end, literally saying “just take him”.