The last of us
Have been done much of Ellie’s casting in HBO adjustment The last of us. On the one hand, I agree that it is difficult to accept someone who looks as young and small as Bella Ramsey takes on the role required from the era 2. Ellie’s video game is, at this point, much larger and tougher than the first game. Ramsey looks just as young and tiny as he did in season 1. Spoilers in front.
On the other hand, I disagree with the complaints that Ramsey is not tasked with the view of the action. When she was at the best of her season, she just took out the emotional series she required from her, whether she was during the violent assassination of Joel or in milder moments, such as the Museum’s retrospective or the performance of A-Ha’s Take On Me. I would go even more and show the season 1, in which (mostly) it was not only Ramsey excellent throughout, Ellie’s character was presented in a way that was perfectly lined up with the character of the based video game.
(In those who ridicule Bella’s appearance in social media, I have nothing but contempt and shame – bullying is for children, but many adults on this day and have lost all the appearance of decency).
Ellie of the season 2 fails because of writing. Some decisions that have made fundamentally change not only its characterization and bow, but the very nature of history itself. It seems that the writers were convinced that the game was very dark, that his tone was very gloomy to the public, so Ellie’s character offered as the sacrificial lamb in a very enigmatic effort to make the story more enjoyable. In this way, the show failed on an important mission: To make us start to dislike Ellie, but still roots to succeed.
What the show did was Ellie’s neutral arc, making it unlikely for all the wrong reasons. Instead of seeing her become the monster to be done, while she still hopes to watch Abby and takes her revenge, we see her as an incompetent, ruthless, childish character that has not yet invested in revenge to begin. It is difficult to take root for someone who does not seem to care so much about his own mission to start. Even before Joel’s death, Ellie was presented as an annoying teenager and not the toughest version of the character that had taken place in the past years.
Perhaps hoping that the most comical relief would attract us to Ellie, the show makes her a child who will appear most of the time. During the process, all skills and intellect are removed. She is less smart and less capable than she was at 14 in season 1. Now is Dina who has to show her the way, encourage her to the course of revenge, remind her when to be quiet and supplies to pack. Jessie punishes her for her selfishness, saves her from tight spots and prevents her from killing them and are killed when she wants to save a child from a pack of wolves. Again and again, he closely escapes a situation in which he has been found or is rescued. We almost never see a capable, confidence Ellie making harsh choices with which he has to live.
Even the moments of revenge and violence are wet. Instead of turning Owen and then stabbing Mel through the neck with her knife, she shoots their couple, killing Mel by mistake. She doesn’t even use her knife in a WLF guard she gets down, choosing to drown holds her instead of the most obvious knife kills. And she doesn’t kill a dog, I guess because that could make us dislike her even more. Ellie’s violence is always uncertain and, in addition to Nora, her kills leaves her shaken and upset rather than overthrowing her determination. Sure, we need to see how they influence it, but this version of Ellie seems only sad and is rarely driven unless the authors reverse the revenge switch. It is the whiplash that causes the character of the character.
When Dina reveals that she is pregnant, Ellie makes a funny dad instead of getting angry and treating Dina and her pregnancy as a terrible hassle. And you might think it would make it more nice, but instead it makes it look pious and unstable. It is not strange that Dina, when she learns about Joel’s past, is upset and closed, moving herself from Ellie and tells her that it was time to go home. In the game, Dina supports Ellie when learning this harsh truth. Because it doesn’t matter what Joel did. The only thing that matters is to get justice. But with an Ellie so free from her own move and motivation, why should we expect Dina to act in any other way?
The last of us
The season 2 had to show us the conversion of Ellie from a surviving survivor with a cheerful-folding man who is a capable Hellbent murderer, who treats those around her as obstacles when they hinder and who relentlessly watching her quarry. He had to do this, while still rooting us to succeed, using retrograde such as the museum scene to remind us who was once and lost. Instead, it confuses in a half assed revenge quest where it is neither ruthless nor capable, just another road trip with adults who need to protect and protect it along the way.
Basically, this season should be for Ellie Breaking Bad. And like this show, we should have given us an ellie more similar to Walter White than this pointless child. Walter White is exactly what I am describing: a ruthless, capable monster that, even when it shows its true colors, the roots of the public for even our best judgment. Sure, at some point more Breaking the evil The followers had activated Walter, as the horror of vanity and ambition left excessive destruction in his passage to ignore. This is exactly the path that Ellie needed to reduce this season (and some other episodes could have overcome this spiral, if only if the writing and direction had allowed the extra space to matter).
Unfortunately, we have reached the end of season 2 and now we are ready to watch Abby’s bow unfold in season 3. It’s too late to give us the story we needed for Ellie at this point, which is a terrible shame. The show has already done irrevocable damage to Abby’s history, equipping its motives long before we know what it was. The biggest problem, however, is that Abby’s bow should be the mirror opposite Ellie’s. While we had to follow Ellie under a monstrous path, we must then follow Abby under a redemption. We have to look at the man behind the monster, and this must reflect his own arc of Ellie.
With Ellie’s story so badly confused, I see no clear way that the show can achieve this in season 3 and without these two stories reflecting each other, without these two characters hitting each other, making them effectively, And that says none of those who move the final scene of the game until the season 2, episode 6.
Oh well. Mistakes were made. At least we have the games.
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