Ellie treated Joel badly
First of all, i'm going to talk about the game, not the show, i don't watch the show.
Ellie treated Joel poorly, almost like she didn't even love him (not saying she doesn't, because her wish for revenge shows that she loved him), but all the things she said to him in part II are heartbreaking.
The scene at that party where Joel just came to defend her and she just starts criticize him for that matter, like...it's not even a big thing, he loves u, he always gonna have ur back, not because he doesn't think u "can't handle" the argument, just because he wants to defend u, and u start blaming him. After that scene, the discussion where she blamed him because she didn't get to die in that hospital to find the cure it's purely heartbreaking because he did what he did because he thought that it's the best choice(and he still thinks in that way) and if the roles were reversed, i'm 100% sure she would do the same thing.
Yes, he lied to her, he felt guilty, he killed a lot of "good people" to save her, but all of that for good intentions.
And, in the final scene when she sings the Joel's song, and she remembers the last disscution with him after the party, i think she regrets the way that she treated him, at least that's what her facial expression looks like.
Loved the game and the story, but i'm sad that their relationship in part II was more like a problematic one, a tense one.
Posted May 8, 2025, 2:52 PM UTC