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Bella Ramsey Tells ‘Last of Us’ Haters ‘You Don’t Have to Watch’ Season 3: ‘If You Hate It That Much, the Game Exists’ and ‘You Can Just Play’ It Again HBO (variety.com)
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[–] 31 points 1 year ago (22 children)

I loved both the games and the show but I’m not so connected to the fandom. What is it they don’t like about her or the show?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Guess I'll put my two cents in, the writing has not been great in season 2, and unfortunately Ramsey is still learning how to act with a range of emotions besides "strong, mildly snarky, girl". Not her fault since she's still just a kid, but I can see why people find some of her scenes awkward. Combine that with the previously mentioned bad writing, and S02 just wasn't as strong as S01.

    Combine that with neckbeards upset that the emotionally traumatized characters in a post-apocalyptic society aren't hot enough to match their fantasies and you get a lot of complaints online, with not enough people willing to defend the show to tell them to shut up and stop being horny neckbeards.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Theres also peoples constant knee jerk reactions.

    Like soo many people were pissed that they "skipped" Dina and Ellie fucking because that means now the shows homophobic or some dumb bullshit despite an entire episode the previous season being focused on a gay romance.

    And then of course the very next episode contained the shit they were bitching about anyways.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    My problem with tlou2 is that all the marketing leading up to the game heavily featured Joel, and then 90% of the game you play as Ellie. Felt kinda bait and switch. I watched the first season of the show but didn't really care for it so I tuned out.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I imagine that’s to ensure the huge shock of Joel’s death was kept under wraps. If Joel was mysteriously missing from most of the trailer, the internet no doubt would have sussed it out.

    I loved playing Ellie. For so much of the game, I shared her deep desire for revenge too. And then playing Abby and growing connected to their story, by the end, I was so torn.

    A really unique experience I haven’t had before in a game.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    You made me think I was crazy because I remembered mostly the commercials featuring the seraphites hanging scenes, the dance with Dina and Ellie kissing, and some stuff with Ellie fighting Wolves. So I verified, and you are misremembering. Just fast forwarded through every ad for the game before release, Joel is only even in, MAAAYBE half of them, if that. And barely in them at all in most of the ones he is. The one that features him the most is almost all footage from the first game. I'm also pretty sure that the devs were open about that fact that Ellie would be the focus of the game from the time it was announced.

    Link: https://youtu.be/fZaNdTmmcpk

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If anything the bait and switch was making people think she was getting revenge for something that happened to Dina.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sure, but like... are we mad they didn't spoil major plot points and obfuscate the biggest death of the series?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I myself never had issues with the trailers and how they presented things. Though I am one of the people who would have wanted to play Ellie the whole first game as well. I actually rewatch the trailers for Part 2 pretty often and own the Covers and Rarities LP. I do know a lot of the internet is pissed off at it.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    They hate the fact they can't get an erection when trying to jerk it to the 14 year old character she portraits. Also Abby is butch but not lesbian, which they just cannot comprehend.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I didn’t believe you until I just googled and saw how mad the fans were about literally this. 🤮

    Like, Ellie is practically your daughter in the game. What the actual fuck?!

    No wonder Bella ignores fans comments online!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I'm willing to bet a lot of those people haven't ever had platonic love, and confuses how much the game makes you care about Ellie, with romantic love.

    Either that or they're just fucked up and should crawl back into their hole of shame.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago

    You love both the games and still managed to like the show? An anomaly. The games are written incredibly. Acted incredibly. With an incredible and complex story.

    The show takes that and adds a heaping handful of “but what if we forget about the story part and made everyone idiotic and unbearable?”

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