Originally Posted by
gamevet
I never got the impression of the game being just about Joel, or just about Ellie. It was about both characers building trust, which the world they lived in pretty much lacked. She took care of Joel, when he was near death and he rescued her, when she was getting roughed up by her capture. Joel would have broken (not cared what happened to her) that trust, had he left Ellie behind in the hands of those doctors.
You've more or less described the arc of the first game but Ellie ends up being the more interesting character through the end of the first game and the DLC. Through the course of that single game, she goes through much more trauma and character building. Especially in the key moment when she stabs David to death even when she doesn't have to.
Also - Ellie and Joel control very differently in TLOU. Joel is very practical and methodical, uses chokeholds to choke people out, and is almost distant with his approach to violence. Ellie is the exact opposite. She carries a switchblade and is extremely violent, even when using stealth kills. When controlled by the AI she will stab people periodically and shout expletives. She is clearly intelligent but is also wracked by trauma, even at a young age.
It says a lot about what will happen in the second game, which is called Part II for a reason: they're really two parts of one whole.
I've heard that the followup was supposed to be about Ellie's girlfriend being killed and Ellie was going out to avenge her death. Joel was supposed to be in the support role this time. Druckman scrapped all of that, and that is why we got a game that was 7 years in the making.
"Fridging" Dina would have been terrible writing, and ND are too smart to do something stupid like that.
Last edited by sleeve; 02 Jul 2020 at 03:20 PM.
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