The second season has/had an insurmountable problem. The source material is just bad. The first game is one of the GOAT, the second game was just bad.

You don’t kill a beloved character at the start… There is no recovering from that in a TV show or movie.

Unfortunately the second game did that. The show had to either ignore that and go in a totally different direction or kill the beloved character.

If the show had not killed him the amount of screaming and vitriol the online community would have unloaded about the show would be without end.

Unfortunately they killed the beloved character so that just alienated all the non-gamer fans.

It also doesn’t help that the entire second season felt completely rushed and slow as shit at the same time.

I love Bella Ramsey as Ellie, watching her catch so much shit is just heart breaking.

[–] zero@feddit.xyz 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I felt the same way a few times throughout the second game but I came to appreciate the storyline. When he was killed, I thought fuck this I'm not playing this shit. Then again when I had play as Abby, but quickly game to appreciate the way it was narrated.

[–] cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

people who hate joels death dont understand that the whole second game was about revenge and how destructive it is, I will die on this hill

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

That’s not true. The first game is about how far one will go for love, the second one is about how far will you go for hate.

That was very clear and I still hated Joel’s death.

[–] zero@feddit.xyz 0 points 3 days ago

Absolutely. I hated playing Abby initially then I understood her motivation and perspective.