The Last of Us - There May Be Trouble Ahead

Can't wait to see The Rock as Abby in season 2

Whoever gets cast as Abby in season 2, best of luck. You should probably stop checking social media for two or three years after that.

R.I.P. Annie Wersching! Your voice in the game helped make this game a legend!!

I enjoyed the part where Ellie prances around loudly in the cities or wilderness, completely carefree of any dangers lurking about

Joel wiping the floor with Abby would be a subversion of expectations that absolutely everybody would get behind.

I think these problems could be solved by having a moment where Ellie's casual confidence gets shattered somehow--- a close call, her first look at the brutality of human survivors out in no man's land, etc. Essentially, she needs a "scared straight" moment to knock her down a peg and establish the dynamic we see in the game. Joel's "resolution" to the situation could also showcase the fact that he is brutal and downright scary, and seeing him in that light could change the way Ellie behaves around him. It could also remind Joel that there's no reason he should let Ellie walk all over him, and that just because she's a kid doesn't mean she gets a pass to do and say whatever she wants. Honestly, building up their relationship slightly, then shattering it entirely in this way might be the best thing for a long term payoff that builds throughout the series.

I think they are rushing too much, leaving out a lot of Ellie and Joel time together and how much strong their father/daughter relationship grows over time.

Can’t wait to see Dwayne Johnson as Abby in season 2 😂

I can't wait to see Terry Crews as Abby in season two

I barely see Joel murdering a raider for Ellie let alone anyone else. Will love to see how they try and pull of this father-daughter bond because right now, it ain’t there, nor do I see the seeds of it.

Just for the record, Pedro Pascal grew up, in part, in San Antonio, TX. As someone who grew up in neighboring Arkansas, I think his accent is pretty natural - not over the top or forced.

Raul Julia doing Street Fighter for his kids while he was sick was probably one of the coolest, sweetest, most dad things ever. Thank you for taking the moment to find a reason to put him in your video.

They need to cast the Mountain as Abbey so we can have a GOT reunion. That way when she gets a birdie with Joel it will feel complete.

There's better ba a 5 minutes in each episode where Joel upgrading his gun on a random convenient workbench 😆🤣

Your criticisms of Ellie are spot on and can be explained by the current zeitgeist post the game's release in 2013. Every leading woman in a film or TV show has to be strong and independent. On top of that they are all smart and thus in charge, as they should be according to the current year. Men are stupid and erratic, unless they are black in which case they are heroes and also smart (but not as smart as the women).

Holy shit, fantastic video! This sums up my thoughts so far pretty much exactly. You absolutely nailed the character changes to Joel and Ellie to better fit the versions they gave us in part 2, but there's one piece about Ellie I feel you didn't fully address. You mentioned how she's capable, confident, and unflinching to the violence around her, but it's more than that. She's being portrayed as sadistic, likely to make her brutal revenge-fueled massacre across Seattle in season seem more believable. First she seems to find it "cool" when Joel beats that soldier to death, rather than disturbed or at all uncomfortable. In the first game, Ellie would often comment on Joel's brutality both in scripted moments and randomly during combat. And then when she kills the stalker in the basement, she slowly cuts into it with her knife before she puts it down. Neither of these are things Ellie would do in the first game

The audience drop off in season 2 is going to be legendary

Can't wait to see The Liver King portraying Abby in all of her glory...

6:16 - 6:44 Oh how E8 'When We Are In Need' would change your mind on Bella Ramsey's Ellie. Because holy crap did she knock her performance out of the park!

sheesh coming back to this video, your prediction was absolutely accurate.