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quickrick on 25 June 2018
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CGI-Quality said:
GribbleGrunger said:

Ellie is fatalistic and fears being alone. She's also immune to the infection. She's lost three people she loves (or liked) and this cements her fatalism as the game progresses, giving her more strength and less fear. Only when Joel gets close to her does she change and feel some hope. The 'OK' is a compromise because she knows he's lying but at least isn't going to be alone (the thing she fears the most). 

It's an emotional trade off and one she's going to grow to resent. Watch her facial expressions in the recent gameplay demo when the guy is talking about Joel. The dropping of the head, the less than emphatic nod (sardonic rather than emphatic), the pursing of the lips and pushing out of the bottom jaw. 

It makes me smile to see some of you "getting it". When it comes to story, sometimes, it's not always about a surface meaning. They want you to dig deeper, and because of our technology, we can convey emotion in a way that is quite convincing. Everything that Ellie does has logic to it. No point in comparing her to an average 14-year-old girl. She was never marketed that way and the game made it clear that she was different.

lol i'm not comparing her to a average 14 year old. she just has 0 fear and hardly even serious when shit going down. example when the dude wants to make her a pet, she could have acted like she was down and waited for the right opportunity to strike, instead she a total bad ass and doesn't give a shit about being cut into a million pieces she even encourages it.

Last edited by quickrick - on 25 June 2018