'Last of Us' Season 2 Casts Kaitlyn Dever as Abby
'Last of Us' Season 2 Casts Kaitlyn Dever as Abby
"The Last of Us" Season 2 has officially cast Kaitlyn Dever, Variety has learned.
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I hope they warned her about the hate about to come her way for simply taking this role.
They could take the cowards way out and not make the tv version hateable...
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Care to elaborate?
Well sure, people hated the game character, the direction she took, and giving equal time to her vs. playing as Ellie.
The show is a different entity. They might, key phrase might, decide to handle her differently.
I think my main problem with the game was that I think it would have played better if you played as Abby first. You play as her, get to know her and her friends, grow to like her, go to
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get revenge on someone who wronged you, and it all culminating with you killing Joel as the twist.
Then you have those really mixed emotions where a character you have grown to like did something you didn't see coming (not too dissimilar to Breaking Bad). Then you switch to playing Ellie, but it would give you more empathy toward Abby's situation.
I wonder if the show is going to make this change. Given the shorter time that the show has to build the story and connection, I think Season 2 should be Abby's half of Part II, ending on that cliff hanger, with Season 3 being Ellie's half of Part II.
All this being said, I didn't hate Abby so much that I didn't want to play as her or hated the game. I actually loved the game. I assumed any hate we had for her at that moment was to put us in the shoes of Ellie in such a way that in that moment, neither Ellie nor the Player knows why it was done. As the game progressed, you get those answers and you can then reflect on the whole of the narrative.
I also think playing as Abby first will give the audience a WTF moment when we discover that a main villain of an episode ends up being
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Tommy.
In the game, when that is revealed you understand why in that moment, but I think in the TV show it would be a better cliff hanger to leave the audience in the dark as to why.
Why is that?