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UnholyMudcrab posted...

I sided with Joel at the end of the first game for a whole host of reasons, and was then basically told, "Fuck you, you're wrong for interpreting that ambiguous ending the way you did."

TLoU2 is little more to me than very well produced misery porn. As far as I'm concerned, Joel and Ellie's story ended with the first one.

TLoU2 doesn't invalidate that interpretation of the ending of the first game, though; we know that Ellie has doubts but chooses to trust Joel.

and during the flashbacks, we see just that, but there's enough nagging in the back of her head that she feels that she has to find out for herself, and in the process, finds out that Joel didn't just lie to her, but also killed a lot of people in the process of saving her.