I ended up liking Abby a lot as a character. Obviously the game sets her up as the villain as much as possible before it shifts to her point of view, but that changed for me with time. And that cutscene where she finds her dad always gets me.
it's all about perspective. We love Ellie because we spent so much time with her in the first game and we hate Abby because she kills Joel and Jessie. But if you look at it through a different lens, Ellie goes on a bloody rampage and kills everyone in her path, whereas Abby spares Ellie and Tommy in Jackson and later spares Ellie and Dina again in Seattle (at the behest of Lev, but still).
I know a lot of people didn't like that Ellie spares her in the end, but it makes sense to me. It's about finally getting to make a choice (whereas pretty much all the choices in her life had been made by somebody else up to this point), it's about ending the cycle of violence and revenge, and it's about forgiveness. Not even forgiving Abby necessarily, but Joel and herself.
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