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Originally Posted by devo22
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).
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Abby "sparing" Ellie and Tommy was no big favour, and made her out to be a complete idiot to me. She goes on this vendetta trip to Jackson to assassinate Joel because he killed her father... and she expects that Joel's brother and 'daughter' would be
thankful that she deigned to spare their lives after she brutally murdered Joel? Of course they're not going to be okay with it; if Abby wasn't 'okay' with Joel killing her father, why would she expect Tommy and Ellie to just let it go?
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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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I felt like it was as much Ellie relenting only after the satisfaction of knowing she was capable of beating Abby. Of course we know this was an entirely pyrrhic victory that cost her physical scars she'll never recover from, and she ruined the relationship with Dina. She has nothing left to live for.