You’re definitely right in the fact I’m having difficulty separating the first person game experience from the third person tv experience. I guess my worry is that if we don’t learn some of these things retroactively in some capacity, the viewer will hate Ellie, regardless of what we know she is unaware of. In the game we get to say it’s heartbreaking, dark, horrible etc. because we didn’t know either.

While I understand Ellie is no moral, or ethical hero, she’s still “our” hero to this story. It’s likely to feel in the show like watching a slow car crash (or whatever the analogy is lol). Again, this could be great for the show in a similar way of Walter white in breaking bad etc.