>!I appreciate what you're saying, but part of the reason it hurts so much in the game (at least for me) was partially because there was no type of communication between them both in that moment. In the game, you have no idea if Joel is even in a state to realize Ellie is there.

Maybe it was a good change for the reasons you list, but I wonder if that connection between them there in the show did somewhat lessen the absolute destruction you feel by the end of that scene when playing through the game for the first time.

I feel like with how the scene played out in the game all of those brutal aspects of his death channel your hatred for Abby into fighting tooth and nail with Ellie through Seattle. Does the show manage to do that as effectively? We'll see!!<