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>Ellie, who in the 2013 PS3 game is a wide-eyed, innocent (if foul-mouthed) fourteen year old girl, has been reimagined as a quippy, sarcastic, twentysomething. One could chalk this up to the all but mandatory 'Marvelization' of every new TV show and movie, where stock phrases like "that just happened!", or "really, dude!?" seem contractually obligated to come out of a character's mouth at some point - just as we could explain the decision to cast the remarkably un-childlike Bella Ramsay as Ellie to internal politics at HBO (there's no shortage of talented teenage actresses who could handle the role); but I think these decisions reflect a far more depressing trend in the evolution of millennial media: the presentation of children themselves as autonomous beings who don't require adult guidance. Not fragile creatures to be protected, children increasingly are written more as mini-adults, equal to their grown-up counterparts in maturity and intelligence. The Last of Us (2013) is fundamentally a coming-of-age story. The Last of Us (2023) takes adulthood as a given. The character arc of the series therefore belongs to Pedro Pascal's Joel, who learns to love again, but not as a father.
>Ellie, who in the 2013 PS3 game is a wide-eyed, innocent (if foul-mouthed) fourteen year old girl, has been reimagined as a quippy, sarcastic, twentysomething. One could chalk this up to the all but mandatory 'Marvelization' of every new TV show and movie, where stock phrases like "that just happened!", or "really, dude!?" seem contractually obligated to come out of a character's mouth at some point - just as we could explain the decision to cast the remarkably un-childlike Bella Ramsay as Ellie to internal politics at HBO (there's no shortage of talented teenage actresses who could handle the role); but I think these decisions reflect a far more depressing trend in the evolution of millennial media: the presentation of children themselves as autonomous beings who don't require adult guidance. Not fragile creatures to be protected, children increasingly are written more as mini-adults, equal to their grown-up counterparts in maturity and intelligence. The Last of Us (2013) is fundamentally a coming-of-age story. The Last of Us (2023) takes adulthood as a given. The character arc of the series therefore belongs to Pedro Pascal's Joel, who learns to love again, but not as a father.
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