You always seem to find the need to "fix," a meme to fit your Liberal viewpoint. Ergo dollarstore Bob the Builder. Bob fixes things that need to be fixed, you "fix," things to your Liberal viewpoint because you didn't like the original meme.
It's not good storytelling because they forgot how Joel acts. Do I need to explain this to you this many times? HE WOULD NOT HAVE DIED BECAUSE HE WOULD NOT HAVE TRUSTED THE PEOPLE WHO BEAT HIS HEAD IN WITH A GOLF CLUB. Do I need to beat that sentence into YOUR skull? Do you even remember when they were driving in the first game and they passed a looter with a limp. Do you remember how Joel knew he wasn't even hurt? It's not like him to drop his guard like that and allow himself to get his head beaten in by people he blindly trusted. They wanted father figure Joel out of the way so Ellie could become "independent," and a "girl boss." That plot point wouldn't be so flawed if Joel just died of old age or something, but they made the mistake of doing a literal and figurative character assassination of Joel. One flaw can make a story fall apart, and that's EXACTLY what happened with The Last of Us Part II. You can larp and say "oh, you're not ready for college level storytelling," just to defend a game from haters. But I have a valid reason to hate the game because of the one major flaw that takes the story apart in a game that's mostly story. So go ahead and say I'm an idiot for giving a valid critique and calling this game horrible for it's story because a good sequel remembers it's predecessor. This one forgot one major detail; Joel is not an easily trusting man.
