I have to get this off my chest because it's been sitting there a while since I finished watching this shit pile of a game and that's the character of Mel in this trashfire.
Mel has got to be one of the most if not THE MOST retarded fucking bitch in this game and mind you, there are a lot of dumb fucking choices that are made by a lot of dumb fucking characters here.
Mel is the pregnant broad that's supposed to be Dina's counterpart of the annoying bitch in the group on Abby's side of the story. She appears seemingly out of nowhere, very obviously pregnant and showing and her first lines of dialogue are of her talking about how she wants to go out in the front lines despite being pregnant. Abby and Manny are with her and what do they do when a pregnant woman says something so fucking utterly stupid like that? They just...let her go. Oh cool, you want to risk your baby's life on top of yours too? Aight, coo. Neither Abby or Manny have ANY kind of reservations about letting a very pregnant woman go out into the frontlines. They have plenty of able-bodied people but no, let's let the pregnant bitch come out with us into danger, that makes a lot of fucking sense.
Then she goes out with you and you can see her dive roll and getting shot at and you the player watch this pregnant npc act like an action hero despite the fact that she's...you know FUCKING PREGNANT. Apparently Mel was endowed with the power of the Gods if she's able to act like she's in a Michael Bay movie while she's pregnant but meanwhile Dina's bitch ass is having complications and she needs to go back to Jackson for treatment??? I mean, with how little Mel seems to show any sort of maternal care for her unborn baby, you'd think that she might as well have just jumped off of an elevated area and land on her stomach to self abort the baby she apparently doesn't give a shit about losing.
And another thing...that scene where she gets shanked in the throat. You'd think...that a woman who doesn't want to die and who is also very pregnant may think to maybe fucking mention the fact that she is pregnant so that she doesn't get killed? In that retarded scene she is held at gun point for so long but never once does she say anything along the lines of "Please don't, I'm pregnant. I'll tell you what you want to know just don't hurt me or my baby." No, instead she sits there without a word and even has the audacity to fucking attack Ellie with a knife. Not her or fucking Owen say anything about her pregnancy which could have saved both of their lives. The devs just force the characters to completely forget the fact that Mel is pregnant just to force a scene in which Ellie kills a pregnant broad for the YOU GUESSED IT, shock value. Just like they did with Joel in order to make his death happen, they completely lobotomized the characters in all the scenes that Mel is in. What the fuck was the point of making her pregnant if everyone is just going to fucking pretend like she isn't? Again, she was just given a hamfisted pregnancy so that when her inevitable death scene came up, Druckmann could sit there and say "Oh look, Ellie killed a pregnant woman. Look how disturbed about it she is. Look how GRIMDARK it is. Aren't I the best at telling stories???" I guess Druckmann not only hates the straight males in this game, he also hates the women with a passion too because he went out of his way to give them all the collective intelligence of a fucking grain of sand.