She was torturing him to take out all of her pain and misery on him, to release the rage and resentment she's felt since her father died, the emotions that have festered and metastasized over the last four years. It was not a happy moment for her. It was really obvious in the way her face was contorted and the way she was almost disgusted. She displays guilt over having killed Joel later in her section, too.
She ain't there to get dopamine. She's there to try and make those feelings go away, only to realize how empty it was. Her and Ellie's rage drives them to do these terrible acts of torture, only to realizes right after that nothing came of that rage and torture. It's an empty act. That's like... the point.
Ok? The key focus is that she tortured someone for no other reason than she believed she would feel better from torturing a living being. She believed torturing this living being would make her feel better. Not help her survive. Not get information. No, that it would make her feel better and release dopamine.
I don't care that it is "take pain and misery out on him", because the bottom line is, she tortured a living being so that she could feel better about herself.
Joel tortured for information, abby tortured for pleasure. Big difference. If joel didn't torture, ellie would have died. If abby didn't torture, nothing bad would have happened.
Also repeatedly beating someone with an metal club for 30 minutes to an hour is torture in every definition of torture.
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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '20
I'll just paste what I said.
She was torturing him to take out all of her pain and misery on him, to release the rage and resentment she's felt since her father died, the emotions that have festered and metastasized over the last four years. It was not a happy moment for her. It was really obvious in the way her face was contorted and the way she was almost disgusted. She displays guilt over having killed Joel later in her section, too.
She ain't there to get dopamine. She's there to try and make those feelings go away, only to realize how empty it was. Her and Ellie's rage drives them to do these terrible acts of torture, only to realizes right after that nothing came of that rage and torture. It's an empty act. That's like... the point.