There's a huge difference between someone not being gay playing a gay character vs someone who isn't of a certain ethnicity portraying a character who is distinctly that ethnicity. Just really off/wrong to basically erase a core element of that character with this casting... Especially ironic since BOTH the creator of TLoU and the showrunner are jewish???
Difference being here that the season 1 castings (mainly Pedro/Bella, the only two that people gave a fuss about) didn't remove any of the core elements of those characters as they were in the game. Was Joel Chilean in the game? Of course not. But did it matter? Not really. Literally anyone could play Joel (black, white, Asian, hispanic, etc.) because that character doesn't have any intrinsically ethnic background or characteristics in the games. Pedro just simply fit the part (his role as The Mandalorian/Din proved that enough I would say!) and was in my opinion a very inspired choice considering A LOT of people wanted Josh Brolin, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Hugh Jackman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Joel. Will never forget the onslaught of fan-art and FB posts I would see with those actors as Joel. So even though they've done great casting decisions with season 1, doesn't mean I need/should give them the benefit of the doubt with season 2. About the casting of Abby (Kaitlyn) I don't love that choice but I do understand it. She's a great actress and if she bulks up I think it'll work out. But I just can't get behind Isabela as Dina. I'm sure she'll do a decent job though at the very least. Just sad we could've had great Jewish representation with an actual jewish actress but aren't now.