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Last of Us will always live rent free in my head
If you don't think what Joel did at the end of The Last of Us was good and justified then you either have no soul or you are a naive child. The best argument you can have is that what he did was selfish, but that falls apart when you look at the Fireflies as a group and the fact that he wasn't doing it just for him, he was doing it for Ellie too. A 14 year old girl that couldn't have made that choice if she was awake, let alone unconscious. It draws some eerie parallels to the idea of child consent, although I definitely think the writers did that on accident.
I'm glad that, although Last of Us 2 kills him off and tries to paint him as the bad guy, it never assassinated Joel's character. He straight up says "if God gave me another chance, I'd do the same thing again." What an absolute Chad.
re: Last of Us will always live rent free in my head
Fungus targets those with insufficient immunity. A culling blade made of mushrooms. Given immunity boost to those who have no immunity would be a waste of time and effort.
The most effective thing for the fireflies to do is destroy cordie hives and stop attacking the military like retarded terrorists lead by a nigress. And to not act like villains against a childless father that de facto adopted daughter.
They signed their own death warrants.
It is more useful that Joel gets his daughter to raise than both to die for a nothing burger of a cure. The only cure to the fungus is to kill it where ever it amasses.
re: Last of Us will always live rent free in my head
@andreas well said. The fireflies are extremely incompetent at thy end of the day actually, and you see this throughout the entire game because they keep losing base after base. If I recall correctly, one of them was lost because they forgot to lock up a monkey they were doing tests on and it went crazy and killed everyone. Or something along those lines.
Not to mention, their guys knew exactly who they were looking for and still knocked out Joel while he was trying to save Ellie from drowning. Then they just kept her asleep and were going to prevent Joel from ever seeing her again. They 100% just saw her as cargo, as means to an end that they even admitted they weren't sure would even play out exactly how they wanted.
Not to mention, when they get the vaccine, how are they going to test it? On humans? What if it fucks them up and TURNS them?
Also, it's hella convenient that Joel happened to kill the ONE GUY who could come up with a vaccine. Who also was doing the surgery, who also saves animals from hunter's traps who need the food. These are supposed to be the good guys! Joel realized that they really aren't, they're evil and they're all shit at their jobs and organization. He did the right thing.
