forevercloud3000 said:
To be perfectly honest, I can't say I don't agree with Marlene's actions. Many of those children with Bombs strapped to their chest in the middle east did not elect to be a weapon in someone else's war. It was something completely out of their control. Very similar to the fact Ellie had no say in being the key to the "cure". Nevertheless, they become the means to a end. They remain an obstacle to a rather dire goal. It is all very Grey and I don't think you can idealogically fault either side. Both were attempting to do some level of good. Which in turn, I love in this story because one of the biggest issues I have with villainy in most games is that they are evil just because. Any real villain doesn't believe they are so, and through some method they are the good guy in THEIR way of thinking. |
Yeah it is very grey; but If you see the whole world as an ecosystem; if people really want to get through these hard times; people also need to work together instead of fighting with each other. Just because the find some kind of vaccine wont make the whole world to be sugar and rainbows. People kill, steal, and distrust each other; and a vaccine wont make that change. Is people that needs to try to work together; and if they do; they will prevail; with vaccine or not.
Also there is no guarantee that the vaccine will work; first you need to do a medical trial in which you will require a lot of dudes with the vaccine to get exposed to the cordiceps; and if everything goes well; you might have your vaccine or it could be an EPIC fail.
The funny thing is that Ellie is not inmune; but it is the cordiceps in her mutated in a way that in does not kill the host. So in reality they just need a bit of the fongus in her brain (in order to make it grow); and not the whole thing, which would kill her.
With my medical knowledge that is my point of view. Maybe ND required a better epidemiologist/infectologist/medician as advisor; OR I completely missed the point in those audio logs you find in the game ;).
