| Salnax said: I haven't played The Last of Us, but based on what I know of the scenario, I'd have insisted that the Fireflies waited until she woke up and asked her. She's supposed to be a fairly intelligent person. From my in-universe knowledge, I might suppose that she guessed that this would be necessary. That could be why she was quiet, especially if she didn't want me to know. Since that could be the case, I would permit her to decide and sacrifice her life if she deemed it worthwhile. |
It's not heavily focused but based on this rash decision and multiple call outs to the fire flies being hunted down in boston and even marlene losing a sizable group from her travel to the hospital, it's kinda clear that they are desperate. They've sacrificed so much and probably have done terrible, villainous things. The tapes that marlene leaves behind in the last level show how tired and worn out she is from being the leader of the fire flies and how they are becoming more desperate and skeptical.
I assume they did not want to risk the chance of ellie backing out from the procedure. It's essentially all they had to their name after all their loss. It kinda makes joel's decision more poignant, to me anyways. Are these people worth saving or the world as a whole? Will the cure actually bring peace or are we too far gone? Obviously, he wasn't thinking that far ahead during the saving of ellie but yeah.
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