Would you save Ellie?

[GribbleGrunger]

Spike0503 said:

GribbleGrunger said:

Why do you feel it's necessary to justify what Joel did? There was NO choice. This wasn't a story about saving humanity, it was a story about the road to redemption and Fatherhood. Joel just did what any Father would do and that's it. There's nothing beyond that other than the question of whether the lie was the right thing to do. 

The OP asked a question. You are supposed to put yourself in that situation and make the decision based on your own views. The Last of Us was about all those things but this question you have to answer knowing all the information available. That's the way I choose to answer it and justify it. Do you have a problem with that?.

What I have a problem is people changing the theme of the story in order to justify accusing Joel of being selfish. When I answer the question, I answer in line with the narrative and the narrative is that Joel is a Father and made a Father's choice. To suggest he should have considered saving humanity over saving his daughter is both irrelevant and insane. If that WAS the narrative it would have been cliqued, something a young person would write because they think they've cornered the market in virtue. They think it's 'deeper' to think in those terms but it's much 'shallower' than to consider the complexities of humans and how relationships change over the course of our lives. These things take 'experience', the other takes just five minutes of listening to the contestants in a beauty pageant.