BraLoD said:
He was not going to kill Ellie, she was going to die so he could develop a cure. You don't go out killing a doctor for doing their job. It's like blaming a scientist for testing a vaccine/medicine, it's a process for a greater good, and Ellie wanted that herself. The second game makes very clear how impactful was that choice Joel made, not only for that person, but for Ellie and ultimately the world, which I don't codemn him for, he was trying to save Ellie even if it was only for himself, he wanted to keep a life he value a lot. Joel made an egotist choice and that had consequences, but in the end, like he said he would do that all over again, even as he saved a life in spite of many, a lot of us felt like he did what he should have done. Well, one person didn't, and here we got. That's the beauty of it, no matter what he did he would carry that burden for the rest of his life. The first game is beautiful and is his story, the second game shows the consequences of that, and even as its really sad, it is the consequences of the characters own acts. |
He was not going to kill Ellie, she was going to die so he could develop a cure.
>So was the surgeon just gonna lay Ellie down on the operating table and wait for her to die from natural causes or something? I don't understand. The process of developing the vaccine was going to kill her and fireflies were the ones developing said vaccine.
They were very much going to kill Ellie.
It's like blaming a scientist for testing a vaccine/medicine, it's a process for a greater good, and Ellie wanted that herself.
>I still maintain the fireflies were staffed by idiots. There's a real world example we can compare this to: the fight against smallpox.
Long story short, when inoculating people against small pox, a simple sample of cow pox, a less severe form of small pox, was all that was needed. The cow pox patient didn't need to die. Why does Ellie have to die?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqUFy-t4MlQ
Maybe I'm missing something, some portion where the science in TLoU is explained in more detail?..
