The hole in the ground is the microcosm of that, only 1 person there is immune, 1 person gets infected, the rest are ripped to bits as a result of their own actions.Ī vaccine would've saved sam but the fates of the rest would've been the same vaccinated or not and they brought it on themselves, the horde was thinned but in that encounter they eliminated a greater proportion of people than the people eliminated a proportion of theirs. You could lose every human we meet in tlou to the infection and you wouldn't even increase the number of infected in the us alone by a fraction of a fraction of a percent. The biggest issue with being infected is that the survivors lose a person who could help, them being a mushroom man is negligible in terms of how threatening the horde is as the horde is already billions strong and unless they become a clicker or bloater a bullet or blow to the head is all it takes. Like tommy and the gang are the example of what to do/where i'd want to go, people actually trying to do right instead of going cannibal bandit.Ī horde of infected is a horde of infected, a vaccine would help prevent infections if you survived it but the infected aren't there to bit and run, they're there to kill you so even if tommy's group is vaccinated a bullet is still the best thing they have to use against infected. Like for the story to work we have to assume the vaccine would 100% work and be able to be administered, and a vaccine would be nice, and would make going back to the cities more palatable, but even with a vaccine the infected are still an absurdly massive problem that you can really only deal with by waiting for them all to die out in a few decades/burn whats left.īeing immune just means you won't add 0.00001% to their numbers. Losing a doctor is bad, but they very much came off as people who didn't do good but intended to do good eventually, all it took was a miracle child for the people blowing up quarantine zones to have any kind of palatable goal. The fireflies have good end goals but like everyone else have become reckless and incompetent, bombing places, getting civilian casualties, wanting to kill joel who only lived thanks to marlene, personnel dropping like flies. The internal logic as joel is they want to kill ellie, which joel doesn't want so he kills them, his motivation is selfish but understandable, he doesn't care about the wider implications in the moment.įor me as a person/player/outside observer i do care about those things outside of the joel ellie dynamic and couldn't get past the portrayal throughout the game of the fireflies as anything but screw ups. It doesn't hold up as a narrative jumping-off point for a sequel.īut anyways, how did you guys feel about it? Are you excited for Last of Us Part 2 discourse: Electric Boogaloo? It's just now that it acts as the inciting incident for Last of Us Part 2 with that doctor being retroactively made into Abbey's father and thus igniting her quest for revenge against Joel. But I understand why it's used and shown that way in the original game and what it serves to illustrate that situation. I'm not a medical professional in a hellish apocalypse, but you gotta think about jumping straight to a child-killing surgery for a potential cure that may or may not work is kinda silly. (Marked Last of Us Part 2 spoilers ahead for TV Only people)īut, I will say, the doctor scene has only gotten worse with time. Also, having only a limited number of actors playing the fireflies is much better for showing what a terrible thing Joel was doing. The sound drowning out as a darker rendition of the guitar motif plays was a great touch. Secondly, I think the Hospital Scene was executed much better in the TV Show than in the game. Not a whole lot to talk about there but it's great to see them giving respect to the original VA like that. So, the last episode of season 1 just aired for the Last of Us TV Adaptation and I wanted to talk about it.įirst off, having Ashley Johnson come in and play Ellie's mother was a great choice. Marc Ecko's Getting Up - Contents Under Pressure.Friday Night Fisticuffs / Saturday Morning Scrublords. CSB 232 Discussion | WWFIO 012 discussion | Free Talk Friday 439
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