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Yes I completely agree!!! I understand where Ellie is coming from, she had such intense survivors guilt, and It doesn’t help that every time she tried to get him to tell her the truth he kept lying. But 2 years just felt so excessive. After everything they’d been through- the bond they had?? Just thrown out for two years.
Like she lived in his back yard. I know they saw each other all the time. It hurts so much to know that Joel missed out on her life for years. She was his second chance and he had to watch from a distance. And the show is going to hurt so much more since he opened up to her about the suicide attempt after Sarah.
At the University (in the game) Ellie starts asking Joel about how they’ll make the cure. It’s pretty obvious she has no clue how science/medicine works. I wish someone would’ve explained to her how hard making vaccines actually is. By getting rid of the only immune person they would’ve had no extra evidence to test
I have so many thoughts anon
first, we shake hands!! 2 years does seem excessive! especially with the fact they still live near each other! like, yes, I totally get being mad at him due to her survivors guilt, but 2 years?? you live in his backyard. surely you could've had a conversation? even though he did brush her off every single time. which could've been why it was 2 years, honestly. maybe ellie didn't want to be mad at joel for that whole time, but he kept brushing her off and lying to her. mmmmm more to think about.
yeah! I'm so very worried for season 2 because of the p a i n. I live in constant fear for how it's gonna play out. cause show joel and ellie are so much closer? at least it seems that way, because he did open up to her about his attempt and then let her know that she is what healed him ("it wasn't time that did it" EUEUEUE). so I'm hoping he'll let her know what really happened, but the creators like to stick closely to what actually happened, so the hopes are not that high. but! if he actually told her? I can see her forgiving him before he dies. totally. she'll still hold a resentment for him, but there'll be some forgiveness. and for him missing out on things? don't get me started, it makes me so sad. he missed her being with cat, probably missed the whole burning and tattoo as well*, and her becoming friends with jesse, and then her with dina D: I need the conversation between joel and ellie about dina. *he probably didn't entirely miss out on it, but he definitely didn't know about it until it happened.
and yes! she doesn't know how it works :( I hope someone explained it to her. maybe someone at the clinic. that way, she knows they are being truthful about what that process actually is. (and I think they briefly discussed it in the show, too! I think it was around the campfire because she tried to use her blood to heal sam). like, if joel had just told her what happened and it was still bugging her, she could've gone to one of the people at the clinic and asked what the actual process to getting a vaccine is. maybe don't even ask them, just try to find a book about it cause I'm sure there's at least one in the library. hopefully.
and mmmmmm killing off the only immune person?????? for a POSSIBILITY. there's no redo if you fuck it up. if you somehow contaminate the "samples," you can't take more and try again. you are killing the only immune person. the only person in 20 years. no one knows how she's immune. the fireflies have no way to know what makes ellie different. we, the show viewers, can take guesses, but we still don't even know. is it because anna was bit when delivering ellie? is it because anna cut her umbilical cord with infected blood? or is it a third thing, like there's something in anna's blood that somehow made ellie immune? but even with all those possibilities (the last one is very doubtful, I know), we still don't know, for sure, what made ellie immune. there's no way in hell the fireflies knew. so to kill her off? presumably without taking blood or anything else? just taking a scan of her brain and deciding to take it out? that is such a huge risk. and also????? did they really think about what making a cure would mean? how would they start civilization back up? none of the buildings are safe anymore, but the equipment to make them safe is very hard to get to and also the gas isn't good anymore. and did they stop to think about how the people are? how fedra higher ups are full of themselves and how no one is trustworthy or that trusting of others anymore? there are too many variables at play, and then to not be sure it would even work???
just saw someone calling hawks a murderer for what happened to twice. either they’re forgetting twice killed people too or hawks doesn’t get the trauma justification that the villains do.