I think people confuse the Greek tragedy idea of "Humanity is doomed" with the idea of just portraying utterly depraved assholes who deserve what they get And of course the latter isn't really worth watching, and isn't, after all, a tragedyhttps://twitter.com/BootlegGirl/status/1272772172080132103 …
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Which, you know, is really obviously the point of TLoU1 The world is doomed and humanity is going to die BECAUSE we are the kind of species that is capable of loving another person so deeply we will sacrifice anything for that love
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BECAUSE we aren't all selfish garbage, BECAUSE the apocalypse hasn't completely killed off Joel's capacity to care If Joel were an amoral mercenary prick or a cold calculating rationalist or even just dumb muscle who enjoys killing, the ending would be different
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Well you don't want them to be *too* perfect and innocent because then it's just grotesque, not tragic - like Oedipus does have an anger problem, etc. But too shitty and then you don't feel bad when the bad things happen.
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