Really, the choice to have Tommy shot in the head in that situation and live is just a very odd narrative hole. Yes, people survive those injuries, but not when they've been left for dead with two other critically wounded people
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
I find it unlikely you could survive an injury like that at all without advanced medical care of the kind only the late Jerry Anderson was equipped to provide before some asshole killed him
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
(I like to headcanon that Jerry was in fact alive after that scene for a while but the only person qualified to save him was Jerry Like what happened to Joey's surgeon character on Friends)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Weird shit happens I guess though Phineas Gage and whatnot
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Like, it's just so transparently a shock thing. They clearly wanted Tommy alive not so much bc they weren't willing to kill him but to make Ellie "fall off the wagon" later, but they also wanted to make us maximally uncomfortable in the first boss fight
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So the solution - have Abby inflict what in game mechanics terms and also 99% of real world cases was a definitely lethal wound on a character we like before you have to control her fighting the lead character we like - was inconsistent with having that character around later
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
It was extremely cheap, especially because the whole point of making it a headshot and not a body shot is we're all used to people unexpectedly surviving those
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
(Hollywood fudges that too Like the reason a gut shot like in Reservoir Dogs is such a dishonorable move is that without IMMEDIATE medical attention it's a guaranteed agonizingly slow death sentence)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
(If the bullet opens up your stomach and your stomach acid starts digesting your other internal organs that's pretty much it for you, the damage is impossible to repair)
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I think also they wanted Tommy to be permanently disabled so that he couldn't go after Abby, and they knew a leg shot wouldn't even make the audience suspect he didn't survive even though it totally could kill someone. They really should've just not shown where the bullet hit
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And the idea that someone could indeed be permanently disabled from having their lung collapsed or something would take too long to explain, yes
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