I've discussed this with a friend who's also a big fan of the series, and we're of the opinion that you could do a Left Behind style DLC about whatever the fck Tommy was up to for most of Seattle which would have flashbacks to explain what made him and Joel so fcked up
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @TinFoilHat13
People keep forgetting, in the wake of all the eulogizing for him in 2, that Joel was such a horrible person that Tommy voluntarily cut all ties with him by the time 1 starts despite their blood relationship and everything they've been through
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Yeah. When you think about it, there's really no other way it could have ended for Joel. Ellie and the audience may have liked him, but he was an objectively bad person and he was always gonna get what was coming to him, one way or another.
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A lot of fans get really mad at Joel and Tommy letting themselves get fucked over by Abby's crew, saying that the Joel we got to meet in TLoU 1 would never have been so trusting But I mean that's the point isn't it It's his own denial of the past that gets him
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Replying to @arthur_affect @beetlefella101 and
TLoU 1 Joel would never have fallen for such an obvious trap, would never have let himself get surrounded like that, would never have carelessly let his real name slip Because TLoU 1 Joel was *aware that he was a shitty person who had made countless enemies*
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Replying to @arthur_affect @beetlefella101 and
And his constant paranoia and need to treat everyone like a potential enemy and hairtrigger fear driven instincts were badly wearing away at his soul He could barely stand living like that anymore, he and Tess needed to goad each other into sticking with the program constantly
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Replying to @arthur_affect @beetlefella101 and
Troy Baker IIRC said he was certain he was gonna nail the audition because he was certain he grasped something about Joel the other dudes who wanted to play him as an action movie badass didn't get Joel at the beginning of 1 is very, very close to giving up
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Replying to @arthur_affect @beetlefella101 and
The only thing he has that makes him not want to just lie down and let the spores get him is his relationship with Tess and even that is starting to wear thin She pokes hard at that sore spot when she screams "What do you know about 'us', about me"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @beetlefella101 and
The ending of 1 is him deliberately choosing not to be that guy anymore, shedding that skin because he can't stand to wear it one more day His life in Jackson is about this desperate need to go back to being the decent guy he was pre-zombies and pretend that's who he always was
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Replying to @arthur_affect @beetlefella101 and
Which, tragically, is exactly why the scenario in 2 is inevitable The new Joel is no longer the "survivor" he used to be and that means he will not survive If not Abby's crew then some other chickens coming home to roost
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(Ironically this itself goes back to the ending of 1 The old Joel would've prioritized wiping out 100% of the Firefly compound, leaving no survivors to become loose ends But he didn't do that because the whole point was the priority was saving Ellie)
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