That sort of segways into my newest take on The Last of Us, since I have to stay on brand Joel acted appropriately given his situation. Abby acted... excessively, but it's not really on her either The villain is Marlene.
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Like, Marlene woke Joel up and told him the truth bc she needed her conscience salved. (I'm not at all going to get into the "could they manufacture and distribute the vaccine" thing here, textually they could.) She absolutely should have known that would end as it did
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Ellie was willing to sacrifice herself; even if she wasn't, I think most people's moral systems would rationalize like Jerry would have But Joel didn't come all that way for guns. Nobody would walk across the continental United States with a kid to be paid in guns
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Marlene knew Ellie's safety was Joel's priority. The only ethical thing from her standpoint would have been to order Ethan (the guy Joel stabs to death to get Ellie's location) to administer a lethal morphine dose. Maybe even wake him up and say Ellie is fine as he dies
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That would have forestalled any chance of vengeance. Joel and Ellie would be dead, no one alive would be coming for them.
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But ultimately everyone else at worst acted excessively (Joel was probably excessive killing Marlene, and leaving her alive would have let Abby know the details and why it was a bad idea to take her vengeance in front of that particular redhead)
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Marlene already lied to Joel multiple times and knew Ellie would probably have to be killed, and if she thought for one second about Joel being there under those circumstances, she would have realized the vaccine depended on killing him
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Well Marlene wasn't really thinking "rationally" either, she's all messed up over it because she made that promise to Ellie's mom
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Like most people at war with their own conscience she has this pathological urge to externalize the conflict, to find someone else to speak in the voice of her own doubts that she can see and argue with It's the same reason Jerry bothers to ask for her permission
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