I don’t think after 20+ years into that post apocalypse many people are thinking about saving humanity. Life has become survival for you and those you care about.

Yes, people have gone insane. Joel is insane.

"The Last of Us"

I’d like to think I would’ve done the same as Joel

Deplorable

What if not Ellie but Ezra

Thought about that. I would expect other people to sacrifice their child to save humanity potentially and so I also expect it for myself

Father of the year

I wouldn’t sacrifice my dog to save humanity. Sorry dudes

Would B sacrifice e his PJ Funko Pops if they possessed the cure?

Yeah. Humanity’s doomed

Any parent would have and Wease explained it quite well on the previous page. "We think if we cut out your kid's brain and extract fungus that we magically know is there, we will be able to use the equipment in this filthy hospital to safely replicate it, even though no one in the world is biologically identical to her and we have no idea what will happen once it's out, and save the world... and uhhh totally not abuse that power to take over"

I wouldn’t even think about it that deeply. “Your kid might hold the cure but she’d have to die. Any questions before we take her to surgery?” I wouldn’t even try to process anything, I’d go right into beast mode

Is anyone going to point out that Joel isn't her dad but a guy who's only known her for a few months and violates her trust to selfishly use her as a stand-in for his actual daughter

I don’t think it’s entirely selfish at all. She repeatedly communicates that life as an orphan sucked and that Joel has filled a void in her life. His sense of responsibility towards her is a 50/50 proposition.

kind of a weird point there, I would have thought you would be more down with the concept of a “chosen family”, and well kids do get adopted and those parents do love them. Maybe the response could be why do you think a traumatized child can consent to a fatal medical experiment?

I don’t see how this is in conflict with what I said? Feels like a continuation of my point

He was talking to me!

In my view Joel is not Ellie's adoptive parent either, though he manipulates her pretty monstruously into that position

guys, seems Joel has been trough a lot.
His motives might be a little too fucked to be relatable.

Joel’s a psycho and also not very intelligent. There are other ways to save her besides mowing everyone down, but this show is based on a video game, so here we are. This last point is why the show will never be great - it should use the game as inspiration for the world creation and main plot points, otherwise deviate greatly, but it doesn’t.