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https://youtu.be/uLtkt8BonwM
Looks great.
The season finale ended with.....I dunno :wha:
It just felt 'off' the way they left it.
It also felt kind of rushed.
Glad it wasn't brutal in the same way as last week, though. Needed something lighter after that.
Now...the moral dilemma. Did Joel do what was right? Could you have sacrificed what, in essence, became his daughter, for something that may have been a cure? They thought it would work, but there was no guarantee that killing Ellie would have resulted in coming up with a cure.
As was pointed out in Star Trek, do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few? Or the one?
The right thing to do would been to have sat J & E down and talked it through. No moral dilemma there...they got what they deserved. :2cents:
But of course, now Joel has made the decision for not only the entire world, but also for Ellie. That's wrong as well.
Joel did what was right for Joel... and to an extent Ellie. I think if Ellie had heard the truth from the Fireflies, she probably would have considered sacrificing herself for the benefit of humanity. But Joel was acting in a selfish manner: He was empty because of the loss of his daughter, and traveling with Ellie healed his pain and opened him back up. He didn't want to lose that connection again. On the one hand, you feel for the guy, because you see his transition throughout the series, but on the other, if it was truly the right thing to do, then he wouldn't have had to lie to Ellie about what really happened.
Technically, the sin lies both with Joel and the Fireflies. Neither of them gave Ellie a choice and that's what really needed to happen. The Fireflies should have told her what was really going to happen and their real chances of success, and Joel should have let her made that decision for herself.