FOR THE PEOPLE THAT PLAYED LAST OF US ....SPOLIER ALERT!!!!! THIS MY OPINION ABOUT THE ENDING A vaccine and a cure are quite two different things Mr Tassi, in The Last of Us it’s a vaccine, not a cure and I’ll explain, a vaccine would prevent infection by building an immunity against it, it’s basically a more docile infection without the whole turning into a crazy plant person and the body prepares against it, creating an immunity so if you were to be bitten by infected you wouldn’t turn, meaning the infection couldn’t spread any more. However a cure is much different, a cure would imply you could stop or reverse the changes the infection caused. This is quite an impossible task seeing the way the infection works, it corrupts the brain and the body with spores at a certain stage, the Clicker stage and past that would be a area none could return from bar a medical miracle. Although those stages couldn’t work, if you were to create a cure it would be able to work if the person was only recently infected but has yet to turn or perhaps even at Stage one: the Runner seeing as they’re not too far gone but the chances of reversing stage one is slim, all it could do is prevent one from turning. The thing attempted in The Last of Us is not a cure, but a vaccine. Such a thing is laughable though, a vaccine at this stage? After 20 years of the infection spreading and the Fireflies believe that would even do anything? A cure is not possible but a vaccine is viable. The usage of such would be heavily limited and basically useless so long after the outbreak, perhaps it could have turned the tide if it was created soon after the outbreak of the infection but at that point in time it wouldn’t do that much. How in hell would you even supply the vaccine anyway? The world has long gone to hell, with the remaining pockets of humanity (in game WHO article says 60%+ are either dead or infected at the time of publishing) scattered far and wide across the world, it would be quite the achievement to even supply it to residents in the USA with such a lack of resources and everyone too busy surviving, it’s purely a lost cause but the Fireflies have sacrificed too much to leave it at that and continue on attempting to create a vaccine at all costs fearing all the sacrifice would be in vain. I dare to attack your criticism of the morals of Joel: Since when have morals helped you survive? Here’s one in game example: After you get the car from Bill you drive for quite the time until you and Ellie see a person showing injury, assuming you are moral you would help the poor man, wouldn’t you? How kind of you! Until it reveals how it’s actually a trap used by bandits to kill people so they themselves can survive. In a time like this morality goes flying out the window and any attempt to retain it ends up in your death, to put it simply. Joel understood this, he changed from normal law-abiding citizen to a survivor willing to do anything to live and that’s why he survived 20 years after the outbreak. Ellie shows signs of a mental condition named “survivor’s guilt” through-out the game and especially at the end when she reveals Riley’s death, she feels guilt for multiple people, blaming herself for the deaths of Tess, Sam and Riley (all infected, Ellie’s fear when asked by Sam is not the infected but “to be alone”) even though it isn’t actually her fault she’s immune and they weren’t. Through-out the game she goes on about how it all can’t be for nothing and does show signs of actually wanting to live such as the part before they drowns telling Joel “after all this you can teach me how to swim” implying she and Joel (he also assumes it, he tells her “after all this I’ll teach you how to play guitar” but is met with silence, either this is because of her survivor’s guilt or because of the encounter with David as this level begins right after David’s death at the hands of Ellie) think it’s just going to be a blood sample and not surgery while she’s having conflicting emotions over what is the correct choice due to the mental condition, in a child survivor’s guilt is especially difficult to deal with obviously. In the end Joel saves Ellie from forced surgery (explained in a second) by having to kill the main surgeon as he threatened Joel by either stabbing him with the surgeon’s knife or you can choose to just shoot him if you want, the other two are optional but they are busy cowering, calling Joel an animal and being fearful for their lives. Joel escapes to the elevator carrying Ellie by running past multiple Fireflies and arrives in the hospital’s underground garage only to be greeted by a gun-pointing Marlene who goes on about “what if” scenarios regarding Ellie but then says “IT’S WHAT SHE WOULD WANT” showing Ellie didn’t actually give permission, it’s not wants but would want. You finder a few recorders by Marlene explaining however that her permission asked by the surgeons, Marlene or Ellie’s refusal wouldn’t achieve squat, they were mere formalities, they would go ahead with the surgery even if Marlene or Ellie refused. Joel then shoots Marlene after she started to lower her weapon, Marlene begging for her life causes Joel to hesitate until he says how she would “just come after us” as in she wouldn’t stop at getting Ellie back to attempt a vaccine, he then shoots her in the head, takes the car and heads toward Tommy’s camp, her death meant no Firefly pursuers – Ellie was finally safe. Do note Joel does indeed through-out the game soften to Ellie from where he only wants to get rid of her and get his payment to willing to kill and die for her, likening her to his dead daughter. On the outskirts of Tommy’s camp Ellie in another final burst of survivor’s guilt, confronts Joel about the Fireflies, about him lying saying how the Fireflies failed to provide a vaccine via testing on various other immune people but Joel lies again to console her, with Ellie seeing right through it. This action would cause the removal of most, if not all of the weight of survivor’s guilt from Ellie seeing as they can put some if not all of the blame on Joel. This is the end of Joel and Ellie’s story, them living out their lives in the relative safety of Tommy’s camp. There are 5 stages of infection: Runner, Stalker, Clicker, Bloater and finally the Spore Cadaver. All stages however can become the Spore Cadaver however and they don’t have to go through all stages of infection (you see a runner spore cadaver quite early in the game where Joel and Tess wonder where all the spores are coming from). The Spore Cadaver is the final stage, the infected find a dark corner and die, becoming a Spore Cadaver and spreading the spores in an enclosed area and therefore the infection. This is easily dealt with using gas masks when forced to confront such areas. At this point all mankind can do is survive like they have did before, rebuild society while hunting down the infected, eventually they all become the Spore Cadavers so a possibility is to wait it out then track the cadavers down and burn them. Where bullets fail, fire doesn’t. Fire is effective against the infected in general, even most so than bullets. So basically Joel is right, surviving, saving Ellie and all that. A vaccine is pretty much as useless as a vaccine can be, especially seeing as you would have to kill an immune person to attempt the creation of a vaccine with no promise it would work. Even if a vaccine worked the Infected do still exist, they just can’t spread it to those immune but they still are very much a threat. Supplying the vaccine to those that require it is a nigh-impossible task in that type of world so damaged. Everyone in the game is simply surviving, nor good or evil. When society falls so does morality. A sequel is a possibility but it won’t contain Joel and Ellie since their story is already told in this game sadly.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 20:55:38 +0000
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