Nah, humanity was fucked well before Joel made his choice. I would hazard that’s why he made his choice. Curing cordyceps doesn’t fix what’s wrong with humanity, and that’s the bigger plague at this point. 

This. Ellie didn’t consent, even if she did tell Joel she wanted to see it through earlier. Without full knowledge of what that means (ie: her death), she cannot make an informed choice or give consent. And like you, I wasn’t nearly confident enough in Marlene’s theory of the “cure” to sacrifice a child for it. (Plus,…

When Marlene gave Joel that speech about how it’s what Ellie would have wanted, I really wanted him to say, ”Why didn’t you ask her?”

What a strange complaint. “I heard this show was a zombie show. How dare they not include the number of zombies I require?”

A little element of the game that was left out in the show: there were a dozen other dead kids who had been experimented on and they were all killed by the Fireflies. Even in the show, they didn’t seem to bother with MRI’s or testing if the gene could be passed down. It made Joel’s decision a lot more justified.

I liked Marlene’s speech at the end, although it’s a bit ironic since she didn’t ask Ellie either what she wanted (although she’s not wrong that Ellie would probably go through with it). Marlene misjudges Joel until the very end, to her doom.

Personally - and I’m not saying people who thinks otherwise are wrong, mainly because it’s impossible to objectively ascribe “right” or “wrong” labels to such situations - I would have made the same choice Joel made, and would sincerely believe I was right, as I believe Joel was. Let me explain this.

The fireflies got what they deserved. Joel protected someone close to him. It’s incredibly simple. Sure, Abby might not have liked it, but that is the thing with conflict : There are always two sides with families. You fight for yours.

I think the idea was that they were more of a threat twenty years ago. There are still infected out there but they are less common now. Now the problem is society is fucked and other than in minor settlements the only source of authority are military dictatorships or revolutionary ones that seem to be more or less the…

Zombies weren't a threat in the game...they were just a nuisance...the humans were the threat

I havent played the game. I was kind of aware of how it ended before hand.

There have been so many moments in this series between Joel and Ellie, in their long road to build trust, even love. But that scene between them:

Honestly at this point I don’t trust GameStop to be open tomorrow. My son got a gift card for there for Christmas and I was dragging him there on the 26th to spend it because I didn’t trust them to be in business in the 27th

“Look, I can accept fifty-year old babies, robots with New Zealander accents, and literal magic binding the universe together (complete with ghosts!), but a creature named ‘a Mythosaur’? Please. That’s just ridiculous.”

1000% this - All the High Fantasy stuff in Clone Wars was straight from George.

Just as long as we don’t see any ancient Jedi temples with magic powers that extend far beyond anything ever seen in regular Star Wars stories (Filoni’s most frustrating trope), I’ll be okay.

The AV Club, breaking down the gender binary one typo at a time.

The take that the show is more explicitly showing some character details than the game? That’s pretty apparent fact.

There is one possibility for a big infected scene left...but the main antagonists in the game were the humans

I think the point is that it’s not a zombie show.  Even the games, you fight and kill far more humans than you do infected overall.