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Topic	Was Joel justified in his actions? (Last of Us Spoilers)
Punished_Blinx 03/14/23 8:12:38 PM #121:	KogaSteelfang posted... Who says it doesn't travel throughout her system? There's enough in her blood to immediately trigger an alarm on one of those testers Fedra uses. Takes like 1 second to detect it in her system. It's not a brain scan, her cordyceps is unique, but it is all throughout her system. It simply didn't replace her flesh with its own, but it's still there. That alarm could be detecting the recent infection she was immune from. But yeah we don't know what those things are detecting. Likewise the dogs who were bred to detect infection didn't react at all to Ellie. KogaSteelfang posted... I'm not saying they're wrong. I'm saying they were desperate, and were making the worst possible decision that they could. Yes, they were stupid, but not wrong. Joel is the opposite. He made the right decision for the wrong reason. He was saving Ellie, but he actually saved the world's only hope. If investing her cordyceps is the only way, then David and his group were just as close to saving humanity as the Fireflies were. And any cannibal group has just as good of a chance as they did. >_> We'll see. If it is eventually determined that the cure is located from the cordyceps and not her blood than they weren't making the wrong decision. I don't think it's farfetched that they were able to determine there was nothing unique about her blood or saliva in the day and quickly figured out the unique factor was the cordyceps in her brain. Also David wanted to keep her around as a child bride. If they chopped up her brain and saw the fungus I'd doubt they'd eat it lol KogaSteelfang posted... Well, again, I don't think many people would like eating wiggling, wormy, tendriled food. It was processed into it so they didn't know. Like we can see the fungus grow all over the infected which is how they spread it. As soon as someone is infected we can see the tendrils start to grow and move. That clearly isn't happening with Ellie. If the doctors tested her saliva and blood and they're normal that pretty much rules that out as a cure. KogaSteelfang posted... Plus, by that logic all they'd have to have done is blow Ellie's brains out into some flour or wheat or something. Why the big journey to get her to a medical facility? Just for a scan to tell them that? It was all for nothing then. Any random cannibal or raider was just as close to making the cure as the Fireflies. They didn't know why she was immune until they did the tests on her in the hospital. It's possible they were aware of a possibility that a unique strain of cordyceps was the only way someone could be immune I guess. They also needed the surgeon to extract the cordyceps to keep it sustainable presumably. A random cannibal or raider would need to specifically crack her skull open to eat her brains and then risk eating the cordyceps to figure out that it was the cure and then also figure out how to grow it. --- A Fallen Mascot <cite>Punished_Blinx posted [p:972176662] in Was Joel j... [t:80378186]...</cite> <quote>KogaSteelfang posted... </cite><quote>Who says it doesn't travel throughout her system? There's enough in her blood to immediately trigger an alarm on one of those testers Fedra uses. Takes like 1 second to detect it in her system. It's not a brain scan, her cordyceps is unique, but it is all throughout her system. It simply didn't replace her flesh with its own, but it's still there.</quote>That alarm could be detecting the recent infection she was immune from. But yeah we don't know what those things are detecting.Likewise the dogs who were bred to detect infection didn't react at all to Ellie.KogaSteelfang posted... </cite><quote>I'm not saying they're wrong. I'm saying they were desperate, and were making the worst possible decision that they could. Yes, they were stupid, but not wrong.Joel is the opposite. He made the right decision for the wrong reason. He was saving Ellie, but he actually saved the world's only hope.If investing her cordyceps is the only way, then David and his group were just as close to saving humanity as the Fireflies were. And any cannibal group has just as good of a chance as they did. >_></quote>We'll see. If it is eventually determined that the cure is located from the cordyceps and not her blood than they weren't making the wrong decision. I don't think it's farfetched that they were able to determine there was nothing unique about her blood or saliva in the day and quickly figured out the unique factor was the cordyceps in her brain.Also David wanted to keep her around as a child bride. If they chopped up her brain and saw the fungus I'd doubt they'd eat it lolKogaSteelfang posted... </cite><quote>Well, again, I don't think many people would like eating wiggling, wormy, tendriled food.</quote>It was processed into it so they didn't know.Like we can see the fungus grow all over the infected which is how they spread it. As soon as someone is infected we can see the tendrils start to grow and move. That clearly isn't happening with Ellie. If the doctors tested her saliva and blood and they're normal that pretty much rules that out as a cure. KogaSteelfang posted... </cite><quote>Plus, by that logic all they'd have to have done is blow Ellie's brains out into some flour or wheat or something. Why the big journey to get her to a medical facility? Just for a scan to tell them that? It was all for nothing then. Any random cannibal or raider was just as close to making the cure as the Fireflies.</quote>They didn't know why she was immune until they did the tests on her in the hospital. It's possible they were aware of a possibility that a unique strain of cordyceps was the only way someone could be immune I guess. They also needed the surgeon to extract the cordyceps to keep it sustainable presumably. A random cannibal or raider would need to specifically crack her skull open to eat her brains and then risk eating the cordyceps to figure out that it was the cure and then also figure out how to grow it. --- A Fallen Mascot</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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