#and then you have last nights ep which allows bill to prioritise one person over anything else and celebrates it | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

jackietaylorsghost · 2 years ago

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also like don’t get me wrong i fucking loved that episode 10/10 will watch again and cry 7283 more times about it. BUT. they rlly said in that episode its okay to prioritise your person and do what you have to do to protect them above a wider community and the greater good you are deserving of a happy ending versus in the game where bill ends up alone as a result of his survivalist/isolationist tendencies even though the narrative of tlou2 punishes and villainises joel for doing the same thing and id argue even goes as far as to say he deserved to be brutally beaten to death for it

#like ofc he’s gonna pick ellie over anything else lmao she’s his world?#in reality ppl pick their ppl over other things like that’s life that’s love that’s community #(ellie and joel are a community albeit a very small one tho ofc that community grows in jackson)#even the surgeon can’t say that he’d do the same thing he wanted to do to ellie if it was his kid on the table #bcus of course he can’t #but joel is made a villain for it and u can’t pretend he wasn’t cus the narrative doesn’t defend his choice once #it doesn’t even allow him to tell ellie what actually happened in that hospital and defend himself #it just forces him to take it for two years #it makes ellie not speak to him for 2 years after everything they did to help each other survive including the events of left behind #which only affirms joel was in the wrong especially when you throw in the humanising of jerry with the zebra scene #like no he’s not a bad person he saves zebras!#and then you have last nights ep which allows bill to prioritise one person over anything else and celebrates it #but joel deserves to be brutally murdered for doing the same thing #smh #all that game does is punish joel lmaooooo especially through ellie which just. hurts so fucking much #anyway anyway #tlou1 #tlou2 #the last of us spoilers #im not trying to tag hate btw i just don’t wanna spoil any of it for ppl who haven’t played

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