On a serious note regarding #TheLastOfUs . I’m not sure even the creators understand the significance of Joel’s choice. By refusing to sacrifice Ellie for humanity/vaccine, he didn’t compromise his humanity — he solidified it. He proved that humanity wasn’t gone.
If we get to the point where we are willing to kill children for the hope of a better world, then we have lost our humanity, and there is no point in developing a vaccine because the essential thing that makes us human is gone.
And if we are willing to kill our OWN children for that world??? We are truly depraved and beyond hope. Humanity is about balancing the needs of the collective with the individual. When the collective demands innocent blood, we cease to have humanity.
There is no difference between David and the cannibals and Marlene. Both think that the flesh of children is an acceptable price to pay for survival. Both choose to ignore Ellie’s humanity and use her for their own purposes. Both see themselves as righteous leaders
That’s why it’s very significant that after David, Ellie goes to Marlene. It is one assault after another. One to feed a man’s desires and (literally) his starving people and the other to restore a pre-pandemic world.
And in many ways, this is reminiscent of how Sarah died, yes? Shot by a soldier who assumed she was infected and decided that the good of humanity was more important than her life.
Tbh this is where I actually see the Zionist thought behind all this. The fact that Joel saving Ellie is seen as “complicated” rather than a triumph shines through in the comments the creators wrote TBH. And what is notorious for thinking sacrificing children is “complicated”
The fact that the show assumes this is a moral exercise that we will debate says a lot about the underlying politics of the show itself. The fact that Joel’s choice is supposed to be conflicting, that we’re supposed to sympathize with Marlene… yes I am seeing the Zionism tbh
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