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  The only problem with this opinion is that it's dumb as fuck. 
  
  Fireflies were terrorists with no way of manufacturing or shipping the vaccine. 
  Killing Ellie would not under any circumstances have resulted in a cure. You would keep her alive as long as possible and test the ever living fuck out of her bloods and tissues. 
  The fireflies promised Joel guns in exchange for him and Tess taking Ellie only a short distance. By the time they arrived in Salt Lake it was a year later and the was no guns in sight. On top of that, they disarmed him and were going to send him out into the wild with no gear. That was a death sentence in itself. 
  The whole showed you what humanity had become. A vaccine wasn't going to save shit. The way to save the human race was not by killing a 14 year old girl, it was by following the example of Tommy and Marie. 
  Ellie was never given a choice. They didn't even wake her up to ask her, they were just another set of monsters trying to kill her for their own needs. She wasn't even in the door a half hour and they were trying to cut her head off. 
  If you bothered to read or listen to any of the tapes, you would know that the fireflies were incompetent as fuck. They couldn't even be trusted with a bunch of monkeys. 
  
  I don't know how anyone plays that game and comes to the end of it thinking that Ellies life is worth what's left of the human race.
context: You are absolutely correct. But Joel saw her as a daughter and as a father myself I'd have made the same choice. >
  
  Well yeah, he knows he's wrong. But deciding to leave her to die would have been extremely out of character for Joel. >
  
  Hey, you identified the whole point of the game. Good job! >
  
  Even Ellie agrees with this opinion. >
  
  Humans at the end of the day are selfish in nature. What is a cure when you have to let someone you care about die. I honestly don't think I could just turn a blind eye and let someone close to me die and many who say they would i would bet they would choose differently in that scenario. There was also no guarantee a cure would have been found. >
  
  What a spoiler of a title >
  
  It was released nearly ten years ago. >
  
  But the show just released it's second episode tonight. Lots of new fans that likely don't know the ending yet. >
  
  Oh, kinda forgot that show existed.  
  They're not actually basing it that closely off the game are they?
  That's bit of the risk of watching a show version of an old major game innit?  The plot points and what characters die before the end is already public knowledge. >
  
  I mean I know what happens but my wife doesn't, and I only have seen the first episode and so far it's very faithful to the game.
  They definitely spent a little more time letting you get to know Sarah before the inevitable happens though. Pedro Pascal is playing Joel and honestly I'm already hooked.
  It's being co-run by Druckmann who of course made the games and Craig Mazin who did that Chernobyl series. >
  
  That was the whole point.