iâm going to word vomit all my thoughts about the wild life finale here and itâs going to be incoherent until it stops consuming every corner of my mind and i sit down and organize my thought đ¤đź until then enjoy my raw unfiltered thought processes
he won by going against the mechanic !! he remained calm and rational and never died to a single wildcard !!! all of his deaths were by people not the mechanic !! the game did not win joel did !he did not go absolutely insane and give in the red haze and he won !!! by not doing what the game wanted !! which means the only curse not broken this season was the winners curse !!!
at every single point in the series everyone is collectively trying to kill joel because he just wonât seem to die but joel is absolutely convinced heâs made friends and is just happy to have friends this season and keeps giving people stuff and then they TRY TO KILL HIM and fail and he DOESBT EVEN NOTICE
and then they die trying to kill joel and he gives them diamonds !!!
joelâs pov by itself is so funny because heâs just a guy in his car with his family having a great time !! and then you watch everyone and itâs like oh. joel is the common enemy here- everyone used gem keeping him cool to their advantage. they used his trust and took whatever joel would give them and blew up his car and stole from him and every time he forgave them everyone turned around and just began plotting against him again. the only person he had was gem who gave her life so many times to the people who betrayed joel anyways. because gem never died to a wildcard and no one every actually got a kill on her, all her lives were lost either by a mob or she let someone take her life so they could gain one (like jimmy, skizz, mumbo) and then at the end joel has survived and he believes he still had friends (jimmy scar & lizzie , etho , grian ) so he goes to them one last time to try and gear up and protect everyone from the Gâs who were the longest standing alliance and had the most people, and all the people who he thought were his friends only tried to kill him when he turned his back
and he still won !!!!! it was him and grian against the whole rest of the server and grian was just using him !â gem was gone and joel couldnât stay calm anymore because he couldnât go back to gem when something happened!! so grian stroked joelâs ego and told him he could win and let joel fight everyone and take the rest of the server out and when he did joel went looking for grian and said something along the lines of âgrian we did it!â only to turn around to grain shooting at him which makes sense of course but then when you go watch grianâs episode you see then grian has been trying to snipe joel the second every one else was dead but just kept missing and he started panicking g because he couldnât make the shot and then tried being friendly with joel again
heâs literally THE wild card ! through every series he is aggressive and unpredictable and dangerous and of COURSE the game he wins is when the game starts being aggressive and unpredictable and dangerous but who knows that game better than joel? he beat the game and its own mechanic!!
he is also the only happy winners pov weâve had!!! every other winner won in a moment of grief and betrayal and anger and in joelâs eyes he won through persistence and staying with his family (which is both dramatic and situational irony because he didnât actually. he won by clawing his way through what everyone expected of him and everyone else being so blinded by their rage instead of him. he saw all his flaws in past winners and all his past lives and everyone in this season and said no that will not be me this time) joel was also the only winner fighting without a cause. he was just there for the fun of it. for the mindless violence. he never lost anything because he played the game well. his car got blown up but it was always an easy fix. he didnât pay any mind to his broken alliances so he had no time or knowledge to feel grief or betrayal for them. he and gem were together until the end and never betrayed each other every other winner fought for a person (grian fought against and for scar, scott won by seeking revenge against ren for killing pearl, scott blew himself up in double life so that pearl wouldnât have to fight anymore, martyn went on a rampage when ren was killed, scar was completely alone and fought for himself and his survival because he had nothing and didnât even realize when pearl had died) joel is just. in it for the rush- he has no reason for the violence and nothing to loose and nothing to gain
joel is the only winner whoâs final death wasnât in grief either. his final death was meant to be a trap he set up that he never got to use and he ran to it at the end laughing and excited and it failed. the trap failed- and he lived and laughed and ender pearled around until he died. and i saw one post in passing that was like âthe server took care of himâ and it DID. itâs like this game was perfectly crafted for him- because of course joel wouldnât die do something as chaotic and unbalanced as the wild cards. who would joel be to die to something he understands so well and channels in every move he makes? he thrives in the chaos and watchers saw him and choose him
grian had a LOT more control in this season than previous because of th wild cards and itâs feeding my watchers symbolism. he is trying to take the reins of the games from the watchers and reduce the violence and grief his friends have to go through so what to do the watchers do? they take his power away. heâs still in control on the wild cards of course, but how well can they work when the watchers are guiding a wild card of their own? and then skizz and mumbo both died due to joel (both indirectly- they died on the tower while trying to get more lives using the minecart trap) and in the end the only person grian is left with is joel who somehow managed to twist every wild card to his advantage and never made as much a misstep this season. ans grian has been too cocky this season, almost playing god with people coming to him for information about the wildcards and how to survive them. and in the end grian does exactly what the watchers wanted anyways and guides joel to victory despite still trying to ruin their game to the very last second and become the first two time winner
anyways thatâs all GOOD JOB JOEL !!!! MY WINNER !!! FAST CAR FOR THE WIN