it’s important to note that by saying I’m team joel I am not against saving the world. but I am against how the fireflies, a group of unorganized freedom fighters, handled the situation. “joel took away ellie’s choice” so did the fireflies! and the fireflies took away joel’s! with a gun against his back and a scalpel to his daughters head he truly thought he had only one option. I understand the cure was important, but they were rushing the surgery on a non consenting 14 year old. would she have consented if they asked? most likely bc she’s a traumatized child of an apocalypse who would want to do her part to save what’s left of the world. but it was HER choice to make. instead they put her under and planned to kill her in her sleep. not to mention the cordecyps are only alive when the host is alive. they should have done tests on her, studied her body’s reactions, scanned her brain. spent weeks going over the options with both joel & ellie awake. ellie was the ONLY person they’d ever seen with immunity and they were just going to waste their one opportunity with an unethical hack job? if you want to save humanity you need to act human in the process
