TLOU III THEORY - there are things that wouldn’t make sense in this theory, but i just want to share anyways for fun.
so, naughty dog posted a thanksgiving post, and in it you see what i’m assuming to be the grass outside Dina and Ellie’s farmhouse, or it looks similar to grass in Santa Barbara. So tlou 3 announcement soon?
Anyways. At the end of tlou 1, Joel decides to save Ellie instead of making the cure, and kills plenty of fireflies in the process. So, there is no cure. We know that Ellie is angry about this, and she probably would’ve gone and found the fireflies herself to make the cure, had they still existed. Now, there’s a theory that Ellie might be the first playable character in tlou 3, and in tlou 1&2, the first playable characters have also been the first main characters to die. Stay with me. At the end of tlou 2, Abby and Lev find the fireflies again as they have started to regroup. So i believe that tlou 3 will possibly follow Abby and Lev and the reformation of the fireflies. What if they find a surgeon who is on the same level as Jerry, and they think they can make a cure. Abby knows that Ellie is immune, and maybe Ellie might hear rumours about the fireflies regrouping. Maybe this time, Ellie is willing to give her life for the cure, and no one is there to stop her. That’s basically my theory.
However, I don’t think this would actually work. Humanity and society are too far gone to go back. There’s no way people would willing want to go back to civilisation when they can do whatever the fuck they want. Also, communities like Jackson have a good thing going, why would they want to go back to the old world when they do perfectly fine on their own for free? Also, if a cure was made, then it would only work on those who had been bitten but not yet turned. I’m not sure how the cure would actually would but i’m assuming it would make them immune like Ellie. But it would not work on the already turned, like clickers and bloaters - as they’re just too far gone. So even a cure was made, then there would still be infected. ANOTHER point, is that the cure would not be distributed fairly. The fireflies would be the ones in possession of the fires, but i don’t think they’d willingly give the cure to, FEDRA for example. Or even if they did, then i’m pretty sure FEDRA would not just be handing out the cure to anyone and everyone. No. They’d just use it as another method of control.
Anyways, just thought it share my thoughts.