Neil Druckmann really wants you to hate Joel Miller
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TL:DR - Neil Druckmann says Fireflies definitely could have produced a cure. And one of the arguments people used to defend Joel, was that the cure wasn't real. Found materials, in the game, through the hospital indicated that finding a cure was a longshot.
They had Joel, in the show, say that the cure would have definitely be made.
Now this is supposed to nullify the argument that Joel saved Ellie against a nebulous operation. It makes no difference to me, I think Joel was correct and trading lives is a dangerous thing to do.
Even if a cure could be made, logistics and supply chains are still fucked, not to mention most of humanity went feral. At best it'd be a plot MacGuffin for different warlords to fight over in an alternate universe's TLoU2.
Yeah them being able to "make a cure" is almost the least unlikely part of the step. At least for that they have doctors and an immune patient.
Them actually fixing anything even with one has always been the big "question 2" of why question 1 barely matters. Especially as their actions of "knock you out, take her without a word, and dump you" shows how morally fucked they already are, and likely will be worse once they have the only cure to abuse to their liking.
The idea that they would think it would be a good idea to kill their only source of fresh material is laughable and shows the writers did very little research into how these things are made.
With only the first game's lore, it was both implied or stated that they were mostly hacks. A bunch of almost terrorists holed up in a hospital with a guy who knows something medical, so clearly that made them doctors and researchers. You could find an item that said it wasn't even the first immune patient they got, and they butchered the previous one with nothing gained and were about to do the literal same procedure on Ellie.
Literally, with all information given both to the player and Joel, there is zero reason to trust they know what they are doing. They skip every single attempt to ingratiate themselves to instead be assholes, brutes, or rush something.
There is a reason why Part 2 had to spend a huge chunk of its runtime on flashbacks, because they were literally all necessary for the huge retcon needed to even remotely make it a "grey" choice, let alone the "correct" one Neil keeps trying to say.
It's twenty years after all the medical schools closed down. They were pretty much at witch doctor/medieval "bleed them with leaches" level of surgery.
Goofy Fireflies would have probably believed in some kind of wacky homeopathic nonsense where dropping a pinch of Ellie's brain in a bucket of water = cure.
From everything I've heard, the whole "they could definitely for real make a cure" thing is entirely post hoc, and does not match with what's actually presented in the game. It's just an example of a creator shitting on his own work because he doesn't like how people enjoy it, and should be ignored.
(And that's giving him full, possibly undeserved, credit as sole creator. I know they had at least one big name writer/producer depart, and I don't know how much that person may have worked on the original TLOU).
It doesn't even matter because the Fireflies are made out to be cartoonish villains on par with Nazis.
There is just about zero medical benefit to vivisection vs a minor biopsy or simple blood sample. and since immunity is mostly likely genetic the only real way to "save humanity" would be to breed Elly like a prize racehorse.
The entirety of TLoU2 and everything after it is Neil Druckmann is having an extremely Jewish meltdown over having accidentally wrote a story where the message is that White people need to have children.
Druckmann had Bruce Straley to tard-wrangle his Jewy excess in the first game.
You can tell Neil resented the goy for ruining his vision, seeing how Bruce didn't get any credit, not even an honorable mention, for the first season of The Last of Us show.
There are clues you can find in the game with the doctor talking about the low chances of finding a cure. It's not a definite smoking gun it wouldn't have worked, but it did become part of the debate surrounding Joel's actions.
I think the person you're talking about who left is Amy Hennig
Yes, Amy Henning. Thank you.
Lol Jewish man deems unethical experimentation on unwilling subjects is a moral imperative