Neil Druckmann really wants you to hate Joel Miller
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I always assumed the cure would have worked to some level. The whole point of the story was to grapple with the idea of choosing one over the many, so if they were just going to split Ellie's head open for no reason then it's not thought provoking at all.
The question is whether Joel saw enough worth in the world to give up his surrogate daughter's life, and the answer for him was NO. I'm fine with that.
The first one had some plausible deniability. The second part tho? It just sidelines the zombie stuff in favour of muh humans are the real monsters. Cuckmann inadvertently undid his own point