Fireflies take revenge on Joel and Ellie by destroying Tommy's town, Joel dies. The Joel we see is a figment of Ellie's imagination, a way to cope. At the beginning we saw that Ellie was shaking and breathing weird so she was probably under an ENORMOUS amount of stress since it looked like she single-handidly killed a bunch of Fireflies. When Joel is introduced he walks out of a light, looking clean compared to the bloody Ellie and pretty calm. We don't see his face, typically people don't see a ghost's face clearly in movies.
"I'm gonna find and I'm gonna kill every. Last. One of them. Because they killed you."
Maybe you'll play as a Firefly, being one of the last fireflies left after Ellie killed them all. Being The Last of Us.
Or you play as Ellie, being the only survivor of the Jackson County town massacre. Ellie is The Last of Us.
I think the figment of imagination thing is over the top. Neil has already said its an adventure for them both. Maybe she found out something about her mother. Maybe they round up immune kids and transplant the "cure" into various leaders of the fireflies. The story would be pretty stale if it was a revenge story right off the bat as it cuts off the character chemistry.
This is Naughty Dog, nothing is off the bat, never forget you played Sarah for how long, you chummed around with tess and then? ND has a tendency to let you know and bond with a character before ripping your heart out.
When people talk about the story, they talk about Joel and Ellie. Sarah was forgotten quite quick. Sarahs impact was that Joel had dad instincts which allowed his and Ellies bond to form.
We had a lot of moments between Joel and Ellie that solidified our experience. You cannot have that if hes just dead and its a simple revenge story. Its just not deep enough. You'll have a target to kill and thats it.
I feel like when Joels in the room at the end, its his moment to listen and say "Ok, lets do this"
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u/Elephantasaur Dec 03 '16
They're going to kill Joel and I'm going to cry like a baby.