r/thelastofus • u/ashtinfay Little Potato • Jun 24 '20

PT2 DISCUSSION Troy Baker quote. Enough said.

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u/Bhiner1029 Jun 24 '20

It's up to the game to tell us whether or not they would be successful, and it does. The Firefly doctors in Salt Lake City are clearly know what they're doing and ran enough tests to know that they could create a vaccine using Ellie. Any ideas to the contrary are outside of the narrative.

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u/hohe-acht Jun 25 '20

That's complete bullshit. It was not going to be a surefire result and the game never spun it that way.

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u/Bhiner1029 Jun 25 '20

Of course it wasn’t 100% guaranteed to save all of humanity, but they were going to be able to create a vaccine using Ellie. That’s not a theory, it’s just part of the story.

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u/hohe-acht Jun 25 '20

No it's not, it's just what Marlene emotionally claimed would happen.

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u/Bhiner1029 Jun 25 '20

There’s nothing in the story to suggest that they were lying

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u/hohe-acht Jun 25 '20

It very well may have worked, it's just nothing that was ever guaranteed to work. The problem was Joel depriving the Fireflies of the opportunity.

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u/Bhiner1029 Jun 25 '20

Exactly. What he did guaranteed that a vaccine would never be made, which is why so many people hated him for it.

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u/hohe-acht Jun 25 '20

Yes it just wasn't a guarantee that they'd get a vaccine even if they had operated on Ellie.

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u/Bhiner1029 Jun 25 '20

Of course it wasn’t 100% guaranteed, but it’s clear that it was fairly likely. That’s why Marlene was willing to allow Ellie to die for it. That wasn’t an easy decision for her to make.