re: The Last of Us S2 E2 | Through the Valley | NO GAME SPOILERS/DISCUSSION

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it was murder,

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yes

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for no reason

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oh, he had a reason, a very good one, morality aside

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oh, he had a reason, a very good one, morality aside

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I remember being shocked that he capped the doctor in the head. I need to watch it again. Anyway, he could have left the doctor alive it wasn’t necessary to kill him

So pulled up the scene to rewatch it.

Joel asks the doctor to unhook Ellie. The doctor picks up a scalpel and tells Joel no. Joel shoots him in the head. The two nurses/assistants in the room unhook her, Joel makes them turn around, and leaves.

I think it was as simple as the doctor picked up his scalpel and refused in close quarters, so Joel instinctively eliminated the potential threat. He didn’t have time to frick around with some guy who was going to fight him over Ellie. Not when he was technically outnumbered in the room.

YouTube of Joel hospital scene

yes you’re right about the scalpel I had forgotten that but still…a fatal head shot wasn’t warranted there. Anyway, the point is Joel knew what he did was unforgivable and when abby had him pinned you could see it in his face that he knew whatever she was going to do, he had it coming

the doctor was not a threat in any way that justified what he did. He could have easily used non lethal means

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as someone who uses a scalpel everyday, i assure you he was.

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Joel was armed and at a safe distance and he was also twice that dudes size LOL

you know what they say about bringing a knife to a gunfight

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Joel was armed and at a safe distance and he was also twice that dudes size LOL

you know what they say about bringing a knife to a gunfight

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I am killing him and I will explain why.

1. Every second I spend dealing with the trio of allied healthcare professionals lowers Ellie's and my chance of getting out of there alive. I don't have time to waste subduing and restraining him and potentially the scrub nurses. It well could be me or them, I have the advantage and I ain't giving it up.

2. I am not wounding him that is a tenant of carrying a deadly weapon. If you chose to use it you kill. Closing with him even if it requires a lucky strike I could be laying in the floor bleeding out from a punctured femoral artery.

3. I stopped him from murdering what is effectively my surrogate daughter, and even if I don't admit i,t her safety is in my charge. By setting aside his morals (I assume) and his ethical duty, even for some seemingly Utilitarian pursuit, he clearly eshewed those tenets of his former world. I am just meeting him in the mental world he has accepted.

4. He raised a deadly weapon to me, and said, "I won't let you take her." Sorry doc you chose the fight I just ended it. We ain't in Kansas anymore, everyday is life or death. I got shite to do and places to be and don't have time for your shenanigans. I can't safely, quickly and effectively deal with three people, any one of which could go rouge and kill Ellie and make my efforts moot. Plus, while I am disarming him one of the nurses could come up behind me and hit me with a big fat syringe of milk of amnesia.

So know the protagonist and the antagonist are two unattractive females? The first season was good but I don’t see myself watching it anymore.

She looks nothing like that on the show.

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know the protagonist and the antagonist are two unattractive females? The first season was good but I don’t see myself watching it anymore.

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Upset you cant jerk it to Pedro anymore?

Well her Abby certainly looks better than the game version at least.