Well this was the one thing about TLOU Part 2 I had spoiled for me before the first season even came out so I have no idea what happens now.
Heart wrenching that Ellie had to watch that happen in real time. I'd imagine Dina would be her first lead as she saw their wolf logo.
Interesting that Abby's group all had different reactions to what Abby was doing/did. I'd imagine that will be relevant later.
Didn't actually know the doctor was Abby's dad when I had that spoiled for me. (I mean honestly, people had zero restraint when that game came out. I saw that spoiler at least three times without looking for it and without warning around the internet.) knowing that now, the killing makes sense. What Joel did, looking at it in black and white, is awful. And potentially catastrophic for humanity. But knowing this reasons, it's at least understandable. So when I see Abby's group so close to Jackson Hole I'm left wondering, are they really trekking this far and through these conditions just to punish Joel? Knowing the doctor was Abby's dad...I mean it still seems like a huge risk to life and limb to help Abby but at least I can see why they'd want to help a squadmate get revenge. As for Abby, totally understandable why she did what she did. Joel reaped what he sowed in the end. Having the full context I really don't get why fans of the games were so upset but maybe the game played it differently. I'm sure there will be some wider story/theme about how harmful revenge is, but all this was was Joel's choice having fatal consequences.
This is a minor gripe because the infected attack on Jackson Hole was an insane spectacle, but why did all those infected wake up at once? And how did they all know to run towards the city? As far as we've seen, the infected reacted to noise as an indicator for the presence of uninfected humans while regular infected can see them but still, it's not like when Joel and Ellie would pull up to a new city or town, the local infected just swarmed as a hivemind and detected them from distance. This attack involved a huge swarm of infected, as a unit, running a great distance together to attack the main gate of the city. I'd assume this happened in the game too so I'm wondering why they're bending the rules of this world this way. And on top of that, maybe I misunderstood something from Season 1 but isnt the whole thing with this fictional mutated strain of cordyceps that it thrives in warm conditions? Like sure maybe there's still climate change in the world but you have a swarm of infected go from inert to a hive mind attack and a huge chain of the fungus living in the pipes in the middle of what they show pretty clearly is a cold ass winter. Did the fungus evolve again? Cause if it can survive under any condition and getting a cure from Ellie is impossible, then humanity here is just f***ed. Top to bottom. Short of living on boats and subsisting on fish, I don't see how humanity, in a place like JH, can hope to survive and the odds were minimal to begin with. Like is that..the point? Bleak human stories in between humanity's final breaths?
