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I tried my best to imagine these situations from the perspectives of different people within the story. That doctor had been part of a team desperately struggling with failure after failure to find anything close to a medical solution.
Remember when Ellie woke up later in the truck? "What the hell am I wearing?" I tried thinking of why the medical team would have prepped her for surgery without her knowing. I tried imaging why they would go ahead and rush into something this important basically ten minutes after she arrived. The conclusion I found most likely was that they had no idea how things were going to turn out and were just desperate for a chance to try something.
Odds work differently in the medical world than anywhere else. Anything above the certainty of death is considered "a good chance" in medicine. This makes anything the Fireflies said especially suspect and subject to paranoid hope to me. The doctor said the fungus in her mutated. Marlene said Ellie was immune. Ellie herself? She could breath the spores, which doesn't make sense if it was the fungus itself that mutated within her. There was something special about Ellie that made her immune, something you could almost certainly no replicate under laboratory conditions, and they just wanted to jump straight into necropsy? Even after that doctor's recording that said there was no fungal development in her brain? No part of that seemed to fit together for me and it just screamed of desperation.
Then, looking at it from Joel's perspective, why would he care if humanity found a cure? His entire life is a testament to the ugliness of human behavior. People cheat, exploit, suppress, murder, rape, and even eat each other when things get bad. People who dedicate their lives to helping people ultimately lose to fear and panic, and people die because of it. In a sick and sad way, things just make more sense these days for Joel. Decisions involving other people are easy now. Losing Ellie in exchange for going back doesn't balance out from Joel's perspective. There's nothing better about a larger world to him, and the most important thing he sees is giving the chance for a life in THIS world to someone he cares about.
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