one day i'll strap a pedometer on

[sideways]

Me: I'm a fairly chill person when it comes to fandom stuff, it's fun but it's fiction and I- [sees discourse about the TLoU ending in the year 2023] [BURSTS INTO FLAME]

I don't actually think the world needs yet another essay on a video game ending that's been a source of ferocious analysis and debate for ten years now, but as I ruefully prop my aching feet up I have to concede that maybe just writing things down would be a better strategy than furiously pacing my hallway, arguing with strangers inside my head, for 45 minutes. Good grief.

(It's fine to debate the ethics of the choices made but the CONTEXT you have to couch it within the given CONTEXT.)

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[queenlua]

bahaha, i think i had a reaction pretty similar to you :D;;;; like, back in the day, i wrote my one fic for TLoU & got the heck out of the fandom, b/c the way Fandom At Large talked about the ending was just so... dumb, to me... so seeing it come back a FULL DECADE LATER was some weird kinda blast from the past. (some of the writing choices / changes the show made didn't help....!)

can't say i mind the surge in traffic my tlou fanfic got in response to the show, though, so there's that :P

[sideways]

Hah, yes, the old fandom should be getting a bit of a boost at least! Been a bit of that around with all the TV adaptations, for better AND worse.

I just. I get the desire to debate the ethics, I think it's normal and even an intended reaction, but it's not really a morality play? It's a story? About characters? The meat of it is understanding that neither Joel nor the Fireflies would choose differently (no matter what Ellie's opinion), and understanding WHY they would make these tragic choices, having walked the world with them. If you like and sympathise with Joel, good! That doesn't mean he has to be The Most Morally Right, and it's incredibly limiting to feel that's the only way his actions could be defensible. /preaching to the choir in lieu of throwing down with randos