He's a great character, but he's an awful awful person

Many of these chuds seem to hero worship Joel. Is it just worshipping the cult of violence and vigilante justice?

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    He hates the world and wants to protect his surrogate daughter and improve his relationship with her, which also represents his last remnants of humanity.

    From a parental viewpoint, I don’t think I would’ve done anything different from TLOU 1 Joel, maybe aside promoting communism more to Ellie. But yes, conservatives tend to like him for the violence and vigilantism, but also they want to fuck Ellie, and they have a myopic view of their actions - regardless if his actions were understandable, killing a doctor and ruining any hope of saving humanity is objectively based.

    • FearsomeJoeandmac [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Agree with most of this post, aside from the last bit. I think Joel murdering the doctor in order to keep ellie was him at his most selfish.

      Joel got what he deserved in the end