I'm gonna drop a mild spoiler for the season finale of Game of Thrones (if you haven't by this point seen it) I equate Joel's saving of Ellie with Davos' saving of Gendry in the Thrones finale. "What is the life of one bastard boy against a kingdom" "Everything." Joel says that you find the thing that keeps you going. The thing keeping Joel going is that there is at least one thing about the world that hasn't literally turned rotten. That person is worth saving.
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