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it didn't re-write Joel's character at all.

the biggest conflict in the game is related to Joel's actions in the first game, killing the doctor and Marlene, which put an end to that chapter of the Fireflies.

TLoU2 didn't have a chance to go over the viability of Ellie being used as a vaccine since everything was happening so fast, and Abby didn't even care about that. and as for Ellie, she was more pissed that Joel not just lied, but that he killed people in the process.

the only time they really had a chance to talk about it was in the flashback at the end, where Joel told Ellie he would do the same thing if given a chance.

the only real "moral complexity" the first game that people talk about was based around Joel being willing to put one person's well-being over the many, and being able to lie about it. I don't think there's anything in either game to suggest that Joel doubted that the vaccine would work, but in both games, it was established that he didn't care.

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