Every Time Joel & Sarah Avoided The Cordyceps Infection In The Last Of Us

Do you think The Last Of Us Episode 3 is going to have a dark opening? Comment your thoughts below!

I love how the only reason Joel survived as long as he did was because he can't remember simple mundane tasks lmao

I would have been infected immediately. There's no way in hell I'd forget a cake or deny free biscuits.

Sarah: Doesn't eat bread and avoided the infection Soldier: Here eat lead instead.

They could have just made Joel and Sarah gluten intolerant but instead they decided to play culinary dodgeball with them for 15 minutes

Sarah: Dodges every death threat from cordyceps like a boss Soldier at border: I'm gonna end this girl's whole career

My theory is that the first infection, the one caused by flour only got the immunocompromised. There's that fragile old lady being fed biscuits and the kid with a medical bracelet at Sarah's school twitching. Could be that only those with an already weak immune system got sick by eating/breathing the contaminated flour, then once converted spread the sickness to the healthy ones by bites and scratches.

The fact that Sarah avoided all of the dangers by chance just screams “Destiny” to me. It’s like she was supposed to survive with Joel for the next 20 years but that soldier took that away.

the opening of episode 2 was incredible. just chilling. praise to the actor who played the doctor. she did an amazing job. bomb... start bombing...

Shout out to the production team because they made a different vibes of Indonesia and USA in this series...That Indonesia scene was 100% accurate with the vibes , language , peoples , places and invironment,...We as Asean people almost thought that we watched wrong series at first hahaha...we thought we watched some random Indonesia film or something

Didn't Joel mention they were also on the Atkins diet in episode 1? It may have meant he and Sarah avoided exposure to any batches of contaminated wheat for a while since it's a zero carb diet.

In simple words, we are extremely lucky that Joel forgot everything and that Sarah hates raisin cookies. 😂

I just realized, Another clue Ellie is immune, she's eating a Breaded Chicken Sandwich, while Joel and Tess are eating Beef Jerky. If Bread=Cordyceps, Ellie is casually flaunting her immunity in front of Joel and Tess.

In the recent podcast, Neil and Craig told that they left "breadcrumbs" regarding the events of the infection as a reward for very observative viewers.

It's extreemly sad that Sarah got shot. They were both healthy but the soldier still shot at them. I understad that he got an order but he clearly had doubt if should do it. It was so hardbreaking to see. Joels life and decisons could have been different if Sara would not have died :(

Though Sarah dodged being infected by the contaminated flour in the food...she failed to avoid lead poisoning.

To imagine a raisin cookie would have took me out lol and I know damn well I would have ate more than one!

If you think about it, even the Adlers, minus the mother in law, resisted the temptation to eat their own biscuits and cookies as they were not infected until Grandma got to them.

The fact that the initial outbreak was mostly oral borne and seemingly random unfortunately gives a lot more context to the military's decision to start executing anyone new they found. They probably saw several cases of people who "weren't infected" when entering a shelter or QZ suddenly turn without being bitten (probably because they ate a contaminated item later than other people) and cause more devastation. Thus you can see the brutal logic behind why Joel and Sarah were ordered to be shot, and if they HAD eaten any of the things they were supposed to have eaten that day, it arguably would have been the "right" call to shoot them there rather than risk another security breach.

Something i dont quite understand about the infection spreading through flour is that besides a prolonged exposure to the raw flour itself, most if not all of the products are baked at high temperatures or for a prolonged time. The fungus evolved to withstand higher climate but im not convinced the spores would survive a vacation in the belly of a firery oven.