#he's choosing himself + his friends over the entire world. while teresa is sacrificing her friends to save the world.

[scattered-winter]

the fascinating thing about the maze runner books vs the movies is that they're both tragedies, but just...different kinds. in the books no matter what wicked did, they never got close to a cure. it was all for nothing: all the torture, all the death, all the money and effort spent trying to cure something that was just unstoppable. the world burned while a few hundred immunes survived, and there was no other way the story could have gone.

but in the movies they were so close. thomas was the cure. they had it in their hands and could have saved everyone, but they were just too late. wicked was destroyed, the last city fell, and with it the world's last hope for a cure. they almost got the cure in time. they almost made it in time to save newt. they almost won.

#tragedy where it was all inevitable vs tragedy where victory was within reach but it was just too late for everyone. fight. #anyway i am insane about this tonight. good day #just watched the death cure deleted scenes for the first time and man...................................................................... #the way all the complexity to gally's character was practically left out of that movie. what if i explode. #also the way everyone hates teresa for LITERALLY no reason like girl........god forbid morally gray women do anything. #honestly while we're talking. thomas is morally gray too. #he's choosing himself + his friends over the entire world. while teresa is sacrificing her friends to save the world. #two sides of the same morally gray coin etc etc. i will defend teresa until the day i die btw. #not idly do i choose my blog title. #but anyway it's just insane to me how much moral complexity and nuance there is in these books/movies #and how much of it was left OUT of the movies too. litcherally insane. #oooough.....role reversal au.................. #tmr mutuals here's some food. i havent maze runner posted in ages but the brainworms are coming back #winter speaks #the maze runner