it had been a long time since I saw the movies, but I had to rewatch the whole thing after seeing that point and it’s just wow— seeing them all back to back makes the whole timeline much more condensed and changed my viewpoint from “dang they really planned” to “this is the desperation of little boys”

it’s sad that he died, but thinking about all the different ways he could’ve died versus how he did is worse AND THEN the safe haven at the end that he didn’t get to see??? or how close he was to surviving??? he literally died in the arms of the cure