Quote Originally Posted by NeoCracker View Post
(SPOILER)If she was the only one, they were smurfing idiots to have examined her and prepped her for surgery in under a day. That's why it makes no sense.

When Joel is talking to Ellie about what happened, and you see the clips playing of what he actually did, you don't hear anything, but still mouths are moving, so it seemed that they were talking, however we were only hearing Joel's conversation with Ellie.

Mind you, even were that not the case, it still makes the Firefly's out to be complete morons. Thus their actions don't make sense. That isn't something you do unless you've done it before. They didn't seem like a group that would be so stupid to rush like that, especially if Ellie really was the only choice they had. For something like this you would HAVE to have a lot of prep time, and some kind of discussion over what to do, what could go wrong, all sorts of things. THis would take way more then a day.

Edit: @VIV

(SPOILER)Even if it were just the case of the writing being rushed, it's a pretty damn big problem. It does seem most likely Joel was just lying, but it's bizarre that if he were telling the truth that those rushed actions make a hell of a lot more sense.

And that bothers the living smurf out of me.

Edit: Odd....

(SPOILER)I rewatched the end on youtube... ANd I think my copy smurfed up. The clip with Joel and Marlene dragged on a fair bit longer on my system then the ending showed. O_O

Point still stands for the most part though, him telling the truth makes the Firefly's actions make a lot more sense then they did if we assume he was just lying.
(SPOILER)As Vivi22 said, the only reason the "rushed" is to move the story along. So if she wasn't the only one, rushing it still wouldn't make any sense. It was just to move the narrative along. That's the way I saw it anyway..
I didn't notice Joel's and Marlene's lips moving, I'll have to watch that again. I'm open to other interpretations, but at the moment I just can't see it.