The Importance of Violence in a Game

The decision to have Joel be stabbed instead of like fall on the spike? Well, to a cut through why issue in a world where you can get make a med kit and you're getting shot multiple times by bullets. And that is intense enough. You're like, man, I'm barely making it through this. If Joel gets shot once, that's your life. You're done. It's violence just scales differently in a show.