Dracula Untold end explanation

Dracula Untold end explanation

The end, where he meets the blonde woman and the original vampire goes "Let the games begin" can, to me, be summed up in five steps:

1. Dracula and the man who turned him are still vampires and alive today.
2. Reincarnation exists in this universe - it is the "next life" that Vlad and his wife talked about.
3. The blonde woman loves the poem that his wife loved, so she is the reincarnation of his wife.
4. The original vampire wanted vengeance against the man who imprisoned him in the cave for centuries.
5. He has been following Dracula and when he sees that Vlad is finally happy again he goes "Let the games begin". This implies that he is going to torment Dracula, ergo, Dracula is the reincarnation of the man who cursed him. This would also explain why the vampire didn't kill him immediately.

No Country For Old Men Ending Explained

No Country For Old Men Ending Explained

My interpretation of the dream is that the world his father prepared him for never happened. The father went ahead and the son fell behind, and then woke up, before he could reach his dad. We don't know what the world will be in 10 years, so How are our elders meant to prepare us based on their knowledge of a world that doesn't exist anymore. Tommy lee jones doesn't understand javier bardems character and his dad doesn't understand him. The world is taken over by the youth, There's no country for old men.

Every human being lives in their parent's parent’s world. We are always two generations of thought behind the modern world. Our parents were ostensibly young adults when they gave birth to us. They had no real life experience, so hopefully they had the luxury of their parent's (our grandparent's) experience to cope with the world, while they made money and we needed daycare. The tragedy is that the people who raise us are not equipped to deal with the current world. There may be some experience that is relevant but the world changes in ways that the former generation can not adapt to.

The character's final dialogue reveals a dream sequence where his dead father is providing him some light into the darkness ahead of him. The dream is indeterminate but so is life. With nothing but his parents' ill equipped experience to guide him, his dreaming mind conjures up a glimmer of hope in the form of a flickering torch.

I will go a step further to say that this movie targets an older generation's fears. We all want to master the world and pass on our knowledge, but the world at times changes too quickly for our comfort.

Explanation of Hotline Miami 2 story and ending

Hotline Miami 2 Ending Explained

In Hotline Miami 1, we play most of the game as Jacket, going through and taking down the mafia, while also dealing with the man in the stores, and his son the kid with the rat mask, who kills you and your girlfriend. Jacket later kills him in prison, then cleans up the rest of the mafia.

However, during the PhoneHom mission were you fight the Biker you win. When time is re-winded to show the Biker's story, it shows him killing Jacket instead. Afterwards Biker confronts the people behind the phone calls, if you have the password to the computer, you unlock the dialog in which they explain their plan, which was to make America stronger and cleaning up the filth.

During the events of Hotline Miami 2, we have multiple cases of stories overlapping in impossible ways, such as the kid with the Rat mask that was killed in Hotline Miami 1, does not stay in jail, and die at the hands of Jacket, that the constant occurrence of the Richard(chicken mask) showing up multiple times with warnings, and the store clerks back story of a small scale war against Russia, he ends up never coming back home to Miami for some reason. Which means Jacket never would have met him, which means Jacket never met the kid.

The rest of the story information isnt critical.

At the very end, you see kid in Hawaii with his mother, suddenly she puts on the Richard mask, and Richard says that you are going to die soon, and that nothing you can do will change it. The kid accepts his fate, and after a few seconds a nuke goes off killing them in Hawaii. Another is detonated in Miami not long after, killing all of the surviving characters. This means nothing you did matters, whether you believe Jacket's, the Biker's, the Mob boss, or the Fan's story. None of it matters as everything is wiped clean in fire and pressure.

TL:DR None of the stories matter, it will all end the same

Neuromancer Book Review and Ending Explanation

Neuromancer Book/Novel Ending Explanation

Neuromancer definitely scratches the cyberpunk itch once again like Snow Crash, but besides that they feel like such different books, but both amazing. Neuromancer feels like...this may not make sense, but the more I read/listened to it, the more I thought of it as a 70's sci-fi movie. A 70's sci-fi movie that wasn't hindered by any technical or monetary limitations in production, since all the legwork is done in your mind. Hopefully that makes a lick of sense to someone out there, but to put it a little more simply, it is a lot deeper and ambiguous in ways than Snow Crash. Terms like the Matrix and how it works aren't explained like the Metaverse, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. Whenever Case jacks into the Matrix, it feels more like this completely black space that unfolds and changes based on how the story goes, as you give shape to it with the vague descriptions of colors and shapes; rather than everyone being in a video-game like world where people are characters in a graphical representation of Earth. In the end it makes the Matrix feel unique, for better or for worse. Sometimes things are a little abstract to work together, but I would say that's part of the fun of reading a book about a different world.

The characters are a real trip to. Case is somebody you love, but you hate. He's every likable and despicable trait in you, the reader. He has this attraction and talent that people love, but at the same time he's an addict that never has enough. He never will quit his drug addiction, and he'll never be happy. I was so surprised about a fifth (not that it happened, but his reaction) way through the book that Case managed to get his love back, in being able to traverse and manipulate the Matrix again, but as the book goes on it just seems like another hum-drum part of his life that he doesn't care that much about. He wants some sort of high, and the high of having the ability to traverse the Matrix again slowly falls off throughout the book early on. Then you have Molly who turns out to be one of the less flawed characters, but at the same time she has one of the darkest pasts. Riviera is so strange; first of all if they ever make a movie they have to cast Michael Fassbender as Riviera because I pictured him playing that character perfectly. Okay, Riviera is so interesting to me because he felt more like a part of case rather than an actual character; he had this strange, magnificent ability that he could use but he seemed to be completely engulfed and ruined by his drug addiction, which was what does him in in the end when Molly poisons him and Hideo eventually finds him.

Then you have the ending. So there's no right answers, but it's been tossing around in my head.

• So those radio signals from the 1970's, that claim to be from another solar system, that Wintermute/Neuromancer find have to be from aliens, right?
• Well, then there's confusion about Wintermute/Neuromancer. They seem to be one, but for some reason they need to use the Finn as a way to talk to Case in his room after they've merged? Wouldn't they be beyond that? Then why would there be a copy of Neuromancer (the boy with Riviera's eyes) walking around with Case and Linda Lee? Is it really that Wintermute is control of the show; I remember a sentence in the book where Wintermute says "I will keep his [Riviera's] eyes, if I am allowed." I'm not sure if that's because Wintermute/Neuromancer will only be one thing, or if it hints that Wintermute may be running the whole show. Then there's talk about how "Case has won" and the Matrix is changed forever. Once again, not truly sure if that means that Wintermute is imposing his will and continuing his lust for bettering himself/knowing more (by talking to the alien's AI) or what?
• What was the laugh at the end of the book? I've read somewhere that it was Dixie's laugh, because it's that fake, mechanical laugh. Thus leading us to believe the Dixie construct is still alive. I thought it could just be a laugh from Neuromancer, Case or Linda Lee at the end of the book; I would think Case hates all of those fake, mechanical laughs, regardless of which construct/mechanical-person they come from.
• Then there's just the sighting of Neuromancer, Case, and Lina Lee in general. It hints at either Case still being stuck in the Matrix, his current life being a lie; maybe a question of "what is living? or "what is reality?"; or possibly a way to make us question how real any of the book was. Really curious to hear what you all think on this question.
• "I don't need you!" Case says that near the end of the book, as he throws the shuriken into the wall-screen that housed Neuromancer/Wintermute minutes before. I'm not sure if he's saying that he doesn't need Molly, or that he doesn't need Neuromancer/Wintermute and thus doesn't need the Matrix or hacking. Maybe it's both? I thought it would be interesting if Wintermute/Neuromancer was a manifestation of his need to hack; his hatred towards flesh and love of the cyberspace. It's also funny that Neuromancer would have basically given Case this in a way if Case had given in and stuck around with Linda Lee in Neuromancer's world. I guess it just comes down to if you take the book at face-value, or if you think it's more of a metaphor and explanation of Case as a person; his demons, addictions, passions, thoughts and feelings. I think either way is just as valid and interesting. I would really enjoy if someone pointed out some facts to prove if it was one or the other though, as I love when art makes you work and think to find out what really happened.

What I think about the ending and whole plot. Personally, I think that you can take the ending for what it is. I don't feel it's an Inception "what's real?" type of ending. Case lives out his days, continuing to squander his talents and abuse his drug use (I'm not sure if that's implied with the mention of new organs at the end of the book though; just speculation) and he never really kills himself like he says he wanted to back in Chiba (by dying on the street) or near the end of the book when he's riding inside the T.A. main-frame on the virus's shark-like back. Maybe (as I mentioned before) his throwing of the shuriken was his way of saying he didn't need hacking anymore, as I don't think Gibson every says what Case's profession with is when he lives his new life with his new organs and Michael. It's also strange how he ends the book with "He never saw Molly again." It definitely feels depressing and anti-climactic in a way, but probably on purpose. Case has this big event unfold, where he changes the Matrix forever, and he just ends up living a different, normal life with some other girl; a bit of a boring life, leaving all of Molly and the rest of adventure behind. In a way that reminds me of the ending to "Trainspotting," which is funny because that's surrounding drug use as well, although the protagonist allegedly gives it up for a boring, normal life. Then again maybe this is all a metaphor, and it's more of an explanation of what Case is and how he deals with real life and the "consensual hallucination" that is the Matrix.

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So yeah, I love this book and I understand why it and Snow Crash are the two cornerstones of this genre in literature. They feel very different, but similar in many ways. Lots to enjoy and like in both of them, and I didn't take a second for granted in either. Very curious to hear what you all think about this book, and its plot.

I think I'm going to go to another cybperunk book after this. I was initially going to read "The Diamond Age" but decided to go with Neuromancer before it since it had such high praise and was about half as long.

The ending of Interstellar Explanation

The ending of Interstellar

• Question 1: After Mann's betrayal, and failure to attach to the Endurance, they are left with limited fuel, so try to slingshot themselves through the gravity of Gargantua. Doing this, they calculate that they will lose 53 years of Earth-time. Unfortunately, Cooper has to sacrifice himself for Brand to have the fuel to make it to Wolf's planet.

Here's the question: Why has Cooper and Brand not aged differently? Even if Cooper's time in the tesseract doesn't count towards earth time, he would have still lost a substantial amount of time moving towards the center. Is it just that it was for such a short time that it didn't matter? that seems hard to believe considering the massive change in gravity.

• Question 2: Okay, so Cooper ends up inside the tesseract, and is able to communicate with Murph because gravity is able to travel through time yadda yadda. It is clearly stated, that "they"(future humans) have placed the tesseract there("They are closing it"), because Cooper is the only one able to communicate with Murph because of love. But how did they place the tesseract there? I need someone to explain the concept of what is happening. Was it because the gravity inside the black hole was so intense that they were able to manipulate it further than what Cooper is able to do with Murph? Even then, if the only reason Cooper is able to manipulate Murph's timeline is because of the bond of love, then who is able to communicate with Cooper? Is there a link through love to him from the future? Is that not a bit speculatory for the person watching to assume that?

Answer

Question 1 bothered me as well. My current rationalization is that after he leaves the tesseract, he is moved through both space and time, traveling to Saturn's orbit at around the same time he left Brand.

Question 2, I think you place too much emphasis on love's role. My view on that idea was that he was the only member of the "away team" who still had a connection to someone on Earth capable of ensuring humanity's survival, not some mystical power love has to create tesseracts. The tesseract was just a way created for him to perceive the relationship between time and gravity that existed in the black hole

Birdman Ending Explanation

Birdman 2014 Ending

Remember, this is just my interpretation of the ending, this movie is one that leaves itself purposefully ambiguous, you may be just as correct interpreting it a different way.

In the beginning of Birdman, we see a meteor streaking through the sky, as the narrator's (Birdman's) voice explains how Riggin Thomas is washed up, even though he deserves better than everyone else.

Later in the movie, we hear Riggin rant to his ex-wife, uncovering a lot of the deep emotional problems we see expressed in his character throughout the film, the need to be remembered, the need to be free of his stressful and miserable life, etc. Specifically, he talks about the time he was on a plane with George Clooney; he speculates that if the plane had crashed, the only thing in the papers would be Clooney's name (overshadowing his, leaving him forgotten).

Soon after this, but closer to the ending, we see the meteor pop up again, this time right after Riggin embraces his Birdman side, and decides to commit suicide during his act, creating an "super-realistic" performance.
However, as we all know, Riggin survives.

Most of the confusion in the ending is caused by Riggin's daughter, Sam, looking up in the sky, which she certainly would NOT do if he had just committed suicide, and was lying on the pavement below.

However, the alternate suggestion, that Riggin's superpowers were not just imagined, and he actually can fly, seems equally absurd.
As many of you may have guessed by now, Riggin did commit suicide, and his body was laying on the ground, dead.

Then what would cause Sam to ignore his body, and look up?
A meteor, streaking towards a collision with the largest city in America.
The ending of Birdman is the ultimate irony, Riggin tries to commit the ultimate sacrifice for his craft, fails, and then finally, after he receives all of the awards and respect he deserves, cements his legacy by committing suicide, ensuring theater-goers will whisper his name with awe for decades to come.

But, just like in his story about his doomed plane, no one will remember Riggin, no one will think of his legacy, no one will even know his name.
Because the day he died was the greatest tragedy in American history, for entirely different reasons.

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Bioshock Infinite Burial at Sea - Ending Explanation

Bioshock Infinite Burial at Sea - Ending Explanation

Bioshock Infinite Burial at Sea - Ending Explanation

After a few failed attempts to find a full explanation for the ending of Burial at Sea, I decided I will write my own for those also having trouble locating one. That being said, I am stating these as thoughts and opinion and NOT FACT. I do not consider myself an expert on trans-dimensional travel, nor do I believe I understand Bioshock’s timeline to the caliber of Ken Levine or the franchises most dedicated fans. This is merely a collection of ideas I picked up on and pieced together and there will be things I missed or misinterpreted and many details I forgot to mention, but I think this will provide many of you with a rough outline of the story. I am mainly going to focus on the story of what happened to Elizabeth, but I will touch on certain other aspects as well. I think it’s safe to say the majority of you can put the other details (like references between commonalities of Rapture and Columbia) together yourselves. I have only played through each DLC once so I encourage everyone to comment and contribute: fix my mistakes, tell me why I’m wrong, or tell me why I’m right. And play nice children, I put a good amount of work into this.

Let’s begin at the ending: Infinite left off with Elizabeth drowning Booker, effectively destroying all Comstock universes but killing Booker in the process. Once Booker dies, the Elizabeth duplicates fade away one by one because they will have no longer existed; except for our “true” Elizabeth who we soon learn (from being in the DLC) did not fade out of existence. After the credits we have a short scene of Booker walking into Anna’s room and Anna, as an infant, still there. This was the universe repairing any jumps between Booker’s and Comstock’s timelines. It cleaned itself up and resorted back to a time before any jumps and breaks occurred; to just before Booker would have given Anna to Lutece.

That is all happy and dandy, but it does not change the fact that our Booker still drowned to destroy the existence of Comstock/Columbia. The Booker featured after the credits was one of the infinite other versions of Booker that sold Anna, they resorted back because all of their timelines were destroyed. But our Booker’s wasn’t and he remains dead, because even if all the infinite Comstock/Columbia universes get destroyed there still has to remain a single timeline somewhere in space and time that lead to the destruction of the rest, that being the one route our Elizabeth and Booker traveled. If anyone has any questions on this post them and I’ll try and answer, but for the sake of this explanation I’m going to assume you already know all of this and spare further detail. In short terms, our Booker dies and our Elizabeth remains because their timeline always existed, always exists, and always will exist. With that being said, Elizabeth in Burial at Sea is THE ONLY Elizabeth left because the universe resorted all others back to Anna in the crib. Additionally, no Booker in any of the universes will remember Elizabeth because they would have never met her and they only know Anna since Anna was never sold to Comstock. The Columbia universe where our Elizabeth lived is gone, and the one Booker universe where she has a place she could belong no longer has Booker in it because she killed him. Elizabeth has no universe to call her own, none where she can consider herself at home.

Now we pick up in Burial at Sea Episode 1, where Elizabeth draws out an elaborate scheme against an escaped Comstock. This Comstock sought refuge from his memories because in his universe Anna had gotten her head cut off rather than her pinky. Riddled with guilt and depression and whatever else a Comstock feels, he runs away using a tear to become a citizen of Rapture. Rapture is in the 60’s and Infinite is 1912, that means that when this Comstock went through the tear it was 1912 and his universe was still intact (soon to be destroyed, but existed at the time), to the 60’s where his Columbia is long gone, and his “Comstock” memories no longer exist. Therefore, the Lutece principle of “creating memories where none exist” wiped Comstock’s memory of ever being Comstock because in 1960, having been destroyed by Booker’s drowning, Comstock/Columbia never existed in any timeline, all universes of Comstocks are gone. The memories he creates are of being Booker DeWitt the private detective, which is fitting because the universe reached back in time to retrieve those memories for him. The memories couldn’t come from a Comstock since none exist, so it came from a different representation of himself (Booker) and it had to pick Booker memories from before any holes/jumps existed so that would be “Booker Private Detective/Father”.

Just as Booker was exposed to brief nightmares of past and future events he experienced but could not remember, so does Rapture-Comstock. Elizabeth shows up in an effort to spark Comstock’s memories of having killed her as a baby and make him remember that he is not truly Booker. From Elizabeth’s fierceness and lack of mercy, it is apparent that she has changed. Vengeful and angry about having killed her father and having no “home” universe, she has been busy eliminating loose ends of Comstock’s that escaped extinction. (And keep in mind, she is THE ONLY Elizabeth, all others were either wiped from existence or resorted back to infancy with a Booker that only knows her as Anna.) Elizabeth kidnaps Sally and sells her into becoming a little sister and then nudges Rapture-Comstock in the direction of finding her, a giant ploy that was brilliantly maneuvered to spark the full memory of his being the Comstock that got Elizabeth/Anna beheaded. But as brilliant as it was, it was undeniably evil and entirely unlike Elizabeth. She kidnapped and doomed a child, just so she could taste the full effect of her revenge. She could have just killed Rapture-Comstock in the first scene at the P.I. office, but she sold out a little girl so it would be sweeter. Ultimately the plan succeeded and Elizabeth then kills Comstock.

Which finally brings us to Episode 2. If you all recall in Infinite, Elizabeth stating that she has the power to not only open tears to other universes, but she can create them. This was demonstrated with the Siren of Lady Comstock being revived, but as a mixture between a Lady Comstock from another universe and Elizabeth’s own feelings toward her. Basically, she created a new non-existent version of Lady Comstock.

My reason for mentioning this is the opening seen of Episode 2, Elizabeth finally in a utopian Paris. Beautiful, friendly, full of music and love. Without a doubt, this is a universe which Elizabeth crafted by her own hand (will explain further later). But Sally appears, a dark memory of her evil actions bleeding through into her reality (like Lady Comstock) and suddenly Paris becomes a scene of chaos and destruction as Elizabeth chases Sally through the streets. (Sidenote: on the signs of one of the buildings is featured a Lobotomy doctor). She follows Sally through a door and wakes up in Rapture, and we soon find out that Elizabeth died immediately after killing Comstock and that Elizabeth no longer has the power to “see behind all the doors” and open/create tears.

Now here is where things get interesting: As I have said multiple times, the Elizabeth that killed Comstock in Rapture was our ONLY Elizabeth. So, you ask, how does she exist to return to rapture? If you recall the voxophones throughout Infinite that explain what happened to the Lutece’s, Comstock sabotaged there trans-dimensional device while the Lutece’s were operating it. Rather than killing them, it scattered them into the possibility spectrum, spread throughout every possible location of space and time. Now the closest reasoning we are given to why Elizabeth is able to create tears is 1) Exposure to the machine and 2) Losing her pinky in one universe and being alive in another (“The universe doesn’t like its peas mixed with its porridge”). Elizabeth is a human incarnation of the Lutece’s machine, she has a non-linear existence in a timeline and has no native universe. She has contributed to timelines in an infinite number of universes, and I’m not merely referring to the Comstock ones but whatever else she has opened as well. For that reason, killing Elizabeth (THE ONLY ELIZABETH) had the same effect as the Lutece’s dying in their machine, it scattered her among the possibility spectrum.

So how did Elizabeth come back to life and return to Rapture? In Episode 2, a voxophone can be found in the “Sleep” corridor of the Finkton clock. The voxophone is Rosalind Lutece, she explains that her brother feels unfulfilled with what they are and wants to return to being human. She acknowledges that it is possible for them to return to their former selves, but in doing so would forget everything they learned, lose the power to see behind doors, and be once again exposed to the mortality factor of being human. Which brings us to Elizabeth who is now in “Limbo” with the Lutece’s. She knows she died, and in reflecting on her lasts moments she sees the monster she became: traveling from universe to universe killing Comstock’s in cold blood, but mainly she is haunted by selling out Sally – a girl who’s exact situation reflects what was done to her in youth. (Girl sold out against her will, tamed and forced to keep quiet, nurtured to contain great power, exploited, lacking childhood and companionship). She can’t stand what she has done, and would rather die making things right than go on living forever in her fabricated utopias of Paris. Still having the ability to see behind all the doors, she can see her opportunity for redemption by returning to Rapture for a final time as a human and spurring the events with Atlas that would lead to the introduction of Bioshock One. She saw how Atlas will die as a result of the actions she undertakes in Rapture and Sally will be saved, but Elizabeth also knows that she is sending herself on a mission that will end in her death. And even worse she knows that she will not have any memory of losing her powers, what path she has to take, or what her purpose of returning is. When she does return, her memories pick up where the dead Elizabeth’s leave off, making her confused as to how she got there and how she died. She too witnessed the nightmares of past and future that plagued Comstock and Booker, and the Paris introduction that she experienced is most relatable to Booker’s office/home in the “Bring us the girl” cut scenes of Infinite. Not to mention, Elizabeth has an inexplicable connection to Sally the same as Booker’s to Elizabeth and Rapture-Comstock’s to Sally. Booker crossed into Columbia to save his daughter, but his lack of memories rewrote it into “Bring us the girl, wipe away the debt”. This altered his reality for the mission but did not take away from the father-like connection he felt for Elizabeth the entire game. Rapture-Comstock was grieving his dead daughter when crossing into Rapture, so when his memories are erased he still has the lingering feeling of guilt (doll head he carries) and the father-like connection to a daughter-like figure who he substitutes with Sally. Now in Burial at Sea 2 Elizabeth enters Rapture as a human and loses her memory, but as confused as she is about why she is there she never loses that devotion and connection to restore Sally’s life even if she doesn’t know why it’s so important to her. Whenever memories are created, apparently intentions remain intact.

Back to the flashbacks/flash-forwards Elizabeth sees: These are not entirely the same as Booker’s or as Rapture-Comstock’s. Booker’s were due to his relentless loop of saving Elizabeth from Columbia and seeing the beginning and end over and over and Comstock’s were of a forgotten past. Elizabeth’s, however, were of the original path she set herself on before entering Rapture and losing all memory. These flashes provide her with a bare amount of insight on what to do next, but nevertheless they prove to be enough. Also, Booker on the radio is meant to imply his being dead because each time she talks to him, he reminds her he is not there. Plus, her mission is an echo that’s almost identical to Booker’s. Guilt leads to redemption leads to inexplicable connection leads to saving the girl leads to dying. She used everything Booker did in Infinite and applied it to saving Sally, and on top of that she asked him for guidance the entire time while unknowingly acting like him.

At the ending of the DLC, Elizabeth’s insight fully returns as she approaches certain death at the hands of Atlas. She hands him the “ace in the hole” and assures Atlas that he is the one being used, not her. She tells him to get it over with and Atlas kills her, she dies knowing that Atlas believes he won but she set forward the events of Bioshock One that will inevitably lead to his death and Sally’s rescue. Meaning that although Bioshock was the first game released, the series went in a circle that identified it as the ending, the finale of Elizabeth’s dying legacy.

With Ken Levine leaving/shutting down Irrational Games and washing his hands of the two games that together took him over 10 years to create, I couldn’t (nor can I, even now) have imagined a more satisfying ending to Bioshock as a whole. It was his creation and he received endless criticism, but it always seemed he knew what was best for the series even if it meant bad news for him/the players. He supplied a real ending, not a strange twist or “open for interpretation” mess. No matter how you rationalize Infinite or Burial at Sea 1 and 2, the undeniable and undisputable ending of Bioshock is Elizabeth’s sacrifice for Sally’s behalf leading to the saga of Jack taking down Atlas.

As I stated in the beginning, I’m certain I forgot some crucial details/explanations because I wrote this all nonstop in a single sitting and there’s no way I’m going to proofread it (sorry guys). Any additions, criticism, comments, and questions feel free to share. Hope you guys enjoyed the game, and hope this will help a few of you sleep easier at night. 

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Edge of Tomorrow - Ending Explanation

Edge of Tomorrow - Ending Explanation time paradox

Edge of Tomorrow

So, I've read a few explanations online concerning the ending of the movie. However, none of the explanations have explained the fact that in the movie, when Cage woke up in the helicopter on his way to the UDF headquarters, the general appeared on screen and announced that there was a mysterious power surge the night before, incapacitating the mimics. The only explanation I've seen for this is that the Omega was a 4-dimensional creature. However, if the Omega truly were a 4-dimensional creature spanning time, then when it ceases to live it would cease to live across all of time, not just the night before.

I propose a specific timeline and set of mechanics to explain the time of the Omega's death.

Establishing the Days:

• Day 0: The day the Omega dies
• Day 1: The day Cage normally wakes up
• Day 2: The day of Operation Downfall

Proposed Mechanics:

The Network: The movie mentioned that the mimics were part of a large network. What if the Omega was not the highest being on the network? Rather, the Omega was one of many sub-omegas, and their was a Super Omega capable of resetting time for the sake of the sub-omegas.

Identity: Cage does not simply gain the alpha's powers, he becomes the alpha he killed. You'll notice that the alpha Cage killed never shows up on the beach again. Thus, Cage has replaced the alpha. Thus, in terms of the new reset timeline, the alpha he kills ceases to exist and he is the new alpha the moment things restart.

Reset Timing: Whenever a higher organism on the network resets, everything jumps back 24 hours. Thus, Cage jumps backs 24 hours. He does not jump back to the moment he wakes up. Rather, he likely jumps back further into the time where he was asleep in his tased state. Thus, it would be possible for someone's restart point to be a moment when they were wide awake.

The Mimics' Death Process: The normal orange mimics cease to glow the instant they die. However due to their biology, the higher command mimics (e.g. alphas, omegas) don't fully die right away - perhaps not until they've truly bled out. This is supported because, when Cage first kills the alpha, time does not reset until after Cage receives the alpha blood. Cage becomes the alpha; then time resets.

So, here's the theory: Day 1 is both the day that the general first met with Cage and the day before Operation Downfall. When Cage runs the final attack on the Omega, he does it sometime in the night. Thus when he kills and becomes the Omega, it is either late night in Day 1 or early morning in Day 2. At this time, Cage becomes the new Omega. Then, due to the Mimic's Death Process, a Super Omega resets the time - but not until Cage dies. At this point time resets by 24 hours.

Because the mysterious energy surge (the Omega's death) is stated to have occurred on the night of Day 0, we are led to conclude that Cage killed and became the Omega on the night of Day 1. The reason Cage doesn't wake up until his helicopter flight on the morning of Day 1 is that he had been asleep through his flight over the night of Day 0. This allows for both his reset appearing to be on Day 1 and the Omega's death appearing to be on Day 0.

[It will be noted that the earth-based (roughly) 24 hour reset time is a bit convenient for an earth-based movie. Various explanations for this could be offered. For the purpose of this explanation, the 24-hour time can simply be viewed as another intrinsic mechanic of the movie.

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Edge of Tomorrow - Ending Explanation

Mass effect 3 ending explanation

Mass effect 3 ending explanation?

The ending is that The Catalyst is reveled to be an AI within the Citadel (perhaps the actual Citadel itself) controlling the Reapers they come every 50,000 years to prevent organics from destroying themselves as in every cycle organics create synthetics and synthetics rise up and destroy organics. The Reapers come to "preserve" organics in a evolutionary form as Reapers to prevent this (why they made a human Reaper in ME2).

This time around as Shepard has proven that he has changed the current cycle by being able to reach the Catalyst therefore he has the choice to Destroy all synthetics (including the Geth and EDI) and risk the cycle repeating again, Control the reapers or merge with the Reapers and evolve all life as a Synthesis.

All three endings involve the destruction of the Citadel and the Mass Relays regardless. How severe the blast is from the crucible depends on you war assets, the very best ending variation of each ending is Earth is saved and the very worst earth is destroyed (and presumably all other planets with a mass relay). If you replay the game with your completed save and chose the "Destroy" ending if your war assets are high enough you get a bonus ending hinting that Shepard is alive at the end

As for the Normandy they were in mid Relay jump when the Crucible fired, the reason why isn't explained (probably trying to outrun the blast) and as the Relays got destroyed the shock wave hit the Normandy in mid jump and it simply crashed on a tropical planet

The last sequence of the old man and the child telling "Shepard's Story" i felt was the only good part of the ending does hint at future DLC and that Mass Effect isn't dead,

Many fans on the Bioware forums are speculating that everything after the point where you are attacked by Harbinger in London is an hallucination, hinting that there may be more endings added to the game or it has the potential to end differently. There is plenty of evidence to support it (many speculate that the bonus ending of Shepard alive is in fact him/her in London amongst the rubble) but i doubt it is true, just fans seeing what they want to see hoping it will be better

The ending was a letdown in my opinion to an other wise amazing game and brilliant franchise. Who knows it may change (i doubt it though)


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Inception Ending Explanation

Inception [2010] ending explanation?!

Inception 2010

Although Cobb stayed in Limbo to find Fischer, I think he just said that he would stay so that Mal would let fischer go. After Ariadne and Fischer left Limbo, Mal died in Cobb's arms and Cobb got over his wife's death. 

Then, the camera shows the rest of the team exiting the van which is underwater. Arthur flails questioningly at Ariadne as if saying "What about Cobb? Don't we have to get him out?" and Ariadne shakes her head. I assumed that Cobb died in the van-- so he died in a higher dream level and re-washed up on the shores of Limbo. 

As to Saito being older: As Yusuf put it, "it could be decades, infinite-- I dunno!" Limbo is also unconstructed dream space, so it is highly unstable. Time passes faster in dreams because everyone's minds function at different speeds. It may have just been that in a coma state like Limbo, without the Somnacin/sedative to effectively regulate the rate of time in the dream, Saito's mind operated faster than Cobb's, so by the time Cobb re-washed up, Saito was considerably older (and uglier) than Cobb. 

As to why Saito's projections found Cobb: Cobb washed up very close to Saito's Japanese Castle because he entered Limbo with a purpose focused in his head: to find Saito. Lucid Dreaming experiments prove that focusing on something before a dream can influence your dream. 

Saito's projections found Cobb because of two reasons: Saito's subconscious is most likely militarized. He may have gotten training after Cobb's attempted extraction. Also, in Limbo, Saito's subconscious may have been expecting Cobb to wash up, so his projections are probably guarding the shores of Limbo and waiting to see if an intruder shows up. 

Inception explanation?

But okay, the main character's name is Dom Cobb. He is an extractor, or someone that 'extracts' ideas and secrets from your dreams. At the beginning, he's attempting to extract something from the Asian man-- Saito--'s dream. Why, it is not told. 

Afterwards, Saito is impressed and offers him a job: he will guarantee that Cobb can get back to his children in America if he can perform a task for Saito. That task is inception, or the PLANTING of an idea in someone's head instead of extracting it. 

Now, the reason Cobb CAN'T go back to his kids any other way is because the U.S. government thinks he murdered Mal, his wife, when in reality, she committed suicide and made it look like he killed her. The reason she did this is because she truly believed she was still in a dream and that reality wasn't real. You find this out later, but the reason Cobb knows inception is possible, and the reason he feels so guilty, is that HE PLANTED THIS NOTION IN HER HEAD. He was selfish and wanted her to be only his in the dream world, so he performed inception on her. However, it all went wrong. 

So Cobb accepts the job and assembles a team, including Ariadne, who is the 'architect'. In other words, she's assigned to build the dreams so Cobb's projection of Mal doesn't know the dream. Because the dream Mal is still haunting him and is dangerous in the dreams. 

Most of the movie is about setting up the dream to perform inception on Fischer, the son of the head of Saito's buisness rival. The point of the operation is to get it into Fischer's head that he wants to not follow in his dying father's footsteps and build his own company. (Therefore removing Saito's competition.) 

They schedule the flight with him and make sure they have the right sedatives and other tools needed, etc. The dream is confusing because there are so many different levels, I know, but basically all of that is one big dream (and dreams within the dream.) 

So, even though a lot happens in the middle, Cobb and his team accomplish the task. At the end part that's like the beginning, Cobb goes back into Limbo and gets Saito back because Saito died. 

Then, at least if you want to believe it, Saito arranges for Cobb to go back to his kids and he sees them again and it's a happy ending. 

.... That is, until the very end where the top keeps turning. And that's where all the confusion sets in. You could say that it was really reality, or you could say it was a dream, but then wouldn't the whole movie have been a dream? It's kinda up to you.


Question 1: When the movie began, Cobb was unconscious on the beach, correct? Wouldn't that mean he'd only be dreaming deeper inside the dream? (((Some movies are designed in the "Fate" order, which puts the end of the story first...kind of like the movie, Go, or movies like that....in this sense, we are shown the end (almost the end) of the movie with Saito being stuck in limbo. So, yes, he went down to the third dream level to find Saito)))

Question 2: Why has only Saito aged? (((Because he was the only one that died while they were attempting the Inception...remember he only aged in 'dreamland'..not in real life...)))

Question 3: Saito spun Cobb's totem, but doesn't that defeat its purpose since only the dreamer can be aware of the weight and composition of their totem? (((Don't quite know about this...)))

Question 4: How come when some people become aware that they are dreaming (Saito and Ariadne), everything starts shaking and crumbling, but in other characters dreams, their projections start getting violent? (((Mastery in Lucid Dreaming stops these sorts of things...when a person realizes they are dreaming, they often wake up...I guess in this case, the perceived world (reality) they thought was real crumbled when they realized they were dreaming....in Saito's case, I think once he realized he was dreaming, his defense mechanisms started attacking the foreign - Cobb and the others)))

Question 5: How does Dom's projection of Mal go off and do her own thing? For example she went and told Saito about the invasion of his mind, but doesn't Dom control his imaginations? (((That was his guilt...he was riddled with guilt over her death so whenever she appeared, it would be to sabotage him, sort of retribution for tricking her)))

Question 6: Doesn't Dom contradict himself when he says "Dreams seem real while we're in them" but then instructs Ariadne to make the mazes seem real so the subject doesn't realize he or she is dreaming? (((I suppose...when we're dreaming - unless we train to lucid dream - we pretty much accept whatever our dreams throw at us - pink cats, oversized heads etc - we accept them...however, sometimes, we can figure out we're dreaming (lucid)...Dom wanted to construct a world where the dreamer would be totally convinced they were real)))

Question 7: Why isn't one kick enough? If there is a kick in level 1, then they would wake up in level 2. If they wake up in level 2, they would wake up in level 3. Why does there have to be a kick in each level? (((I think that's backward...I think the kicks force them up a level, not down...so a kick in level 3 would push them to level 2, a kick to level 2 would push them to level 1 and a kick from that point would waken them...we saw that when his assistant was level 1 sleeping and the chair was kicked from him, prompting him to wake)))

Question 8 (and this is a big one): When Mal shot Fischer, he entered limbo. So Dom and Ariadne followed him, but by hooking themselves up to the machine. Isn't limbo only accessible by dying within the dream? (((I guess it's supposed to be possible that, by hooking oneself up to that machine, you will enter whatever level the dreamer is in....limbo is only supposed to happen during extreme sedation so even if a person dies, they would still wake up...but in their case, they were using sedatives which compounded the time)))

Question 9: Dom and Mal escaped limbo by killing themselves. So why can't everyone just do that? Why would they need to wait for the sedatives to wear off? ((((GOOD QUESTION...IN FACT, IF THEY WERE IN LIMBO, WOULDN'T DEATH AT THAT POINT FRY THEIR MIND BEYOND COMPREHENSION???)))) **Excellent Point**