Mastodawn

Anyone got any theories on where the final episode is headed?

I personally buy into the SOMA theory for the show. I think all the characters are just virtual copies made by the VR headset, so they're never going to be able to get out. It tracks with the fact that there's a "brainscans" folder where the humans are stored in .dat files, it makes sense with Scratch having had a brain tumor since he'd want to scan himself to live forever, and the way Kinger reacted to Abel by saying it doesn't make sense that they could get out, all points to them being virtual copies.

It'd be a pretty dark ending but honestly that fits with the show.

That said, I'm curious what other theories people have

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WeirdAlex03

@Rusty Not familiar with SOMA here, but that's my prevailing theory on their situation, too.

And the live forever reasoning is stronger now with Scratch. Also fits with Gangle's motif of getting hit by a truck. Ragatha's mother was obviously physically abusive, maybe she went too far?

For people like Kinger/Queenie, they could've been """visiting""" as guests?

Jax had the flashes of driving at night through a residential/wooded area. Maybe an animal jumped out and went through the windshield? Or he hit a person and is hiding from the consequences? (Though doesnt seem to fit as well)

I dont know where Zooble or Pomni would fit into this idea.

As for how the episode itself could go, I have no clue. It feels like we just experienced this universe's version of a heat death. I don't know how they possibly continue from this. My only ideas right now are that either Bubble reconstitutes himself from the remains of Caine to take over or that the gang can conjour up a new terminal for Kinger to rebuild a new basic AI to take the reigns so that they can... ????

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Rusty Corgi 4d ago

@WeirdAlex03 Yeah I'm super curious where it's going to go. It definitely seems like Bubble is probably the remnants of the 'Abel' AI in some way, since he doesn't disappear when Caine blipped out of existence and seems to know a lot more than an NPC should. That said, I feel like Gooseworx kinda had Caine set up to be the big bad, like a zany version of AM from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, so I'd be a little bummed if there was an even bigger bad or something else behind Caine.