Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190820122909/@comment-26006155-20191009115656

This is a bit off-topic, but I'm really proud of this post, so I think I'll repost it here.

A status of my currect projects as a theorist.

I have several irons in the fire currently.

I think Finn is actually the hero of the new Star Wars movies. One child out of many the First Order has kidnapped or acquired from Mandalorian families, who grew up trained as elite stormtroopers with no knowledge of the past.

And it is Finn's (the new Luke's) destiny to master the arts of martial combat, rather than force combat, from Maz Kanata (the new Yoda). And he will use this knowledge as a weapon to either depose the current corrupt Mandalore that's working with the First Order, and/or get the Elite Stormtroopers to rebell against the First Order by showing them their real past.

Finn the Mandalore -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9uhY0pS7mc

(followup) Maz Pwns Chewie in Solo -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b_0B3-UNwQ

I think Henry in Bendy and the Ink Machine is actually one of three versions of Bendy. He invented the chracter in its pure form, and Joey appears as a warped version of it with only the smile Joey himself added to it.

Henry is Bendy -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EDfGlnl8lA

I think Red in Specter Knight's episode of Shovel Knight is actually Donovan's old friend Luan, also returned from the dead.

Red is Luan -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EDfGlnl8lA

The ending to Matrix Revolutions does make sense.

Whenever Agent Smith absorbs someone, he gets two things: Their Power, and Their Purpose.

Purpose is how Neo defeates Agent Smith.

The entire final fight is a ruse. A gambit. Neo wants to put on a show of being a stupid brawler hero by trying impossibly win a fight against a literal world full of Agent Smith clones.

The only way Neo can win is by a trick: He must convince Agent Smith to absorb him.. rather than kill him.

Every creature in the Matrix has a purpose. And without that purpose, they cease to be.

Neo, as the 7th ressurection of Christ, had a simple purpose: To Die To Save Mankind.

And when Agent Smith absorbed him.. that because the purpose of that Smith.. and all of the Smiths.

That's why Smith gapes and says "Oh no... It's NOT FAIR!" before they all start to blow up.

Smith himself was the greatest threat to mankind, you see. To in order save mankind, as was now Smith's purpose.. he and all his clones had to self destruct immediately.

Everyone Smith every possessed came back at the end, free of the corrupted programming.

Except Neo. Who, having fullfilled his purpose, no longer existed.

"Neo's Purpose" was mentioned in the Jeremy's Last Sight script. It's a video I still have to make, though.

And I'd like to do an episode on Fez sometime. Although I haven't delved too deeply into the lore, the endings, and the "impossible" last cube, suggest that people who play video games to completetion are actually working towards their own doom.

As long as there's still secrets in a game, something to find that has yet to be found, there's still a reason for a person to go back and enter their favorite world again, and look for them.

But.. what happenens when you find everything? And there's no longer any reason to go back anymore?

The world dies.

That's what happens in the 64-cube ending of Fez. Which congradulates you in an amazing technicolor sequence.. then turns off the world just like turning off an old TV.

People need mysteries to keep them involved, and motivated. Without mysteries.. everything is known, and there's no purpose in visiting that world any longer.

I vaguely recall one of the reasons Phil Fish quit the gamining community and took Fez 2 along with him, was that nobody understood what the original game was trying to say.

I'd try to fix that, if I could.

That's what I have, besides my massive collection of Steven Universe, Undertale, and FNAF theories.

I'm not a one-trick pony.