Act 25 S-Dome

It could be round, I mean then how does it stay up there? Then it must be gigantic!

the only thing we know for sure now is that its not solid.

I always thought the stuff above the stage lights was insulation until I saw this.


But can anyone explain why the skin turns into a grid like this?

Apparently, even the lights and the superstructure were not real.

It's really upseting to know that The Big O was just a simulation.

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Originally posted by Zopwx2 I was watching act 25 on my computer and I noticed somthing. The superdome is not a solid dome! Maybe not dome at all. Its just a criss-cross grid of girders and lights with 3 layers. It's small to preserve quality, but you can see the 3 layers and the coloration of the clouds over it, it may not show up in the picture, but those are clouds above those girders: It means the sky is real (not including act 26 events).

referring back to the original image... i still think the grid is a grid and its flat not round.

Its supoosed to make the world like a giant stage set, not a dome.

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Originally posted by BigO-SHOWTIME quote: Originally posted by Zopwx2 I was watching act 25 on my computer and I noticed somthing. The superdome is not a solid dome! Maybe not dome at all. Its just a criss-cross grid of girders and lights with 3 layers. It's small to preserve quality, but you can see the 3 layers and the coloration of the clouds over it, it may not show up in the picture, but those are clouds above those girders: It means the sky is real (not including act 26 events). referring back to the original image... i still think the grid is a grid and its flat not round. Its supoosed to make the world like a giant stage set, not a dome.

The grid is round if it is supposed to make the world like a giant stage set.

but i think many of the images of big O are more imagery than literal. Like the stage metaphor.

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Originally posted by BigO-SHOWTIME but i think many of the images of big O are more imagery than literal. Like the stage metaphor.

I hope the whole world being a stage thing is just a heap of symbolism.

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I hope the whole world being a stage thing is just a heap of symbolism

Thats what I believe and what my theory of Big O is based upon...so, I agree...

I agree. Like the room of Angel's "home".

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Originally posted by Piano Black It's really upseting to know that The Big O was just a simulation.

I wouldn't call it a simulation. Maybe a VR world, or maybe just a really big metaphor.

People=Actors

Paradigm= Stage

Sky= Stage Lights

Big Venus/Event= New season

One season, Dorothy is a human, Roger is a Major, Beck is a Bank owner, and Dan is a little kid.

Instead of Big Venus coming and 'restarting' everrything, I think she ends a 'season' and starts a new one. However, with every new season people don't have memories. Just 'false memories'.

All they (people) pretty much know are their names, what they can do, etc. However, they don't have REAL memories, or childhood memories. Since, they have no past in each season.

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Originally posted by R. Umino quote: Originally posted by Piano Black It's really upseting to know that The Big O was just a simulation. I wouldn't call it a simulation. Maybe a VR world, or maybe just a really big metaphor. People=Actors Paradigm= Stage Sky= Stage Lights Big Venus/Event= New season One season, Dorothy is a human, Roger is a Major, Beck is a Bank owner, and Dan is a little kid. Instead of Big Venus coming and 'restarting' everrything, I think she ends a 'season' and starts a new one. However, with every new season people don't have memories. Just 'false memories'. All they (people) pretty much know are their names, what they can do, etc. However, they don't have REAL memories, or childhood memories. Since, they have no past in each season.

Seriously I'm past that. VR World, tv show, computer simulation, someones dream, a book, it doesn't really matter.

Doesn't anyone think that its still just a lame way to end the show, making everything false.

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Originally posted by Zopwx2 Doesn't anyone think that its still just a lame way to end the show, making everything false.

Yes. That's one reason why I don't believe that this is what happened. The concept is so incredibly boneheaded that it's hard for me to believe that the folks at Sunrise could make such a stupid blunder. So I figure they didn't. Anyway, the action seemed to add up to something else, to me.

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Originally posted by Zopwx2 Seriously I'm past that. VR World, tv show, computer simulation, someones dream, a book, it doesn't really matter. Doesn't anyone think that its still just a lame way to end the show, making everything false.

Well, that is kind of lame if that's the way they want to end it. However, I think it could be a very good starting point for additional episodes, exploring whether or not non-organic beings have the right to self-determination.

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Originally posted by A Clockwork Tomato quote: Originally posted by Zopwx2 Doesn't anyone think that its still just a lame way to end the show, making everything false. Yes. That's one reason why I don't believe that this is what happened. The concept is so incredibly boneheaded that it's hard for me to believe that the folks at Sunrise could make such a stupid blunder. So I figure they didn't. Anyway, the action seemed to add up to something else, to me.

They could either remake season 2 (or at least parts of it), or they could make the ending some horrible dream roger wakes up off to go around this ending.

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Originally posted by BigO-SHOWTIME They could either remake season 2 (or at least parts of it), or they could make the ending some horrible dream roger wakes up off to go around this ending.

Both of these options are ghastly; basically an admission that they were too stupid to make good episodes last time. No one would trust them to do it right next time, if this were the case. No, they need to pick up the ball and run with it, not forfeit the end of the second season.

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Originally posted by A Clockwork Tomato quote: Originally posted by BigO-SHOWTIME They could either remake season 2 (or at least parts of it), or they could make the ending some horrible dream roger wakes up off to go around this ending. Both of these options are ghastly; basically an admission that they were too stupid to make good episodes last time. No one would trust them to do it right next time, if this were the case. No, they need to pick up the ball and run with it, not forfeit the end of the second season.

So you're saying, they are stuck with that ending and since they wrote themselves into that hole they're going to need to write themselves out.

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Originally posted by Zopwx2 So you're saying, they are stuck with that ending and since they wrote themselves into that hole they're going to need to write themselves out.

Of course. That's what happens when you write a series. You can't undo the previous episodes; you can only go forward.

So far, I'm eleven episodes into my own fan-fiction season 3, and I've run into no insurmountable obstacles so far. It should be far less of a challenge to a writer who doesn't have to reverse-engineer the first two seasons before beginning.

The stage lights and superstructure weren't real; they were a Sign and Portent of the impending End-And-Beginning of the World. Probably created by Ghost-Schwarzwald's warped imagination during his suicide ascent in Big Duo.

If I were doing a third season or a fanfic, I'd make it after Act 26 but w/o Angel and Dorothy (for a few episodes at least). Roger must rediscover what happened after the reset. I'd also make the series into hour-length episodes.