Act 25 S-Dome

Since when is negativity against the forum rules. I'm not trying to be mean for the heck of it. I just am. I'm one of those people that so many things down that people start asking me "What DO you like?".

I wasn't just talking to you stevie just addressing the fact that the BoR refernces in act 26 don't help.

I'm also asumming that act 26 is the last episode of big o ever. (even though I want a season 3).

You keep talking about stepping outside the box and taking a different perspective. What do you mean? What exactly is your theory?

(which probably contradicts everyone elses theories which are all theoretically just as valid as any other theory since there is no official answer)

Here is the only problem I have with the end, everything else was perfect:

The city that was erased and re built in act 26 was the real world to me. Possibly that 1950's world could have been the real world. But we don't know that, becuase it is never explained.

But back to the point, all the little things and clues that we were given, all the little story lines in the ended were rendered irrelavant becuase someone or somthing was orchestrating the whole thing and not to mention it was all fake.

The union and all their doings, the whole deals with alex rosewater, all that wayneright stuff. Blah blah. All that stuff was fun. But In the end it wouldn't have mattered if they had all shot themeselves in the head in act 1. Becuase the whole thing was just a big illusion. Sure this fake world thing could be the start of an even bigger story that involves places out side paradigm, but all the little things within the world didn't matter.

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Originally posted by Zopwx2 But back to the point, all the little things and clues that we were given, all the little story lines in the ended were rendered irrelavant becuase someone or somthing was orchestrating the whole thing and not to mention it was all fake. The union and all their doings, the whole deals with alex rosewater, all that wayneright stuff. Blah blah. All that stuff was fun. But In the end it wouldn't have mattered if they had all shot themeselves in the head in act 1. Becuase the whole thing was just a big illusion. Sure this fake world thing could be the start of an even bigger story that involves places out side paradigm, but all the little things within the world didn't matter.

First, I have to agree with StevieV019 that Paradigm wasn't fake. It was created. There's a huge difference.

Nor was it all being orchestrated in the sense that the Creator was in charge. The Creator seems to have set things up and just let them run on their own, from what we saw. Part of the point of Roger's whole arc is to assert that Creation has free will and is not determined by its Creator--that everything and everyone has a choice, and those choices matter. Which is also why Alex and the Union and all the rest matters, because they too had their choice.

I'll point out that plenty of religious people in THIS world believe that the world, that our entire reality, was created. That doesn't make it "fake" in the sense that you mean. Nor does that make it an illusion. But those people would probably agree that the Creator possesses the power to destroy what was created, too. That destruction doesn't render what was, meaningless.

For that matter, to the extent that our series creators play on the conventions of anime and on the nature of creation a show called the Big O (including the manga in episode 14, the poster in 26, plenty of other references), everything you say about how you see the Big O series in light of episode 26 applies just as strongly to episodes 1-25. Because the whole series is "fake," it is an "illusion," the whole thing is orchestrated by the writers and animators and actors, and the way the story ends really doesn't matter at all.

Except that it clearly does matter. And just because the show is fiction doesn't mean it isn't about real things. Apply that logic to episode 26 and perhaps you'll feel a little better about it.

Narsham

....fine created. But don't get what I'm saying that no matter what happend within paradigm city, in the end the story within paradigm with all the little characters just got erased/rewritten?

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I'll point out that plenty of religious people in THIS world believe that the world, that our entire reality, was created. That doesn't make it "fake" in the sense that you mean. Nor does that make it an illusion. But those people would probably agree that the Creator possesses the power to destroy what was created, too. That destruction doesn't render what was, meaningless.

well... I'm not a big believer in this whole god thing so that might affect the way I interpret the ending.

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For that matter, to the extent that our series creators play on the conventions of anime and on the nature of creation a show called the Big O (including the manga in episode 14, the poster in 26, plenty of other references), everything you say about how you see the Big O series in light of episode 26 applies just as strongly to episodes 1-25. Because the whole series is "fake," it is an "illusion," the whole thing is orchestrated by the writers and animators and actors, and the way the story ends really doesn't matter at all.

Ok that in itself would have been interesting, for a twilight zone episode or somthing. There is a different story within paradigm city that was just abruptly ended without any resoulution.

........hey and back to the topic of the thread. What the hell was the point of the stagelights? If not only to reinforce the stage metaphor. But since when do metaphors fall from the sky and destroy half a city...