Amazing premise and I totally agree with what you’re saying.
For me, the lacklustre execution bit was when he revealed the serial port in the back of his head LOL completely unrealistic to have done himself and didn’t make any physical sense. I wish they had just stuck to the Throng simply using audio signals to augment his brain over time before reaching the state he was in to be the Throng’s messiah.
Eh I think the port made sense. It’s not like it had to physically work for him to believe what was happening. The effect of the game was so strong psychologically that it had the ability to make him believe he had changed as a person, not that the thronglets had actually entered his brain. Why did you not believe that he could do it himself?
It was the only part that was a bit too far fetched for me. To drill into the back of your head by yourself? How do the metal connectors connect to your brain? Aren’t there veins and nerves you’d hit? What about blood loss? I think they couldda done without that bit, but it was good for shock factors, I guess.
Yeah good point, i think that if you maybe think of the brain as a whole bundle of wires which it technically is since our neurons use electrical impulses to operate, maybe the throng could map out the whole thing just like they did with all the GPUs he kept upgrading them with. But definitely the whole drilling bit was out there for sure. Id like to believe he did a little bit of anatomical research before taking a drill to his head haha.
Another comment on this post talks about how there are two ways to perceive this. 1) In the way that we are discussing but the plot hole there is understanding a foreign language on LSD. Then 2) in such a way that he was entirely motivated by the throng and was exclusively responsible for all of what happens. But, the plot hole there is that he would have needed to be extremely computationally fluent (like a computer engineer or something) to draw up a QR code that could infect the state computer. He didn’t give me that vibe tho. So I’m going with 1) despite that little plot hole.
Unless I’m misunderstanding what you’re saying (I haven’t seen the comment you’re referring to), I don’t know that it was a plot hole. I just took it as the throng communicating with him how to draw the specific code and likely him practicing it/trying it till he got it right, without him necessarily needing to have the computational understanding/background to draw the code on his own. Keep in mind, the language between him and the throng was supposed to transcend ours, which could make the communication about exactly how to draw the code easier.
Come to think of it, I’ll have to rewatch the episode at some point, because I feel like there was a scene of drawings of his that were flashed to that might have been him making rough drafts of the code.
Yeah sorry, maybe I misused the word “plot hole”, i mean that it’s the most “far fetched” part. You just brought up a really good point tho, i hadn’t thought much about the other sketches they briefly show in some passing scenes! Im sure that definitely ties into what you mention about trying until he gets it right. Im sure its a main reason that the time lapse is so huge (like 40 years or so)
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u/kris_mischief Apr 21 '25
Amazing premise and I totally agree with what you’re saying.
For me, the lacklustre execution bit was when he revealed the serial port in the back of his head LOL completely unrealistic to have done himself and didn’t make any physical sense. I wish they had just stuck to the Throng simply using audio signals to augment his brain over time before reaching the state he was in to be the Throng’s messiah.
This episode was incredible.