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haastera · 22 hours
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I don't want to get my (or your) hopes up, but the more I think about it, the more I love the Zombie drone attack idea for S1's finale.
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Not just the Murder Drones, but the corpse spire as well, since every drone in that spire was improperly disassembled (somewhat ironically).
N, V, and J having to literally fight their past as every single worker drone they've killed and added to the spire over the years is reanimated by the Solver. Similar to how it seized control of all the worker drones in the Gala hall.
Even better if N & V are fighting to buy time for Thad and Lizzy to escape while J is fighting to avenge Tessa after being convinced of the truth by N, realizing that CYN always intended on her being eaten alongside the rest of them.
All three of them working together as a squad for the first time in the series against the Solver and it's army of undead drones, and although they probably wouldn't win, they'd die resisting their puppet master to the very end and allow the others to escape the planet.
Besides, it'd be such a great moment to see every single visor in the corpse spire light up with a yellow X all at once as N watches on in horror. The entire structure crumbling down in an avalanche of reanimated corpses with the single minded directive of dragging their killers down into the grave alongside them.
Wil this happen? Possibly, but I wouldn't put too much hope into it.
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haastera · 2 days
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I'm torn, because UZI being in Solver limbo would provide an easy path to writing a season finale confrontation between her and the Solver/CYN, but all the detail based evidence points towards UZI legitimately being in space.
Regardless, now that the cross cure has been destroyed UZI needs to find some way to utilize her solver powers without being at constant risk of possession.
We might get an ending which combines both worlds. UZI defeats the Solver on Copper 9 and ascends to gain full control over her Solver powers, but the planet's destruction has already been set in motion and cannot be reversed. The surviving characters rescue UZI as the planet collapses using J's ship and travel to Earth to defeat the heart of the Solver instead of merely cutting off the hydra's heads.
My prediction timeline for episode 8.
It starts simple, there are a couple things that I think are guaranteed to happen in the beginning, such as:
GLITCH intro
J, Thad, Lizzy and Khan fight
J ether joins them or dies
V is revealed to be not dead, in eldritch form or otherwise
They go down and check on N, probably with J's help
Then the timeline splits because of one thing: Is this really space or some strange solver limbo?
IF IT IS SPACE:
V and N meet up (que a lot of crying)
The planet gets a bit wonky (starts trying to eat them)
They run to the ship
someone or several people in the squad die
They get on the ship
They go to space and watch the planet implode
They retrieve Uzi (que N and Uzi's angsty Wall-e space dance)
[That or everybody just dies]
IF IT ISN'T SPACE (IS ACTUALLY SOLVER LIMBO)
Uzi (IN "SPAAAAAAAAAAACE") B plot starts
About half of the above timeline still happens
We meet the real Cyn (DUN DUN DUN)
Something something The AS broke Cyn's deal
Uzi makes a deal with Cyn, """killing""" The AS
Uzi ASCENDS
Less people die, people still do, I'm just saying less do
Copper-9 lives!
And some last few things that I think are guaranteed to happen at the end of the episode:
Some characters leave Copper-9 on the spaceship (not all of them because of A: Death B: just choosing not to go or C: not enough space [heh]) to go to another planet, likely earth
We are teased with some new (likely Disassembly Drone) characters from ether Earth or even, god forbid, the oven...
Credits (+ some post credits thing)
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haastera · 4 days
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It'd be wild if this scene is directly hinting at the truth about Pomni and the others being digital copies.
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Fundamentally she is no different from Gummigoo, she just doesn't know it yet.
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haastera · 5 days
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The fact that Cain can lose track of who is who in the first place indicates that there isn't much difference between the main cast and Cain's NPCs.
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If the TADC cast were real humans wearing VR headsets it should be fairly easy for Cain to keep track of who is human and who is an NPC.
Jax is flagged as Player 1, Pomni is Player 2, Ragatha is Player 3, etc.
Cain being able to potentially get them mixed up means that there isn't much of a difference between them from his perspective, and could point towards the digital copies of real people idea being more likely compared to the VR full dive one.
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haastera · 5 days
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Maybe all the human characters in TADC are unwilling AI beta testers.
Cain needs to study how a digital copy of a human mind reacts to the Amazing Digital Circus, explaining why it would be imperative for him to keep track of which characters are Human, (or modeled off a human), and which characters are NPCs of his own creation.
Basically creating an immersive, VR video game and using AI based off real humans to test it prior to release. Probably modeled off humans who work at C&A.
Perhaps the max party size for TADC the game is 6 players, explaining why whenever someone abstracts another human character is added.
There are a lot of glitches and unfinished areas because the game itself is still in development, with Cain being unable to control the main cast as they currently fulfill the role of human players despite never being alive in the real world.
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haastera · 5 days
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This may be a stupid question, but what is the orientation of the mansion column thing?
Is the front or back facing the sinkhole?
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If it's the back it means the mansion is destroyed.
If it's the front it means the mansion is not destroyed, at least not in the first photo. The hole is directly in front of the mansion, roughly where N is standing in his brief Ep4 memory.
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^N standing in front of the mansion.
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haastera · 6 days
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It wasn't for this photo everything would be so simple.
Gala incident->Murder Drones created at the mansion->Earth consumed
This one photo is unfathomably frustrating because it complicates everything.
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Did JCJ simply not notice all the infected drones when it was searching the mansion? They didn't recover any for analysis? Had zero questions about the Murder Drones, content to leave them for the Solver to finish it's work and unleash them on humanity?
Did the Solver even utilize the Murder Drones against Earth? Or did it destroy humanity on Earth by itself and then create the Murder Drones as a weapon to be used against the exo-planets?
How did the mansion go from this to being destroyed by the core sinkhole?
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Did the corporation just leave her there alone once they completed their investigation? They didn't detain her somewhere else for further questioning or quarantine the site off? They weren't suspicious that out of all the guests she was the only one still alive and completely unharmed?
If she killed the JCJ investigation team immediately after they arrived and formed the sinkhole, how does JCJ have the first photo and why did she wait for them in the first place?
Now that we know the truth about Tessa are these photos even real?
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haastera · 11 days
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Nanite acid's lack of usage is a major plot convivence. I'd guess its simply a case of Liam Vickers writing a cool, powerful weapon designed specially to kill Solver hosts (like Nori) without fully thinking of the future implications of such a weapon's existence.
If you want to be charitable, you could say that the Murder Drones avoid using it to prevent damage to the drone corpses they use to construct the spire. Assuming the Solver does want to consume them, I doubt the Absolute Solver would appreciate having the AI cores melted by nanite acid beforehand. Nor do dissolved bodies make for structurally sound building material.
There is also still an element of risk to its usage despite the neutralizing saliva.
However, Doll's continued existence past Ep3 is solely due to N & V's arbitrary decision to not use nanite acid against her.
Maybe it will be utilized more actively whenever new enemy Murder Drones are introduced.
I had a thought recently and the Nanite acid tails are basically useless. They hardly get used in the show other than the pilot, and when it was used in 4 it failed.
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haastera · 15 days
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SD-MAX & SD-ALI
I think I've identified who SD-Max & SD-ALI are in the mansion and graveyard.
MAX and ALI are probably the two workers seen partially transformed in the library at the end of Ep5. MAX is the one who grabs N's leg.
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MAX (Left) and ALI (Right) at the beginning of Ep5
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MAX & ALI at the end of Ep5
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MAX & ALI as Murder Drones in Ep6
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ALI (same hair)
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MAX (only visible male model Murder Drone out of the 8)
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Their cores are the only two with fully visible names
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haastera · 16 days
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8 Oven Cores & 8 Heads
Considering that I've watched Ep6 in excess of 50 times, I have no idea how I didn't notice this before.
There are 8 corrupted cores in the oven. 2 sets of 2 jars stacked on top of each other and 4 single jars.
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Coincidentally, there are 8 Murder Drone corpses who still have their heads in the graveyard.
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^7 visible here in this frame. 1 to the right of the hallway, 4 inside the hallway, and 2 left of the hallway.
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^1 visible here (UZI is illuminating it in the second frame)
An equal number of cores in the oven and Murder Drones with unique designs in the graveyard.
What do you think the odds are that this is an unintentional coincidence?
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haastera · 17 days
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Anyone else remember that part of the GltichX stream where Liam Vicker's said Ep2 was originally going to involve a sort of zombie attack where the Solver would reanimate and control dead drones, (or something to that effect), before it was entirely re-written?
What if, and this is purely hypothetical, one of the reasons the Ep2 idea was scrapped is so a modified version of it could be used for the season finale instead?
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All the dead Disassembly Drones in Cabin Fever Labs are resurrected and controlled by the Solver due to the corrupted oven cores escaping their containment.
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The protagonists have to fight against a tidal wave of Zombie Murder Drones spilling forth from CFL to prevent them (N, Lizzy, Thad, etc) from escaping the planet.
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haastera · 17 days
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Ep8 is the most anticipated I've ever been for an episode of this series, even more than Ep7 despite the long wait.
As while I have a vague sense of what will happen, I have no idea how it will happen (if that makes sense).
It's going to be a difficult 1-2 month wait until the first promotional images for the season finale drop.
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haastera · 17 days
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Also worth mentioning the, "N's Final Form", promotional video as potential supporting evidence of this idea.
What will happen to N in Episode 8?
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As we have already seen, Glitch has a product where the characters are depicted with a showcase. At the moment, we just have to wait for N. But just his image tells us what is happening in episode 8.
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Judging by the silhouette, it is clear that N has disformed. His hand looks much different than in the mutation of AbsoluteSolver.
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Let's go back to the beginning. From the very beginning, V had a memory of what was happening. Therefore, she knows a lot more about navarnik (ahem, than the viewer). I think she avoided N for a reason.
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She also asked N and Uzi NOT to interfere, which tells us that they will cause more "trouble". As Cyn said, in episode 7, N did what she needed to do.
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Empathy between N and Uzi was planned from the very beginning, or Cyn failed to achieve its goals. And for this to happen, there was no way N had to get his memories back.
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Or, it is the main problem for Absolute Solver.
Let's go back to the beginning of the theory of this post. As I said, N mutates. And this is hinted at by the description itself from the product website:
A hapless drone, host to an enternal entity - will she succumb, or will she ascend?
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I assume that N has its own Absolut Solver, only, which performs "its" function. This is indicated by the display itself at N:
"AbsoluteSolver" blocked by administration "Cyn".
In conclusion, in series 8, without the help of the administration, N will stay (or partially), Solver. And it will be against the background of emotional pressure.
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haastera · 18 days
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The best argument I have for the Earth idea is the simple fact that these two must have traveled to Copper 9 from another physical location.
If not Earth, then where did they come from?
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haastera · 18 days
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In hindsight, maybe the reason why these ships are filled with stuff from Tessa's room & the mansion is to imply that's where these two came from.
Additionally, immediately after this scene there is a close up of the mansion key and Earth.
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Again, I don't think this is solely foreshadowing for Ep5 because we already knew that this Tessa was the same Tessa from N's Ep2 mansion flashback. We literally get a close up shot of her name tag. There is zero room for confusion about this being a new character.
This scene is trying to indicate that these two came from Earth, and from the mansion specifically in order to provide early evidence that the Solver's later Ep6 claim is a false one intended to manipulate N.
The A.S is all about deceiving, tricking, and manipulating its prey. In Ep2 it could have simply killed all the workers via brute force, but instead choose to lure them in with holograms one by one, an act it evidently enjoyed.
Even if it wasn't really all that necessary to create an elaborate ruse to manipulate N, I can definitely see the Solver going through the effort of doing so just because it would find it entertaining if N was the one to kill UZI.
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haastera · 19 days
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I think this key is another piece of foreshadowing that the Solver was deceiving N during the Ep6 computer scene and Earth still exists in a state intact enough to visit.
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It was already established to the audience that Tessa was the same Tessa from the mansion (as far as we knew) when she was introduced directly into the story at the end of Ep3. The key didn't reveal or foreshadow anything about Ep5. The physical key itself wasn't even needed.
it is arguably more important after Ep5 because now the viewer knows what it is for.
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The combination of the ship key, mansion key, and miniature Earth all on the keychain seems like it's trying to imply that the survivors of S1 will use the spacecraft to reach Earth, and eventually make it to the Elliot mansion.
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haastera · 19 days
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Despite the delay, TADC Ep2 releasing on May 3rd is an encouraging sign that Ep8 should be out in late June to early July. Technically outside of the initial Spring 2024 release window (ends on June 20th), but not by much. That's not a super long wait.
So like
We’ll be normal about TADC getting content
Right?
Right??
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