hey sorry we put your players in a time loop. yeah they can only win by learning, and they can only learn by playing. yeah grant o’brien is carboloading next to their podiums. yeah they know that x equals 8 so y must equal 6. no they can’t use the ladder. yeah now they’re doing the wenis. sorry.
one thing i haven't seen samuel dalton theorists mention is that they never actually caught him. by the time the players escape the greenroom and get to the game changer set, the bomb is still there, but samuel dalton is not.
they don't catch him, they don't stop him, they don't send him back in time or anything. they just kind of defuse the bomb and move on to the end of the game. he is not mentioned again.
i've seen many theories about samuel dalton being "back," but he didn't actually go anywhere, as far as we know.
I think that when we tell teenagers that their lives will be over if they don't have the most perfect possible trajectory through the education system, that this is, perhaps, if I may be bold, not good for them,