Since you seem like an expert at this game and understanding storytelling. I have a few questions, if you don't mind.
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1. In my opinion - but it's just my guess, I'm not an insider - Season 2 should have been the final season in Inceton's original intentions, but the pledger on Patreon were disappointed by its crappy ending and voted massively to have a Season 3 to fix it.
By then, the new writer taking on Season 3 was stuck in a situation a lot like what the fictional writer Paul Sheldon faces in
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had to come up with some quick narrative fixes that weren’t exactly built into the story from the start. In other words, don’t expect the twist from
“it was all a simulation” to “no, the AI actually lied and it all happened in the real world” to feel perfectly smooth or logically airtight—it’s a bit clunky, and that’s understandable.
But here’s the thing:
when you’re forced to “fix” a finale that the audience hated, you’re basically cornered into taking these kinds of liberties. It’s not new—Collodi did it with
Pinocchio, which was originally supposed to end with the protagonist hanged, but angry readers wouldn’t have it, so he brought him back to life by revealing that the dead girl was actually a fairy.
Dallas did something similar when they lost viewers after Bobby Ewing’s death—they simply stated that the entire previous season was “all a dream” and brought him back.
Sometimes storytelling demands a bit of improvisation when reality (or fandom) intervenes.
Let's say that the plot twist
from simulation to reality is
as smooth as it could be, considering it wasn’t planned in advance.
2. Well... basically what I wrote in the "Heavier spoiler"
here, plus the MC growing more mature and trying to fix things with all the girls who turned out to be disappointed/damaged by his reckless behavior after the time moved forward by one day.
3. I won't spoil that much.
Also, since you don’t use spoiler tags when replying to mine, I don’t want other readers accidentally seeing something that could ruin their experience.