Generation Loss: The Social Experiments.
A title befitting this show, I believe.
I’d like to talk about those last 15 minutes, give or take.
Ranboo & Charlie, the first characters of a show that would grow so exponentially over the course of little over 5 hours.
Ranboo & Charlie, returning to the place where it all began. A first episode of confusion, but not quite fear, turning to a third in which terror engulfed the pair.
Charlie’s death was something that was expected, I’d say. Charlie would give his life to give Ranboo a chance to end the Experiments once and for all, and Ranboo would make it. Charlie’s last words were used to help Ranboo shut the facility down.
He was finished. They had completed the trials. They were free.
So, as any performer does at the end of their show, he bowed. He turned to a room empty of anyone that could applaud him and took his final bow, announcing what had to be their Finale.
Fitting. The finish was in the same room as the beginning, but the veil had been torn down.
Victory wasn’t an outcome that had ever been possible.
Ranboo had achieved all he could, but the game wouldn’t end. Nothing he did mattered, not really. It was all entertainment for them, even after he thought he had broken free.
His final bow was followed by a betrayal.
Tied to the wall, televisions projecting his greatest failures all around them with the threat of death looming over him, he was faced with a choice.
They could Live. Participate in these games forever— after all, he has been an interesting protagonist to follow— and Live. Or he could Die. End it all, right here, right now. He would be free.
But the choice wasn’t his, now was it? No, no it was ours. The audience that had been following him, that had been controlling him, would decide his fate.
They couldn’t play the games again. They had already hurt so many people. They had already been hurt too much.
Ranboo begged for his death. It was the only mercy that could be given now.
