User blog comment:Western Gen/Speculations for Season 13/@comment-26306977-20150907223129/@comment-10870881-20150912023851

I've stated here (http://rvb.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Jon_Archer/That_was_it!) why I think the ambiguous ending was better than the alternatives. I don't think that the events of the season could've been resolved here in a satisfying way, not so easily.

The Meta and Tex bots aren't a great comparisonto make here, as the Meta was extremely mentaly unstable and his ultimate defeat was as a result of that, he was easily distracted and manipulated into certain actions, it's a bit inaccurate to say that you defeated a bear when you beat it by pushing it while it's at the edge of a cliff. The Tex bots were established to be flawed from the beginning, the flashbacks showed Carolina being on about an equal level with Tex, then in the present she beat up about 50 of them before crying about getting punched once. Then once again, they took advantage of the unstable nature of the Texes (Tex's? Texs?) to win, they specifically said that there were too many of them. The Pirates that they're dealing with in the Staff of Charon are numerous and unlikely to be vulnerable to manipulation, they're also in a confined narrow space, with little room for strategic manoeuvring. It's definitely not an easy fight.

Epsilon had access to the Staff's systems, he likely knew exactly how powerful the Pirates were, and everything else about their situation. He may have had faith in their abilities, but that doesn't mean that he's going to risk their lives on it, that's one of the reasons why we have medical aid for things like giving birth, you want to have the best chances for success.

Just because Epsilon didn't have as many moments as other characters, that doesn't make those moments less significant. The trailer stated Epsilon's death early on, this wasn't a revelation, this was a gradual passage. The other characters all had revelations, a turning point, which demanded time in the spotlight. Epsilon's story has been trudging through the season, slowing down to this point. We didn't need to focus on him, because that would imply way more confliction and insecurity than he had, overly dramatising his story. As the quote goes, "This is how the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper". And which is more appropriate of an old creature dying, a loud fanfare or peaceful acceptance?

And as I said before, a straight-out resolution wouldn't have been a good ending to the season. Even without the Chairman, there's plenty more unresolved issues, like the fact that the Sanghellis now know about the planet sized toy they left in the attic, as do the UNSC. As you said, the story isn't over. But the chapter shouldn't end without reason to continue.