Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-99.114.158.21-20131111024513/@comment-25540103-20150826030028

Western Gen wrote: Yeah, I figured as much too. The whole concept of it just doesn't really seem to match up. They talk about this "simulation" and how their actions were monitored every second of every day, or something along those lines, but... it seems more like they were thrown into a canyon and forgotten about? And no one really gave a shit about them? Which, is odd in it's own right, considering the Alpha was there, but it's even stranger because no one from PF seemed to do anything about it. Were they still trying to fragment Alpha? This is one hell of a torture scenario then. Tex dying in S5 would've been the thing to do it, but... it didn't. Were they trying to protect the Alpha? I know they say the troops are "simulated", but even so, dropping him into the middle of a WAR ZONE to protect him seems ridiculous. Case in point: the tank.

Oh, I only remembered him just now, but VIC at least was probably in on the whole simulation thing. Except he barely influenced anything. All I can really recall is him just going "go down to the caves lol" near the end of the season.

There's a ton of unanswered questions and ambiguity about the whole thing being a simulation. Honestly, the idea could've worked but would've been better off rewritten. As it is now though, it's best they don't try and explain it too much or else we risk a bunch of gaping plotholes and other things that just don't make sense. Yea, maybe they were meant to be tested by various simulations while in Blood Gulch, but maybe Project Freelancer purposly disregarded that specific Outpost because the Alpha was there, and it might be suspicious that there are 2 Leonard Churches, one a director of a top secret project, and the other a simulation trooper. So, maybe they thought that it would be best if no one remembered about that outpost so Alpha could never be found.

Another thing that kinda doesn't add up, is how Tex reacted when she saw Alpha in Season 1. In Season 10, she broke into MOI to break the Alpha out, but left him there because he was too fragmented to remember anything. But in Season 1, she was like "ok you are here cool."