User blog comment:Western Gen/Speculations for Season 13/@comment-26306977-20150907223129/@comment-3496661-20150913161253

In response to your questions on the alternative endings, I'll answer it on that page.

True the Meta was mentally unstable, but that wasn't the main cause of his undoing. He was unstable from the very beginning of the Recollections and yet he was still extremely clever, elusive, and a powerful fighter. He dodged several of the Reds' and Tucker's attacks and even withstood a stab from Tucker in n+1. While he was unstable he knew what he was doing and it was not an easy fight. Distraction was more of the cause for the Meta's death. The Reds and Tucker attacked him from all sides and he still managed to block their attacks. Yet because of the group's persistence, they distracted him long enough to attach the tow hook and drag him to his death. As for the Tex drones, I mostly agree with you there, but I never said the Reds and Blues won on their own, I said they fought them; they held their own.

We never really see how many there are of Hargrove's forces, but it's true they won't be manipulated. In terms of little room for strategic maneuvering, do you mean the Reds and Blues have it harder or Hargrove's forces? If the Reds and Blues, Hargove's forces are in an even worse position because they can only enter through a small door, and then they have to get around a table. All the Reds and Blues have to do is have Doc fire a rocket once the enemies enter. This will kill several of them. Then Caboose fires with Freckles and the others follow suit. Tucker can provide defense with his domed energy shield; Epsilon didn't have to run all the enhancements. I mean he was at least able to run Tucker's adaptive camo.

How would Epsilon learn how powerful Hargrove's forces are by entering the ship's systems? That doesn't really make a lot of sense. You make good points on Epsilon not wanting to risk his friends' lives, but the Reds and Blues would have also done whatever they could to prevent Epsilon from dying. Tucker could've had Epsilon use a domed energy shield, or an Overshield, or Active Camo, or whatever enhacement he could. Not all at once, just one/one at a time. And I don't know if he left his memories of the other A.I. to only Tucker but if he did, isn't that putting him in danger? Basically, I still feel their could've been other options for Epsilon.

Yes, Epsilon's moments were very significant. I just wanted more of that. I don't think putting more focus on him would be over dramatizing the story. We would've got to feel and better understand what Epsilon was going through and how he felt about it. His issue was only touched upon in a few episodes (it was here and there) and concluded in a big speech. This wasn't very gradual. I personally needed more because by the end, I didn't feel emotionally connected to Epsilon during his speech. With Doyle, I got that. They focused on his dilemma of being a coward, the problems it caused him, how others were affected by it, how he felt about it, how he took the time to come to terms with it (allowing us to sympathize and feel what he's feeling), and how he accepted the fact that it didn't define who he was.

Carolina: they focused on her fear of having her family die and as a result she began to overwork herself again in order to ensure their protection. Unfortunately, Epsilon was affected by her need to have everything under control. Being unable to beat Sharkface, she pushed Epsilon too far and nearly died. We got to see how she felt about her actions in The Thin Fed Line and while Epsilon got development here too it was mostly focused on Carolina. With Doyle's help, Carolina accepted her mistake and knew that overworking herself wouldn't gurantee her family's safety. She believed in her own abilities.

Basically, these characters went through a journey and I don't think Epsilon's journey should've ended along with the rest of the season. I didn't feel like it was his story to close, just another subplot/issue that came to a resolution. It didn't feel like a resolution to the entire season or trilogy. If we got to see how everyone else reacted to Epsilon's death and Hargrove's comeuppance, it would've been a more fitting ending. The Sangheili's were never an issue to begin with and that alone could've made way to a future story. There can be a resolution and still be reason to continue. All seasons of RvB have done just that. Each one had a resolution and the following season was still able to expand the story. For me, this season didn't resolve the trilogy very well.