Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-99.114.158.21-20131111024513/@comment-4616231-20140507061219

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.