Major spoilers below for the entirety of Netflix 1899So be careful if you haven’t watched it in its entirety yet.
When dark Creators Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar set out to craft their sophomore spin-off effort on Netflix, they already had the confidence of throwing everything but the kitchen sink at viewers, and Bending type 1899 is verifiable evidence of such storytelling bravado. From start to finish, the season’s eight-bending episodes were contrary to expectations and straightforward planning. Its many characters seem to be traveling through time, space, and their memory banks on their way to a truly insane finale whose final scene folds the entire shebang in on itself. (Not quite different dark Itself.)
Where some TV shows pull the rug out from under viewers with a last-minute twist, 1899 It disrupts viewers’ understanding of what carpet is, and suggests we may have been standing on things incorrectly all along. So let’s try to find out what the hell happened to Maura from Emily Beecham and Ike Andreas Beecham everyone else in the casteven knowing that we don’t actually aim to fully understand what’s going on just yet, given Friese and bo Odar’s already-designed three-season plan.
How did 1899 end and what the creators said about it
1899Almost certainly, “The Key” will be one of the most baffling TV finales available with a Netflix subscription, due to his revelations that Monty plays three cards with nesting dolls. (If that doesn’t make sense, he’s on brand for this.) None of Kerberos The characters viewers have followed all season have been on real boats in the 19th century (that we know of), as the final minutes of the episode seem to show Maura waking up from an oversleep, surrounded by others on a spaceship dubbed Prometheus. We are led to believe that her husband, Daniel, was successful in helping her escape the simulation cycle she was apparently responsible for, and that she is now hurtling through space on October 19, 2099.
Furthermore, the supposed brother Maura was searching for earlier in the season, Ciaran, was implied to be another coherent, sentient existence within Prometheus, although she was not overtly pleased to reconnect with him. Via a computer interface that looks too outdated to be part of a spaceship 77 years from now, Ciaran greets her in reality, as it were, allowing the credits to begin rolling with bemused viewers’ voices rambling about various beginning questions.
Anyone mired in a lack of confident understanding shouldn’t be so hard on themselves, as writer Jantje Friese put it this way. IndieWire:
What we constantly do is manipulate expectations. You read code, expect something, and feel safe doing so. You think you get it. We break this expectation, and then hope to give you a satisfactory answer. At least at the end of Season 3, but hopefully already during Season 1.
Anyone looking forward to the mental inversion no doubt found the Season 1 finale quite satisfying, but note that the spaceship twist “satisfying answer” doesn’t necessarily mean it’s 100% true on the inside. 1899future. Once you open a file matrix A maze of simulation, it’s hard to stop, but Friese also made it clear that the creative team knows where everything goes, even if not all of the puzzle pieces are available to add to the first eight episodes. In her words:
We always know the end point, the end of the journey, and the biggest reveal of them all. Regardless, throughout the process, you’ll find pieces that haven’t been included in Season 1 yet, but you know you’ll want to incorporate them at some point. It’s having some building blocks to go by and knowing where you’re going, but also the flexibility for things that are happening around you to serve as input.
Not even the sky is the limit 1899The series’ ups and downs are troubling, so let’s look at some theories as to what might happen at this point in the story while hopefully the show’s early popularity and acclaim can help convince Netflix executives to renew it for two more seasons.
4 theories about what happens in the final scene of 1899
- Maura is definitely still trapped inside the group’s simulation.
Just because one of our main characters, whose memory has always been questioned, turns up in a completely different place than what viewers saw previously, it’s certainly not courtroom-certified evidence that her current whereabouts are the truest version of reality. But how realistic is it to think that Kieran taped that note to the electronic screen long before Maura woke up, specifically for her to find? And that the note contained the same phrase that was written in the ship’s books? I’ll also bring up the point above, that the show itself looked like something from the ’80s, not the ’90s, so unless that ship has been hurtling through space for over 100 years, I’m not convinced it’s a real craft.
- The passengers of Kerberos/Prometheus are actually prisoners
While I may not entirely think of the starship placement as legitimate, there is definitely some sort of connection yet to be revealed as to why all of these people are in the same locations together. And since one of the only common elements among the various occupants is “a past that hinges on some form of tragedy or desperate reaction to conflict,” it is entirely possible that they were all lumped together as related to past wrongdoing. As far as that could play into why Mora seems to be the leader of the group, and how the other characters match up, I’m not sure. But I can’t imagine all together being entirely dependent on randomness.
- Maura’s husband and son died
This probably wouldn’t be too wild an assumption, considering that Daniel and Elliot constantly stand out from the rest of the ship’s passengers, which is clearly by design. It seems increasingly implied that Maura and Daniel designed their first simulation, that of their son’s residence, as a way of dealing with grief over the boy’s departure, with the simulation’s development exploding from that point on. I think if nothing had happened to Daniel, Maura might not have crossed the line with her beginning– Oblique layers for simulated scenarios. I think being alone in life helped her force her hand in this way, and her mourning also led to Daniel and Elliot being added to the digital concoction. Part of me wants to go ahead and guess that Maura’s father and brother either died as well or are a figment of her imagination, but I’ll probably save these theories for after season two.
- The entire year 1899 is a moral Turing test
Even if many of the passengers were not necessarily bound by prisoner status, it was noted that the simulation was a frequent failure due to the characters making wrong decisions and leaning more on their feelings than cold logic. So what if the allegorical flight of Kerberos (Three-headed inferno) to Prometheus (The God of Fire is credited with creating humanity) Is it really a way for Mora/Ciaran to test the values and decision-making skills of programming an AI? I’m not sure if I think Maura is the actual human in this theory, or if it’s more of an advanced artificial sense, but I think the concept of her being a test will carry over into other iterations of “reality”.
1899The entire first season can be streamed on Netflix. Head to our website 2022 TV schedule Let’s see what else will appear on the small screen before the end of the year, while we have it Premiere guide 2023 All that will arrive in the subsequent months.
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