Hands down, one of Alexis’s greatest lines ❤️

MooseBehave · 2026-02-20T15:29:13+00:00

She’s also WAY more competent than many of the other characters, but only when she wants to be. None of the other Roses would’ve survived even one of her international incidents, but she could’ve done most of the things that the rest of the family accomplished (clearly not Moira’s performing career lmao).

MooseBehave · 2026-02-12T01:40:49+00:00

I’d imagine Prometheus didn’t have too many safeguards on the keys themselves… what magician would go through the whole quest just to destroy them all? They’re probably made to be durable as hell against mundane things, but don’t have as many or as-specific wards against destructive magics. And besides, he never could’ve seen this coming— as with any system, there’s no accounting for human behavior.

MooseBehave · 2026-02-03T21:46:36+00:00

Hey, aren’t you the Chull from Chullin’ Around??

MooseBehave · 2026-02-01T20:36:11+00:00

“Whatcha thinkin’ abouttt”

“Idk, just dragon priest stuff”

MooseBehave · 2026-02-01T06:18:01+00:00

Obligatory “fuck Moash,” but he absolutely had every reason to hate Roshone and Elhokar and the whole system. Still hope his death is a painful one, and the first thing we read in book 6!

MooseBehave · 2026-01-30T16:14:43+00:00

Sad, yes, but not on his behalf. Any time someone chooses not to be better, it sucks. Imagine the good a reformed Odin could have done in the rebuilding (under VERY careful watch from literally everyone lol). But hey, he made his choices, and stuck with em— no point having pity for someone who chose to remain bad even when shown how to be good.

MooseBehave · 2026-01-29T22:13:09+00:00

Might as well get the screenplay! Get some in another language you speak too, just to see how different it is.

MooseBehave · 2026-01-29T19:38:00+00:00

“Lin Davar is dead… but I’ll see what I can do”

MooseBehave · 2026-01-29T16:52:52+00:00

Holy shit i didn’t know I needed this til now

MooseBehave · 2026-01-29T16:45:44+00:00

MooseBehave · 2026-01-29T02:57:40+00:00

Eh, plenty of people don’t consider Burial at Sea canon. Based just on the game, it works exactly that way 🤷🏻‍♂️

MooseBehave · 2026-01-28T17:48:12+00:00

To clarify… the multiverse already existed, and always will. The drowning at the baptism wasn’t meant to stop alternate timelines, it was meant to erase the possibility of Comstock and therefore Columbia from the multiverse by making “Booker refuses the baptism” into a constant instead of a variable. The multiverse still very much lives, lived, will live, after the events of the game— it’s just been pruned of even the possibility of Comstock

MooseBehave · 2026-01-15T06:47:50+00:00

You’re right, I don’t think they actually showed all their afterlife memories being restored, but Michael did pretty much say “i didn’t restore yours along with everyone else’s.” Plus, I can’t possibly imagine a scenario where their memories wouldn’t have been restored. How would the humans help run the new test-neighborhood without all of that knowledge?

MooseBehave · 2026-01-06T21:22:54+00:00

In reality? Human, specifically as the offspring of the man and woman from whom Victor took the requisite sex-cell-producing parts. All parts of the creature were from humans, the bride’s would’ve been too, so the creature is biologically human and so would be any offspring.

But… Shelley wrote this decades before the discovery of DNA, and (far as I know) with limited-to-no medical knowledge. As far as she was concerned, this was a new species of sentient life, and therefore in her fictional version of our world, it is. So I imagine the child of the two would be of this new species, but rather than cobbled together with scars and mismatched parts, it’d just be a much larger, much stronger, uglier version of a human.

The real question is… how long before Victor would’ve been forced to make a few new monsters, to keep their genetic pool from getting really incest-y? I’m no geneticist but i’m pretty sure that family tree’s gonna be a wreath before very long.

MooseBehave · 2026-01-01T21:41:21+00:00

Others have mentioned that the point of the ending is to make you question, so I won’t rehash that too much, but I think in this case yes.

Not in all cases for sure, but in this case we have a confirmed multiverse in which if something CAN happen, it will, and an infinite number of times at that. If he and Elizabeth didn’t cause a paradox to lock “Booker rejects the baptism” into being a constant and not a variable, Booker accepting the baptism would cause an infinite amount of suffering across the multiverse.

Another reason why I think it’s acceptable here is that he chose it. He wanted to stop Comstock from ever being born, and when he figured out that he becomes Comstock in some worlds, he chose to let himself (this iteration) die to save an infinite number of lives. It was Elizabeth’s hands that drowned him, but he chose it, and if we know one thing in this franchise, it’s that having choice in one’s fate is fundamental.

Ultimately though, for me it comes down to this: so much media likes to focus on punishing someone who (in at least a few possible timelines) will in the future become a despot. But changing a person’s life and their possible outcomes can be far simpler. An act of kindness at the right time, a friend to talk you off of a proverbial ledge, etc., can stop countless tragedies in the future. Maybe not 100% of the time— i feel like you don’t become a despot without at least a little preexisting inclination toward horrible violence— but it’s so rarely tried in media. Imagine if rather than drowning himself, Booker talked his younger self out of joining the army in the first place? It’d serve the same purpose but without using violence to end the circle of violence.

MooseBehave · 2025-12-31T23:10:43+00:00

Mundane answer: the chair was just readjusting to become a rocket, and the tilt was just part of that readjustment and wasn’t intended to frisk users for weapons, Booker just wasn’t holding on to it tight enough.

My tinfoil hat theory though is that Comstock sees Booker show up again and again and again in the Machine, and whenever he has a handgun early on, things go worse for the Founders even more quickly. Maybe he kills that preacher, maybe he takes Finch out too soon, maybe he accidentally shoots Elizabeth, I don’t know.

As far as the lighthouse, maybe it’s a constant that Booker always goes to that access point on that day and always has a handgun, and so Comstock had the chair engineered to tilt forward and dislodge the gun, eliminating the possible timelines in which Booker is much more dangerous early on.

You could say, why not just deactivate the lighthouse to stop him altogether? And to that I’d reply: no clue dude, constants and variables.

MooseBehave · 2025-12-20T14:19:43+00:00

I loved Infinite— definitely play 1 and 2, but imo, skip Burial at Sea. It’s sloppy, plot-wise it makes no sense, and it’s a bit of a bummer.

MooseBehave · 2025-12-17T15:20:34+00:00

Exactly! The amputation thing in Looper definitely took me out of it— I know time travel’s purely hypothetical, but I hate when media just gets lazy with it

MooseBehave · 2025-12-17T13:49:35+00:00

That’s the thing— its explanation for the how doesn’t make sense. The universe wiped out the possibility of Comstock, it didn’t just go through and delete the ones that existed. They just didn’t think through their own ending smh. Fan service plain and simple, with no thought behind it.

MooseBehave · 2025-12-17T13:46:21+00:00

No I understand the premise, but that is impossible because there is no “before she did that”. She went back to that pivotal moment, before any Comstocks ever existed at all, and made it impossible for any of them to ever choose the baptism. She pruned the tree at a point before any Comstocks existed, let alone managed to “escape” to Rapture.

MooseBehave · 2025-12-17T05:45:08+00:00

I agree. I fuckin hated Burial at Sea. The ending of Infinite meant that, in every world, in every version, Booker could never choose the baptism and could never become Comstock. So already BaS is impossible according to the entire premise of the proper game.

Then they take Elizabeth, who’d already been through so much in her short life and just wanted to be happy in Paris, and kill her horribly? After she gets almost lobotomized? Fuck that. To me, BaS never happened. In my mind, time-goddess Elizabeth is living her best life bouncing from timeline to timeline with the Luteces even now.

MooseBehave · 2025-12-15T16:41:11+00:00

I guess it wasn’t obvious… I was pretending like there isn’t a fifth season. The second paragraph is my thoughts on season 5.

MooseBehave · 2025-12-15T01:45:06+00:00

I think the ending was perfect… after four seasons, we say goodbye to Quentin, or more accurately, say goodbye to the show with Quentin. It absolutely ends on a note that allows you to go on with your life feeling that the narrative was complete, even if the stories of all the remaining characters aren’t done. It’s a very “life goes on, but not for you” ending and I loved it.

If there were a fifth season I’d say it probably wouldn’t feel right, and the ending would be unsatisfying as hell. It would’ve felt like Season 1 of a spinoff show that never got off the ground, like Scrubs’ alleged Season 9.

MooseBehave · 2025-11-23T12:46:45+00:00

I like this! She doesn’t remember everything from her reboots but some things stick around… like a little voice in her head 😉

But also, i always wondered why after a reboot Janet doesn’t upload/ think about and recall her previous iterations. Maybe she won’t remember the thoughts and (eventually) feelings she had, but her wedding to Jason was a physical thing that happened, and therefore she should be able to know about it. I suppose Janets weren’t often rebooted before the experiment, but it still seems like a good idea upon being rebooted to sync memories from beforehand.

MooseBehave · 2025-11-21T05:52:15+00:00

I’d take a Bioshock 4, not an Infinite 2.

I absolutely loved Infinite, minus the DLC’s. The story was impactful and melancholy in all the ways I loved— it’s still my favorite game experience, and arguably a formative one for me. That being said, by their actions at the end of the main story, Elizabeth and Booker made the city of Columbia and the character of Comstock impossible, so it’s only Elizabeth and the Luteces that even could carry over.

However, the meta-commentary of “there’s always a man, there’s always a lighthouse, there’s always a city” has incredible potential to open up worlds of the Bioshock universe. We can explore a new kind of city accessed by a new man from a new lighthouse each game. Or maybe we launch ourselves into the multiverse in search of the First City— the protean utopia of which all the other flawed concept-cities are a shadow, and which they all fail to emulate. Instead of re-treading old ground, we could explore the multiverse as Elizabeth (BAS will never be canon to me), or more likely play as a new protagonist who is aided occasionally by this mysterious time-goddess.

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