Quote:blackaeronaut wrote:
Quote:Yeah, but they imply^H^H^H^H^H^H outright state that the end is always the same!!! The only point this doesn't bear out is in the first game.* Unless the DLC goes in an otherwise different direction, I'm not going to hold out for hope on this game much longer.Not exactly. The line in question:
Quote:Constants and variables. There's always a lighthouse, you, me, a Songbird. But sometimes something's different... yet the same.
We start in different oceans, but end up on the same shore. It always starts with a lighthouse.
"End up on the same shore" is not the same as "end on the same shore". The Lighthouse is that shore, and by implication, every Bioshock protagonist will go to a lighthouse in the course of their journey. However, where they go from there is capable of being drastically different. Columbia is not Rapture, and the reasons behind the people manipulating Booker and the ones controlling Jack are drastically different.
As one thread put it, the constants are there. There is a Man, who starts at a Lighthouse, and must rescue a Prisoner from their Protector. But what happens after that... becomes very, very different.
Even in the context of Bioshock Infinite itself, constants only breed variables. We see all the variable paths Infinite could take leading to the constant that is its single ending... which leads to the finale scene, which is constant, but presents infinite variables where it could go from there. The loop is broken. Things have started anew. Where do we go from here?
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."