6/1/2023 0 Comments Bioshock infinite explainedLet's face it, the Handymen have it just as bad as the Big Daddies, if not worse: Mr Bubbles and co were brainwashed and effectively mindless by the time of Jack's arrival, so they didn't have to cope with seeing their entire lives slip through their fingers and at least the Big Daddies had friends and companions in the form of the Little Sisters. And on fair-day, this poor bastard was pushed out onto a stage and told to sit there while everyone in Colombia gawked at him. And then, as if losing any chance at a normal life wasn't bad enough, the Founders demanded services in return: he was put to work killing people (even worse if the Handyman was a civilian beforehand), making him even more feared by his fellow citizens. only to end up getting permanently grafted to a huge, awkward and decidedly ugly body. Learning a little more about the Handymen makes this scene really depressing: before being made into a cyborg, this guy had a life of his own, likely a family then, after suffering debilitating injuries or terminal illness, he was given a chance to survive and possibly even live forever. At the beginning of the game, you see a Handyman on display before a large crowd far from being proud of his new body, he's hunched, cowering, trying to cover his face and jerking in alarm at every camera flash. And then it turns out she was faking it so she could whack Booker in the face with a wrench. She just breaks down in tears for the longest time, utterly crushed. When Elizabeth finally realizes the truth after all of her excitement, she doesn't respond. ![]() Booker doesn't immediately tell Elizabeth that she's actually a package he was sent to retrieve, and he even tells her that he'll take her to Paris when they escape Columbia.Without her Comstock would just be another crazy small time cult leader. The entire sorry state of affairs, the building of Columbia and all its ills, Elizabeth's dimensional kidnapping, lifelong imprisonment, and later emotional and physical torture, ALL of it traces back to the fact that Rosalind Lutece managed to contact her male alternate dimensional counterpart, brought him to her dimension so they could be together as brother and sister, and made a deal with the devil (Comstock) to fund building a gate to reach him.And it's a Heroic Sacrifice, since drowning her father wipes herself from existence, as each version of her vanishes. ![]() When Elizabeth said she would kill Comstock, Booker said he would do it.There's also his desperate voice during that scene: ''Anna!" "ANNA!".And after that realization dawns, three words are enough.The sound of Booker's voice when he realizes that Elizabeth is his daughter is especially heartbreaking. ![]() The Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse | Space Time | PBS Digital StudiosĪlso, Bioshock Infinite (and Burial at Sea) contains echoes of the earlier System Shock games, which suggests that the Bioshock and System Shock games might exist in the same Multiverse, which would make each of these 'Shock games part of a repeating cycle in an Infinite Multiverse. Although it does miss the fact that Comstock's wife is an alternate version of Elizabeth's mother, Annabelle. The video posted by the OP has a more complete explanation that the one below, but this has some interesting points to make. The 123rd cycle starts at the point where Booker flips the coin, because the number before that at the top of the lighthouse is 122.īelow are two of my favourite videos for explaining the story and ending of Bioshock Infinite, and the third video gives an explanation of the Many Worlds Theory of Quantum Mechanics.īioshock Infinite : Constants and Variables : Music video/Tribute (Warning Spoilers)
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