It should be the truest reason for the ending of "Edge of Tomorrow"

Coralie 2022-03-21 09:01:08

Watch "Edge of Tomorrow" on the weekend. I always feel that the final ending is confusing, as if there was a problem. After I came back, I discussed it with everyone. Everyone said that a simple commercial film didn't need to be so entangled, but I was still puzzled. Then I went to watch a lot of film reviews and found a lot of explanations, but I still don’t understand. Let me talk about some of my doubts.


1) The theory of "Omega is the past, present, and future existence (Buddha?) in film reviews, so once Omega dies at a certain point, all Omegas will die" theory: My feeling is with everyone The counterattack is the same. Since Omega exists in a different time and space, it does not need to be reset at all, and it should be able to know everything. Why does it need to reset logic? ?

2) The long comment on the film review (see the full detailed explanation of the plot and settings of "Edge of Tomorrow"), (ps sentence: there is no meaning to play against the opponent, this review is very good.) "Omega reset will be all "Reserved": This is very strange. If the dying omega (physical body) is to replace the old omega (physical body) after resetting, then why should the dying omega (physical body) be reset? Is it crazy? Anyway, it's dead, even if you reset it back, it will still die. Then it does not need to initiate a reset at all!


With the above questions, I struggled for a long time.

Still write a few settings first. Otherwise, if you read this article first, it may be difficult to understand.

Character settings:
1) Omega: can reset, cannot move, and has a lot of energy.
2) Alpha: Can't reset, can move, can kill (or eat? The probability is not high), after death, it will trigger Omega to do a reset. (It can be imagined as an anchor point) After reset, the body and location will not be affected, and reset will not modify the memory.
3) Atango: For a while it is human, and for a while it is Alpha.
4) Ordinary people, Beta: Can not reset, can move, attack each other, die after death, after reset does not affect the body and location, reset will reset the memory.

Point setting:
1) Reset: A reset does not require time, once initiated, it cannot be stopped (at least it was successful every time in the movie).
2) Anchor point: A creature with an anchor point will not reset its memory after reset. But the body and location will be reset. (In the movie, Tang stays in the same place every time he wakes up)
3) Non-locating point: For objects without an anchoring point, the memory, body, and location will be reset after reset.
4) Anchor point transfer: When a creature with an anchor point dies, there is a possibility (maybe blood, etc.?) to transfer the anchor point from one creature to another.

A few reasonable assumptions:

1) Why does Omega have to reset the time after Alpha's death?
In fact, it is very easy. Omega hopes to always win, so as long as a certain Alpha dies, after Omega reset time, the dead Alpha can be resurrected, and then because the memory of Alpha is still there, Alpha can use the "learning from the past" method. To avoid this failure.
Evidence: During the 1st and Nth Beach Battles, American soldiers kept saying: "This is a massacre" and "They know we are coming!"
Corollary: Before the first beach landing in Tang’s memory, there was another beach landing battle (we call it the 0th time), and the 0th beach landing battle. The aliens didn’t know that the earthlings attacked from here and might fight. It’s a bit miserable, all kinds of chaos, and then an Alpha (we call it Alpha A) died (it doesn’t matter who killed it, anyway, the anchor point transfer did not occur), and then the Alphas all know about this memory, so , Omega reset the time.
Then, during the first beach landing battle, the Betas lay in ambush on the battlefield, knocking down the humans.

Of course, there was an important "accident" on the first beach: Alpha A was actually killed by Tang, and the anchor point was shifted. Tang replaced the previous Alpha A and became a pseudo Alpha A. (You may have to say, where did this Alpha A go? It doesn't matter, I will tell you where it went later.)

2) Why does Omega have to reset the time after Omega's death?
If Alpha dies, Omega reset time is to save Alpha. So obviously after Omega's death, Omega can also save herself by resetting the time. If reset is an operation that cannot be planned, then even if Omega is killed, once the time is reset, Omega can bring its own memory back to the previous Omega that was not killed, so that the past Omega knows Whenever he will be killed in the future, he can fix this and guarantee his immortality. (What a great trick, save/load)


Now the problem is here, and I have been unable to figure it out: Tommy finally killed Omega, it’s useless, because Omega will reset, take his own memory, and take possession of it. An Omega from the past, then, then Tom is dead. How could the ending of the story be that Omega was dead? (The ending of the movie is: the Betas have lost their combat effectiveness, and everyone says they will win.)

What happened in the middle?

I believe everyone will have a deep memory of the two scenes in the movie: the
first one is when Tomoh kills Alpha, the blue blood obliterates Tomoh’s scene, and the
second is when Tomoh kills Omega. , The blue blood obliterated the scene of Brother Tom.

Let’s compare the consequences of killing the aliens (not counting Beta) for the next two times:

1) Atango killed Alpha, Alpha’s blood obliterated Atango, and then Atango woke up at the airport and found that he had become Created a pseudo Alpha.
2) Tommy kills Omega, the blood of Omega is obliterated by Tommy, and then Tom wakes up on the helicopter, ****** (At this point, don’t you know what happened? ?).


Tom has become a pseudo Omega.

With this result, it’s not hard to guess other things. Atango turned into a pseudo Omega. The original Omega lost its anchor point and died when the reset was completed. (Evidence: At the end of the movie, The Betas really lost their combat effectiveness and were unable to fight. Humans will soon be victorious.) So, return to the question we asked before: "Where did Alpha A go?" It was done in reset, like the later Omega. Really died in an instant.


In fact, the director only told the same story twice.
For the first time, it was said that Tom had killed Alpha, and then Tom became Alpha, but he didn't talk about Alpha.
For the second time, I said that Tom had killed Omega, and then said that Omega had died, but did not say what happened to Tom.

Fill up the above rules.

Reset rule: reset may only be a node of a time channel. A "backtracking" point may occur on a certain time channel. Reset cannot be interrupted. It is possible that as long as a certain energy level, it can return to a certain point, and more Large energy levels will return to an earlier point. (Therefore, Omega’s death obviously uses more energy than Alpha, so Tom will return to the earlier past.) Reset has nothing to do with the individual’s survival and death, so even if Alpha dies, reset will continue. When Omega is dead, reset will continue.

Anchor point transfer rule: Once the anchor point is transferred, the new anchor point creature will replace the original anchor point creature, and the original anchor point creature will die when the reset ends (in fact, the energy may explode, after all, aliens They are all energy bodies).

Regarding the loss of positioning point for blood transfusion: This is completely a Hollywood business acumen, because it is set to make Tomohiro kill Omega when he will die (heroes are like this), so you can ignore it. Because this is not logical.

You see, science fiction movies are just like that. What it hides must be logical, and what it shows to you is not necessarily logical.

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Edge of Tomorrow quotes

  • Rita Vrataski: We should just reset.

  • Nance: Oh for Christ's sake, Kimmel!

    Kimmel: I gotta be free, man!