| Heavenly_King said: The multi-dimensions concept in this game is quite simple, and yet very undercoocked. And they messed it up specially in the ending. Just because another you in other parallel universe did somethings, it does NOT mean at all that if you die, the other will cease to exist and all what he has done will be undone. It is just ridiculous and poorly done. They try to complicate things just for the sake of doing so, and it does not ads to the experience because it is badly done. So, Booker at the end realizes that he is in one of infinite paths, that offers similar events and consequences. And he notices that "he" in other parallel reality is Comstock, so he "allows" Elizabeth to kill him during the baptism which would mark the "birth" of Zachary Comstock, and thus eliminating all he has done, including Columbia; his racist, xenophobic, and patriotic crusade; and the harm done to Elizabeth. The problem here is that, the Booker that is the one who is being killed is not the Booker from the reality in which he is Zachary Comstock, so killing him wont change anything about Comstock destiny. It will just cause Elizabeth to to cease to exist, because his father is dead before the moment of her conception. And even if that point was THE point in which multiple divergences will occur. It still has not much sense, because it would mean that previously to that event there was only 1 space-temporal line, and just because booker decides to do or not to do certain thing it will create "infinite doors", infinite possibilities? For real? What makes him so special that whole reality is affected to what the hell he does? If you want to take it further, the one that should be killed is not the 40 years old Booker we are playing as, it needed to be the actual 21 or so years old Booker in that certain event. The whole ending was made with the purpose of "mind-raping", but it is just poorly done in the end. And also there are other mistakes about the parallel universe concept throughout the game, but are not topic on this thread though. |
Before the baptism there were millions of other Bookers living in different universes, but in all of those there was only 1 dimension where Comstock born (the only one that interest us from the story of the game). Now after the baptism there were 2 dimensions (remember there are millions of other universes, but for now there are only 2 that interest us): 1 with Zachary Comstock and 1 with Booker Dewitt. After the baptism every single decision either of those 2 make (even if it's just flipping a coin) created 2 different universes, and from there you had millions of "doors". Now, there could be 1 universe (or multiple ones) where there is a Zachary Comstock but no Columbia, or a Comstock that's not sterile, or one where Booker didn't had a child, the possibilities are endless.
Now, lets focus on only 2 dimensions, in one of them Comstock was sterile, so he had to take the child of Booker. Then the Lutece give Booker a chance to recover his daughter and thus the events of the game happened.
That brings me to your question, Booker is not special, his decisions created thousands of other dimensions, but so as the decisions of any other characters in the game. If the kid that gives you the mail at the beginning of the game flips a coin then that will make another dimension, but that one doesn't interest us, the ones that we see are the ones that are around Comstock, Elizabeth and Booker, those are the important ones.
Now the more interesting question, how did killing Booker Dewitt also killed Comstock where the one we killed is not the same as the one 20 years ago? Well I have 2 theories:
1) By going throw the last door, you go back to the real memory of the Baptism, the person you control in that last moment is no longer the Booker Dewitt you used in the entire game, but the Booker of 20 years ago, only that you have the memories of the events of the game (this somewhat makes sense because throwout the game you start remembering things of your other self in other universes (one of the reasons you start bleeding from your nose), so when the Booker you control enters the dimension, the the real one from that time also "remembers" the events of the game (the only difference is that there's no nose bleeding, which me make kind of dubious about this theory)). You as the Booker Dewitt player no longer "exist", Booker said to Elizabeth (before entering the door) that he was ok in killing the source of Comstock, so Elizabeth simple go to the time of the baptism and fulfill Booker's wish.
2) The Booker in the game (the one you control) is actually THE original one that created Comstock, so by dying at the same spot it created the same memory that happened 20 years ago. This goes with what I mentioned in my first paragraph, there was only 1 dimension where the split happens, and from there there were millions of other universes. If one Booker Dewitt that was "created" after the events of the baptism dies like in the game, then it wouldn't matter because he was not the source, it HAD to be same Booker from the same universe that created the original Comstock.
Don't take any of this stuff as factual, this are my personal theories of what happened in the game. And like I mentioned in my second post of this thread, making theories of what happened is what makes this ending so amazing imo.
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