Great ending build up. This feels like the emotional lift at the end of a really good movie.
We’ve had the dramatic rise to a finale. Now, the emotional denouement.
Please get the rest right, please get the rest right.
After hearts racing, holding our breaths, and a punch of emotion, all that’s left now is the satisfying ‘exhale’; releasing the emotion, leaving us emotionally connected to the entire story arc as the loose ends are neatly tied together (or conveniently pushed aside).
Don’t let it drag out into an interminable wrap-up of wordy story-telling. Once we’ve completed the denouement, Exeunt Omnes.
So have they technically been stuck in nightmares for an indeterminate amount of time (i.e. comatose on Earth)? Or did getting placed in those pods just mean that they always ended up back in the pods every time they went to sleep (which is still awful, but less horrific)?
As we see these kids revive, because of Nicodemus eating the leaf, I think it makes his words from a few days ago even more powerful. He asked, “How could I go on living, knowing that I let this happen…?”
Since he ate the leaf, he could have gone on living, surviving his wounds. I doubt Dan would have felt right about requiring him to make this sacrifice, and they would have understood Nicodemus eating the leaf to survive. It would have been easily justifiable for him to live on, and make amends for years to come, yet his conscience wouldn’t allow that to happen.
As I’ve said a couple times before, I’m hoping and thinking that Felicity will arrive with the sheath to let him live, but he might not even know that such a thing exists, and certainly wouldn’t know it might be coming. His only chance at survival, in his eyes, was used to redeem the kids, bringing about a better salvation for himself than just living.
To me, this shows how much Nicodemus has changed, and how much he desires to come back to the right side of things. As I’ve thought about it over the past few days, I’ve come to appreciate his comment more, for all that it entails.
If these children experience Dreamland as Alex did, their bodies go comatose during their stay. But, it makes no sense that they would be stuck here forever as most children, after having a nightmare, wake up. But when they do go to sleep again and dream, they return to this same location. After having nightmares for so long, I assume that deep sleep is something they end up no longer able to attain. And that would lead to a continual need to continually gather more kids to replace those who have moved on (grown out of Dreamland/Nightmare Realm).
The only children that are encapsulated right now are current young children and not any from hundreds of years ago. Just my2cents.
Ever since they showed up in the story, I couldn’t help but think that since they were trapped in there, their physical bodies might have ended up in a coma, with no medical explanation whatsoever.
Waking up now, they would also emerge from said coma, to the great relief of their families, all over the world.
Well, the pods would empty when the Earth body dies anyhow, so I would expect there not to be kids in there for centuries past. I was just wondering if their consciousnesses were locked in the pods and unable to return to their Earth bodies. I mean, for them to effectively fuel Gil, it would seem to me that he couldn’t have them phasing in and out of the Nightmare Realm…but them being comatose on Earth, unable to wake because of being stuck in the pods is rather horrifying, and would make Gil an even worse evil guy than he already was.
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Great ending build up. This feels like the emotional lift at the end of a really good movie.
We’ve had the dramatic rise to a finale. Now, the emotional denouement.
Please get the rest right, please get the rest right.
After hearts racing, holding our breaths, and a punch of emotion, all that’s left now is the satisfying ‘exhale’; releasing the emotion, leaving us emotionally connected to the entire story arc as the loose ends are neatly tied together (or conveniently pushed aside).
Don’t let it drag out into an interminable wrap-up of wordy story-telling. Once we’ve completed the denouement, Exeunt Omnes.
If the children are going home,that means Alex is stuck in Dreamland-unless there’s a working portal to get him back home???
Good work, Nicodemus.
They’re just waking up from their nightmares.
So have they technically been stuck in nightmares for an indeterminate amount of time (i.e. comatose on Earth)? Or did getting placed in those pods just mean that they always ended up back in the pods every time they went to sleep (which is still awful, but less horrific)?
Awwww! Warm fuzzies!! We’re definitely nearing the end of the story!
What if some of these kids have no bodies to return to?
Good question.
Then I would assume they would have a place within the realm as a new resident.
Except this one! Oh man, he’s turning green! What’s wrong with him?!
As we see these kids revive, because of Nicodemus eating the leaf, I think it makes his words from a few days ago even more powerful. He asked, “How could I go on living, knowing that I let this happen…?”
Since he ate the leaf, he could have gone on living, surviving his wounds. I doubt Dan would have felt right about requiring him to make this sacrifice, and they would have understood Nicodemus eating the leaf to survive. It would have been easily justifiable for him to live on, and make amends for years to come, yet his conscience wouldn’t allow that to happen.
As I’ve said a couple times before, I’m hoping and thinking that Felicity will arrive with the sheath to let him live, but he might not even know that such a thing exists, and certainly wouldn’t know it might be coming. His only chance at survival, in his eyes, was used to redeem the kids, bringing about a better salvation for himself than just living.
To me, this shows how much Nicodemus has changed, and how much he desires to come back to the right side of things. As I’ve thought about it over the past few days, I’ve come to appreciate his comment more, for all that it entails.
If these children experience Dreamland as Alex did, their bodies go comatose during their stay. But, it makes no sense that they would be stuck here forever as most children, after having a nightmare, wake up. But when they do go to sleep again and dream, they return to this same location. After having nightmares for so long, I assume that deep sleep is something they end up no longer able to attain. And that would lead to a continual need to continually gather more kids to replace those who have moved on (grown out of Dreamland/Nightmare Realm).
The only children that are encapsulated right now are current young children and not any from hundreds of years ago. Just my2cents.
Ever since they showed up in the story, I couldn’t help but think that since they were trapped in there, their physical bodies might have ended up in a coma, with no medical explanation whatsoever.
Waking up now, they would also emerge from said coma, to the great relief of their families, all over the world.
Well, the pods would empty when the Earth body dies anyhow, so I would expect there not to be kids in there for centuries past. I was just wondering if their consciousnesses were locked in the pods and unable to return to their Earth bodies. I mean, for them to effectively fuel Gil, it would seem to me that he couldn’t have them phasing in and out of the Nightmare Realm…but them being comatose on Earth, unable to wake because of being stuck in the pods is rather horrifying, and would make Gil an even worse evil guy than he already was.
This has been happening for centuries. Shouldn’t some of these guys have grown up?