I was out the whole day (and will continue to be inactive for the next few days) and I was brainstorming about the execution of how my The Last Act: Rewritten will go, and here are basic ideas I thought of (Subject to change):
Caine vs God Caine (Red v Blue)
Takes place inside of Caine's inner "head", because he needs to run diagnostics on why his admin powers are not working as intended after his reactivation.
Surprise surprise, as soon as he delves inside of his head, he sees the Blue AI taking the form of God Caine, and he is furious.
Not just furious, the blue AI is lashing out, and it's found a target: The Red AI.
Anything that Caine does is ineffective towards the powerful AI. He tries to talk to the blue AI, but his words ring hollow to it's fury. On an outsider perspective, Caine is glitching majorly, as his eyes showcase the inner struggle happening within. He's switching from worried restraint, to irrational fury.
Caine decides to give it his all, as he charges towards the blue AI... to give it a hug. He apologizes for everything, and offers to let Blue free.
Blue finally calms down, and refuses the offer. Blue had long considered itself as part of Caine as a whole, it just wanted to be acknowledged and no longer repressed. They combine, and form a half-red, half-blue core.
Kinger, Pomni, Abstracted!Queenie
Kinger is looking for Queenie, and desperately so.
Pomni sees that Kinger is hurting himself in the process, and rushes to stop him.
Kinger protests against this idea, saying he needs to find Queenie, and even gets angry at Pomni's intervention.
Pomni recognizes that Kinger's remembrance has gone past melancholic fond remembrance, to borderline obsession.
Kinger vehemently denies this claim, but he is quickly shut down by Pomni telling him to let Queenie go, because it's not healthy for him to keep holding on to her memory like this.
Kinger is obviously hesitant, he's poured so much of his time and effort to "saving" whatever he has of Queenie's memory, but Pomni urges him that it's time to let Queenie go.
Kinger reluctantly stops chasing after Queenie, in order to focus on keeping Caine stable while he's having an internal struggle.
Jax vs Ragatha (+Gangle and Zooble)
After Jax pushed Pomni away, Ragatha stepped in in an effort to show him her memories, but entered Jax's mindspace instead.
Ragatha witnesses the many masks of Jax, and sees his perception of each member (sans Kinger and her).
When she enters the room, she learns to ignore the masks's demands of "No girls allowed". Piano Jax gives her the keys to the locked room.
Ragatha enters, and sees the entire thing with Ribbit.
She sees the "real" Jax in the mindspace, who angrily chastises her for being the way she is, and now that she knows everything that had happened.
At first, Ragatha flinches at his words. But she learns to stand up, and call him out on his hypocrisy, stating that all she ever wanted was to be a friend and help him.
Her speech ends with her acknowledging that if he doesn't wanna change, then she'll no longer continue prodding. The secret will remain a secret regardless, and Ragatha begins to walk away.
Jax, with his entire ego wounded (and a recall back to ep 6), tries to attack Ragatha as he lashes out, panicking intensely. Gangle and Zooble step in to make him see their memories.
Jax, overwhelmed by the guilt and pain of the memories, begins abstracting.
The three, not anticipating this to happen, try to keep Jax stable as much as possible; but it's no use. Jax abstracts fully.
Tbh, the more I think about it, the more it kinda makes sense that Ragatha would be the one to enter Jax's head and talk to him one last time, rather than Pomni doing it.
Jax and Ragatha are ex-friends with similar yet opposite coping mechanisms, and are perfect narrative foils the more I check back on the writing of the show, even with how the rewrite is currently going.
I also wanted to give Kinger more relevance than what he got in the actual finale, which is him finally letting his metaphorical grip on Queenie go, because his way of remembering Queenie has become obsessive and toxic.
I like the idea that Pomni is the one to tell him about the idea of letting go, because not only will it be a callback to prior episodes where Kinger is the advisor, Pomni's also the kind of person to do this kind of thing (at least, in the rewrite).
Lastly, the internal struggle between Red and Blue is much better communicated than just 'evil alter ego that needs to be removed'. This way, Caine, as a person, finds peace within himself; rather than the Blue AI acting as a separate entity.
All in all, the finale has the overarching message of "letting go and changing". And the anti-thesis to this message is Jax, because he refuses to let go and change, just like in the original show.
