Ever since I learned everything in the world of Gone is just a simulation a couple of days ago, my head is honestly still reeling. I mean, you're telling me all these people we've grown to know and love and mourn with unique, complex personalities and feelings and dreams... are all just clouds of data and numbers?! That their world and everything they've gone through is fake yet real at the same time, made by someone else as some kind of experiment? I can't tell if this ending and plot twist is brilliant or not. I guess it feels like if the character suddenly found out they're only fictional made up for our entertainment and everything that's happened to them is just the author writing out the plot, but somehow so, so much worse.
Like, can you imagine living out your whole life thinking you're this real, whole person only to find out you're just data on a computer made to be observed and that everything you've done and went through suddenly means nothing? And just the fact we've watched people of the FAYZ like Diana and Edilio get help and get their life back together over time to some sense of normality only to learn that it could all be undone and gone in an instant? That in an instant, their whole world and everyone in it could just be erased with a simple motion. One minute there, next minute, like it never existed?!
Grant didn't even give us an answer, he only left it open-ended for us to decide if they should unplug and end literally everything, all their memories, their lives, their whole world. If they say yes, would the simulation restart and they just go through everything all over again in an endless cycle? Would they just cease to exist completely? If they say no and decide to try to stay and fix their world, could they ever really go back to normal knowing all they know now? Would they only be able to go about life as normal until someone decides to add something new to the simulation to deal with again? I don't even know how to deal with this information; it makes my head spin!
This is just too much, man....