![]() ![]() When Daniel hacked into the code and altered the simulation, the various characters found themselves passing from the ship simulation to the various memory landscapes through ‘doors’ in the sky. Maura’s led to the asylum, and the Captain’s led to the burnt-out house where his wife had killed herself and their three daughters. Under each passenger’s bed was a secret hatch to a shaft leading to a simulation of their traumatic memories. Daniel and Elliot used the beetles to take them through doors and between different areas in the simulation. Maura told Elliot that he had to let the insect go free, because you couldn’t simply trap the things you love (subtext!). The door-opening codes on board the Kerberos took the form of little green beetles such as the one Elliot found in real life and wanted to name Alfred and keep in a jar. In the simulation, a code can be any object (hence the code-key changing to a code-wedding ring). For now, let’s try to get the rest of it straight. “This is so much bigger than you think, you have to wake up, you have to stop him or everything will be lost.” All that’s a question for a potential season two to answer. He’s been controlling everything.” Daniel entered the simulation to try to wake Maura up, he tells her. Daniel tells Maura “Your brother, he took over the whole programme whilst you were in here. While Maura was locked in the simulation, her missing brother Ciaran (initially suspected to have been a passenger on the Prometheus steamship) appears to have gone rogue. ![]() That code (in the form of Maura’s key and the boy’s black pyramid, later her wedding ring and a pyramid toy after Daniel reprogrammed the simulation to swap the roles of its various objects) is what Henry and the First Mate were searching for so they could wake Maura up and end the simulation. She was the one who designed the Kerberos experiment and only she possessed the code that could wake her up from it and bring her consciousness on board the spaceship back to reality. The Creator was apparently Maura herself, just the woken-up version of her. However, when Elliot told Maura that he couldn’t speak in the simulation because “they’re listening” and she would have to ask her questions to “the Creator”, he wasn’t talking about his grandfather, who was just as trapped in the simulation as everybody else. Henry was the architect of the mental asylum Maura kept flashing back to, and he was the one communicating with the First Mate from another simulated environment outside of the ship simulation. Since our first glimpse of Anton Lesser’s character Henry Singleton, father to Maura and her missing brother Ciaran, he seemed sure to be the evil genius behind this whole psychological experiment. None of the simulation ships had ever reached their destination, though this version got further than any of the others. Nobody had really ‘died’ because their physical bodies were still alive on board the spaceship. Then it would all start again, exactly as before. Every time, the passengers would make the same decisions and as a result, they would die and the ship would be destroyed in a storm before being sucked through to another simulated dimension where all the previous ships were stored. The Kerberos simulation ran in a repeating eight-day loop that had happened countless times before. And throughout, shiny green beetles were used to open doors. Everything that had happened on the Prometheus started to repeat itself on the Kerberos. Maura and the Captain discovered secret hatches under their beds that led to their personal memory landscapes. Elliot regenerated in that cabinet, somebody froze time, and, as if remote-controlled, most of the ship’s passengers threw themselves to their deaths. From there, anachronistic tech kept appearing, from Daniel’s pocket device to his electric torch, to the First Mate’s triangular messaging system. The first big twist came at the end of episode three ‘The Fog’, when we saw the characters of this supposedly 19 th century story being watched on multiple TV screens. Just when you think you’ve got a grip on the truth behind the Kerberos, the Prometheus, the simulation and why the Creator did what they did, away it slides, back into the goop. That’s our brains trying to make sense of Netflix series 1899. ![]() Warning: contains major spoilers for the 1899 finale.Įver tried to pick a piece of eggshell out of a just-cracked egg? It’s right there, but the slippery forces at play keep sliding it out of grasp. ![]()
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