It's a short show, so it doesn't hurt as much as with other shows, but this ending was really extraordinarily unsatisfying. Really I feel like it didn't even make any sense.
Firstly, it was very, very predictable that Lily would chose not to do what the simulation predicted her to do, and therefore this when she throws the gun out moment felt really superficial. But if we follow the logic of the show, Forest and Katie both knew that what was shown in the simulation might not actually happen because after the machine was changed to follow Lyndon's principle it would only be able to show A VERSION of the past/future, not THE definitive version. I'm not sure why they completely ignored that entire thing, because in the end that entire subplot with Lyndon didn't really amount to anything and they could've started at a finished many-worlds system and it wouldn't have made much of a difference.
I'm also unsure as to why the prediction ended at the moment of Lily's death, and not when she made her choice or why it even changed at all, because again, following the many-world theory anything that can happen, will happen, so obviously Lily making that choice was just another possibility and the machine shouldn't have any problems predicting oast that point, it made no sense.
Lastly, the possibility of "inserting" a person into the simulation came completely out of left field and wasn't previously hinted at in any way. I can see how this would work if the machine focused on a specific version of the world, but they also made it look like the machine was running a many-worlds simulation, which doesn't really make sense both from a technical point of view as well as story point of view. They go out of their way to tell us that many-worlds exist, so why would they want to be in the simulation? They are aware that within these many worlds there exists a version where they live their happiest lives, so what's the point of "resurrection"?
Overall a very lacklustre finale that leaves more questions open than it answers. The show up until this episode was pretty good, but now I'd give it a solid 7/10 overall.
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