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The Ending (spoilers): Questions

posted 16 years ago by Yinky
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I loved this show, but the ending frustrated me to death!

The Occupant (Eddie) tells Joe that in order to get his daughter back, he (Joe) has to kill him (Eddie). I understand that if you destroy an object in the room, it will be replaced by whatever destroys it, or whatever non-object is in the room. So how can he be sure that Joe will become the object, and not the gun?

And how does it follow that after killing Eddie, Joe will then be able to retrieve Anna? Why can't Eddie retrieve Anna, and stay the Occupant/an object himself? Why must he die to retrieve her?

Taking for granted that Eddie does have to die for Joe to retrieve Anna, how does it follow that if Joe becomes an object, he will be able to go wherever Anna is, and return to the room? Couldn't you put another object into the room, and thereby somehow IT will retrieve her?

Taking for granted that it has to be a human being, and it cannot be Eddie, to retrieve Anna: does it have something to do with how Conroy disappeared? In the photo, Jennifer sees a very faint image of Eddie behind Conroy (right?). So is this somehow connected to what happened to Anna? And this is a clue as to how to get her back?

How did Eddie end up out of the room and in the mental institution? They put him in the mental institution after he accosted his wife--but how did he get out of the room in the first place?

How did Conroy get started on the whole trek? Where did the key to Room 10 first appear?

Why did Joe throw the key into Room 8 instead of Room 9? If all the distruction happened in Room 9, wouldn't logic tell you to throw the key in there, where the chaos occurred, rather than in a room without any problems?

And (stop me, stop me!) does anyone have any speculation on what the actual first Event was?

[–] mb_webguy 16 years ago

Eddie has been in living hell since 1961. His life was erased, his wife didn't know him, and he was locked up in a sanitarium for trying to convince her of who he was. He's been in that sanitarium since 1961, unaging and unable to die. That's why he wanted Joe to shoot him. It didn't have anything to do with Eddie not being able to retrieve Anna. It was simply that he wanted to die, and he wanted to make sure Joe had plenty of incentive to do it.

As for how Eddie knew that Joe would become The Occupant, rather than Eddie's Object-hood being passed on to an inanimate object... I think it goes back to the issue of the Prime Object. While there may not be any such thing as the Prime Object -- at least how the cabals thought of it -- I think one of the object must always be The Occupant. Since Joe was the only person in the room at the time of Eddie's death, he would naturally take Eddie's place as The Occupant.

As for how Joe retrieved Anna... Eddie said that there are numerous versions of The Room, which is where things go when the Room is reset. The Objects are the only constants in The Room, and as a sentient Object, The Occupant can locate and retrieve normal items that have been previously left in The Room. Joe, as The Occupant, simply had to look for Anna when The Room was reset, and she was there -- because she was really there all along. (And I don't quite understand your comment about having another one of The Objects retrieve Anna... How is an Ashtray, a Comb, or some other inanimate object going to do anything without some mind to direct it?)

Finally, Joe didn't throw the key into Room 8. He opened the door to Room 8 with The Key, which opened Room 10, The Lost Room. He tossed The Key into The Room, then closed the door, hoping that it would put and end to the whole business, since no one would any longer be able to access The Room.

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[–] dario_van_kuschn 16 years ago

nice theory/explanation