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Nov 22 09 8:45 PM
The village was some sort of virtual reality where the minds of the residents existed, while at the same time they also physically existed in the real world. It's as if their minds were cloned and placed in virtual reality while maintaining an unconscious link with their physical mind. The whole point was supposed to be that the peoples mental problems would be corrected in the village and would impart that corrected mental behavior onto their real minds and bodies. 2's wife was actually the biological computer (her brain) that maintained the virtual village world. That is why they had to keep her in drugged state where she could use all her mind to maintain the village. This state extended to both her physical body/mind and her village mind. When they woke her up, her maintenance of the village began to slip, that is what caused the holes. It was a manifestation of the collapse of the VR world. When her virtual self was killed, the village was doomed unless some other suitable mind took her place. Apparently 2 planned on that being 6, but 313 took the role instead. By the end of the show 6 was the new #2. He was given a promotion in the real world to run the village project. The holographic looking monitor of his displayed the logo for Summack...er whatever the company was called. The logo was an "S" that rotated around so half the time it looked like a "2". In the Village his mind clone took over as 2, just like his girl took over the role of 2's wife. Yes the doubles were real... at least as real as anything else in the VR village. The mental clones simply split into separate mental pieces, and of course it all be VR they were able to each have a VR body. All in all there were some interesting aspects to this show, but it didn't even begin to hold a candle to the original. The original was a mind trip that defied explanation. Every time you thought you had it figured you got new twists that completely unraveled what you thought you knew. The new version was a fairly straight forward rip off of the Matrix. I suspected the role of 2's wife by the end of the first night. I was sure of it by the end of the second. And I was proved correct early into the last night. Still it was entertaining even if it was obvious. EDIT: As to the towers.. yes they represented the company. Or more correctly they represented the link between the VR minds and their real minds in the real world.
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