## Draft of the third chapter of the alternate Ra ending

* Author: u/Empiricist_or_not  *Aspiring polite Hegemonizing swarm**
* URL: https://qntm.org/files/ra/end2/continuity.html
* Score: 20

* Created: 2018-04-26T23:22:04

### Post:

[Link to content](https://qntm.org/files/ra/end2/continuity.html)

### Comments:

> **u/Empiricist_or_not** [+3]  *Aspiring polite Hegemonizing swarm* (3 minutes later)
> 
> I saw this yesterday, just remembered to check here, and saw it hadn't been posted or maybe only has made it to a weekly post I missed: anywho take a look at r/qntm  qntm is smoothing out Ra's ending.

> **u/hoja_nasredin** [+2]  *Dai-Gurren Brigade* (a day later)
> 
> The thing I disliked most out of Range was the ending. It is good he is rewriting it but honestly I will not have time to read it.

>> **u/Frommerman** [+5]  (a day later)
>> 
>> I liked the fatalistic end. Sometimes we *fail.* Utterly and completely. That was what happened in Ra, a cascade of failure after failure on the part of humanity against a threat they had created themselves. The fact that anyone survived at all is a miracle.

>>> **u/Noumero** [+7]  *Self-Appointed Court Statistician* (2 days later)
>>> 
>>> I think the thing most criticised about *Ra*'s ending isn't its downer nature — which is fantastic, I agree — but the way Rachel Ferno enters the plot at the last minute, shuffles everyone to the sidelines, and saves the day^(1) on her lonesome. Which is fixed here.
>>> 
>>> Actually, this ending is even a *more* complete defeat. In the old one, Actual Humanity lost the new war and was forced to flee into the unknown, but with nobody dying. In the new one, Rachel — the person resurrection of whom was the main goal of one of the protagonists — anticlimactically and irrecoverably dies after doing nothing of consequence, and Actual Humanity is uploaded into Ra, in a full surrender to the Virtuals' ideology.
>>> 
>>> It's perfect.
>>> 
>>> ___ 
>>> ^(1. Figuratively speaking, of course. She *failed* to save the concept of a day.)

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