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Draft of the third chapter of the alternate Ra ending
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Author: u/Empiricist_or_not Aspiring polite Hegemonizing swarm*
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Score: 20
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Created: 2018-04-26T23:22:04
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u/Empiricist_or_not [+3] Aspiring polite Hegemonizing swarm*
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*
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] *
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 [+6] Self-Appointed Court Statistician*
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.)