Post #2219440

So, the people who played that utter misery of an ending (not badly written - it is just an awful ending) encounter Panam being absent. Whatever the real world reason for that is, it feels highly uncharacteristic. Even worse, the credits call by Mitch feels eerily out of character. The Panam we got to know wouldn't pass up an opportunity to chew V out in the worst possible ways, promising hellfire and brimstone. Instead we get... Mitch. A veteran who is not likely to hold back bad news, even if Panam died somehow. Even to find V. Instead he says, "Don't do that to yourself -- to Panam". That leaves a vibe of "something so awful happened that you should never, ever, ever, look into this, don't try to find out, I need to make sure you do absolutely not." So, here's the theory. A lot of people feel, "two years of coma" feels bogus anyway, and the NUSA used V as a killer drone in the meantime. It would have been completely within Panam's character to try and find out what happened, and rescue V. Take the family into battle for V - after all, that's one of the regular endings. And in the process, V themself killed Panam. Some Aldecaldos, among them Mitch, got away and had to strike a deal to never let V know. Which is why Mitch acts so weird and practically scared to death at V's reappearance. Proof? Got none, except a decidedly Cyberpunk feeling to that possibility and vibes. And my belief that the Tower ending is meant to be the most awful of all, worse than the Devil ending, the most hopeless, the most "you fucked up beyond hope of redemption" - a traitor to everything and everyone.