Talk:Endless Summer, Book 3 Choices/@comment-34316807-20180406193902

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Safe?

Good.

The three choices slayed me.

​​​​​​​The way I see it... 1) Rourke's destruction of La Huerta essentially means everyone will go back to their normal lives but 'you will still be with them' is verrrry ambiguous. In physical presence? In memory? Rourke getting his own way doesn't bode well so there's something not fully explained by Vaanu here. If you chose the diamond choice in book 2 that allowed you to see Olivia Montoya's demo of what the Janus Project is and how dangerous it can be, what would this do to the 'real' world outside of La Huerta - and if La Huerta's not there, what could be a 'safe' place to which you and everyone else can return? What of the Vaanti? What of Diego's marriage to Varyyn?

2) If everyone stays in La Huerta, isn't MC essentially robbing them of the very hope that got them through the toughest situations in this book? Yeah, okay, if Jake's your LI (not sure with the others), then he's plotted out a little islet for you, but what of the rest? Are we just supposed to take away the other Endless Summer crew members' only hopes just so you can shack up with Jake and hope they'll be okay with that? Guilt much?

(Side note. Saying that, we just saw Mike apparently 'explode' with Lundgren, so not sure how reliable Jake's Ember is anymore...my personal default stance thanks to Game of Thrones is that if you don't see the death, they're probably still alive. So let's see).

3) Sacrifice yourself. Hmm. I mean, this could be the option where, oh, after you've done that, there's some magical Hokey-Pokey and you still get to live. But, again, vague. And MC could just be, in a word, deaded. Which is just ILTW depressing.

​​​​​​​Anyone got a less jaded interpretation of these choices? ​​​