History WMG / TheBigO

Angel is one of the producers of a metafictional ''Big O'' TV series. She fell in love with the character of Roger Smith (or else the actor was her real-life boyfriend), and so she had herself [[AuthorAvatar inserted into the show.]] The world-famous filmmaker they hired to be the director (who plays Gordon Rosewater -- the role was originally intended to just be a {{cameo}}) gets frustrated with her meddling and starts to make the show more of a Main/MindScrew [[SpringtimeForHitler in hopes of getting it canceled.]]

A third season would have revealed all of this. Roger's final enemy would have been himself- a Roger from a previous iteration, cynical and angry, who has decided the only "free" action is to end the world even if it kills everyone else. Roger would struggle with his own desire for independence and his responsibility to the city, before meeting with the machine god to negotiate again for a better world.

A third season would have revealed all of this. Roger's final enemy would have been himself- a Roger from a previous iteration, cynical and angry, who has decided the only "free" action is to end the world even if it kills everyone else. Roger would struggle with his own desire for independence and his responsibility to the city, before meeting with the machine god to negotiate again.

Whether human or android or something else, Roger is THE negotiator. He was the one who convinced the machine god to try and fix the world, and he impressed both it and Big O, who acts as his partner. Angel is a human recently created by the machine god to get a human's perspective on Paradigm City, since so far the god is struggling with its task. She has full freedom to choose her role on earth and is unaware of her higher purpose. She's partnered with Big Venus, the machine god's executioner- or big reset button, if you prefer.

[[WMG: roger and dorthy are the only 2 people who are real every one else are just characters in a play the 2 are acting out]]

But it went from cliffhanger to [[GainaxEnding worse]]; a new series could go UpToEleven in [[MindScrew confusing]] and be worth watching for that reason.

[[WMG: Angel is LightNovel/{{Haruhi|Suzumiya}}]]
Haruhi created this world in a dream after watching too much mech anime one night. Roger Smith is Kyon and Dorothy is Yuki. The reason everything is such a MindScrew is because Haruhi is dreaming, and the reset is when she finally wakes up from the dream, but not before dreaming of herself as Big Venus. However, Roger does persuade her to not erase the world, which results in her creating a separate timeline to house the reset world of the Big O.

* Alternately, Paradigm City ''is'' Vault 122, an active experiment. The gears viewable as the Big O sinks are part of a massive mechanical platform that controls the 'suns' around the domes, the electricity, everything. That's why a city 'with no memories' can continue to function. The Vault was meant to gauge just how far the human mind could sink from reality; memories are dulled ''via'' mind-scrambling white noise broadcast over the P.A. systems at a sub-audio level. The MegaDeus are remnants of the program that built Liberty Prime, scaled down and under the control of the Overseer; hence why they act on their own and don't respond to their driver. The Union is made up of technicians who know about the experiment and exist among the populace to manipulate the outcome; hence, why those we see have bad accents and over-the-top attitudes. They're ''literally'' playing a part. Gordon Rosewater is Overseer, in need of a replacement; his son Alex contracted radiation poison, resulting in an addled mind. Alex's actions interfere with the experiment, so the technicians/the Union are sent to stop him, with Angel one of them. However, she starts buying into the illusion propagated in the city (her descent from aloof ''femme fatale'' to uncertain self-doubter), and at the end, Angel takes control of the experiment and re-starts it by performing a mass re-conditioning of the Vault's subjects. Angel becomes the new Overseer, but her appearance at the end of the series indicates that she intends to continue playing in her new sandbox.

As a young child, traumatized by the mind-altering and implanted-training he had to undergo, a young Roger Smith found solace in the story of a lad like himself, one Bruce Wayne, who adopted a stylish black-wearing persona to do good. Young Roger sought refuge in the story of this hero, and while growing up erased many of the memories he unconsciously began to re-create his childhood stories by patterning himself after Bruce Wayne: The stylin' black outfits, the multi-talented butler, the semi-antagonistic relationship with the local police-chief, the cool-ass car. The appearance of Dorothy begins moving him out of this mental safe-room and towards developing his own persona, as seen in his banter with Dorothy; however the change isn't easy to make, as it would mean sacrificing his childhood comfort. It's further complicated with the appearance of Angel, serving as the [[DatingCatwoman Selina Kyle/femme fatale.]]

[[WMG: Episode Fourteen was the REAL world.]]
For those who didn't see the episode (or forgot it): In episode 14, Roger hallucinates a world where he's a homeless man and ex-cop gone over the edge, Paradigm City is a normal 1950s-era world with sunlight and no domes, and everyone from the 'show' are different people. It turns out to be a construct of Roger's mind; when he accepts his place as a Negotiator, it all goes away.

This theory proposes that Roger's hallucination is the reality behind what we know as The Big O. Roger ''is'' that ex-cop, who - finally sickened by the horrors of his job - went over the edge and built an elaborate dream-world where he can solve all the problems of his city in the span of a single episode. The Big O really ''is'' just a newspaper comic. Dorothy Wainwright ''is'' the socialite daughter of the wealthiest man in town. Angel ''is'' just a co-worker whom Roger once had a relationship with and since was distanced from -- hence her ambivalent portrayal in the show. When Roger 'hallucinated', he was coming to his senses; the return to the 'real world' of the show was Roger refusing to accept the reality of his reality and sinking back into his delusion.

But it went from cliffhanger to [[Main/GainaxEnding worse]]; a new series could go UpToEleven in [[MindScrew confusing]] and be worth watching for that reason.

Either the Director's computer can literally rewrite reality inside the city, or the entire series takes place inside a computer and the characters are just [=AIs=] in a Main/{{Reboot}}-style simulated world. Either way, Angel is the only one the system takes orders from.

and if you think those are suspension of diselief or anything of the like:

How come Roger is never affected by the giant magnets that trap Dorothy, and why have some characters (apparently) aged over the decades while the robots look the same (as evidenced by the Bigs and R.D. On the other hand, we saw that Roger's old-man looking informant was actually a robot, so I guess altered face plates are not completely out of the question.

It would only make sense that further Batman and DC analogues would appear. Clark/Superman being the parallel to Bruce/Batman. Perhaps as another Megadeus pilot?

They are doing a dry run after running a Mecha style show and were trying a more noir one. Unfortunately the erasures weren't perfect from the old show, as a result Arthur knows how to pilot a megadeuce without any real technical training. And our villain who screamed about what this world was had been smart enough to realize what they were and it drove him batty. The end episode was an attempt to restart the series again with a more complete erasure, rather than reusing old props they'd just try to rebuild the whole thing from scratch but keep the first few scripts. --{{Blackjoker}}

Basically, the Sudden Impact pistons in Big O's arms don't seem like something the military would put a smaller version of on a tank or something for use in combat. Instead, they seem more like what you'd use to smash holes in large structures, like bunkers and walls. As such, maybe Big O was a heavy combat engineering platform, possibly designed from the ground up to support a hypothetical "Big Solo", or to smash anti-aircraft artillery emplacements keeping Big Duo units out of the area.

[[WMG: The whole series takes place within the Tang Sea of [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Third Impact]].]]

Roger represents a Shinji who grew a spine. Presumably, Angel is Rei/Lilith. Dorothy is likely either Asuka or, more likely, Kaworu (not human, denying the attraction); in the latter case, Dastun is probably Asuka. NERV becomes the Union, while SEELE's memories are incoporated into Alex Rosewater. Yui Ikari's soul isn't present, but a few fragments of her memory are bound in the brain of Gordon Rosewater. The events of Act 26 are metaphorical.