History Fridge / ToTheMoon

* At first glance, "Everything's Alright" (the song that plays when Johnny's memories are reconfigured for the last time) seems to be an elegy for River, but it's not - it's about [[spoiler: ''Joey''.]] The phrase "If you're with me, then everything's alright" refers to [[spoiler: the brother Johnny lost, whose return sets off a chain reaction that leads to the best possible outcome for Johnny's life.]]

* During gameplay, people that Johnny didn't bother remembering or forgot all about are just shilouettes, indicating that he remembers that someone was there, but he cannot remember who or what they looked like. People and places that Johnny remember to some extent appear blurry and pixelated, often without any definable faces. And as a fridge moment of heartwarming: The only people that Johnny can remember with perfect clarity thorughout his entire life, aside from himself, are Nick, Isabelle, [[spoiler: his twin brother]] and River.
* The theme ''For River'' is a slow but, as noted in the game, rather repetetive piano piece. But keep in mind that Johnny wrote the piece in tribute of River who has Asperger. One of the more notable traits of Asperger Syndrome is "stimming", self-stimulation, repetetive behavior often involving one's fingers or hands that many Aspies often engage in order to relax themselves. ''For River'' is stimming in musical form.

** It's safe to assume that Johnny has more memories than just that. It's just that the heroes used his memories of River to get to his past since she was the most consistent part of his life. Or, think of it this way. In most (if not all) Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda games there are only about one to three overworld villages, but that doesn't mean that Hyrule consists of only those few villages and inhabitants. It's just means the developers didn't put more in and opted to show the ones that were important to the events of the story. In To the Moon, putting more memories could've ruined the pacing, theming, or it could've been too costly to do so we the viewer see only the plot important memories.

** Thankfully, this is softened in the mid-credits sequence. After Johnny flat-lined, one set of credits appears before it cuts back to child!River [[IWillWaitForYou sitting on the log at their spot]]. Soon, child!Johnny appears, hands her the stuffed platypus, [[TogetherInDeath and seats himself next to her]], cuing the rest of the credits.

* It's absolutely tragic if you remember that while Johnny died completely happy, never having any sort of misunderstanding with River, River died with Johnny never knowing the truth.

** Also, the illusion is created by combining actual data with the assumptions the person makes. [[spoiler:maybe Johnny didn't know married couples are not allowed to go into space and the simulation decided not to enlighten him, as doing so would cause a bunch of trouble with keeping it going.

* During gameplay, people that Johnny didn't bother remembering or forgot all about are just shilouettes, indicating that he remembers that someone was there, but he cannot remember who or what they looked like. People and places that Johnny remember to some extent appear blurry and pixelated, often without any definable faces. And as a fridge moment of heartwarming: The only people that Johnny can remember with perfect clarity thorughout his entire life, aside from himself, are [[spoiler: his twin brother]] and River.

** Also, [[spoiler:that's not really NASA, it's Johnny's mental image of what NASA would be like. Considering that he probably knows next to nothing about NASA or space travel, the level of detail and the amount of it that is accurate is actually quite impressive.]]

** What's also disturbing is what he DOES deem more appropriate to remember. The things he remembers range from understandable (the important moments with River), to things that should have been forgotten (he remembers moments with Isabelle, but never actually meeting her) to the downright mundane, (ALT-F4 apparently is more memorable than his mother's funeral, graduation, so on.) And while it is absolutely sweet how 90% of his memories revolve around River, it's also somewhat terrifying how these moments alone comprise most of the highlights of his life.

* A lot of things just seem... missing, as far as Johnny's memories go. Consider how old Johnny is, and consider all of the events he deems as "life-changing" or "life-defining." Not once is there any mention of a father figure, and Johnny's mother just appears out of nowhere, the first instance being his wedding. Remembering how the game is structured, that means Johnny never thought of his father as an memorable part of his life (if he was in Johnny's life to begin with), and he never thought of his mother as memorable from the time of his marriage to his death, which Johnny looks anywhere between 70-90 years old, as a very rough estimate. We don't know if his mother died, or truly went crazy, or just barely hanging on to her life as someone who is even older, but one thing is sure: she isn't even deemed as memorable in his life, which means if she died, he didn't consider the funeral as important. If she ever got sick, that type of affair was never considered important. And while one can make the argument that after marriage, the wife is the woman who matters most to a man, that's still at least 55 years of his mother not meaning anything to him to make it a life changing moment. Clearly, the familial issues run very deep.

* On the other hand, [[spoiler: Didn't River in all those years, ever learned on her own of Johnny's past and the reason he never remembered?]]
** Johnny [[spoiler:couldn't remember his past, and his mother either intentionally hides it or has snapped and thinks Johnny is Joey. In light of this, there's no way for River to have ever learned about it.]]

* On the other hand, [[spoiler: Didn't River in all those years, ever learned of Johnny's past and the reason he never remembered?]]

* Another one which makes you realize how truly screwed Johnny is: [[spoiler: The reason Johnny's mother made him take the beta blockers which made him forget about his dead twin brother was because his mother was DrivenToMadness by Joey's death and wanted Johnny to become his ReplacementGoldfish, which puts her straight into the AbusiveParents field]].

* During gameplay, people that Johnny didn't bother remembering or forgot all about are just shilouettes, indicating that he remembers that someone was there, but he cannot remember who or what they looked like. People and places that Johnny remember to some extent appear blurry and pixelated, often without any definable faces. And as a fridge moment of heartwarming: The only people that Johnny can remember with perfect clarity thorughout his entire life, aside from himself, are his twin brother and River.

** Another one which makes you realize how truly screwed Johnny is: [[spoiler: The reason Johnny's mother made him take the beta blockers which made him forget about his dead twin brother was because his mother was DrivenToMadness by Joey's death and wanted Johnny to become his ReplacementGoldfish, which puts her straight into the AbusiveParents field]].

** To support the theory that [[spoiler: Neil is dying]], at the carnival when they meet the fortune-teller, [[spoiler: Neil refuses to see his future.]] "Good or bad, I'd be s****ed either way."

** Johnny [[spoiler:couldn't remember his past, and his mother either intentionally hides it or has snapped and thinks Johnny is Joey. In light of this, there's no way for River to have ever learned about it.]]
* Ever notice how Johnny's clothes are coloured brown and dark green, while River's are mostly white and blue (and occasionally yellow)? Brown and green are very "Earthy" colours, while white, blue, and yellow are the colours typically associated with the moon and the night sky. Not only does this symbolize their relationship, to a degree (close, yet far away), but it also symbolizes Johnny's plight (he is a "down-to-earth" guy who wants to go to "the moon", his wife) AND their respective personalities (to most people, the Earth could be considered boring and mundane, at least compared to the unusual and exotic moon).