Fridge Brilliance
- How come only Mira suffered from heat exhaustion in the desert while Adam and Kai were still fine and completely lucid? One of Mira's powersets are water based. So she may have been more vulnerable to the desert heat and sun than the other two due to her affinity with water.
- Additionally, Adam's power sets are largely physical, which means he may have had more stamina with which to endure the desert. And Kai has fire powers, which could have contributed to his ability to withstand the heat.
- In Season 2, the kids shout out to The Weird Guy for help but he never appears. This is because he only appears to players in the game. Since the kids in season 2 are digital Hollow copies and not actual players, he never appears to them for help.
Fridge Horror
- So this is a show where you're wiped of your memories for a couple of hours, gaslit and thrashed around, and your stream is being shown in full view of an audience. All of this is also for a trophy and some prize money. That seems potentially traumatizing even with the Host warning the players ahead of time that all of this will happen and presumably that was sufficient consent. How do they make it lawsuit-proof again?
- What kind of show doesn't check to make sure that someone tries to smuggle an advantage into the game?
- Weirdy wants to milk as much drama as possible, so it's possible that they allow such advantages into the game in order to milk out the drama. Alternatively they truly believe that it's impossible to cheat at the game, meaning that they feel as though they don't need to check if any players are cheating.
- Weirdy mentions that he's trying to stop an evil cooperation behind the scenes. They probably wanted this sort of thing to happen! How do we know that the person that gave Vanessa that cheat code didn't plan for this to happen!?
- Given Kai's expression at the end of season one, it seems that he was badly affected by all of the close-misses and Near-Death Experience with both Mira and Adam, especially when the latter was his fault.
- Nice going, Vanessa, your cheating created sentient digital clones of yourself and the rival team who can get killed for real in the game. But are you actually sorry the way your duplicate is, or is it that your clone gained the Character Development that you're missing out on in the real world? How would you feel if you know that your actions under the belief that this was a game had real consequences?
- We already know that these kids have their memories of their lives and each other totally wiped. Which leads to some... very awkward moments (Mira kissing Kai despite knowing in the real world that he's gay {which she, or rather her digital clone} explicitly feels awful about. The fact Mira and Skeet didn't know each other were friends and how basically all of Vanessa's team were antagonistic and cruel. This is a televized event. Imagine how you, or the people around you, would feel knowing that, without any prior memories or relationship with people, that you could treat them so manipulatively or just flat out cruelly.
- Admittedly this could have partially been from Vanessa's influence, who knew the trick all along. But the other team that Adam, Mira, and Kai came across certainly didn't think twice about attacking people they just met who were being relatively nonthreatening just to get what they had.
Fridge Logic
- Why did Adam forget that he's gay? None of the other players seemed to have forgotten their sexual orientation.
- Heteronormative cultural conditioning. He was raised in an environment where straight was the assumed default, so he assumed he was straight until proven otherwise.
