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The Ending – itʼs a different simulation

  • The Green Button – itʼs not an exit button, itʼs a reset button❗ (not that kind) What do you do with any computer is glitching out that badly…❓ [1]

  • The Eye – out of the six player characters, none were shown to glitch at any time during gameplay. Vanessaʼs eye glitching out shows sheʼs been relegated to an NPC. Likewise, any character who is, was or otherwise alleged to be human, apart from Adam, Mira and Kai, are now folded into this new simulation as an NPC.
    • Jossed as of season 2. Kind of.

  • Missing Episodeno mention of the glitchs which manifested are made upon exiting the game. Considering the selling point of The Hollow (the gameshow) is the contestants are unaware of the true situation, the glitches where so vast and numerous the players were unable to ignore it, breaking the immersion. The glitches also happened at key points making it impossible for it to be fixed in the edit later on. The edition featuring those two teams would have to be written off as unbroadcastable.
    • Then again, the host played it off as All Part of the Show so who knows? This Troper thinks them still being in the Simulation makes it feel too cliche and cheap. But who am I to judge?

The glitches were indeed All Part of the Show.

  • It provides an in-universe explanation for the steady ramping up in severity of the glitches, from one random NPC wavering out of existence to a giant Advancing Wall of Doom - the game show was just building up drama. It also provides an explanation as to the constant convenient "just misses" from the glitchy attackers during the run back to the tree. Also, one would assume that such an obviously high-budget production as the game show would have some deal of safety and security measures in place for something as basic as glitchy code.
    • Jossed. The glitch was caused by Vanessa's illegal contact lens interfering with the game.

Vanessa - Is responsible for the codes getting corrupted.

  • Her eye glitching at the end signified her sneaking in the code that corrupted the game. It's odd that her team figured out the exact nature of their situation. She cheated with a code that was meant to keep her memory from being erased but, as shoddy code work from a likely illicit source, it spread and corrupted the whole system.
  • The host just played it off to the audience while also warning the team because he looked too concerned when it looked like they weren't going to make it. Why would he look worried when the audience can't see his face and a lose situation probably just dumps them out safely? He looked like he was composing himself when he turned to the audience.
Status: ***CONFIRMED*** as of season 2 but the glitches Vanessa caused where due to comparability issue with hardware she smuggled in

The Ending – The glitch from the virtual world has manifested in the real world

  • The Eye - We see our main characters exit the simulation and enter what is presented as the real world. Just when they appear to have escaped the deadly game glitch, Vanessa's flesh-and-blood eye glitches out.
  • If we set aside the "Simulation within a Simulation" idea and assume that they have entered the real world at the end, then this could be an extreme example of Your Mind Makes It Real and/or Hollywood Hacking.
  • Jossed, too. The Eye- was Vanessa's illegal contact lenses

Season 2 - It's going to be about the kids slowly realizing that they never left the Hollow and trying to find an actual way out.

  • The ending implied the kids were still in some sort of simulation, with the way Vanessas' eye glitched. The evil grin she gives Kai also suggests that she (and possibly the other two) is in on whatever's going on. Her and her team could become The Dragon for the seasons Big Bad, trying to keep the main team from finding out the truth and escaping for real.

That Weird Guy is The Law.

If there is a season 3, it's the real kids finding out about their digital copies

  • The clones go through a lot of Character Development, helped by the fact that their memories aren't wiped the way their real-life counterparts lost theirs. This has the unfortunate effect, however, of the human Vanessa not realizing that she caused more damage in what she thought was a harmless video game. If she actually knew the full consequences of her actions then she wouldn't be so quick as to brush it off as trying to gain an edge in what was supposed to be a friendly competition. That would spur her arc in turn and it could be a contrast with that of duplicate Vanessa's.

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