Finished my second run through of this last night. Top notch still. The scenes where all the different versions of the characters (Lily, Sergei, and Jamie in one and Katie in the other) run through their different choices are really cool to see. The stuff inside Devs at the end is so haunting and beautiful. I still maintain that the very end of Ep3 or 4, i forget which one now, where the counselor sends cops to pick up Lily and then Kenton comes in after them to handle Jamie right as the loud jarring music hits is such a powerful ending.
finally watched this and it was beautiful, but man that ending just gives me so much existential dread. katie begging the senator not to pull the plug, and then imagining the simulation just ending for Lily if they did, and that’s just like real life. sorry.
the simulation room gave me heavy observation deck vibes. re: their placement in time, Forest says he told Katie to put them back in, I’d assume he gave her specific times. Lily right where we first meet her, as that’s where her life started to change; (I’m assuming) Forest went to the moment his wife & Amaya get home safely, since that was the same moment for him. still all kinds of questions about the timeline (does he still go on to make DEVS without that motivation?) and the mechanics of the system (like the fabrication of a new bridge across the vacuum), but no major hangups for me.