So everyone seems to have a lot of questions about the end of the show. I am here to answer your questions, but please only ask me real questions, if you post anything dumb I will only ignore it and I ask others to do so as well. So...ask away. And remember question about the show only please.
shareI have a few. I quit at ep 3 or so...
Janet- why did they hide her child?
What was the point of the town?
Who was in control?
Why were they chosen?
I heard about levels, like level 2 is a ship.
Is there level 3?
My question is this...
Why should we let a person self-proclaimed as "way crazy" answer questions about a show with no particular knowledge on the show over anyone else.
I'm inclined to agree with GardenStatement.
"Falling feels like flying... until you hit the ground."-Tom McRae
Why should we let a person self-proclaimed as "way crazy" answer questions...
ask questions if you want to, but as I said only about the show. I just wanted to clear up some questions that people had about the show, because I seemed to understand almost everything which happened while some people still had questions, I just wanted to help.
sharefrustrating ending with many unanswered questions...
shareI don't remember them hiding her child.
The town was run by an organization known as the program. The program created this towns to test several well known theories. Such as figuring out if free-will was real or if it could be controlled. And basic survival theories.
They were chosen because each of them showed a specific quality which caused the program to become interested in them. I'm sure there is a level 3 because they once mentioned someone being at level six.
How did Janet get from South or Central America to San Francisco after the van crash?
shareCity 27 where Janet escaped from WASN'T in South America.
All the Occupants of that town were killed and in the bank safe.
City 27 is somewhere in the USA
all were killed?
shareI don't think they were killed!!!
Remember the guy with the cut-off thumb in the hospital later? Remember the woman in asylum in Argentina who has been previously abducted?
Also, I don't think anyone mentioned any killings. They were speaking about "termination of participants" (that does not necessarily mean they were killed, but could mean "dismissed" from the program).
Also, they spoke about flashing the town. Could that mean that they simply deleted the participants' memories about the abduction (memory reset)? That would explain both the guy in the hospital and the woman in asylum (as not all people are susceptible to sub-conscious programming and/or hypnosis).
If you want to find out how real/successful mind programming can be, please check "Derren Brown: The Heist" (imdb:tt0490879), where 4 subjects were programmed to rob a vehicle delivering money to the bank (be warned, you will look at world through different eyes after watching this documentary)
Saying Derren Brown really programmed minds in The Heist is akin to saying Paul Daniels magic wand really is magic. Derren is a entertainer, a mentalist, a magician. His 'mind control' is his 'magic wand'. Derren is certainly very good at what he does, but he has no powers to control mind - its is all clever tricks.
shareWell said. I'm sick of people not realising that Derren is an entertainer, not someone with 'special powers'.
shareyup. the director said "2nd town cleansed in two weeks"
shareSimple. Her town WASN'T in South America. She made a point early on of saying "we're in the northern hemisphere" while pointing at the Big Dipper (or some constellation) in response to someone asking where they were.
It's obvious there are multiple stage 1 towns in the Program.
do you remember episode 10 i think, they are in the similar looking town, people are bringing in bodies, they opened them, find the italian guy who tells them he cut off their thumbs to identify them. Next thing, Mark and Kat are on a plane, Mark is in the bathroom mixing the thumbs with the meatballs, so they took a plane back to the states.
shareyuck...
shareHow come they kept asking the Night Manager about the captives, when they have literally hundereds of cameras on them at all times, with people keeping a close eye? How could he keep better track of them then all of their survaillance equipment?
How did an person on death row and a person missing from a psych ward make it to Morroco with out any money or ID?
There are plenty more but those are the most annoying.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
they asked the night manager, because as you could see the cameras don't cover every inch of the town. Also the night manager may have heard something from the guests that the cameras didn't catch.
I'm not sure how they made it to morroco
How did Blackham know the name of Charlie's wife? Did all this happen before?
Were they reprogrammed?
lol. This show was full of holes to the point of driving me nuts. So many aspects of the show that were inconsistent, irrelevant, or unanswered.
Not to be a total d-bag here, but the all-knowing imwaycrazy isn't any more enlightened than the rest of us. Any plot holes you think you can fill, will be done so through your own personal interpretations of the show, and your own theories.
Argue all you want, but that is fact.
no arguement, it is my on interpretation, I'm not all knowing I just wanted to help people with questions as much as I could
shareyea still alot of confusion...
shareMy question-----How did the reporter get a cell phone to call a tow truck after his girlfriend destroyed it (so they couldnt be tracked) earlier that day
And how did Kat and the reported drive to Iowa and back after claiming " we have no money and our credit cards are maxed"????
totally confused by your post...
his girlfriend? Kat? the reported?
Maybe the car had OnStar...
It's like swimming, but inside out! - Ando
You can buy "prePay" cell phones all over the world very easily.
shareWho was the guy in the wardrobe of Janets mother when they talked over the phone? (Episode10)
sharewell all cars can be tracked somehow, sort of like GPS...
shareTHE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION OF ALL.....
I COULD TAKE ANYTHING ELSE IN THIS SH!T-SHOW, BUT THIS ONE TAKES THE CAKE........
......READY?
HOW IN THE WORLD DID LIAM'S HEAD EXPLODED SPONTANEOUSLY?
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The guy in the house of Janet's mother: I can't be 100% sure, but I think it's a Michael Jackson poster (I had one of those when I was a kid). Why there's a poster? I have no idea.
shareHow did Angela Barragan go from being in a stray jacket in a room covered in *beep* in south america to being the Director of the Program in Iowa?
And what bothered me the most is why Joe, who has killed people before didn't kill Barragan when he was standing 2 feet away from her since he had nothing to lose.
Also, what was the point of Blackham knowing Charlie's wife's name.
One more thing, it's understandable that in The Town there are cameras everywhere, but also in the hospital, in some souk in morocco and in the middle of nature where Charlie and Blackham were sitting last??
No offense to OP but let me give these a shot
How did Angela Barragan go from being in a stray jacket in a room covered in *beep* in south america to being the Director of the Program in Iowa?
And what bothered me the most is why Joe, who has killed people before didn't kill Barragan when he was standing 2 feet away from her since he had nothing to lose.
Also, what was the point of Blackham knowing Charlie's wife's name.
One more thing, it's understandable that in The Town there are cameras everywhere, but also in the hospital, in some souk in morocco and in the middle of nature where Charlie and Blackham were sitting last??
My only question is, "Why did I friggin' bother w/ this series????"
I'm sorry but the ending totally annoyed me.
Since they all ended up back in the same place, I felt like it was all pointless and a waste of time. And maybe that was the point the show was trying to make but it still annoyed me! I was hoping they would actually "beat" the program somehow, but nope, didn't happen.
Ok.. I just needed to vent and didn't want to start a new thread.
Well technically they didn't end up in the same place - they progressed to level two. Considering that we'd seen an entire group red-carded and that Joe was expecting there to be only one person who could advance to the next level, they apparently did pretty well.
shareHow did Angela Barragan go from being in a stray jacket in a room covered in *beep* in south america to being the Director of the Program in Iowa?
And what bothered me the most is why Joe, who has killed people before didn't kill Barragan when he was standing 2 feet away from her since he had nothing to lose.
One more thing, it's understandable that in The Town there are cameras everywhere, but also in the hospital, in some souk in morocco and in the middle of nature where Charlie and Blackham were sitting last??
Here's MY question. Did Janet really make it to her mothers house? Because the guy driving her to the hotel and janet sleeping next to her daughter seemed real. Was it real? How did the program regrab all the people and stick them in hotels again? Was the whole escape a trap from the pragram? [Meaning they were brainwashed into thinking they escaped.]
shareOK it's been a year so I forget alot of this which is probably a good thing but did the people that the program regrabbed remember each other or were their minds wiped and I seem to remember a ship and another hotel.
^ SAVE YOUR TIME, read this interview instead...
"How Persons Unknown would have progressed – Interview with Rémi Aubuchon"
http://cliqueclack.com/tv/2012/04/03/persons-unknown-ending-revealed/
http://cliqueclack.com/tv/2012/04/03/persons-unknown-ending-revealed/2 /
http://cliqueclack.com/tv/2012/04/03/persons-unknown-ending-revealed/3 /
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