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I've just binged Ethics Town and I cannot wait for Season 2. I called the plot twist of Episode 7 and I love that I was right, although I had a completely different theory at first (for this, see under the cut). I love the whole concept (speak of doomed by the narrative).

As I am writing this, I am listening again to Episode 8.

Spoilers under the cut! In form of a ramble.

My first theory, when January was avoiding the question about his age and the fact that he hides his face, was, that he somehow founded the town and is at least a century old. That thought might have come from me listening to The Magnus Archives shortly before.

The thought that January might be the major came when he said he talked with the major on the roof, when he reacted to Artemis assuming he's the janitor with a hum. And I was right!

I also love the whiplash you get from January's rapidly changing mood. From cold major, to having a mental breakdown over his guilt, to sobbing over his daughter.

The whole story is about ethics and lessons but also, I feel, about the question of free will. They have a role and no chance, as of yet, to break out of it.

And the VOICE OVERS ("Who said anything about a God?") - AI feeding them their lines? Or are those glimpses from real world and the podcast is them somehow truly trapped in a simulation, where some of them (like Artemis) remember being a person? A social experiment, maybe.

Good gods, this is giving ME an existential crisis. My thoughts are all over the place!

Anyway I am looking forward to Season 2 and more existential dread.