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There was, however, one dissappointing part of the game and that was when Rebecca died. It did not make sense to me as to why Malan held Rebecca as hostage. He gave a nice room as if she was his doll but why? I didn't get the context of this so that scene fell flat for me.
The only explanation I can think of is that the whole game is a nightmare of John's. Where Malan represents himself or a repression of himself, an aspect of himself he doesn't want. This also makes sense to me when looking at what Malan said to John and when and how he spoke to him. Malan only speaks at certain points (no reason given as to why) when a new discovery is made, as a way of representing moving from unconsciousness to consciousness.
The same, I think, is true for Te'ha. She is too obvious with here role from the beginning and John never questions her. It is as if John knows who Te'ha is but choose to ignore it until it is time. Te'ha final encounter and John letting his wife go into space (cloned/dead or not) represents John finally letting go, ie waking up.
Finding rebecca, then, is anticipated all the way through the game and I had a feeling it would play out just like it did except not that Malan would be the one holding her. In any case, the fact that Rebecca does not notice John I interpret as Rebecca not being there. It is the phase of John's nightmare where he confronts what actually happened to her.
I can see two scenarios for what happened to Rebecca. One, Rebecca died. The beginning of the game suggests that only criminals come to this facility and so John could had been the cause of Rebecca's death. In terms of dreams and nightmares, the criminal aspect could be a representation of how John sees himself at the beginning of the game/dream and does not necessarily mean that he was a criminal in the judicial sense.
Two, John was split from Rebecca and Ellen. This could be any kind of tragedy that caused them to no longer see each other. In other words, John can't accept him being separated from Rebecca and Ellen but eventually comes to terms with it.
I had a very similar nightmare to this game once so I am making some interpretations here based on the how I interpreted that nightmare.
If the game isn't using the symbolic language as i am suggesting here I would like to know why Malan is keeping Rebecca as a doll/hostage?
I also remember someone proposing a theory that the large face in the Disposal Area was supposed to be the aggregate consciousness of the fungus or something to that fashion. However, if you read its description it's flatout stated that it was an effigy carved from the mucus for some unknown purpose. My best guess would be that it was done by the newly birthed hybrids and was meant to represent Malan'[s face since he was technically their god/creator.
That being said, I'm surprised that the fungus wasn't given more of a focus in the game overall since it was implied to be sentient/intelligent to a certain extent and was capable of taking over a human host. As far as I can tell, one of Malan's unwilling test subjects most likely brought it onboard from either Earth or an offworld colony and it started propagating like crazy. Wonder if it'll play a role in a sequel/followup, assuming one is made.
I guess the real question here is: Who is Malan to John and who is John to Malan? As far as we know, they have no previous relationship but still Malan keeps John's daughter and treats her lile a queen, relatively speaking.
In any case. Awesome game.
How subtle do you consider these to be though? I can say that I personally HAVE played the game more than once. I didn't find the second playthrough especially helpful at clearing up my own major questions at all. A little bit, sure. But mostly for little questions. I'd argue it makes some of the bigger questions even less clear.
Pretty major things. Like WERE clones of any member of the family made? If the especially-interesting birthing woman WAS an Ellen, which was the original, and how and when did the one from the ending movie die? Or were we supposed to infer that there was only one Ellen, we killed her, then Te'ah grabbed the body, dumped it into a pod, and somehow managed to transport all that herself for the final scene? Was that even John's daughter we watch get killed? (The girl who gets killed looks nothing like the daughter from the early scenes.) And who/what were the silent, random, perfectly-fine-looking humans disinterestedly wandering around in the shadows?
Assuming John realized that Ellen was dead (which is a strong possibility, especially considering what he said in the penultimate room just before confronting Malan), it makes me wonder why he still saw any point in sending her away, instead of using her pod to escape himself.
The only logical reason I can come up with is that he wanted to expose Cayne's illegal experiments and so he presumably sent her to Earth or some offworld colony where her corpse would be picked up by the relevant authorities and they'd be able figure out what happened after analyzing her (especially her bone marrow).
Play the last video in the series for their thoughts on the story.