Any prediction on Season 3?

[araisikewai]

Curious to find where Season 3 will take the story into.
Though if it were me, I might try to start the story a bit lightly by focusing on the movie "A Hundred Grey Shadows" in TNB. Perhaps by making the assisting operator as a naughty National agent who push the player into searching for any story/gossip/tabloid. Of which the player/operator would gladly comply because, hey, getting spoiler before anyone else is fun. It also plays into the perfect trilogy setup by making the first 3 articles you read in TNB as the background setting for each seasons.

And it would be really interesting if they could take the story longer than 3 days and tied it with the repercussion of season 1 and especially 2 sprinkled in, perhaps by panning the first two days by making research into movie as a side mission like how a junior worker bee just wasting some time in the office, but the main mission being searching for some misdemeanor crime like who is jaywalking or smoking in public places or some sort. Because, hey, not everyone get to open their day with breaking news story all the time.

But of course this being Orwell, it could always take a turn for the worse from those lighthearted beginning. For example by making some of the actors/director involved in TPV or Bonton bombing in some way.

[Ladybunne]

I had a neat thought that it'd be fascinating to see how the Nation would react were Orwell to be "accidentally" released as open-source, and for a certain activist hacker group (initiate, Harrison and maybe some new faces?) to get their hands on it.

Given that Season 1 had us question the ethics of privacy invasions in the interest of safety, and Season 2 challenged us to ponder the nature of "truth" and "facts"... Season 3 taking us towards more dangerous ground could be very very interesting.

I loved the moment in S1 where Harrison doxxed Symes, not because I agreed with Harrison's actions, but because it represented a primal attempt at shifting power back in the hands of the people. We're already inclined to side with the plight of the people - after all, isn't the point of getting to know the characters in S1 so that we feel bad when bad things happen to them?

Playing as an activitst, assisting Harrison and initiate, and waging digital war on the Nation's most powerful individuals... it'd be a rush, for sure.

[araisikewai]

That was also a great idea. Seeing as right now IRL there are hackers exposing India's public ID system security flaws, giving them the ability to make anyone on Earth posing as Indian citizen.
So in the case of your story, I wouldn't say it as 'accidentally' release just as it is, but rather they make it so that some hackers can inject and pose as an operator inside the system. It might be interesting to make it as a hunt between which is an operator who's working for government, who is a black hat hacker working for their own purpose, who is a white hat hacker working for the people.

[Knightclub]

My personal headcannon is that episode three will be Rhosen (the developers of Orwell) secretly using it for their own corporate needs, undermining other companies and rigging elections into their favor, in a similar mind to Facebook or Analytical. That's my own theory though to be fair, whatever the devs have is gonna be miles better than our ideas!

[feithree]

I agree with the idea of 100 shades of shadow. I was part of guide writing for translation so our team is more carefully looking in the news timeline on National Beholder. As they successfully made some of the news into the background of this one which were seen not valuable at 1st (for example, PM meeting Pargas President) I'm pretty sure they will do the same thing to the movies. If my memory is correct there are 2 or 3 news about the movie industry.