This post will contain spoilers about the ending and the whole story. So please don't read it unless you've played the whole game. This is just me making sense of what happen.
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Booker DeWitt was a part of the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, and was present at the Battle of the Wounded Knee. After his gruesome actions at the Wounded Knee, Booker attended a river baptism. This is where he made the ultimate choice: to be baptize or to remain with his sins.
If he makes the choice to be baptize, all of his sins will be washed away and he would be reborn as a new person. He literally made the choice to become someone else. He wanted to have a fresh start at a hopefully a better life....he became Zachary Hale Comstock.
As Zachary Comstock he discovers the tear technology from Lutece and with it he was able to establish Columbia, a flying city. At some point he wanted a heir to rule Colombia after he dies, but he couldn't produce his own. He became infertile because of the technology. So using the tear technology, he enters a world where Booker DeWitt exists (because in that world he made the choice to not be baptize). It was also a world where Booker DeWitt was married and his wife died giving birth but the child lived. Comstock kidnaps that child, Anna from that Booker.
Once Comstock had the child he tried to erase all the evidence by attempting to kill Lutece and his wife, Lady Comstock. Comstock's assassination attempt on the Luteces fail and both the twins (who were actually the same person but each from a different dimension) get stuck throughout time and space. In order to stop themselves from ever getting stuck the Lutece twins realize they need Booker Dewitt to kill Comstock. They bring in hundreds of Bookers from different dimensions to kill Comstock, but Booker always fails. Either he is too late to get to Elizabeth or Songbird kills him.
Booker DeWitt, the one we play as in the game was married. His wife died giving birth and so did the child. What many didn't understand was why did this Booker have the initials A.D. marked into his hand? Elizabeth also mention that when he was unconscious he was calling out the name Anna. The players assume that Anna was his wife and he craved/burn her initials onto his hand as a way to remember/honor her. When actually he IS the original Booker Dewitt...the one that makes the ultimate decision to be baptize or not. He is also the Booker that Comstock originally took his daughter from.
The Luteces bought him into the dimension that Comstock was at and Booker feeling the affects of going through a tear tried to make sense of things. His mind filled in the blanks, making him believe that his wife and the child died. That he was only there to "Bring us the girl, and wipe away the debt".
The game does a decent amount of foreshadowing. Such as when Booker first enters Columbia he has to be baptized in order to enter the city. He also has a 'dream' of New York City being burned down and so on. Anyway, as the players continue throughout the game we come across another Elizabeth.
She's a older Elizabeth from a world in which Booker fail to save her because Songbird killed him and Comstock succeeded. She realized too late and in hopes to try to break the cycle -- the circle, she gives Booker a clue to give to her younger self. Elizabeth figures out that Songbird needs to destroy the syphon in order to release her full power. She also learns that Booker is Comstock.
They both understand that the only way for it to end is for Comstock to never exist and to do that they must go back to the past; to the river baptism. Going there and killing Booker before he can choose or reject his baptism was the only way. That ended the cycle. All realities where Comstock existed are erased therefore—Columbia was never built, and Anna was never taken by Comstock. The older versions of hers then vanish, along with their realities.
However, it doesn't break the circle in all of the realities. There are always multiple paths, hence the reason the game is called "BioShock Infinite". So even if Booker's final death was somehow logic, it never would have killed all the Bookers from all the different realities. Chen Li is the perfect example.
That is why in the very end we see a reality that has Booker living peacefully with his daughter. Because in that reality Comstock never took Anna (and Booker never sold his daughter). Anna also never died. But that's what we can assume since for all we know in that reality, the whole cycle could start the next day. But I'm hoping it's the former since I and I'm sure others as well, want a happy ending.
 DamnBlackHeart · Tue Apr 09, 2013 @ 04:33pm · 0 Comments |
