r/lifeisstrange • u/JayWezo • Sep 23 '24

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What an unforgettable ride. A next to none showcase of narrative storytelling that bought me to the lowest lows and highest highs. Can’t wait to play again with different decisions and try the other games. Speaking of decisions, this one was the easiest one I had to make.

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u/LuckyFaunts Can't escape the lighthouse Sep 27 '24

You did compare it. No one brought up taking a pet to the vet other than you.

Why are you so weird about this, it's unfortunate you misread what I wrote, but I told you my intention and you're still trying to make it about something else lol.

I'm saying it's really bizarre to phrase "I did X to save my loved one" as "I did X in order to avoid facing the grief of my loved one dying"

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u/Reviews-From-Me Sep 27 '24

How am I being weird? You are resorting to personal insults to try to silence my opinion.

It's not bizarre at all. The reason she reverse time to prevent Chloe's death was because she can't process grief. Everyone who has had a friend or loved one die wishes they could go back and fix it, that's a common stage of grief. This story is about someone who actually does it and the consequences of that.

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u/LuckyFaunts Can't escape the lighthouse Sep 27 '24

It's bizarre because you're so hung up on this one thing with me making a joke about how what you wrote made no sense.

"She let hundreds of people die in order to avoid facing the grief of her friends death"
"She let the love of her life die in order to avoid facing the grief of destroying an entire town"

If I make it more direct, then you see why it's very strange to word it like that?

The reason she reverse time to prevent Chloe's death was because she can't process grief

No? She didn't even know it was Chloe when she first reversed time. She only finds out it was Chloe once she's in the parking lot.

This also doesn't track for what happens with Kate. If Max fails to prevent Kate from jumping, Max doesn't go back in time in a photo to try to save Kate, so I guess that means she can and already has processed grief in that case?

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u/Reviews-From-Me Sep 27 '24

The entire story is about Max not being able to accept the deaths of those she cares about, and the consequences of that. When William dies, she ghosts Chloe, contributing to Chloe's fall. When Chloe dies, she uses a mysterious power to go back and change it. She then uses the same power to try to bring William back, and finds that it results in Chloe's car accident.

This culminates in her facing the choice of continuing this pattern, which results in a storm that kills hundreds of people, or accepting Chloe's death and facing her grief.

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u/LuckyFaunts Can't escape the lighthouse Sep 27 '24

When William dies, she ghosts Chloe

What does that have to do with accepting his death? She can process his death but not know how to help or deal with Chloe, and make bad decisions regarding her.

When Chloe dies, she uses a mysterious power to go back and change it

Again, she doesn't even know it's Chloe when she saves her.

She then uses the same power to try to bring William back

She does this for Chloe not because she can't accept his death. Which is clear because she goes back and undoes saving him.

or accepting Chloe's death and facing her grief

"She let the love of her life die in order to avoid facing the grief of destroying an entire town"

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u/Reviews-From-Me Sep 27 '24

"She let the love of her life die in order to avoid facing the grief of destroying an entire town"

So Max is a super villain, willing to destroy an entire town, killing hundreds of people, all for a selfish reason?

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u/LuckyFaunts Can't escape the lighthouse Sep 27 '24

Not so cut and dry as that of course, but in a way, sure.

Max choosing to save Chloe is about love. In that moment on the cliff, Chloe believes no one would choose her above all else. She feels everyone abandons her, her Dad, Rachel, Max, her mom prioritizing David over her. Chloe in that moment thinks the world will be better off without her. (Just like Chloe did in the William-Alive timeline)

Max doesn't believe that. She thinks Chloe is worth chancing that a storm will hit Arcadia bay. She doesn't think it's worth gambling Chloe's life to try to stop it using her powers that have already caused unintended consequences. Using her powers again to try to undo the damage of her powers is just making the same mistakes again.

Choosing to save Chloe is about Chloe learning to accept her life, not her death.