In real life, our stories rarely reach satisfying, coordinated conclusions. That even extends to our relationships with ongoing online RPG systems: You don’t really complete a full lifetime of adventure so much as just kind of stop playing one day. And given how undercut all its other efforts have been, that’s about the best Full Dive can hope for at the end here. It reaches a decently-satisfying stopping point, even laying out some interesting ideas for Hiro to have learned as life lessons. But while I’ll admit that there’s a halfway-cohesive character arc at the heart of this thing after all it laid out, it still feels like it was all way more exhaustingly overt than it needed to be. This final episode fits as a microcosm of that, an absolute cacophony of conceptually contradictory sound and fury, very specifically in service of signifying nothing.
Going in, the obvious…
