Not sure I'm following the discussion here, but about the interview: It's a bit disappointing that the writers think that the Emperor/Orpheus ending is just fine, while it simply felt unfinished, like they were running out of time or something. No way I thought this could have been intentional. They even highlight how much attention and time they spent on that ending.
- there are many different possibilities, some of them not reflected in the finale, but still in some ways it did come down to an almost binary decision.
- So yes, it's one of the many decisions that you make, but if you look at the amount of permutations of how you can get into that ending, it's very large. Chrystal spent, I don't know, the better part of her life just working on those ending dialogues, dealing with all these permutations..."
I'm not very optimistic about the DE anymore.
