This is behind the Kerberos, the Prometheus and the big twist

1899, the new mystery series from dark duo Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, aims to be your next dark mystery obsession on Netflix. Each of the 8 episodes brings new twists and turns and if your head isn’t spinning after the many twists, you probably have resigned to wanting to understand everything, like some of the divided critics may have already resigned before. we explain the revelations of the end of 1899, which Season 1 leaves us with. (Warning, spoilers!)

Explained 1899: What are the Kerberos and the Prometheus really?

At the beginning, 1899 is the story of a simple emigrant journey: Several people want to cross the Atlantic towards America on the Kerberos ship for different reasons. But on the way they encounter a second migrant ship without a driver and passengers: the Prometheus. So far, so understandable. But at the latest when at the end of episode 2 a wall of surveillance screens (which should not yet exist at this turn of the millennium) appears, it should be clear that the Ocean liners more than just ships are.

Together with the Scottish Maura (Emily Beecham) we then discover mysterious trapdoors in the cabins of the individual passengers. Long tiled corridors lead to hatches and doors, behind whose floating frames the memory worlds open to those affected. For Maura, for example, it is a barren Scottish landscape with a mansion, for Daniel (Aneurin Barnard) a hall with a shared double bed.

We learn that the Passengers trapped in a simulation are. Nothing on the 1899 ship is real: neither the steamer itself, nor the ocean, nor the screens and cables, nor the landscapes that can’t possibly fit into the ship’s hold. The ship passengers are part of an experimentthat’s in loop already repeated several times and reset became. What specific goal this experiment has beyond the imprisonment of the mind will not be revealed in season 1. But the Kerberos is just another version of the Prometheus: a failed run, like all the other abandoned ships.

When the passengers begin to rebel, Maura’s supervising father, Henry Singleton (Anton Lesser), wants a countdown started reboot perform to start the next run. But there is one Emergency exit from virtual reality: Inside the little black ones pyramid The boy (Fflyn Edwards) who was picked up has a keyhole and Maura has the wake-up key that fits in there.

When Henry den key finally gets his possession to flee himself, Daniel (Aneurin Barnard) has already had the opportunity to use the simulation to reprogram. After this code change, two things happen: The syringe no longer erases Maura’s memory, but transports her to the first simulation of a child’s room. In addition, after Daniel’s manipulation, it is no longer the key and pyramid that are decisive, but the wedding ring and pyramid toy: Maura can finally use them awaken and the prison of false reality escape.

Who are the string pullers of the 1899 simulation?

By this time in 1899 we had already learned that the ominous shipping company owner Henry Singleton with his penchant for triangles was Maura’s father. In addition, Maura is the mother of the mysterious boy (Elliot) and the wife of Daniel, although she herself don’t remember can.

Even if it looks like it is for a long time Henry holding the reins while letting his spy Sebastian (Tino Mewes) do the legwork on board, it eventually turns out that the truth is Maura brings the simulation to life called. The brain researcher is a scientist, just like her husband Daniel, who helped her. So Henry is just another prisoner of the wrong world, albeit with a different purpose.

In Maura’s oblivion there is also an indication of the possible reason for her creation: the simulation finally ends in a children’s room bunker below a grave in her memory world. Apparently she has hers lost son. Did she want to forget this sad event with a digital Elliot copy? (So ​​take the blue pill to compare it to Matrix?) Their first simulation of the nursery apparently had the purpose of keeping Elliot’s consciousness in a computer. But now she has to let go.

What is certain is that Maura may have created the false reality, but no longer controls it: the end of 1899 reveals that Maura’s brother Ciaran took control Has. And so it is he who is allowed to send the last message in the 8th episode of the 1st season.

What does the spaceship mean at the end of 1899?

Because when Maura finally wakes up from the ship simulation, she finds herself on one Spaceship in the year 2099 again. Beside her, the 14 other main characters of 1899 are attached to the shuttle that bears the name of Prometheus.

Shortly before the end, a screen provides the crucial new information: The Project Prometheus is a survival mission. On board the spaceship on October 19, 2099 there are a total of 1423 passengers (just like on the steamship from the beginning) and 550 crew members. Ciaran also greets his sister Maura with a written one “Welcome to reality”.

So is 1899 mankind’s search for new habitats on distant planets, which has often been told in the sci-fi genre? Or is there more to it than that? Because if in the center of 1899 the search for reality at this point we should ask ourselves: Is the spaceship of the end really the ultimate reality? Or just the next simulation? Because with the targeted 3 seasons of 1899, the Netflix series still has many explanations ahead of it.

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