I'm playing the first Mario Galaxy, but I can't help but think that each game is a way for him to remember his life, but he doesn't, so things just get crazier to trigger his memories. He became partially self aware at the end of the first Galaxy game, but it wasn't enough for him to remember everything. So the cycle will continue until Mario is ready to move on.
Actually, I'm starting to think this about everything now. A television show has affected my beliefs about the afterlife (which were already similar to Lost's, it's kind of vague but you get to have your favorite parts of your life with you[and it's not tied to any particular religion]). I could go on for hours about how amazing the episode was and how it transcended what I wanted it to be going into it to be something far more powerful than an episode of television should be. The ending was fantastic as a message and for ending the show. How the people in your life are your life. Though we all want to leave our mark, if we have no one (or no thing) to live for, no one to even wait for, it doesn't really matter. It's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. Live together, die alone, find each other again. I've never been this spiritual in my life, but it's not really spiritual, it's not even something that exists. It's a failsafe for our imaginations so that even if there's nothing after we die, we will still have something. It's hard to think about and put into words, because it's all unknowable.
Would the world have ended if Jack hadn't put the cork back in? We don't know. It may very well just have been an island with strange properties stemming from pockets of electromagnetism, and a lot of mysteries just are, and no one that has ever met the main characters knows. The series may not have hit the right notes along the way, but in my opinion we had a complete story for Jack and company's time on the island. And that's all we could have hoped for.
(This was originally supposed to be 140 characters, :lol)
Actually, I'm starting to think this about everything now. A television show has affected my beliefs about the afterlife (which were already similar to Lost's, it's kind of vague but you get to have your favorite parts of your life with you[and it's not tied to any particular religion]). I could go on for hours about how amazing the episode was and how it transcended what I wanted it to be going into it to be something far more powerful than an episode of television should be. The ending was fantastic as a message and for ending the show. How the people in your life are your life. Though we all want to leave our mark, if we have no one (or no thing) to live for, no one to even wait for, it doesn't really matter. It's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. Live together, die alone, find each other again. I've never been this spiritual in my life, but it's not really spiritual, it's not even something that exists. It's a failsafe for our imaginations so that even if there's nothing after we die, we will still have something. It's hard to think about and put into words, because it's all unknowable.
Would the world have ended if Jack hadn't put the cork back in? We don't know. It may very well just have been an island with strange properties stemming from pockets of electromagnetism, and a lot of mysteries just are, and no one that has ever met the main characters knows. The series may not have hit the right notes along the way, but in my opinion we had a complete story for Jack and company's time on the island. And that's all we could have hoped for.
(This was originally supposed to be 140 characters, :lol)