>>104161553I don't think you're right. Take the apparitions, for example. You had High Father, who traded his child to end a war (ie: he put duty over family), telling Scott Free how he managed to beat the Omega Sanction trap, while Free couldn't but that it was alright. You had Orion, who was bred for war and only knows how to fight, telling Free how his idyllic life was wrong. You had Metron showing him the universe outside the Omega Sanction where there things to be done. All these apparitions can be surmised as being Scott Free's own guilty conscious hammering him about how his idyllic civilian life is a lie, because he knows what goes on beyond the Omega Sanction, and him as a general in an eternal war, as a hero fighting for the good, has a duty and expectations to fulfill, but at the same time he's content in his little life and there are good things for him happening in it. It's just that he's struggling with the choice. He hates the life of duty, but feels compelled into it, and he loves his pacific little life, but feels it's a lie. It's pretty much the struggle of any vet soldier once he comes back home. Fuck, this was the plot of that movie The Hurt Locker with Jeremy Renner.
In the end you've Oberon there telling Free that's okay for him to live his little life that feels like a lie, because what's more real, the world out there full of stupid struggle that gets no one anywhere, or his life with his wife and kids that are coming? Well, the answer is obvious.
