>>97038661>When you think about it, that was a really shoddy prophecy. What would they do if Arnold had accepted that his parents were dead and decided to not go looking for them?the beautiful part of a prophecy is that they're aways some shoddy vague piece of garbage, until they come true.
also, the container only needed to be opened by pressing buttons in the right order. the key just let arnold see which ones to press in what order.
theoretically, the high level adults knew the secrets of the magical stone technology; but they were asleep, and the children didn't know because they were too young /not ready /reasons based on however their society works.
> innocently ignorantGerald explicitly asking why he can't be the saviour makes me doubt this.
> The entire segment where each child uses their talents to get Arnold, Gerald, and Helga to escape their imprisonmentI honestly think it was a sarcastic statement rather than an honest one. Even if it was an honest statement that he couldn't recognize his own part in the story, it would then be a "woe is me" joke that the viewer should've recognized as the lie it was.
At least, if the viewer is an actual human and not a braindead SJW
