Downtime story
An overachieving hotel manager suddenly finds everyone standing still when an enormous object appears in the sky. Directed by: JD Dillard. Story by: Jordan Peele.
12 total · 1 choice · 4 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| what if I found out I was a simulation | choice | Michelle was confronted with the strange reality that she existed as someone's avatar in a vast multi-player video game of some sort. |
| human self-sacrifice for another | major | Michelle struggled with the decision of whether to wake up in order to save Phineas and for the sake of his family. |
| husband and wife | major | Michell and Carl Weaver. Ellen explained to Michelle how she was married to the man who was playing as Michelle in the video game. |
| speculative virtual reality | major | The story is set in a simulated city in which the inhabitants do not seem to realize that they are generated by the minds of real people. |
| virtual person | major | Michelle was a character in a simulated reality game. |
| AI rights | minor | We were made to ponder whether the Michelle persona had rights of her own when the tech support people wanted to force-unsync her. |
| coping with a tough customer | minor | Michelle handled a disgruntled couple by upgrading them to the penthouse suite. |
| facing organized pursuit | minor | Michelle tried to elude tech support people. |
| human life choice | minor | Michelle had to choose whether to live in a fake world or wake up and disappear, in the end. |
| suicide | minor | It was revealed that the man who was playing as Michelle in the game had killed himself by overdosing on medication. |