Fan Fiction

Locations of the Last Scenes

Written by Scott Fujimoto

I've figured out where everybody ended up during the "Galatea explosion" scenes at the very end of 2040, plus unearthed evidence that Sylia is a Midwestern country girl! (Of course, now Sylia's going to kill me to conceal this fact and ensure that Linna's the only one who feels like a hick.)

We know:

Galatea exploded shortly after the Umbrella was positioned over Genom Tower right at daybreak. The angles of the neutrinos thus originate from her position, and so we can deduce where each of the subsequent scenes take place.

Tokyo--It's morning in Tokyo and the neutrinos are falling downward.

NYC--It's night there and the neutrinos are falling upwards, which makes sense since NYC is on the opposite side of the Earth. There's a 10 hour differenced between NYC and Tokyo so figure it's around 9 AM in Tokyo and thus 7 PM in NYC.

On the island where Nene and Linna end up, the sun is directly overhead and the neutrinos are falling downward. Thus they are somewhere in the (South?) Pacific.

The scene with the river through the jungle and the sloth is the Amazon. It's night and the neutrinos are upward, which makes sense.

The icy scene with the Aurora Borealis is in the Arctic because the neutrinos are shooting to the left. (In the Antarctic, the neutrinos would be shooting towards the right.) Because it's night in the Arctic, it is Spring in the Northern Hemisphere. (It can't be Fall because the leaves in the trees of Tokyo are green.)

At the bar where Leon is, it is night and a neutrino shoots up from Leon's glass. Thus he is on the U.S. East Coast, possibly NYC.

Now the most interesting part: At Sylia's house, it is twilight and the neutrinos are shooting up. Thus her house must be in the U.S. Great Plains somewhere, where it would be around 6 PM. Because this is where Sylia grew up, in all likelihood she is an American. Her father certainly is (he was born in California as per Nene's readout) and she may be at least partly Japanese-American, as her father's middle name is "Katsuto". As for the desert-bound Priss, the light is beginning to hit Priss's hardsuit so it is exactly daybreak. It was already morning in Tokyo before Priss fell to the Earth, so she probably landed somewhere in the Gobi Desert. (It would already be day in the Australian Outback and would still be night in the Middle East.)

Yes, this is extremely obsessive but it's amazing what you can do during a boring plane ride.

-- Scott

Linna: "Wow! It's great the writers actually thought something out logically for once!"
Nene: "Uh... Linna?"
Linna: "Yeah?"
Nene: "Neutrinos can't be seen."
Linna: (crestfallen) "Oh."
Sylia: "And you three are still naked at the end of the show."
Linna: "Shouldn't you be milking a cow somewhere?"
Sylia: "WHAT??"

(We now return you to your regular kangaroo programming.)

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