To me, It seemed like the purpose of the show in the first couple of episodes was a mouse doing jobs for a shark.
I feel like this is the way RBM and Shark originally wanted it to be--just Mouse doing odd jobs for the Shark. Why? Who knows--it doesn't really matter. (Perhaps the plan was for Mouse to execute the farming of the asprind fields. Just a thought.) But then Mouse finds Roostre's homing corn dog and all hell breaks loose. Clearly Roostre and Liquor know far more about Mouse's situation than Mouse does. Basically Shark and RBM's well laid out plans (whatever they were) had to be sped up when Mouse started talking to people and having flashbacks.
Then it got all puzzle-y and crazy and Fitz and crew are constantly getting seperated and re-united. And then Amalockh awakens.
With all of the bizarre things that happen in this show, the Amalockh thing is what made the least sense. Why in the world was Amalockh even in the show? I made a thread about Pronto and Amalockh not too long ago. It should still be on the first page.
And then the corndroid and the bow-tie armies are unleashed and it seems like RBM and Shark are just trying to prevent total meltdown while Fitz and them are escaping.
No doubt that Fitz's adventures were screwing up RBM and Shark's plans. Mouse's flashbacks seem to spell out that RBM and Shark (and really Shadowy Figure) are trying to control minds. Fitz, being the rat mouse bastard that he is, starts to figure things out, and he is none too pleased when it looks like his memories and his past had been erased.
AND THEN mouse just wakes up in that lab. For some reason the "siren" lady and Peanut Cop are there in human form and kill RBM and Shark (in human form)
How did those two get seperated from the imaginary world? Why where they "just there" and how did they know to kill those two guys?
Why were those two guys even doing all this?
If you recall, the humanoid RBM orders the nurse to inject something or another, when the nurse responds "Sir, that will kill him." Evidently that was enough of a reason for the nurse and Peanut Cop to kill RBM and Shark. Of course there must be more to the story than that. Remember when RBM put the Shadowy Figure in a jar? Perhaps something analogous happened in the lab--maybe RBM tried to take over the experiment from the Shadowy Figure for his own nefarious plans. Then when RBM tries to order Fitz killed, it was a bridge too far for the Nurse and Peanut Cop. One can only speculate.
Why didn't Fitz get freed from the imaginary world? Why is he left to wander it with no enemies anymore? what is he gonna do now?
In the lab, Fitz barely comes to when hooked up to the machines. Presumably he falls unconscious again, without RBM and Shark controlling his world. At the very end, the Shadowy Figure escapes from his jar, probably intent on starting over.
I need to still watch the webisode, so, maybe that would answer alot of questions.
It doesn't.
Yet, it just seemed to me that they had an idea to make it all coded, and then at the end just threw out some crazy ending and expected us to just keep thinking about it until we can manufacture some kind of satisfying ending in our heads.
I don't remember exactly what happened, but I think AS pulled the plug on Mouse with only a few episodes to go. So that would explain the rush to an ending (I agree--it was rushed). Just like everything else that happened, the creators left it up to the viewer to figure out what significance the ending has. There's not a lot to work with--much of the mystery surrounding Muff and Q109 went unresolved. Who knows what Matt M. and co. might have done with more episodes. But we get what we get and that's all that we get.
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