My interpretation of the ending is kinda based off of the American TV show 12 Monkeys:
Because the entire timeline was paradoxical, it's impossible to know where it begins or ends.
The only reason ML became so successful so quickly is because the Villain made sure it happened. At the same time, it is the Villain himself who pushes his present day self to further despair by making the ML find him and eventually get him chased at gunpoint. In a way, he made himself become the Villain.
FL only travels back because a future version of her told her to via diary. This method of recording current iteration of events is also used by Villain in order to maintain the loop so it is also impossible to figure out beginning or end.
All in all, the timeline was already a complete mess.
At the end, ML almost won after taking out Villain and we saw FL about to disappear. But then his friend comes by and tries to do the exact same thing the Villain did and force ML to build the uploader which would once again bring the time loop back,
In other words, no matter what as long as ML was alive with the code in his head the time loop would never truly end. So by killing himself, he prevents the possibility of the Uploader to exist. and therefore prevents Villain from traveling to the past to make sure ML becomes the success he is. Without the Villain in the past, basically none of what has occurred could happen. So the timeline kinda just resets everything.
BUT, magically it spits out FL in this new corrected timeline (maybe to pay back. ML for his sacrifice?).
Yea... still doesn't make any sense whatsoever but it's the best I can think of.
Also, in the end the diary from Future Villain may have also been magically spit out in the new timeline. Present day Villain still seems to hate ML but he's no longer overwhelmingly obsessed and just acting it out in the mirror.
No idea what the writers were thinking, I hate these non-conclusive endings that simply leave viewers lost and confused.
Probably shouldn't be reading too much into this since it's a drama but how exactly does contacts, an earpiece, and VR allow you to physically feel everything and even potentially die?
Am I right that the reason why young Sigma could see the future is because the future Sigma was influencing him subtly? By maybe making him come in contact with himself (maybe like hair or blood without him knowing)?
Anyone else bothered by how easily ML found child-FL by. name instantly through a simple name search? It's not like there's only one person with the same name in all of S Korea...
On episode 8 and am confused at how this can have. a happy ending. They seem trapped in a time loop. Especially the FL, her future self who had already travelled to the past and died already experienced everything she's going through in the drama at this very moment. She even got some of the memories yet goes through the exact same motions... I don't see how they can possibly change anything...
Because the entire timeline was paradoxical, it's impossible to know where it begins or ends.
The only reason ML became so successful so quickly is because the Villain made sure it happened. At the same time, it is the Villain himself who pushes his present day self to further despair by making the ML find him and eventually get him chased at gunpoint. In a way, he made himself become the Villain.
FL only travels back because a future version of her told her to via diary. This method of recording current iteration of events is also used by Villain in order to maintain the loop so it is also impossible to figure out beginning or end.
All in all, the timeline was already a complete mess.
At the end, ML almost won after taking out Villain and we saw FL about to disappear. But then his friend comes by and tries to do the exact same thing the Villain did and force ML to build the uploader which would once again bring the time loop back,
In other words, no matter what as long as ML was alive with the code in his head the time loop would never truly end. So by killing himself, he prevents the possibility of the Uploader to exist. and therefore prevents Villain from traveling to the past to make sure ML becomes the success he is. Without the Villain in the past, basically none of what has occurred could happen. So the timeline kinda just resets everything.
BUT, magically it spits out FL in this new corrected timeline (maybe to pay back. ML for his sacrifice?).
Yea... still doesn't make any sense whatsoever but it's the best I can think of.
Also, in the end the diary from Future Villain may have also been magically spit out in the new timeline. Present day Villain still seems to hate ML but he's no longer overwhelmingly obsessed and just acting it out in the mirror.
No idea what the writers were thinking, I hate these non-conclusive endings that simply leave viewers lost and confused.
Unless they can send objects further back in time to which this could make sense...