Nothing new to see here. 😀  I’m only transferring a post I did in another forum with minor edits.

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A poster named stevii wrote:

I really love your blog expecially the ones about MOTA because you are one of the people who don’t question the logic of the game because i really get how the game works. i dont understand how Jinwoo is a bug but you have already kindly explain it in your blog, and i find it plausible. the only inconsistency i get is when Sec Seo is getting murdered, Jinwoo is still on the train that takes him away from Granada, he got a message that he’s away from the game server (which is in Granada), also the message that Prof Cha gets when he ran away from Seoul after being Jinwoo’s ally, he’s away from the game server in Seoul. No NPC can get to them if they are out of the town. But JW also said that he still can see Cha Junior even in the US. from the story line, i didnt think US has been included in the game server, because the game is developed only for Granada and Seoul. So why can JW still see junior Cha? maybe the server region only works for the game NPC (meaning the soldiers and the terrorists)? That i think, is one inconsistency that i still hasnt get, maybe you have an explanation for that? sorry if you have written this somewhere in your blog, i might miss it. 😀

BTW W is so good, except for the ending. hahaha at least in my opinion.

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This was my response.

Yes, I already explained that, too, but I guess I wasn’t explicit enough. 😀

JW is a BUG. The moment he killed HyunSuk, he created an ERROR in the software and his user Zinu became a BUG. Think of Zinu as a virus, infecting/corrupting his allies with the same virus.

And yes, NPC HyunSuk haunted Jinwoo daily but the show didn’t show viewers NPC HS’s daily appearance because that would be tedious. More tiresome than the flashbacks. Ha!

You remembered that scene well. Jinwoo was talking to Park who lectured him about the way he drank and popped pills. JW answered, “I’m trying hard to restore balance to my life. Imagine being in a battlefield every day. I see blood, get stabbed, kill others, and worry about dying. Try doing that for 365 days. You’d be popping pills, too.” Park protested, “You said the vision had stopped.” And he replied, “No I still see him every day. I couldn’t tell Professor Cha that I see his son covered in blood every day.”

Every single day. Everywhere he goes. (Gulp!)

Again, the director didn’t show us their meetings because it was a given that JW shot NPC HS every single day, too. What’s the fun of showing us THAT? The director only reminded us once in a while, for instance in Episode 12, when NPC HS showed up in HeeJoo’s workshop. JW shot him, of course.

Now, JW wanted Prof Cha as far away from Seoul as possible because he (Jinwoo) was staying in Seoul to fight the NPCs. Mind you, he wanted the distance NOT FOR HIMSELF but for Prof Cha’s sake.

There were two reasons.

One, when Prof Cha was in Seoul, he was within range of the servers and the NPCs would attack HIM. Jinwoo obviously couldn’t protect Prof Cha and level up at the same time.

Look: That’s why Sec Seo got killed in Granada when he was ambushed by a swarm of NPCs. Jinwoo went “out of bounds” so his terrorist NPCs disappeared. But Sec Seo remained in Granada so of course, the game didn’t end for him. Sec Seo couldn’t log out even when he wanted to log out nor could he quit the game by removing his AR lenses because there was no stopping the onslaught of NPCs unless the servers were turned off.

JW learned this valuable lesson from Sec Seo’s death. Hence, he ordered Prof Cha to get out of Seoul and out of range of the servers so the NPCs wouldn’t attack him.

Two, whenever Prof Cha was with him, Prof Cha would be in danger from NPC Hyunsuk, too.

NPC Hyunsuk was different from all the other NPCs. For one, the servers didn’t matter with him. Whether they were on or off, he still existed. For another (and people MUST understand this by now), NPC Hyunsuk was only AFTER Jinwoo. He showed up for Jinwoo, not for anybody else. He was Jinwoo’s albatross. His ball and chain. His shadow. His guilt. His soul-eater, if you want. And he appeared daily to Jinwoo.

NPC Hyunsuk wasn’t really going after Sec Seo or for Prof Cha. He didn’t haunt them. If you notice at the train stations in Barcelona and Granada, NPC Hyunsuk surfaced where Jinwoo was located, not at Sec Seo’s side. And he showed up in Episode 16 because Jinwoo was in that hotel room.

Jinwoo was NPC Hyunsuk’s primary target, but if he had allies hanging around him, then NPC Hyunsuk would go after them as well.

To sum it up then: Jinwoo wanted Prof Cha out of Seoul to put distance between them. He couldn’t predict when NPC HyunSuk would show up at his side. While turning off the servers could stop most NPCs, the servers could NOT stop NPC HyunSuk from reappearing. If Prof Cha was with Jinwoo, he was a sitting duck.

So there you go. Again, I don’t see any inconsistencies in the game. 🙂  At first, the game might be hard to follow because you were encountering the “exceptions to the rule” as you went along, but if you rewatch it, the game made sense… not only for the lunatics. lol. 

However, as I said in one of the comments on my blog, do not be stuck with these small details. Go for the BIG PICTURE that the writer and director want us to see. There’s a postscript shown in the final credits. “Trust is the magic that changes the world, not the technology.” When you focus too much on the “technology” or the MECHANICS of the show and the logic of the GAME, you lose the real meaning of the kdrama. Go beyond this and have faith that all will eventually make sense in the end. 😀