Inside Review (A Glass Of Water)
(WARNING SPOILER) The theory of what goes on behind the secret coded door under the Cornfield. I explain to you:
Everyone is saying that The Blob is controlling the boy, but in all actuality, its controlling YOU the player. By giving you the simple task of constantly moving forward and solving any problem you come across. It lures you into a false sense of progression. The Boy is controlled by you, doing anything you command by the press of a button. While The Blob controls you, the player, by making you think that the boy is deciding to solve the problems himself. Ultimately leading to you being absorbed by the blob, and forced to help it break free. The Boy has no descicion or control over what he does, since you are the one already occupying that role. The Boy is being used as a placeholder so the blob can get a hold of you and the way you think. You never understood why you kept moving onward, but you kept doing it. When you inevitably got absorbed I to the blob, you just kept storming through the facility with no question. Brainlessly partaking and completing tasks without even trying to understand why your doing them is a prime example of the games main focus. Control, and brainwashing. Right from the start of the game the blob already has control over you. And overtime you get brainwashed into a habit of solving problems and constantly moving right. Completing the "Normal Ending" means that you are no different than the Grey Zombie-Like figures marching through out the game. Living with no purpose, only existing to complete another entities orders. When you control the boy to unplug the heavily wired console. He kneels down like one of the Gray folk when they aren't being controlled. That's because without the player. He is nothing. He isn't a character of his own. He doesn't make decisions. He doesn't even live. He only exists to serve as the players protagonist. And obey every command given to him. So when you make him unplug the console. He disconnects from the player permanently. And without any player to control him, he's just and empty shell, a husk. Left to rot. And without a player to control The Boy. The Blob is forced to suffer inside the facility.
In other words. The Boy isn't anyone, in fact. YOU, are The Boy. The descicions you make can either lead to you being used as a slave. Or defying your oppressor by forfeiting your own freedom.