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Worst Cliffhanger Ever -- Da Vinci's Demons "Lovers" Finale

To watch STARZ, assuming you're not a pirate like me, you have to pay for cable AND throw on an extra $10 / month on top just for the channel.

So it makes sense that their shows are pretty top notch.  Hence, Spartacus.

Da Vinci's Demons isn't an epic show, but it certainly has a lot put into it, and it's written at the level you'd expect of a STARZ show.  So that last gutter-trash season 1 finale of theirs was pretty surprising.

It's not gutter trash because I'm mad at a cliffhanger.  I'm just a little appalled by how a show with a good sense of style could end in the such a poorly styled way.

The high sense of style I'm referring to largely develops in the last couple of episodes, when the show goes from being a charming piece of work to a deepening mystery.  They really built up a sense that Leo was going to take off on an epic adventure, and knowing that's where season 2 would start was the classiest cliffhanger of them all.  A good cliffhanger that essentially took all season to develop.

And then they threw it under the bus so they could end season 1 with the worst cliffhanger ever.

The final episode sets it all up for season 2... Leo even walks up to the ship he is about to depart on... and then all the sudden, the great, epic cliffhanger of season 2 is ripped away as Leo sacrifices his journey to save his friends... leaving only a hope that he'll make it back to the great adventure.

So, in hopes that it'll come back around, and feeling satisfied that Leo, at the very least, made the right choice, we watch on as Leo turns the climatic battle between the Italian families around.  

And then right in the middle of the battle, before you get a sense of what's going to happen next, other than there's about to be a fight or flight scenario, *pop*, the lights go out.

Seriously, for half a second I thought the show might have just run out of production money mid-scene.  It  had so little style it actually ruins the entire concept of a "finale".  Imagine a fireworks show building up to the finale and then right when you see it happening it just stops.

The real cliffhanger that was built up all season was ruined by a cliffhanger.  God damn.

Even in an Infinite Multiverse with Unlimited Possibilities... Some Things Won't Happen.

I've struggled with this one for a while, and I've finally figured it out.

Theorists say that with an unlimited multiverse, comes unlimited possibilities.  In this another universe, you died in that car crash, or you became the greatest whatever that ever was.  With infinity, all possibilities exist, no matter how remote.

Or do they?

Could a dinosaur invent a rifle?  This theory suggests that it happened.  And certainly, if that meteor didn't strike the earth and the dinosaurs evolved intelligence, it did happen, in the realm of unlimited possibilities.

You see it in comedies and movies -- crazy, seemingly impossible things portrayed, because the theories suggest they can.

Or can they?

I struggled with it because I know some things simply aren't possible.  Some things are too ridiculous, contradictory.  In 81 million BC, a dinosaur WITHOUT intelligence, COULD invent a rifle, because of infinite possibilities?

No. that simply couldn't happen.  And unlimited possibilities doesn't mean it could.  And I've finally figured out WHY...

There's something all the science shows failed to show me, although I'm sure most if not all theorists have realized this already.  The formula is NOT unlimited possibilities = everything has happened.

The formula is [unlimited possibilities] x [probability] = everything that can happened.

What's the possibility of a universe that formed exactly as ours did except for a minuscule difference that caused the meteor to miss and dinosaurs to develop intelligence?  Even if it's 0.00..(add # of 0s here)..001%, it has certainly happened in the unlimited multiverse theory.

But what if the probability is 0% outright?  Can a dinosaur without intelligence conceive of, and invent, a machine gun?  If you're really arguing the question, just substitute a dinosaur for a rock, and you'd be crazy to say "maybe".  It's a 0% chance outright.

And it doesn't matter what you multiply 0 by... 10... 100... ∞ you still get "0".  So [unlimited possibilities] x [dinosaur without intellect (or a rock, if you prefer) inventing machine gun] = 0%.  It'll never happen... even if there's unlimited possibilities.

So everything you can imagine cannot happen.  But, as a fun little twist, everything that can be imagined, has been.  So is there anything that has a 0% possibility of even being imagined?

(funny enough, I believe the 1884 book "Flatland" holds the answer to that one.  It's freely available to read on the internet, since it's long been in public domain.)