>>871555
>What do you think season 3 would have been about?
Outsiders that broke the loop on their side of post-apocalyptic earth are infiltrating Paradigm City with the goal of freeing its actual residents. Slow reveal so we could get at least half a season of Roger doing more negotiating and robot fighting. Infiltrators are both right and wrong about their goals and how they intend to break the loop on Paradigm City.
Resolution deals with Roger having to negotiate a compromise.
>>873346
>>874861
Pretentious and preachy are way too strong words that they don't apply here. Protip: tryhard is a word that reflects poorly on the user of that word than what that word is directed towards. Case in point; e.g. people that are terrible at video games that they think everyone else that beats them is a "tryhard." Friendly advice: don't use that word or people will think you're a pleb.
The main reason why those words aren't suitable is that you can easily enjoy the show as it being a giant robot noir series without understanding the ambiguous conclusion. It would actually be pretentious/preachy if themes and subtext was shoved down your throat every moment in the show, so you the audience is made to think constantly about the themes instead of the action. That problem is usually portrayed where themes are so upfront that that's all the characters talk about. Essentially, the characters are always meta, and every action in each episode revolves around being meta instead of letting the characters develop and "live" in the setting.
That isn't the case with Big O. In fact, the easiest example is that although city-wide amnesia is a big deal, everyone goes about their daily lives. And the "theme" about memories being tied to identity is explored not through dialogue but through action, letting the characters live. That philosophical theme was repurposed into an excuse to show giant monsters and robots fighting a giant robot + references to other media.
Even in season 2 when it was getting heavier into the mystery, all of the action centered around Rosewater being an incompetent bad guy, the monster of the week formula was still being followed, the most hilarious episode of the entire series debuts, and it wraps up ambiguously because it doesn't matter if you get it. If it was pretentious or preachy, there would be no ambiguity and some character would explain everything like they think the audience is dumb, or the opposite extreme would occur and the conclusion would be nothing but subliminal messages. Instead the conclusion is an excuse for Roger to shoot a giant laser and miss.
Polite sage for being a bit meta.