The Oldest View - Dispersal is the fourth video in the The Oldest View series. It was uploaded on April 12th, 2024.
Summary[]
The video opens with a view of the old wooden door, a familiar sight at the bottom of the stairs leading into the underground mall. The soundscape is a blend of various audio, but one familiar tune stands out: the music that marked the end of The Rolling Giant video of the mall music. At some point the screams of Wyatt in the previous video can be heard despite being very muffled. As the music abruptly stops, the surroundings plunge into darkness, and the wooden door begins its ominous retreat into the room of shadows.
Then, the video cuts to a new scene of which the camera is now in a dark forest beneath the night sky, showing us the stairway that now leads up to a glowing light.
The video then changes to a short video clip from the Dallas Midtown Project conference, where we see Scott Beck, "CEO, BECK VENTURES," thank the people for attending the conference as he makes his leave, quickly cutting back to the original shot we were just in, then showing Wyatt's body laying on the floor in grey color on the green grass.
Next, we see an image of what could possibly be made out, to be the Rolling Giant's back flags in the background of the cloudy sky.
We then cut to black, showing a crack of light appearing in the darkness that grows bigger until the shape of a square shining light reaches down into the darkness and onto the Rolling Giant's face.
Then, all of a sudden, as we cut to black, we are taken back to the very end of the previous ending of the Rolling Giant video with Wyatt high up in the center of the mall making his way to the exit, except this time, when he places himself on the support beam, instead of falling, he manages to succeed in reaching the stairwell, opposite of what we saw took place in the last episode, the support beam only falling off after he makes it to the stairs as you can hear after he reaches the stairwell. The A in "AMC" has turned slightly anti-clockwise.
Wyatt then quickly runs up the staircase, going full sprint, making his way past the darkness as the sound of rumbles and thunder can be heard all around him,
he makes his way towards the surface and manages to escape the underground mall: we see him running through an open field and through a forest, stumbling his way through as it seems he is slightly injured in some way, holding his left arm with his right arm, as he expresses physical pain all while this happens we hear an eerie music play in the background
We cut to a screen explaining that "Anatomically modern humans have existed for approximately 300,000 years." the next shot says, "Recorded history accounts for roughly 1.6% of this time."
Then we see from the inside of Wyatt's car that Wyatt has successfully made it to his car. He gets in, takes a deep breath as he thinks about everything that just happened and turns on the vehicle to hear the music "Every time around." As he checks his phone, finding that his maps are offline due to either something wrong with his location or something else. We see him check around his surroundings, one car passes by when he looks behind him, proving that Wyatt is back in proper reality with human contact. Everything appears normal and safe and the camera shifts to the rear view mirror.
Then we cut to see from the Rolling Giant's point of view, he is shown rolling through the roads on the surface, obeying the laws by sticking to the right-hand side of the road and keeping at the speed limit, all the while the rolling sound of his wheels is heard throughout. The giant makes his way past cars while looking around the surface and heading towards somewhere. The video then ends abruptly.
Trivia[]
- The layout of the staircase leading back up to the surface is slightly different from the one leading down to the mall, with most of it having no lighting.
- This video is supposedly the true ending to the third episode: The Rolling Giant. The scene where Wyatt makes his dangerous balancing escape in that episode and supposedly falls to his death.
- If you look closely around 2:38 to 2:40, as well as around 2:48, you can see an object that may appear to be Wyatt's dead body. It is located directly below where the support beam he had climbed had broken.
- It is unclear what this means however, as the same object can be seen in The Rolling Giant (The Oldest View Part 3). It is most clearly visible around 43:49 mark and 43:57 mark respectively. The object is visible in the short period before and after each timestamp in both videos, though due to video compression it cannot be seen clearly. It is notably absent while Wyatt is falling, which can be confirmed by advancing through the video frame by frame as he falls.
- Given that the bodies that had previously only been briefly visible were now in full view, it's possible that this object was actually the body of someone else and had just not been in view when the bodies were initially shown.
- The part of the Video where we are in a Dark forest beneath the night sky, showing the staircase leading up towards a light, might have a connection to the same area we saw in the mall where there was a Forest of some kind shown behind Metal Rolling Gate,
- When the camera shifts to the woods, there is a path of dirt on the ground, this makes the possibility that the Giant has been returning to the mall and coming out of it on occasions.
- It is entirely unknown how the Rolling Giant also escaped the mall, considering all the escapes to the surface are only accessible by stairs.
- There is a possibility that the Giant can actually move around without riding his trolley, possibly evidenced by the fact that the trolley is left on the upper level of the mall with no sign of the Giant. The Giant himself however has never been shown to move without the trolley.
- Despite the Giant's trolley being left in the mall towards the end of the episode, the distinctive sound of the trolley's wheels can be heard accompanying the shots of what is presumably the Giant rolling down the road. It is unclear whether the Giant somehow retrieved the trolley, found a new one, or is capable of making the sound on his own without the trolley.
- After Wyatt escapes the mall, [REDACTED]