Thread:Zeldakasumi/@comment-27001444-20151014050645

Can you explain to me in layman's terms what went down in the final episodes of Steins;Gate and the Steins;Gate movie? I binged the entire series in the timespan of a few days which is the source of most of my confusion regarding the series. Here's my basic understanding of it:


 * By returning to the beta world line, Okabe returns to a world line seen in episode one where Makise Kurisu dies.
 * I have a few questions about this. Okabe unintentionally sends a D-Mail saying that Makise to Daru saying that Kurisu has died. What exactly does this change and how did it prevent Kurisu's death in the first place?
 * Second question: Why does he need to trick himself into seeing Kurisu's death? What exactly does that accomplish? So his past self sees Kurisu as dead, but she isn't actually dead. How come Kurisu is thanking Okabe later on the street? Wouldn't the Okabe of the past have seen her as dead?
 * Final question: What's up with the video from his future self? Why does he need to fail once to view it? Didn't Suzuha just bring it from the future or was it sent from the future to his past self?


 * Regarding the movie. My understanding is that we're now in the Steins;Gate world line, and Okabe is suffering from some sort of relapse after witnessing multiple world lines. He's having difficulty cementing himself into the Steins;Gate world line, so he is being shifted into the R World line. To prevent this, Kurisu needs to go back in time (to 2005) and implant a memory in Okabe's mind that cements him in the Steins;Gate world line.
 * I have a lot of questions about this. What exactly is the R World line? Is it just the world line that Okabe is being shifted into?
 * Why is it that Kurisu going back in time and kissing him cements him into the Steins;Gate world line? What exactly changes? Do the events of the Steins;Gate series still take place or what?
 * The ending in particular confuses me. Can you break down the scene of Okabe watching Kurisu on the phone and their conversation afterwards?

As you can probably tell, I know the basics of what transpired, I am just having difficulty putting together the whys an the hows.

Thanks for your time! 