Susan was the radiologist with glasses, the first one to become possessed by the green liquid. I think you are referring to Kelly, the one who took in all of the green liquid and became the Prince of Darkness who was trying to bring its father back into our own dimension.
Here is a theory I have always had about the ending, and one which I personally cling to. The earlier transmissions were indeed the devilish looking being emerging from the church wrapped in a dark cloak, the so-called anti-God himself. We glimpsed his hand during the final act at the mirror. This future was prevented when Catherine made the final sacrifice, pushing the possessed Kelly through the mirror and thus sealing off the Anti-God's one link to this world. Yet, now Brian has the dream again, only this time it is Catherine emerging from the church. Ask yourself this question...why is Brian having the dream when he is home asleep? Remember that the dream was always being received by those who were on close proximity to the vile of green liquid. The liquid is now gone, all banished to the dark side dimension. Why is Brian receiving the dream now?
Consider the idea that Brian...the Brian of the future...is the one who is sending the tachyon transmission backwards through time. He seems obsessed with the idea at the film's conclusion of finding a way to save Catherine. His dream within a dream also serves as a warning, though. When he wakes up, he turns and it is a decomposed monstrous looking Catherine laying there, a terrible omen that she is now a vessel for the Anti-God. Yet he would ignore this and focus on the idea that Catherine is still alive, as evidenced by the dream transmission. The transmission seemed aimed at the location of the church in an effort to warn people about future events surrounding the cannister of green liquid. With the future altered, the release of the Anti-God still seems to be something that is going to happen in 1999. One can assume that the entire time, the year that was coming through was 1999, though we only hear it completed at the end. In any case, the transmission is now targeted at Brian's house. Who would know to target Brian there except for future Brian himself? Perhaps he is trying to warn himself against continuing research in a vain effort to save Catherine, which will lead to the unwitting release of the Anti-God after all.
The Anti-God, in the dark dimension, now has Catherine in his clutches. It is conceivable that he would know everything that Catherine knew. Perhaps he decides to take on her appearance to encourage Brian to rescue her. Brian and his obsession with saving Catherine would be the Anti-God's only link to this world now. That is why the Anti-God would take on her appearance when leaving the church, knowing that the dreams are being sent back as a warning and knowing that said dream may influence Brian to use science to breach the dimension and open the portal. Remember, these aren't really supernatural beings or gods, but advanced and powerful alien beings that seem supernatural by our own simple human standards. What appears to be supernatural or magical is really just advanced science.
In essence, Brian is responsible for obsessing over Catherine and enabling the Anti-God to keep his scheduled return. That is by now means an official explanation, but merely my own interpretation.
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Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?
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emiranda061288
11 years ago
yes, I agree with you, someone needed to do the transmission and brian has the personal motivation to do it.
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mjarcher1977
11 years ago
This as close to a logical explanation as we are ever going to get. Very well done.
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regularfellow
10 years ago
I offer this variant...
The book.
The archive tome laid out by the extraterrestrial Christ and maintained by the Brotherhood Of Sleep still exists. Within those pages are the equations and details of how Satan was imprisoned and most likely how to open a portal to the anti-universe.
There's a point were the researchers are trying to decipher the ancient book. One of them says the mathematics inside is barely understandable - beyond what they comprehend.
How many Satanists; true believers would kill to possess that archive - to reveal to the world their Dark Master?
Where is the book now? We can assume that Prof. Birack has it under lock and key. But how many know what actually went down that night at the church?
An alternate answer to the final dream message is stop this. Brain did it once, he can do it again.
The Anti-God was trying to have physical form in our world, the possessed - now pregnant woman, Kelly. In the dash to save the world; we gave IT what it so desperately wanted... a flesh vessel; Catherine.
Why does She emerge from the same church? Maybe because the invokers thought it was dark holy place. This is where IT failed, this is where IT now becomes victorious.
Transmissions:
This is not a dream... not a dream. We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver. We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference. You are receiving this broadcast as a dream. We are transmitting from the year one, nine, nine, nine. You are receiving this broadcast in order to alter the events you are seeing. Our technology has not developed a transmitter strong enough to reach your conscious state of awareness, but this is not a dream. You are seeing what is actually occurring for the purpose of causality violation.
and later
Our technology is known to those with transmitters strong enough to reach your conscious state of awareness, but this is not a dream.
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Paynebyname
9 years ago
The Anti-God was trying to have physical form in our world, the possessed - now pregnant woman, Kelly. In the dash to save the world; we gave IT what it so desperately wanted... a flesh vessel; Catherine.
But it already was a flesh vessel as the arm is very real that is being pulled out of the mirror (I've always assumed that it was the arm from, or at least based on, the devil from the film Legend).
The anti-god is flesh but just happens to exist on the other side of the mirror. It only needed a flesh vessel in our world (possessed by it's son) to open the portal and physically pull it through.
It won't need to inhabit Catherine's form on either side of the mirror, just (I imagine) torture her remorselessly for foiling his evil plan.
Just my take obviously."Small moves Ellie, small moves"
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regularfellow
9 years ago
it already was a flesh vessel as the arm is very real that is being pulled out of the mirror
You are correct Paynebyname.
Hadn't realized that until now.
Then the inhabitation of Catherine was to lull opposition; who's going to be afraid of a petite girl?
Everybody should.
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MadSimian
9 years ago
Here is a theory I have always had about the ending
Ahem....who's theory was that again? lol
What choice do I have? It is as if you have grabbed me by the base of my snarglies!
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viewer-1230
9 years ago
Very interesting and sound theory you have here The Solar Sailor. I could see Brian like even the viewer being torn up and haunted by Catherine's fate and him thinking or trying to figure out a way to undo it which might help bring in the Anti-God in the end...
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