Dumb questions maybe, but please help me understand

I'll try :) SPOILERS

1) They needed him not to exist. For no one to ask questions or try to find him like the Law. He was a dangerous criminal so the Law would be searching for him or have him on records. Dead he was no one to the outside world. I also have that theory about the other Assassin descendants because then it makes it easier sequel wise for them to move around in the world unnoticed.

2) I think that was on purpose because the templers were running out of time. They didn't need to know Aguilar life history since they know as much as was needed to trace his line onwards. They just needed that specific battle to locate the Apple. I suspect they found out about the mission from the other descendants because they were all afraid Callum would betray them.

3) His father said Callum was his mothers son which to me meant Callum's mother was a descendant of Aguilar not his father. So his fathers memories wouldn't count for much. I think they kept him alive as a backup to manipulate Callum. Plus he was an unwilling recipient of the Aminus and was damaged. I can't see Sophie wanting him disposed since she seemed genuine is rehabilitating all the unwilling patients.

2. In the games, you start to synchronize at a defining moment in a character's life. In one case this was at birth, in some others it is at childhood, in others it is the events leading to them learning about the assassins, and for still others it is when they are already an assassin and start the defining mission of their lives.

From this sync point you can sync to later memories chronologically until you completely map a person's life. Generally with minor events you can choose the order in which you relive memories, while with more major events you experience them chronologically.

1. I think they only recently found out that Callum was descended from Aguilar and/or that only Aguilar knew where the to find the Apple. Sophia mentions that they had been chasing down other leads before they came to Aguilar. Once they realized that Callum was the only one he was already on Death Row so better just to wait than to cause more of a mess trying to get him out of prison.

2. You can start viewing an ancestor's life from the moment of conception. In Assassin's Creed II Desmond has a Bleeding Effect induced vision and he is Altair the protagonist from the AC1 and he witnesses the conception of the next in his line. He sees Altair run away while he stays with the woman.

When you enter the Animus you/whoever is in control can pick what memories to view but if the memory is traumatic or too emotional the user has to build up synchronization with their ancestor before they can view that memory otherwise the mind can't handle it and it rejects the simulation. For the movie the Templars didn't know when Aguilar came into contact with the Apple they only had a general time frame so they had Callum relive all of the relevant time frame's memories until he found it.

3. His mother was descended from Aguilar not his father. I think his father still an Assassin so they probably kept him to check his DNA for other relevant genetic memory data. Even if his father wasn't an Assassin at the time he still might have had some relevant genetic memory data they could use. I think Callum's father mentions being put into the Animus.

Some more things that didn't make sense:

4. Why did the imprisoned descendants wait so long to escape? They must have been combat savvy for a very long time. Did they simply wait for Abstergo to find out the location of the Apple so that they would also know it? Is the movie actually telling me that they chose to remain in captivity for years just so they would know when Abstergo finds out the location of the apple? And how did the Assassins know that it was the moment to escape? Did they just hear a large bang and they realized that Callum had found the answer?



5. And is Callum responsible for all the deaths? If he hadn't collaborated with Abstergo, would all the descendants still be alive? Baptiste and Lin didn't seem to blame him when they entered the Animus chamber and found him.


6. Why did his father participate in the "rebellion"? Brendan Gleeson had 2 lousy scenes, both in the same room and he acted them so badly that my grandmother could have done a better job. He didn't have his instincts, he didn't have mobility. What was the point of him killing that poor guard only to be lynched seconds after by the others? Maybe if he could actually help the Assassins, I could understand his involvement, but he just got himself killed.


7. What's up with Jeremy Irons' bad speech at the end? It's like straight out of the video game. "No more Assassin's Creed". What Assassin's Creed? You govern the world, you have close to unlimited resources, you've hunted them down that there are no more left and you've subjugated them to your program (up until a few hours ago when only 3 escaped). Why would you mention the Assassin's Creed? It sounded awful. If he had said "No more violence. No more poverty. No more hunger" it would have been a lot more adequate






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