Remember Star Trek IV where the crew goes back in time to return a whale to the present time? This volley is like that.
A quick recap. The second volley of the match featured an animated GIF, which broke the match out into the fourth dimension.1 The last two rounds featured the madness of Twitter followed by the Fail Whale, which, for the two of you that might not know, is displayed on Twitter when the service gets bogged down. The crowd is commenting on the match on Twitter. Twitter on Twitter. Meta tweeting.
Self-referentiality? Travel into extra dimensions? Our competitors are messing with some dangerous stuff here. Luckily Jillian comes to rescue us with this volley. Delving back into a comics theme, she frees the Fail Whale from those birds and returns it to the calm ocean. The panels of the comic restore the orderly movement of time to within the dimensions of the screen, a simple left-to-right narrative. (There aren't enough quote marks in the universe for how absurdly metaphorical I'm making all this. C'mon, this is really hard. (Boo hoo!) Just roll with it, baby.)
And Jillian offers a new beginning...an Easter egg hatches a chick searching for its mother. Are You My Mother?
[1] Even though the screen only has two dimensions? Yes! ACCEPT THIS WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT IT TOO HARD. ↩
Play by play commentary for this match is provided, as it happens, by Jason Kottke.
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