Granted, there is a lot here, so maybe I missed someone talking about this, but why doesn't Slate recognize Booker and Comstock are the same person? He's the only character in the game I can think of that had direct interaction with both, including from before Booker became Comstock. Does he just miss the resemblance? Is there no nervous twitch, no odd mannerism that Zachary Comstock still holds from his days as Booker Dewitt?
Why did Comstock even want Anna/Elizabeth? He's sterile, and needs an heir to Columbia, but why not just steal any random baby from the streets? Did he or the Luteces know that she would gain this dimension altering ability?
Why do all the Dewitt's converge at the baptism? If we have multiple dimensions, with different constants and variables, then there's a Dewitt that doesn't get born, a Dewitt that doesn't join the army, a Dewitt that is in the army but not at Wounded Knee, a Dewitt that is in the army but not at the Boxer Rebellion, etc.
The story is fine; it's certainly a mind fuck, and I kept screaming "WHAT!?" at my TV when they warped to Rapture, but it seems a mind fuck for mind fuck's sake. Every plot hole or loose end can be swatted away with "Oh, multiple dimensions." Like Bioshock, the star of Bioshock: Infinite is Columbia. It's a breathtaking tapestry of technology, religion, racism, and the oppression and subsequent violence caused by their compression into a single, floating city, cut off from the rest of the world.
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