I really like your choice of pictures and the object head people you made! They're quite delightful!
Ms. Lucy and Arthur's perspectives on what makes a good life are pretty solid, and Lucy's in particular made me tear up a little, hehe. Both neighbors are interesting characters and feel like pretty great people to spend the end of times hanging with
I think my current interpretation of the TV is that it represents Echo (and a lot of people)'s fears about what the end of the world will feel like. The fire and neighbor on neighbor slaughter are very "revelation" and I think I've heard of religions having floods in their final days too. Ragnarök seems to end with everything underwater...
So she holes up in the mysterious room, which continues to feed her more terrible predictions.
Meanwhile the gentle end, and beautiful lights, are something a bit more hopeful. Even though it's still the end, it's nice and you can be with your friends to see it. The fact that it's always the same, unlike the TV, seems to suggest that the narrative sees it as the "real" end of the world. Maybe? I dunno
I do feel like the protagonist was primed by the neighbors to expect the end of the world to be nice, so maybe that has something to do with how they consistently see it was pretty and nice. Still, when Echo finally ("touches grass"haha) sees it herself outside the room, she seems to also confirm that it's similarly pleasant. Unless there's something in the air that's making them BOTH hallucinate pleasant things, and the TV was right all along!!!!
It's probably a mistake to try to find an "objective reality" in a weirdcore game anyway, ehehehe
I think the time loop function makes the message of the story more unclear. The protagonist all four endings says that they're going to keep repeating this infinitely. Maybe this represents how we're always not sure what day will be out last day, but the world keeps going regardless? Or maybe there's no metaphor to apply backwards to real life, and I should just enjoy this strange world where the end of the world happens forever and ever.
Thanks for this semi-spooky game to enjoy on Halloween!