Theory on NSBU After Episode 8

One Spoiler for episode 8 NSBU

Barsimeon Higgs has been playing the hero for years in this movie. He learns exactly how to defeat the villains and then restarts the game over and over to beat them again like replaying a video game after you memorized the cheat codes.

My theory is that Shadow Falcon is an alliance of some of the movie villains who are tired of losing at unfair odds over and over. Their goal is to join together and murder baine/barsimeon as well as any other real-world players (the PCS) to bring the movie back into harmony. They may plan to do this by blowing up the entire world and killing everyone, so then the movie restarts with all the "real people" (PCs, Barsimeon, Ann) unable to return.

G-13 was aligned with Shadow Falcon, but it was later revealed/improvised that G-13 really just wants out to get out of the game and was aligning with Shadow Falcon while convenient (this changed when Rehka developed G-13 in such an interesting way).

Obviously this theory is based on what happened in tonight's episode with SPOILERS Saint Jude's suicide that essentially confirms other NPCs know they are in a movie.