Not going to do too much to say who I thought was right or wrong. I’ll just say I agreed with most of you. I think multiple points of view are fun.

I will say I love this movie and watch it way too much. I just finished watching it for at least the 100th time… one of those you know by heart. I just wanted to add a couple things, regarding how I see it:

The old Omega is dead. Cage is the new Omega. The Omega has the power to reset time, with or without Alphas, unless one of them is not on the same page as the rest of “the body.” Cage was that exception. And when an Alpha dies, the Omega resets time… it’s not a choice; it’s the way it’s biology is designed. It gives the body another “planet’s day” to recover from losing such a vital piece of its body. Therefore, that first Alpha is gone. Cage is the new Alpha and, like someone mentioned before, context clues tell us that the body may have never experienced losing an Alpha and having its power replicated against it. So not only did it lose an Alpha, but it gave one to the Humans and also the automatic reset when Cage dies. Once Cage loses the power, the body retains its advantage. 

I also think that the Alpha that Cage killed could still be alive and he just took the power, but still is a de facto Alpha. His death would still force the Omega to restart the day.

Now for when Cage kills the old Omega:

There are a few theories that could work here, but I only have one that I like. I think it’s most viable that the Omega died from the explosion, its juice covered Cage, and he is now the Omega and the entire body, but obviously one piece instead of many. He reset time because he is the Omega and the only body because everything else is dead; and like a person already said, he got to save everyone he cared about, as well as everyone else in general. 

To me, Cage is not just a de facto Omega, and the old Omega cannot possibly recover from dying, like an Alpha might, because the Omega is essentially the head. There is nothing to restart the day if it’s dead, unless, and as we see, its juice ends up on a human, like it did Cage. And I believe the only way Cage could lose his power is if he dies and his “juice” ends up on a different organism that can hijack his time changing abilities, that isn’t a human. I feel like it’s different now because he is not just an Alpha or a de facto Alpha, but he is THE Omega.