If it were my choice, I'd so something that was between 2 and 3.  Like have things get even zanier for a few posts<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body"> before Professor X wakes up from a dream, the whole thing having been a fevered hallucination from the most powerful mind in the universe</div></div>.  Then...I don't know?  A nice little Xmasy epilogue?<br/><br/>Just ideas.