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I recall reading once Urobuchi's misgivings in re: happy endings, and I think I now understand them. There's just too much outstanding that makes it difficult to accept this as happy. "They tried really hard, so the universe changed the way it works" makes sense in Gurren Lagann-type shows, but feels out of place here. Everything being great forever, at least for our heroines, feels like cheating. The earlier parts of the show had such a foreboding, ominous feel to them that just having Yuuna try hard, punch out a sun (admittedly awesome), and have every single one of their problems disappear almost gives mood whiplash. It was nice seeing everyone happy, though. Also, yes, I was definitely feeling a bit of the nationalism angle earlier, but the last few episodes have largely dispelled that, to the point that it no longer seems like a credible reading.
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WickedHate posted:I'm not sure what you'd have preferred. Granted, I stopped watching awhile ago because I got extremely bored with it, but if the whole show was just the "duh duh...duh duh...duhduhdudhudhDUHDUH" from Jaws and the finale was the metaphorical shark finally eating them, would that have been any better? I felt like the ominous stuff was building up to reveals, instead of just waiting for them to horribly die. I guess the show did too good a job at convincing me that the outlook was so dark that there was no real hope. The transition from despair to rainbows and sunshine was just so abrupt.
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Dec 26, 2014 06:51
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Well that interpretation certainly makes it less of a happy ending. Getting what one asks for doesn't always make one happy, it seems.
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