by KonokoHasano » Sun Apr 06, 2008 10:57 am
I'm saying that it's probably worse.
Especially at the end of the video how Ryoko ends up desperate, terrified, and pleadingly calls out to Washu by yelling 'mommy', and how it's so 'dark' and 'lonely' and that she 'doesn't want to be alone.'
When she was trapped in the cave for those 700 years, her consciousness was fully awake, and she could feel the cold and loneliness while trapped within that cave.
With that video and mechanism, it probably seems like a throwback to the cave. Cold, dark, cut off away from everyone else, most likely powerless, etc.
And then how at the end of the video, it shows Washu holding a video camera and stating 'You're so cute, little Ryoko' and 'This is what they mean by the pleasures of motherhood.'