Comartemis wrote:My opinion on this series is much the same as my opinion on Evangelion. I adore the characters (Asuka aside) enough to want to read fanfics about them, but I despise both the series and Gen Urobuchi for what it/he puts them through. I especially don't get how anyone can consider the ending to be happy by any stretch of the word, considering that two characters are deader than dead, two of the others are emotionally-broken wrecks because they never met the two dead characters, and the one who went through several times more angst and heartache than the rest of the cast put together failed to save her precious person and has to settle for being the only one who even knows she ever existed. And yet people are raving about this like it's the best thing to ever come out of Japan.
So, no, it's not happy, it doesn't fix everything, but it does turn what is basically a crapsack world into something where there actually is hope for the future. D'you really think Homura would work with Kyubei if the incubators were still running an energy ponzi scheme involving emotional torture of adolescent girls? The whole setting pretty clearly changed for the better. For what it is, it's beautiful and has huge emotional impact, and that's why people are raving about it.
Comartemis wrote:I know all about the emotional impact Screwball; it makes me sick to my stomach.
The setting can go to hell for all I care, I don't really give a damn about the fates of all the nameless puellas who didn't exist until the moment we saw them. The main characters got screwed over. That's all that matters to me.
Humor can lead to happiness and/or laughter. Happiness and/or laughter can lead to tears. Tears can lead to clogged sinuses. Clogged sinuses equals one unhappy Curtis.
I feel very sorry for you. XD
I agree that anybody who says the ending is happy probably hasn't been paying attention.
Pale Wolf wrote:I'd say the ending was the best one possible, under the circumstances. A pure happy ending after ep 10 would have come out of nowhere and felt like it was spitting on everything that happened before. See: Mai HiMe.
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