Shinji103 |
2010-01-08 10:26 |
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Originally Posted by Haak
(Post 2858268)
Sure, she may seem fine but that doesn't mean she's perfectly fine. It's not like you're either black or white. I don't think you can possibly have any indication for that unless we actually see her in the same situation again and she acts and thinks (we never really got to see what she thought after she woke up) completely differently. I think the only thing the ending of episode 12 was meant to show was that she's better.
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If she wasn't perfectly fine, it was a mistake to have a whole episode following the Level-Upper arc showing she's perfectly fine.
The end of episode 12 showed she's better and back to her old skirt-lifting self. What's the point of following that up with her normal genki self in the next episode if they're just going to pull a 180 and have her mope all of a sudden? And I think you have some examples and correlations mixed up; we're not talking about "black or white" here. A person's personality/mood doesn't just shift around left and right out of nowhere, barring personality disorders and such, which I'm sure we can agree Saten doesn't have those.
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And the last episode was anime-original and for all we know it might not have even been in the same timeline. And plus it was a beach episode and was meant to be taken as a sort of breather episode, I think. Even then, i don't think it's that inconsistent. She simply may not have thought about it that much but did now. Like I said, it's not black and white. She doesn't have to be moping about it every episode.
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And thus you have illustrated my other point on the misplacement of this episode.
It is inconsistent because she's fine for a whole episode, then switches to mope-mode out of the blue. As I said, this episode should have been before the beach episode.
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Originally Posted by Marcus H.
(Post 2858278)
Episode 13 could have happened at any point in time, not necessarily after Episode 12 and before Episode 14. Just my guess; I didn't remember anything connecting Episode 13 to the Level Upper, so possibly it's not chronologically sequential to the plot.
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Which just goes to show that this episode suffers from bad placement at the very least. If episode 13 doesn't happen before episode 14, don't place it before episode 14. We're not dealing with time travel or flashbacks here, after all. You don't just randomly place whatever episode anywhere in the series.
But I actually think that's a bit of a lame excuse (for lack of a more polite term), no offense; if JC Staff didn't want us to think the beach episode takes place before this episode, then why is the beach episode before this episode? This just sounds too much like an attempt at rationalizing the bad episode placement and inconsistencies that resulted. If nobody said there are inconsistencies, then nobody would be going "maybe the beach episode didn't actually happen then".
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