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Originally Posted by MeggieMay
The thing about the story with Shoko and the forum response is the response is missing the point of view of the students. They look to still back up Shoko here and not the Valvrave pilots. While I don't agree with how Shoko's handled this (I'm disappointed in her but probably not as much as many have been because I never thought she was a good candidate for PM to begin with), her reaction looks to be the one supported by the majority of student survivors. The reason we the viewers are prone to be more upset at Shoko is we followed the Valvrave pilots! We know what is going on; we know the sacrifices made. A big point of what the writers are trying do here is point out Shoko doesn't know any of these things and neither do the students. The Prof also understands that there are two sides going on here and that's why he's backing her up. Remember he's got a background in black ops for JIOR IIRC and seems to have a better understanding of people in general at times.
Now, something that hasn't come up yet about what happened to Shoko this episode is she now knows 100% that she, and the rest of the students (or at least most of them), are not human. She's not in a good position with this information and her fellow students (they are NOT going to want to here this information,IMO) but she's got enough leadership background to know they're going to have to be told and the Valvrave pilots brought back in ASAP. Or she will after she thinks about it. At this point she's crying it out of her system with Pino, so we'll have to see what her next move is next episode.
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This is a pretty good post.
Sometimes viewers fall into the trap of forgetting that Character A doesn't know everything that you, as the viewer, knows. And if you factor that lack of knowledge into Character A's actions, they often start to make a bit more sense.
In addition to what you wrote here, I think some viewers have underestimated just what it means to "resign as a human". Being immortal, feeding on runes, not being exactly human any more... this is a
big deal, guys. This is a big demarcation line between some protagonists in this show, and some other protagonists.
It's not just Shouko that thinks this way, at least for now, but also initially L-Elf. L-Elf was initially enraged and disgusted at the thought of his beloved Lieselotte being one of "them".
I think that some are viewing this as analogous to racism. But the differences between different racial backgrounds is nothing compared to
this difference. This is like the difference between a normal human and a vampire. Of course the "normal humans" (including Shouko) are spooked and concerned and fearful. The fact they were kept in the dark about this just causes red flags to fly even higher, as it feeds into rampant speculation over "What
else might these people be keeping from us about themselves?!"
I'll have more to write about the episode later, but I wanted to leave it at that, for now.
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