2008-04-13, 16:49 | Link #2781 | |
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Are you even paying attention? It is clearly stated in the first episodes that the Theocracy only began to use the choirs for war a little before the series begins. Choirs were used for prayer and the ship was used for the nobles to attend to Ri Maajon demonstrations. EDIT: Also, what musuoka said.
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2008-04-13, 16:49 | Link #2782 | |
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And killing people from upclose is vastly different from just blowing their aircraft to pieces, seeing the enemy pilot's face also served to worsen Neviril's emotional state. For instance, there is a brilliant scene in All Quiet on the Western Front in which the main character is trapped in a trench with an enemy soldier, kills him to save his life and ends up, according to your standard, being totally emo for a while, despite being way more battle hardened than Neviril and having killed his fair share of enemies before that occured. Quote:
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2008-04-13, 20:06 | Link #2786 |
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FuzzyWuzzy, you should watch the earlier episodes again before continuing this line of argument. As everyone has been saying, the war is a very new experience for the Sibyllae, that they're supposed to be priestesses rather than warriors, and that the kingdom had never been in an extended war (if only because nothing could inflict losses on the Simouns before). If you can't get basic facts about the show correct, you can't form very good arguments about it either.
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2008-04-13, 21:21 | Link #2788 |
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Like I said over and over.... chor tempest used to be in the night shift. They clearly said that the night shift has many more conflicts than the day shift.
They have killed many many people. So to say that they haven't killed anyone in the first episode is really __BLANK_____ . But whatever, believe whatever you want to believe even if it has no logic whatsoever. Pinky already admitted also in the court or whatever that place is that she and the other priestesses "slaughtered" a lot of people. You think you can pretend that you are not killing people inside those planes or that you are just killing machines? How could some of you people think that way? Do you think that if you plant a bomb in a normal plane or even a train, do you think you can say that you only killed machines and not people? Geeze people.... geeze... wow seriously. WOW!!! Last edited by FuzzyWuzzy; 2008-04-13 at 21:47. |
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2008-04-13, 22:30 | Link #2793 | ||
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Not to mention that seeing the enemy pilot's face was, as noted above just one of many factors for "Pinky"'s depression. But whatever, you can go and watch some anime with people who are just happy to kill anything that moves without thinknig twice if that bothers you so much.
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1. The Sibyllae are supposed to be priestesses, not warriors. 2. The war between Kyuukoku and Shoukoku started relatively recently. 3. Simoun had never been shot down by enemies until episode 1. 4. The numbers and capabilities of the Shoukoku military was a surprise to Chor Tempest. 5. Chor Tempest used to patrol during the night. It's possible that, if the war had started a week prior to episode 1, all of these points are consistent with one another. For your hypothesis that the Sibyllae had been at war constantly would require an overturn of points 1, 2 and 4. Quote:
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No, it's not possible to mitigate the fact that you are killing people. It is possible to damage yourself mentally and emotionally by seeing the person die in a gruesome way but it is not possible to deny yourself the fact that you are killing people. |
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A hint - having made your resolve to do something does not guarantee you won't be disgusted by the gruesomeness of this thing after doing it. Simple, isn't it? Quote:
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2008-04-22, 18:48 | Link #2800 |
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I just finished rewatching Simoun (1st of many rewatchings, hopefully). By the gods, what a gorgeous series. It gets even better every time you rewatch it. I'm glad I've done so, because watching it again cemented even stronger the emotions that the series had provoked on me during the first run.
By the way, now that I've watched it again, I have no speck of doubt about Onashia being Dominura. Not a single one. The only element that perhaps doesn't completely close the story is Limone (why doesn't she suffer the same fate for not choosing her gender? Unless she chooses it and we're not told about it), but then again, there are many gaps plot-wise, and it's not the main point of the series anyways. The only thing I would like explained is the reappearance of Angulas at the Ruins, unless it can be simply justified by the warping of space and time within that place.
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