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View Poll Results: Shakugan no Shana III - Episode 21 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 12 | 30.00% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 9 | 22.50% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 12 | 30.00% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 3 | 7.50% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 2 | 5.00% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 2 | 5.00% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 0 | 0% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 0 | 0% | |
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2012-03-04, 01:12 | Link #21 | |
今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
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The new law just enforces not doing something that is now effectively a pointless chore with no returns whatsoever
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2012-03-04, 02:04 | Link #22 | |
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The fact that the Flame Hazes are instilling fear and having the survivors pass it on goes to show that even with Xanadu Denizens could potentially still travel to Earth and from there consume humans. They are literally turning Earth into a mythical land filled with demons to scare them off. Since this is down the road and not immediate I'm guessing the Flame Hazes will pass into legend as they wouldn't be needed anymore so they are ensuring Earth's protection and handing it off to the survivors to carry it on. With the law prohibiting consumption of humans they are also putting in a guarantee that the Denizens will not go back to their old ways of consuming humans as they wouldn't be there to keep them in check either. Yes there's a limitless supply (however that is) but sometimes things or people kill/eat simply for fun or just for whatever reasons. That's why paradises do not exist because people find them to be boring. |
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2012-03-04, 03:05 | Link #23 | ||
今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
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They eat to maintain their form just like how every living thing eats to survive. If you are the one being eaten and want to do something about it then you just attempt to fight back and kill whatever that tries to kill you. There's no right or wrong, it's just something that is. The senior Flame Hazes though, they've long been removed from this cycle and are just fighting out of pure bloodlust. Any Tomogara that crosses their path, if he/she holds nothing of usefulness to the Flame Haze, is exterminated on sight. It's not out of self-defence or anything like that. It's cruelty that serves no purpose. Those that hold true dedication to preserving the balance are few and far between. Quote:
Boring? You are talking about Existence power. Enough of which allows warping of reality to achieve nearly whatever you can want. How does mere killing compare to that? The odd psychopath may exist here and then but the majority would be far too busy with that new power to care You seem to think Tomogara feed out of cruelty or malice. They're not Flame Hazes. What drives them at the core is far different. Tomogara are a species. They are not something that is born out of circumstances unlike Flame Hazes. Hell, one of the most malicious and evil Tomogara you can ever find is Pheles and look how she wound up.... Certain Tomogara, a very major character in fact, have good reason to hate humans and do generally view humanity as just fuel to be expended. There's extenuating circumstances in those cases even then so passing condemnation like that is wrong at best. Of course, I don't think it makes any difference in your eyes and it doesn't affect the topic at hand anyway since they're mostly dead. There's plenty of effed up people in the world and our race in general isn't very pleasant. Then all humans are psychopaths incapable of anything good I presume? And yes, the supply is limitless. How? Well the Snake is a God-rank being for a reason.
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2012-03-04, 17:03 | Link #25 | |
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The Reiji Maigo only restores PoE at midnight. Maybe Johan's 'body' was broken because of Sabrac's assault and because of that his 'body' is having trouble regulating the PoE. Maybe this has been getting harder for him as time went by and he suspects that he won't be able to regulate the PoE at all anymore soon. That would result in him disappearing. I guess that this would explain why even infinite PoE (Reiji Maigo) won't save him. Since he's about to disappear, he's betting everything on a plan using Yuji's/SnH's creation of Xanadu.
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2012-03-05, 15:12 | Link #26 |
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8/10
Despite what many people think of this episode and actually enjoyed it! I know everyone is free to have his/her tastes, but I really think many SnS fans have been spoiled by the novels and are expecting certain events in the anime, like fight scenes and action. I like them too, but we needed a clear explanation on several issues: and we've got them in this episode. Furthermore, as much as I like Shana x Yuji pairing, we have a lot of other important characters who need attention. Also we are reaching the end *sobs* and a lot of action - after all it's the story's climax. We need some "calm" moments before that: we are almost at midnight. I was surprised by Sale's background. He is a mysterious Flame Haze, and little is known about him, but I'm quite interested in his story. Loved Kazumi and Johan's talk, I adore him and Pheles! And what a cliffhanger...
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2012-03-05, 18:35 | Link #27 |
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Whether or not something is "redundant", as long as the possibility and the methods exists, someone at some point will try it. Having limiteless PoE wont stop someone crazy (Dantalion crazy tier) from experimenting with things in the future. Even if it takes thousands upon thousands of years to cause any sort of significant damage, there is nothing wrong with having extra insurance.
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2012-03-05, 21:54 | Link #28 |
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A possible unspoken reason for this slaughtering of denizens - To keep some of the more powerful denizens preoccupied and out of Shana's way in case Aizen!Yuji doesn't take kindly to how she's changed his new world for denizens (and hence the two come to blows once again).
Basically, without those more powerful denizens preoccupied, they could conceivably rush to Snake of the Festival's aid if he continues fighting with Shana, hence potentially overwhelming Shana. I'm not going to cry too many tears over beings who feed on sentient lifeforms being taken out like this. Granted that there's definitely a certain blood-lust and cruelty to it that I'm not exactly going to cheer, either, but if I was a human on Shana's world, I think I'd sleep much more comfortably at night knowing that the Flame Hazes are going to take every last measure possible to ensure that my fellow humans and I don't get ate by denizens (even if their reasons are more about "balance" than any compassion for humans specifically). Now, as for my take on Episode 21 overall. That was an awesome cliffhanger, but it's too bad that the next episode preview kind of ruins it. Spoiler for In case you wisely skipped the preview, lol. ;):
The conflicts in this episode were pretty fun to watch, but I have to admit that I also would have liked to have seen more of Yuji and Shana. Ultimately, they're the characters I care the most about, whereas a lot of the combatants we're seeing now are new characters brought in just this season, and a lot of them have only been barely fleshed out. Dantalion's "son" and Mrs. Glorious Green Phoenix Rider are quite cool to watch, but I haven't really been given a lot of reason to seriously care about them. The Johann/Pheles/Kazumi scene was great, though. I really enjoyed that. So I'll give a 8/10 for this episode. Hope we see much more of Yuji and Shana next episode though.
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2012-03-06, 01:49 | Link #31 | |||||||
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They came to Earth because of greed and taste. It's not about survival. Very few Denizens have the discipline to restrict their diet while the majority take what they can. If that wasn't the case then the Flame Hazes would've never have been needed in the first place. When a lion eats a gazelle, it's not contributing to the destruction of the world. When a human eats a hamburger, eventually the carbon and energy ingested will return to the planet. Quote:
Killing fleeing people with broken morale is NOT self-defence. In this case the Denizens are still on their feet fighting and their morale isn't broken. There's a difference there. Quote:
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I specify then as Denizens because unless there's a specific term for the ones that actually eat humans I'm not aware of it. I do know as the show has shown that they form the majority which the Flame Hazes target. It was already made very well clear in S1 and S2 that not all Flame Hazes were angels. As Shana stated their job is to maintain the balance. This brutality and efficiency is expected of them otherwise they never would've been this competent in maintaing the balance. Hell from what I read the attacks of the 4 Gods works in that for every Denizen killed it stabilises their PoE to avoid upsetting the balance. Quote:
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Whether they destabilize the world or not is beyond the point. If you are trying to sustain your self you wouldn't care. Which again brings me back to where did I say they were in the right? It's just a fact of how their setting works. Which is why the whole point now is changing the way the setting works Quote:
You have no idea what the hell I'm talking about and you say "I know it?" It should be damned obvious an all out war situation like what's happening now is completely different from usual times. Which is incidentially what I refer to. Any Tomogara that crosses path with a Flame Haze is put down on the spot. Outside of an all out war. Whether the Tomogara has any affiliation with a hostile faction or not. Since you are using judicial terms here, this is not a trial or anything resembling a court even. This is running around carrying out summary executions. Quote:
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Obviously those are not "tons of murderers" You know what is the concept of dealing with each case individually? Generalizing an entire group like that when you yourself said "some people?" Is that not anger directed at a group yet the ones on the receiving end are individuals whom you know nothing about? I hope you are not a judge because then plenty of people who should get life imprisonment or long jail terms at most would be put to death if you were in charge. Quote:
The Corpse Eater is an N/A case. So I never mentioned him at all. Flame Haze target all Tomogara that appear in this world. There's no umbrella term because you need fuel to exist here. Minor characters have to eat. Even Lords and named characters too. Merihim, when he swore never to eat humans again, he eventually burned himself out training Shana if you would recall. And he's one of the most powerful Tomogara around. He was near death ever since he stopped feeding as he was literally running on nothing and had to conserve as much energy as possible. Quote:
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2012-03-06, 11:56 | Link #33 | |
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2012-03-09, 03:51 | Link #35 |
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I didn't really expect the Flame Haze to simply alter Xanadu instead of preventing its very creation. Does deal with some of the criticism that all they could offer was the status quo. They'll let the Tomogara head off, but just after a major beating and setting up some preventative measures. Helps take care of their worries about a future apocalypse. Also takes care of the morally questionable idea of sacrificing people in a new world so this one would be safe. Make eating people seem like an absolutely terrible idea and just make the Earth a damn scary place to go to .
People can say it wasn't necessary and yet you have people like that crazy professor upset about this change. You think someone like that would give up experimenting with lives like that? Considering most of the Tomogara there have eaten people its a good idea to set up some safety measures. SnH can call this Yuji's plan and yet something like that was left out? More curious about what Johan and Pheles are going to do. Glad as well that Pheles feeling terrible about rejecting Carmel was brought up. Clearly she had a reason, but no surprise both of them were hurt. I don't think you need a preview for that. Khamsin was there expressly to protect Kazumi after all. While I'm sure they'd like to give people a few scares, don't think they will actually kill Kazumi now. Had a perfectly good chance to do so with the hougu and let that go.
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2012-03-10, 17:58 | Link #36 |
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Either in the fourteenth or the fifteenth episode, Centerhill made clear that the Four of Gods of the Motherland wouldn't be able to monitor and enforce the rules if Xanadu was created at the other side of the rift.
So, Shana's declaration revealed in this episode was setting up the "One Law" for Xanadu that no matter if a legion of Tomogara departed from Earth to Xanadu, they wouldn't be allowed to eat humans ever. Now, in order for the FH to make clear they mean overkill business to the Tomogara, they're waging a magnocidal campaign of Tomogara to dissaude any survivors establishing in Xanadu afterwards not too ever consume human POE. To make their message more smoothly on the Tomogara they're also targeting the high-ranking Tomogara to deliver them the message, because those Tomogara command high respect and prestige amongst their peers, and they'll be acting as Elders to spread the rumors about the carnage and untimely deaths their cohorts met at the day of Xanadu's birth for having tasted the existence of humans. This word would spread eventually to newly-born Tomogara leaving for Xanadu, creating a universal taboo sustained in Xanadu about the newborn giving seconds thoughts about ever trying to eat humans. This law and the countermeasures are the leverage that the Four Gods agree to provide their assistance to Shana and the other FH, because whatever extermination of Tomogara are doing has a meaning, and said meaning will cause ripples that will shape the new world at becoming a world with a certain degree of order and conditioning. This conditioning would cause Xanadu to stabilize and to follow the status quo of the Balance of Existence, preventing the dreaded Apocalypse of all the Worlds at the expense that Xanadu would no longer be the paradise utopia of unlimited desires that Sairei no Heibi intended from his original vision. |
2012-03-11, 11:58 | Link #37 |
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i dont seem to understand the role of Johan and Pheles as well as their connection to Yoshida and the war, i think half of the time i dont get what the characters are talking about...
anyway the actions continue, speechless about the "kill as much we can" tactic of the so call "4 gods"
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2012-03-11, 16:03 | Link #38 | ||
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And I also wonder exactly what the punishment for breaking the One Law is (as I assume the law itself dictates that the Denizens shall not eat humans, or something along that line).
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