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Originally Posted by Mayhem The Great
Hmmm Yea, I kinda worded it wrong when I said sad. I agree that bittersweet is a better way to put it. I remember seeing NGE's last episode, and I did not understand what the heck happened. But that's another story.
Still, I am wondering why the beginning is all about kicking reason to the curb and then in the end, there was a sudden change of heart. "Some things just weren't meant to be kicked to the curb," Is the way I see the episode's final moral. Why the sudden change of heart? I am aware that the reason why Simon decided not to revive Kamina and Nia is because he would end up stooping as low as Anti-Spiral. But who says he wouldn't have been a good god? LOL! I'm kidding about the good god thing, but could someone give me an explanation? Not trying to be a troll here, it's just something that's been bugging me alot recentally.
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Heh.. it's fun to theorize about such things, isn't it? Here's my own take, for fun.
I honestly don't think Simon cared about the anti-spirals beyond their "take care of the universe in our stead" message. At that point, he had to take up the mantle as "protector of the universe". Besides that point, we don't know just how well he understood his own powers. The series seemed to imply near the end that he fully fathomed his abilities and their effects on the universe. That is to say, he possibly knew the dangers and limits of spiral power.
Perhaps it was simply his intuition he had that if he used spiral power "against" itself, to resurrect someone, it would become the so-called spiral nemesis. In other words, using spiral power to "evolve" wasn't the issue - even if it caused destruction it always caused a spiraling improvement in the situation. However, it's possible that the point was that using that power to go *against* evolution, it could somehow become a threat to the universe. At least, that's how I read it. And resurrection seems like a really good way to go against the whole "evolution" motif.
Now, clearly it sucks that they felt it necessary to rob Simon of everything but his own meager sense of dignity at the end. But frankly, I feel that elevated him above "stock longcoat" status and actually made him heroic. He wasn't willing to sacrifice everything they had worked to defend for his own happiness, especially when Nia had already accepted her fate. He really was what everyone believed he was. Even if he's wrong that resurrection was a problem, the only person he really hurt was himself by not bringing Nia back.
Of course, you could say that he could bring others back and help other people heal, but he drew the line and demonstrated that he wasn't doing this for some half-assed reason: he would perhaps be the person hurt most by his own decision. Anyone who thinks about doing it in the future would have a role model that definitively said "I was willing to sacrifice everything I had to not do this, even though I was the universe's biggest hero up until that point". Pretty powerful warning.
They have scriptwriters there so to not mess up things, right?
