2012-06-05, 17:48 | Link #1702 | |
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This gives to the words 'finding the truth' a rather different meaning from the one many of us would expect. Actually in this prospective the truth seems more like something philosophical... like chosing if God exists or not. A personal truth opposed to the TRUTH... and while I've nothing against personal truths well, honestly I would have preferred if Umineko had handed us THE TRUTH. But that's just me. |
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2012-06-06, 09:02 | Link #1704 |
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I don't think he's ever officially committed to the idea of an existence of a "Prime" universe. I don't know what the Japanese fanbase even calls such a thing, if they even have a term for it, but I'm sure they're aware of the general idea.
But as the author, he hasn't to my knowledge gone so far as to actually suggest there is a "real world" at all. Oh, he's shown Ikuko and stuff, but he hasn't entirely gotten in bed with the idea that she lives in a Prime universe and that the Ikuko he's shown us is Ikuko-Prime to begin with. Hence my joke theory that everything is in Meta-Touya's mind, Ikuko has been Featherine the whole time, and Rokkenjima and everything associated with it didn't exist until Touya started inventing it under Featherine's direction.
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2012-06-06, 09:18 | Link #1705 | |
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So he said we should have been able to "start an interpretation" by EP7.... which mean we could find the answer by completly disregarding EP8, if I understood that right. Well there was forshadowing about Battler's survival in EP6 about Ange saying "I thought Tohya is a young man"... So to get the facts together, we know for certain about Prime: -Eva and Battler survived (depending on your opinion, Yasu could have too) -Eva was found in Kuwadorian -Eva claimed the explosion was an accident -Eva had the head's ring. -The "first two stories", probably Legend and Turn, were found as message bottles -Banquet was definitly written by the Hachijos, it was implied that Alliance and End were too -It's possible Dawn was written by them as well -It is not sure, if Requiem and/or Twilight even exist in the prime world -Ange "disappeard" shortly after Eva's death -Ikuko claimed she would reveal the truth, but then "decided against it", in the last moment (needs EP8) -It isn't sure whether the book of one truth really exists or not (needs EP8) -It is not known to the public, that Tohya is in fact Battler Well i guess that's about it for information on prime Last edited by GreyZone; 2012-06-06 at 09:53. |
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2012-06-06, 10:39 | Link #1707 |
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Did she?
All we know is that she never wanted to say what happened on those two days. We don't know if she made any kind of statement at all about the "incident". I think, however, that is moderately safe to assume the official media reported it as an incident and not as a crime, due to the fact that Nanjo jr said that only irresponsible magazines claim it was a crime and Okonogi saying that he'd get in trouble if he called it a crime. There are other informations that might be useful: -The maker of the head's ring confirmed its authenticity -Beatrice's portrait was commissioned to an artist and he still has the picture he used as a reference. -there are witnesses who heard Kinzo claiming there was a bomb in Rokkenjima that would explode at midnight -The Rokkenjima incident happened at midnight, and it is suggested that it happened exactly at midnight. -It can be inferred that the explosion destroyed a big chunk of the island including the port, the Mansion and any nearby building. -practically no discernible remain was left to identify the corpses with the sole exception of Maria's jaw. -Kawabata's testimony supports the claim that a woman lived in Kuwadorian until about 1967 (not certain if this is common knowledge) -Rokkenjima was originally a secret military base and the submarine port still exists (not certain if this is common knowledge) -several letters were sent the day before of the family meeting in a way that they would end to the relatives of the victims. The letters included keys and code to access a big amount of money (not common knowledge) -The handwriting of the messages is the same found in Maria's diary writing as "Beatrice" (not common knowledge) We have absolutely no way to tell with certainty that these informations are real since some were acquired from imcompatible scenarios.
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2012-06-06, 10:48 | Link #1708 |
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Well I tried to only take it out of the narration of EP3TP/"???" (or beginning EP4, not sure which it was) and of EP8"???".
Ange's story in EP4 is probably fictional, if we believe the magic ending, so information from it may be wrong. On the other hand if it was just 1 big illusion, there would be no point to add it (chekovs gun). But I think the points you state are valid. About Eva claiming it was an accident.... that was because people started saying it here yesterday and i just accepted that. But now that you mention it, yes, I cannot remember that anyone in the story said that "she claimed it was an accident". |
2012-06-06, 17:35 | Link #1709 |
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My personal inclination is that though Ange probably didn't REALLY have her EP4 misadventure. But as per Ryukishi's intention to share "information from outside the gameboards", what she found was probably true, including the letter money, the Sakutarou's, and sure-why-not, the lol-Kasumi murder potential.
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However, as I said, you can't be sure of anything in Umineko. Ryuukishi made things even more complicated with the Ange in EP6, where we are shown a 1998 that doesn't fit with the EP8 endings.
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2012-06-07, 11:49 | Link #1712 | ||
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[QUOTE=AuraTwilight;4193905]Hiding the truth is evil.
I counter, revealing the truth can be just as destructive. It is a matter of how truth is handled and Umineko never made the point "knowing the truth is bad" it simply went for "there are truths that are to delicate to be revealed without care". If Ange actually revealed the whole truth then everything would go to hell. Captain Kawabata would be arrested for or at last accused of aiding Kinzô in keeping his daughter hostage and without proper education. The money given to the families and the Ushiromiya fortune would probably be confiscated as it was gained from illegal sources (stolen gold). The Nanjô clinic would probably go out of business when it was revealed that the father of the current chief of medicine and former chief of medicine was aiding Kinzo during the incestuous birth of his daughter and concealing said daughters death. Heck, Nanjo's son, Kumasawa's son...even Ange could likely be arrested for not notifying the police about the mysterious cash in the bank vaults they received keys for. etc. Quote:
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2012-06-07, 12:35 | Link #1714 | |
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Nobody said (or nobody should be saying) that the truth cannot be harmful. Indeed, a premise of the whole "stop hiding the truth from Ange" thing is that there's little question it probably will be harmful, and it is harmful, but the truth is better in the end because truth is what truth is and once it is known it doesn't go back. Uncertainty is more harmful than truth, but even if it were not, truth is morally superior to uncertainty and thus the default is that it needs to be known and it needs to be revealed. You seem to be taking a consequentialist view that "if hiding one unpleasant truth minimizes the harm to others, we should accept the concealment or at least agree that it should be breached with care." I flatly reject this. I believe that such a decision is one which we cannot universalize because we lack the faculties necessary to determine when it may be permissible, and that in general truth causes no harm to the innocent. I grant that truth can cause harm to Ange, but I would argue that's a result of prior moral failings on behalf of individuals and not because "the truth is painful." The truth is painful because someone (presumably) acted immorally. Though it may cause distress to her or to other individuals to learn that other people behaved immorally, it is ultimately better to know that some individuals were moral and others were immoral than to suspect that some or all individuals were immoral without sufficient reason (as, after all, we do not want to universalize the notion that anyone whose actions we don't know about should be thought of as having acted immorally). How someone should react to that information is their own decision. Ange chooses to be hurt by the truth, it doesn't hurt her. Revealing the truth is good. The only person who fails morally but acts with good intentions is Eva, so I'm inclined so say she was wrong but forgivably so, because she believed (wrongly) that she had a duty to Ange which was higher than her duty to truth.
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2012-06-07, 14:43 | Link #1716 |
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Even if it hadn't, it's better to be right than to be respected. Telling Ange the truth may have made their relationship better, and may have made it worse. But it's better she tells her the truth from a position of compassion than to allow people to use truth (or the appearance of truth) as a weapon against Ange psychologically... which is exactly what people like Bernkastel do.
Say the worst case was true and Rudolf and Kyrie did kill everybody. That's bad. But if Ange knows it, "WHAT IF YOUR PARENTS DID IT!?" stops being a weapon that can stab at her heart. She'll have to accept that truth and decide what to do about it. One way or another, wielding truth or speculation with ill intentions ceases to have value once the actual truth is known. It'd just be better if someone who cared told her in a manner that she could gradually come to understand and appreciate, rather than hearing it from people who wish her ill. She'd be able to say to those people "I know. So what?" If anything that's where Eva dropped the ball.
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2012-06-07, 15:30 | Link #1717 |
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Exactly. That's why the truth has to be released publically. The truth is neutral, but speculation can be malicious. Ange can COPE with the Truth; Yukari's existence proves that. She can't cope with the unknown.
And Ange isn't unique. A shitload of other people who should be just as important as Ange are neglected because they're not on-screen. Will Gohda's mother ever be able to move on? Must Nanjo's son forever wonder if his father was a murderer or a crook? Someone brought up that Nanjo's clinic could've been shut down if the Truth came out, but what about the companies that were probably shut down because the truth didn't come out, like Rosa's fashion company? More people worked for her firm than Nanjo's fucking one-man doctor clinic. If we're going to weigh things by purely consequentialist measures, than way more people are put in unemployment than if the truth did come out.
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Though, of course, it is not possible or ethic to put measures in the pain of people. I guess all those questions are just a different story. Shit like that often happens when you add characters who are only to appear for one scene or so. I think the point there was that Ange clings onto seeking the one truth about everything so much that she is incapable of trusting any words that aren't red, meaning, she cannot love, since there is absolutely no way to prove such a thing by human means.
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...I'm sorry to barge "again" like that, but at this point, would it be preferable to leave people their own take of the "meaning of the end"?
Frankly, the polarizing discussion about it for a year and half plainly demonstrates it is way more a matter of opinion and perspective than really "one single definition" of it, a bit similar to the truth to put it blunty, and that's probably what Ryukishi tried to do, as he does leave things to people interpretation. Past that, it is absolutely going nowhere, and whilst I do encourage discussions about X or Y stuff and debates, this peculiar subject is just tiring, borderline sterile (this is true for both sides). So, while I understand the ending is a huge chunk of Episode 8, it is just not cutting it on the long run.
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This is another thing that sort of bugs me. Ryukishi keeps equating 'love' to something like 'faith', and that's just messed up.
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