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What I meant is during the quotes in EP2, which were flashbacks to Shannon and George's growing relationship, that then, Beatrice and Shannon had given up on Battler and it was an honest relationship that they were trying to grow. Until Shannon finds out George wants tons of kids. Then even though she still loves George, she knows there's no future with him. (Honestly, she didn't really need to be so fatalistic, although I can understand she had no confidence in herself... heh) I'll dig for the interviews in a bit. It's a much earlier one, I think, where he talked about their relationship. |
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2012-05-05, 21:32 | Link #28703 |
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I think the true concept behind Yasu's so called "loved" is teenager affection and idealization.. It's not true love no mater what she claimed. The idealization aspect is very strong in all three relationship. Both Kanon and Shanon talked about their love interest in the way that "they bright up our lives". They idealized Gẻogre and Jessica, to compensate for what Yasu could not have in her life.
But Geogre and Jessica are still "around" in Rockenjima. It's easier to fantasize and idealize a person far away. In her mind, Yasu fantasize and idealize Battler as her idealistic love, without making any attempt to understand Battler's real personality, real problems, or what he has been going through at that moment. The Love Duel is a reflection of the inner working of that romantic, fantasy-driven poor girl/or boy. She must be a tragic heroine. The true love that has been nurtured for 6 years, seperated due to circumstances, it must win. It is like a play, a theatrical romance. It fits with the theatrical theme of ep 7 and of the pair Zepar, Fufur. That dramatical sense is a sign of her immature, her inability to grow out of her comfort cocoon of fantasy and idealistic love to face with real world. Or maybe all was because I was suddenly reminded of Madame Bolvary. I'm sorry for making Yasu too much of a drama queen here. But she certainly calls for it, with all of her delusion. On the other hand, I feel it strange that so many people was still around discussing. The guy is really suscessful in keeping people talk about his work. At least for some months after the final episodes is released. |
2012-05-05, 23:01 | Link #28704 | ||
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From what happened in EP7, it seemed like she was forced to 'grow up' very recently when she inherited the headship, was told of her physical (and probably cognitive) problems and then realized how naive her life really was. So, her love for these people developed from before she changed like this, so I think it's plausible to say this was another aspect of hers she needed to deal with... or 'grow up.' Quote:
For me, I don't tend to agree that remaining answers should remain hidden. I remember there was a study recently that said that even if people get spoiled on a story, they are still capable of enjoying it. They even found that the ones who were spoiled could understand the story more thoroughly and that was perhaps why they enjoyed it. I think Ryukishi could have explained Yasu a bit more and thus people would understand the *whole* Umineko much more. Instead, I think he behaved as if Yasu was a real person. If Yasu was a real person and a friend (and Ryukishi would've gotten close to his/her mindset after writing so much) you really wouldn't go around telling the world their embarrassing secrets. Especially any medical secrets. But Yasu is technically a character in a story, and perhaps serving the story is more important than the character. I think we're better off now though, than a year ago, right? Is there anything major left to discuss? |
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2012-05-06, 00:15 | Link #28705 | |
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Ok, I just went through some really, really old material. Do you guys realize we were talking about EP5 and 6 around page 127? We're on page 1436 now.. each episode ended up causing an exponential amount of posts it seems... 8)
Anyways, regarding George and Shannon's love... I couldn't find the super old EP2 interviews, but it looks like he goes over some of that while talking about why Shannon felt trapped: Quote:
I think a lot of you have seen this interview before though. By the way, I dug up some just-before-EP5 interviews! What a blast from the past... and I'd say we understand almost all of those things he was trying to hint at here: http://witchhunters.livejournal.com/6828.html Ryukishi interview #1 http://witchhunters.livejournal.com/7134.html Ryukishi interview #2 http://witchhunters.livejournal.com/7366.html Ryukishi interview #3 (part 1) http://witchhunters.livejournal.com/7562.html Ryukishi interview #3 (part 2) EDIT: Two more I found. It's old stuff we've read before though. http://darenome.wordpress.com/2009/0...i07-interview/ http://darenome.wordpress.com/2009/1...7-interview-2/ |
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2012-05-06, 04:31 | Link #28707 | |
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True, but we have to get our fix somehow.
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2012-05-06, 04:46 | Link #28708 | |
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This is also interesting. Not only does this have odd indications for how Battler got into the tunnel without Eva, but this means we had Ryu talking about objective perspective earlier than Ep 5.
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2012-05-06, 04:47 | Link #28709 |
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I was answering jjblue1's post about Yasu fearing the change that happened in Battler. My argument is, that she shows this fear by NOT ADRESSING the inner change in Battler, besides the growth of his body. His character in EP1-4 (escpacially 1-2) is like that of a 12 year old. He doesn't seem to know anything and has to ask others, he is like a Watson. Although he is said to have read many mysteries, his reasoning about the closed rooms is ridiculous, escpacially his piece-part. The Meta-Battler also reflects this behavior.
In EP5 Meta-Battler says about his Piece self, that he is not in control of anymore: "I am way too smart in this story". But my theory (and many others), is that EP5 is at least BASED ON a witch-hunter forgery. The forgers have no problem to get to know about Battler's personality, as they would just have to ask his high-school class mates. In EP6 Erika notes about Piece-Battler that the witches game made him smarter, but that cannot apply for a piece, as the piece is always (supposed to be) the same. The pieces don't experience the witches game. But still the piece DID become smarter. And since Battler supposedly knows himself better than Yasu knows him, I conclude that this version has more weight. |
2012-05-06, 05:14 | Link #28710 |
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Also after rereading our confession, it is pretty clear that the higher world mystery arguments are included in the forgeries, despite this being pretty hard to pull off in real life. Unless they were handed out beforehand, like some speculate.
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2012-05-06, 13:51 | Link #28712 | |
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2012-05-06, 17:07 | Link #28713 |
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Not really. If we go by Ikuko=Yasu, then Ikuko could be the one who wrote EPs 3-5, just as she said in Dawn.
And even if we go by Ikuko=RandomStranger, it is no problem at all, if we assume that Battler had only vague memories of himself and the incident and so Ikuko couldn't characterize Battler well (Until EP5/EP6). Compared to EP1-2, the Battler in EP3-4 was a bit more mature, but still stupid. |
2012-05-06, 19:57 | Link #28714 |
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That's quite interesting.
So the way the witches utilized the Battler piece by making him smarter was rather, coupled with the 'a piece can't do anything the person isn't capable of' statement, a hint towards the previous writers dumbing down Battler rather than the witches hightening his skills. Maybe something like Tohya not remembering himself too well by the beginning and getting a clearer picture of Battler as their forgeries went on. It makes a interesting addition to the Ikuko=Yasu theory as well since of course Yasu'd characterize Battler like he was before his 6-year long abscence and that'd keep fueling Battler's characterization after Yasu's EP1-2 through her Ikuko identity when Tohya himself was not certain of it. I always just thought that being within a tragedy is a completely different thing than reading about a fictional one for intellectual exercise and that's why he acted the way he did, and the change in EP5 was a mixture between no tragedy having occured yet and him working off Erika, but this sounds quite a lot more interesting. Last edited by CrimsonMoonMist; 2012-05-06 at 20:22. |
2012-05-06, 20:23 | Link #28715 |
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I've always wondered if EP 6 tells us how it went according to Battler's point of view.
In short he went on Rokkenjima and found a Shannon that was different from how he remembered and that didn't seem to remember him (in the sense she was apparently in love with George and therefore didn't care anymore about him) drawing some sort of parallelism between Prime Shannon and chick Beato. Also in both EP 5&6 the fake murdering game might have been Battler's idea so I wonder if in Prime Shannon's mystery game might have ended up crossing with Battler's mystery game, creating confusion and panic and pushing things downill. Another interesting parallelism is that in EP 6 Battler ends up trapped in a closed room he had constructed. In real life he was 'trapped' out of Rokkenjima due to his own decision to leave the Ushiromiya. In the game he likely could solve the logic error but he wanted Beato to do it. In real life he might have been expecting Shannon to do 'something' (maybe leaving the island on her own and reaching him? or giving him a sign she still was interested in him once he went on Rokkenjima?). It's sort of funny to think both of them could have been trying to get the other to remember the other. Though maybe I'm reading too much in those scenes... |
2012-05-06, 22:09 | Link #28716 |
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Hm, well, I'm of the opinion that "Ryukishi portrays the pieces as they generally were in their actual lives", so I don't view it as Battler getting objectively smarter, but being given the chance to show off his intelligence in different situations. A large part of it IMO is just that Battler is, with certainty, an accomplice of some sort in both End and Dawn, and doesn't think his parents have been literally murder-fied and de-faced in the shed or something.
Also, it doesn't say when exactly Tohya got his old memories back, but he claims to eventually remember being Battler extreeeemely well, and it's only the 86' conference that remains fuzzy. Also, I rather agree with ndqanh_vn's sentiment about Yasu's love being, sometimes, less than the thing we'd usually associate the word with. Rather, I think she acknowledged a lot of genuine loving emotions, but she doesn't seem to consider Jessica a very viable option, and Yasu / Battler, in Prime, barely have ANY sort of actual relationship. Beato and Meta Battler have a pretty strong one, but I don't equate Beatrice and Yasu in that respect. At any rate, one wonders what the "smaller, curious incident" she was planning in 1986 before knowing Battler was returning would have been. |
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We already know Battler is capable of being extremely intelligent, since that's a trait that goes all the way back to Legend when he's in Kinzo's study. It does seem that, in general, he's dumbed down, but on the other hand he may not be an evil genius either. Even at his smartest, as portrayed in End, he's certainly not materializing the solution to the epitaph out of thin air with no assistance or hints.
It's not at all hard to imagine that if Battler were made an accomplice, he would be quite adept at it. After all, he likes mysteries. If he got a chance to participate in a murder mystery game and knew about it ahead of time, no doubt he'd jump right into it with all he's got. The question I always had is, if Battler is drafted to become an accomplice, what circumstances would have to arise to allow this? As far as we know from ep1-2, the supposed "original" stories, Battler is kind of left out of the loop. And going by Alliance, the whole thing seems to have been done for him specifically. So for him to effectively shift sides in the ep5-6 forgeries is odd. There's the possible excuse of the epitaph in End, but how do you explain Dawn? I have to think there's something End/Dawn Battler does that Legend/Turn Battler doesn't. One idea I always liked entertaining is that ep5 Battler remembered the promise. Whether that's closer to Prime or not, it's an interesting parallel and it allows for ep1-2 to mirror ep5-6 in the sense that they're what things would look like if Battler had remembered. Battler remembering of course moves him into Beatrice's circle and out of play as he's now hiding a secret from the audience, so Erika has to be introduced to compensate. There's no need for that with a tabula rasa Battler as in Legend, so he can serve as the detective/viewpoint just fine. But really, who knows, since we're not told a whole lot about the 4th in Chiru.
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In End, Battler already knew the way to the gold. That's what I think the whole "Kinzo pointed the way" thing was about. |
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How so? I mean, let's even suppose that someone told him, then he knew about the whole solution and not just where the secret door was. It wouldn't make sense otherwise.
But the question is who and why would tell Battler the solution? For what purpose? Seeing as how Battler cooperated with Erika all the time it makes little sense that he's been told so to become the new heir. Why would he need to cooperate with a complete stranger if he already knew the solution? Especially considering that he already understood she was a bad person before pointing to the right direction. The only logical explanation is that someone told the solution to Battler for the very purpose of helping Erika (which would explain how in the world they understood they needed to go to the chapel, when Erika wasn't supposed to have any knowledge of it and Battler wasn't supposed to remember it at all). But yet again, why?
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The Truth
Rosa did it, george was her accomplice, and nanjo helped them out.
The 2nd arc was basically the truth. Rosa feeling guilty for killing beatrice caused her to have a complex. She would visit rokkenjima on non familiy lmeetings and knew shannon and did her some favors. Rosa and geroge combined could pull it off after batler shows up because shannon says no to george, thats why it was bad that battler came back that day, because it was the same day george proposed so shannon was confusedand rosa uses maria to plant the seeds of the witch, rosa looks like beatrice and if you look at itkuto she has the same hair style as rosa but dyed black. nanjo then was used to lie about who was dead, rosa had already told rudu;f her plan thats why he said i might die tonight. why was rosa in the gold room in the 3rd arc? how did rosa die in the third arc, george fought rosa, and choked maria. think back to episode 8 geroge was the one that was suppose to be the suspect of killikng a child. rudulf anf kyrie was all a troll for ange. remember in 7 when beatrice was waiting in the gold room, niow think back to the third game rosa was waiting when eva showed up. Rosa set it all up so eva would take the blame. ROSA-GEORGE did it then they had a falling out. after geroge was denied by shannon on the proposel, thats when things went to hell look at itkuto's hair its exactly like rosa's why u think she got mad at maria for talking about witchs? Because she didnt want her plan to be known. Rosa wrote all the letters and forgeries... the whole yasu thing is a trick, the shannon- kannon thing was purposely done to trick you all from the real truth. In episode 2 kanon even says it, he says "Rosa said she'd kill us all" look back at the games, the yasu thing was a trap and u all fell for it, did you honestly believe a tale by bernkastel that seemed tame was the truth LOL. R7 tricked you all, and RENALL you can relax now because there never was a shannon- kanon- answer to the mystery. ROSA and george becaue she knew george could manipilate the servants and rosa and maria did the rest. there was no shannon and kanon switching clothes. Shannon and kanon are fakes they dont exist. Rosa wrote the the two stories and especally the 3rd one to frame eva . NO YASU- episode 7 was a lie the thruth was there all along there was a murderer, rosa did it. Now re read them all and you will see what im talking about. A closed cat box? nope Episode 2 is as close to the truth you will get. Remember how battler realizes all of a sudden beatrices game and he says oh i finally understand.......well remember when rosa was forced to eat her siblings at the end of episode 2... beatrice said oh now u realize that your problems were caused by your siblings, then all of a sudden battler who had surrenderd to his very soul to be beatrices furniture all of a sudden he said seeing rosa's will power he was brought back. that mirrors the end of arc 5 when he finally understands all. What he is understanding is the pain and regret that rosa has held all these years. Think of it imagine you felt you killed your fathers precious daughter and holding that in your whole life. I think rosa brought maria to that old manison on their trips to rokkenjima. ALL the shannon-0kanon stuff is a trap, and is trying the mind screw you.....we all wanted a true truth of what happened on prime, well if you concentrate on all of rosa's actions, i mean in arc two maria and rosa are on a train on their way to meet their family which is pary of the riddle. Rosa knew the epitaph and solved it. The first arc was just to show us how strange murders could happen. But if u watch eipisode 2 and then 3 her actions connnect. episode 4 seemed like a contingency plan. So be happy their is a murderer, its ROsa, George, and nanjo helped. NO YASU EVER EXISTED, there is no kanon he was wrritten in so when the manuscript in the bottle was recived it would be blamed on the servants, but she then wrote episode 3 to set up eva. up yasu was purposely made in the 1-4 arcs so u would think it had to be shkannon. R7 did that on purpose, i mean come on a writer who changes her identity whenever she wants LOL Rosa Survived but the whole battler survivor thing is fake. Thats why Rosa met with ange and ange wrote about sakturo because she died on the island and wanted her daughter to continue her magic only in a way ange could. the whole yasu thing nevr made any sense, DONT YOU GET IT??? THE ENTIRE SERIES IS A CONFESSION BY ROSA!!!!!!!!without her getting the blame. and the battler thing is a fantasy by ange.
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