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Perfect 10 | 24 | 38.71% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 23 | 37.10% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 9 | 14.52% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 4 | 6.45% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 1 | 1.61% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 0 | 0% | |
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 | 1 | 1.61% | |
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2013-02-02, 23:40 | Link #41 | ||
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You think a society is wrong so you wish that they will be massacred? You believe that a large number of people need to die in order to a positive change can happen? Sorry but I happen to know some guys in our history having the same thoughts. |
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2013-02-03, 01:03 | Link #42 | |
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I, however, am inclined to agree with them to a certain extent. I think the show is setting up for a massive revolution. Whether this will be an overhaul of how their world is actually run or just a change in how they think remains to be seen, but I don't imagine that either will happen without loss of life.
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2013-02-03, 01:20 | Link #43 |
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I dislike massacre actually.. Saki is still young (ok 24), but since Tomiko if I'm not mistaking, sees Saki with good potential,I think being an influential person is a first step to start change. I don't think sacrificing a lot of people is necessary..
Putting ourselves on the shoes of those to be massacre, will make up think the opposite. Gradual change is still the best and acceptable option if we are still human... |
2013-02-03, 03:34 | Link #44 |
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Oh, here it comes. The queerats have a Cantus user. In addition, the queerats themselves are significantly powerful too. I only wonder why there are so little precautions taken towards queerats in case of a rebellion. Arrogance hurts. As strong as the humans claim themselves to be, they are pretty fragile and toothless creatures. In fact, they can't even moderate themselves. Ever since the introduction from the living archive, the development was already quite obvious. Either the humans wipe themselves out out the queerats will. I just wonder how Saki will end up after this. Hopefully something along the lines of both species being close to extermination and Saki and a small crew manages to survive. This is a excellent episode with nice build up to the next one.
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2013-02-03, 03:47 | Link #45 | |
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That being said, the human society in SSY is far from innocent here. And, in the current war with Yakomaru's group, the humans are the aggressors. Remember, Tomiko sent out the order to have Yakomaru's group completely wiped out before Yakomaru's group attempted any attacks on the humans. That's rather extreme, and reminds me of those same "some guys in our history" that you're probably thinking of. Really, Yakomaru's group is now just defending itself. It's kill or be killed now, the humans have given the Queerats no other choice. The way the humans of this world treat and think of the Queerats is quite disturbing. It's nothing short of monstrous, really. The Queerats are a sentient race, and their leaders are even able to communicate clearly with humans. And the humans treat them like cattle, if not worst than cattle. In fact, my view on Tomiko has changed considerably with this episode. For all her age and supposed wisdom, that lady has one hell of a mean streak. Her plans for Yakomaru are about as extreme as it gets. In any event, this was a pretty exciting and engaging episode. I don't think I'd want to be Yakomaru right now... Tomiko has some nasty plans for him, and I don't know what Yakomaru can possibly do to take out the Masked Marvel, SuperCantusMan. That dude is powerful. Very impressive showing on his part here. Some people here are faulting humans for being too arrogant in their assessment of the threat posed by the Queerats, but with SuperCantusMan fighting for them, can you really blame them? The ending bit with Maria didn't bother me as much as it did some, but it did seem a bit superfluous to me. It just wasn't long enough for me to care much about it either way. My one issue with this episode (and with SSY in general since the latest time-skip) is that this is all feeling like a Greek Tragedy playing out in Super-Slo Mo. I find myself getting a bit numb to it all after awhile, and so I hope the pace picks up while I still care about some of these characters.
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2013-02-03, 03:55 | Link #46 | ||
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In other news, woohoo Kiroumaru! Go and get your revenge! Ah, right, double headlights masked man was way more ikemen than I expected. |
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2013-02-03, 04:50 | Link #48 | ||||
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So in theory it's possible but in practice not really. You would think so, eh? By the way, we still have only Squealer's word that they're living in a dream democracy where everyone is equal and little bakenezumi pups frolic freely on the meadows and stuff... and Squealer's trustworthiness is questionable, to say the least. Not to mention it's worth thinking about how his supercolony even came to existence. Quote:
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Actually, going by that logic we, humanity on a whole, could might as well go and kill ourselves right now. I mean, look at all the horrible things we have done and still do, for things that are ultimately much less important than our continued survival. Yes, it's a sick society. That's why this is a dystopia. But it's not sick for the sake of being sick. It's a society that's burdened not only by the weight of its ugly past but also by an ever-present danger that might destroy it. What do you expect them to do, throw up their hands and say "our continued survival is not worth this price, let's just die out and be done with it"? "Our people have struggled to survive for this long but we think our society is not right so we'll open ourselves up to danger and embrace whatever happens"? Maybe that would be the nice and honorable way, but I don't think it wouldn't be very human-like... after all, history is pretty much a sequence of people doing what they think is the best in a given situation and then dealing with the consequences, good or bad. Going to the extremes is simple and rarely helpful, is all I'm saying. Last edited by kuromitsu; 2013-02-03 at 06:24. |
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2013-02-03, 06:04 | Link #49 | ||
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Of course at times it's hard to watch because you know its all going to get worse but at the same time that is the beauty of a true tragedy. It's even knowing if the character did things differently things would not have turned out like this but now that they did the course it set. On another note while it seems the Queerrats are just defending themselves, I don't entirely agree that they weren't planning on attacking, I believe they just moved up the attack knowing that the humans found out. I don't think it is a coincidence that they destroyed the queerrat group most loyal to the humans & the fact that they have a cantus user (and we have all already predicted who that is). I just don't see either side as "innocent" here.
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2013-02-03, 07:24 | Link #50 | |
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A good ep! But confusing in some ways.
That scene with Maria was odd! It was either showing her loyalty shifting away from Saki and a potential choice to work for the Queerats, or being used by the story to place the focus on children and that there could be a child of Maria and Mamoru in Yakomaru's clutches. Probably the latter. The way they had her saying all that was just so strange. I didn't understand the purpose/context of the words being shown a few times in this ep. The bone investigation, though...It's easy to assume it's legit and that those two really are dead. Would be interesting if Yakomaru had been thinking while talking to Satoru and Saki and saying he could arrange fake bones that he would simply give the village the real bones. He said it could take some time, and the anime hasn't told us when Yakomaru delivered the bones to them. Maybe he was just waiting until those two had a kid before killing them But it's still possible that the bones are fakes. The Queerats might have some technology which could fake the bones (although I'd guess this is unlikely) or extract some bones while leaving one or both of the pair alive, perhaps giving them prosthetics. There's also a chance that Mamoru's art skill might extend as far as to faking bones or creating prosthetics. He's probably got a good grasp of anatomy, perspective, and copying. Although to deal with things on the level of DNA and such...there isn't any proof of him being able to handle anything so complicated. Or, given what Yakomaru is like, it's quite possible that Creb above is right and that he's extracted the bones he needs from them and is keeping a helpless Maria and Mamoru for breeding purposes. If Maria really doesn't show up again, the ending song is going to be really, really misleading. It will be a real let down if she doesn't get more of a role and many of her appearances in the last eps were solely for padding and yuri bait. (Much as I like yuri, it's not so great if the last we see of Maria is filler with no substance.) Quote:
If she gets killed later for choosing to torture Yakomaru and drag things out rather than just kill him quickly, it'll be ironic. |
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2013-02-03, 08:04 | Link #51 | ||
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2013-02-03, 09:10 | Link #52 | |
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Look I get that people are disturbed by this dystopian future, but hey, just look in the mirror. Humanity as it exists is horrible, with or without psychic powers. The mark of good science fiction is to be able to be a mirror of the human condition. SSY does this pretty well. There's a reason humans are at the top of the food chain. We are monsters.
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2013-02-03, 09:31 | Link #53 | ||
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We can debate over Yakomaru himself, but for your "rank and file" Queerat, they've been thrown into war whether they wanted it or not, and they're legitimately fighting for their lives. Quote:
Not all fights in a long war are intended to be outright wins. Some are simply meant to weaken and shake up the enemy. As for Yakomaru's "secret weapon", perhaps he's waiting for more ideal conditions to use it. Perhaps if he used it now, it's not likely to be the decisive war-ender he wants it to be.
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2013-02-03, 09:57 | Link #54 | ||
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Sure. But it's another evidence against the "self-defense" excuse... |
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2013-02-03, 10:55 | Link #55 |
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If they were planning on attacking then it is not in defense, its just who got there first. We heard the human side of things we didn't hear the queer rat side of things, so we can only judge by clues & actions.
I don't think either the queer rats or humans are innocent here as a group although there might be innocent individuals in both groups. Also again people keep mentioning democracy making the queer rat group something we can root for but why does democracy automatically make your society better? I see the weapons the queer rats have created (even ignoring the cantus user) and question how innocent this society is? I forget who it was but someone said we are watching a vicious cycle repeat itself. It might be true the queer rats are becoming more human but is our own human society that the queer rats might be emulating really so great? edit: Just to add something it was Satoru who said in fear that the Queerrats are becoming more human. We've been saying that the human society has become somewhat like beasts. But lets look at this another way is becoming more human actually akin to becoming like beasts? We saw what happened to human society when they developed cantus. It's not like horrible things are new to human society. I know that is really a negative way to look at humanity and I don't think humanity is all negative either. Perhaps there is still hope to come out of this story in the end but I don't think that would come out of the destruction of either the humans or the queer rats.
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2013-02-03, 10:58 | Link #56 | |
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Not to say an outright massacre of Saki's society is an honorable goal, but from the queerats' perspective, I'm not sure what other option they have. If you were in a lower class and you had a capable, cunning leader, who obviously was a shady guy, but had the ambition to free you from being an outright, by birth, slave... wouldn't you follow him? And do they really need to have self-defense as an excuse under these circumstances? |
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2013-02-03, 12:33 | Link #57 | |
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I love how this show is capable of generating such a wide array of discussion. I'm honestly fascinated with everyone talking about humanity and how perspectives change depending on what side you're on. Thus far there haven't been too many anime shows capable of intellectual exchanges off the bat, so I'm glad this is on my weekly watch list. That being said, I genuinely don't see either camps being completely innocent, but there are probably some who are ignorant to outside life. I don't want either side completely wiped out, as it's only the major players who are at fault here. The bakenezumi wouldn't have been such a threat if it weren't for Squealer, so I do want to see him go out like Tomiko said. As far as the humans go, the school system clearly needs to be dealt with... So much blood on both sides' hands, really. Makes it more difficult for me to personally judge whether one is more 'right'. I forgot to add that if ED1 was inspired by the events of this episode (namely the festival), that makes it way more heart-wrenching as the figures in the ED were basically ghosts of people Saki wanted to see. Shun... :< ED1 would've been great here, but I do think Maria's song immediately after the weird Maria scene was oddly effective. On another note, is Saki officially suspicious of Squealer regarding the whole bones thing? As in, does she think he killed them himself after he was done with them? |
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In other words, democracy is the best form of government that we know of. That's definitely my opinion, and I think that the benefits of a democratic form of government should be pretty self-evident to anybody who lives in a free and democratic country. If you believe in things like individual rights, empowering people, and governments that are held accountable, then democracy is a no-brainer, imo. As for myself, I believe in those things. Quote:
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2013-02-03, 13:06 | Link #59 | ||
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A society can have a so called democracy and not be a better place. Heck you can technically have a democracy and not have human rights for all your citizens. Democracy technically means "the rule of the majority" and technically with a majority not everyone is represented . Although personally I don't think the form of government is even what the story is criticizing here. Again I think we are just getting a glimpse of our own human history mirrored in this so called future world of ours (history repeats itself). Quote:
I am not saying the way the humans have treated the queer rats is right in any stretch of the word but they are certainly not taking the higher ground here. Weapons are tools to free a slave race? Let's ignore the fact that they have also used these weapons on their own kind, the very fact that we are shown the weapons they are building have become more destructive, more horrible. Again I think I am missing how the queer rats are better? Because they didn't make the humans slaves? Is that because they don't believe in slavery? (We've been shown in the past that in other circumstances they made their own slaves as well). I think the problem is we are looking at this differently because my theory about what is happening here is probably very different than yours. I don't see this as a story of slaves against their oppressors. I see it instead as tragedy that is supposed to give us a feeling of deja-vu. I could be very wrong and you could be right about the ultimate path the story is going to take but ultimately I don't think we are supposed to see either side as "right". I just feel an outsider watching a tragedy unfold.
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