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miketyson · 2012-06-05, 07:05

I get that this is mostly in fact a retcon, but I still have to appreciate its meta-ness: within the show proper, no one of importance -- aside from, perhaps, Fudo and Rena, and *possibly* Mykage -- actually knew the true story of the events from 24000 years ago; even Kagura, whose ideas come from the movie, isn't actually *that* much worse-informed than the rest of them, really. On the other hand, the audience is now also in the same boat: not even the audience actually knew the true story...and in the same way the characters' talking of hate now seems hubristic, so too does all our speculating and conjecturing (

), because we were bold enough to assume we knew the facts.

I'll reserve judgment on the full impact of the twist until after everything's done, but even at this early stage I can't help but admire its meta-ness, and the way it does to the audience what it does to the in-show characters.

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miketyson Senior Member Join Date: May 2011	I get that this is mostly in fact a retcon, but I still have to appreciate its meta-ness: within the show proper, no one of importance -- aside from, perhaps, Fudo and Rena, and possibly Mykage -- actually knew the true story of the events from 24000 years ago; even Kagura, whose ideas come from the movie, isn't actually that much worse-informed than the rest of them, really. On the other hand, the audience is now also in the same boat: not even the audience actually knew the true story...and in the same way the characters' talking of hate now seems hubristic, so too does all our speculating and conjecturing (), because we were bold enough to assume we knew the facts. I'll reserve judgment on the full impact of the twist until after everything's done, but even at this early stage I can't help but admire its meta-ness, and the way it does to the audience what it does to the in-show characters.