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Originally Posted by wingdarkness
^ Wow could we have felt more different about this ep K-Sama?
You didn't feel like this movie was a blur compared to most of the other entries? There was such impeccable fight-focus in this series until this final movie where it was more of a mishmash followed by a rush of revolving door-type attention to the battles...Everything was just so compressed, but at a rapid pace...The other episodes seem to thrive on glorifying the battle aesthetics as opposed to blitzing through them...The atmosphere in this movie just wasn't the same as most of the series IMO (Maybe it was because of the checklist-mentality with a wrap-up episode, but still)...
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I had no trouble following anything, especially since it was all pretty localized to the
capital. Also of course the atmosphere and fight choreagraphy is very different from the rest of the movies since they are fighting a massive pitched battle in a city instead of tactical squad vs. squad combat out in the middle of a wasteland with cliffs everywhere. The atmosphere here is one of desperation since it's literally do or die for Krisna instead of the skirmishes we saw in the previous movies. It helps to recognize this I think.
I also thought this movie out of any of them had the best focus and the best overall pacing as well. Not much felt out of place in the flow of this movie, whereas episode 04 in particular I found kept breaking up the flow of the episode with seemingly random cuts to what Sigyun and Cleo were doing, which really wasn't all that important in the grand scheme of things. Of cours the movie has the distinction of leaving the story feeling unfinished, but that was kind of a given.
If I had one major issue with the movie it was the overall ridiculousness of the weapon Sigyun gave to Rygart in order to defeat Borcuse. It was an exciting weapon to see in action, but bloody ridiculous and inexplicable in why it has to be a giant throwing star on a tether. In fact it might come as a surprise (or perhaps not) but I felt like Sigyun was the weakest character by far in this story on the "good guys" side and perhaps even the whole movie series.
She also has kind of a Mary Sue status going on. She just sits safe in her castle the whole movie safe and sound with all the confidence in the world, is physically attractive, is apparently some sort of prodigy that is far more skilled than any of the technicians and specialists working in Krisna's military R&D combined, is always in the right in just about every interaction/argument she has with any of the characters or at least seems to hold the upper hand in their conversations, is the source of everybody's affection, is able to magic this apparently perfect (albeit completely nonsensical) weapon into existence on short notice that singlehandedly saves her whole country along with Rygart and is able to kill the seemingly unbeatable General Borcuse, is able to put herself in danger at the end without any sort of harm coming to her at all....the list just goes on and on. She's just a little too perfect and flawless for me unlike pretty much every other single other character in the movie and it makes her kind of boring.
This is part of the reason I've been very particular about the cutaways to her in previous movies, because when there's this big battle out in the middle of the wasteland with all these soldiers risking their lives I could care less what perfect little Sigyun is doing back at the castle with Miss Cleo and her 14 year-old giant rack.
