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Originally Posted by Jimmy C
Sayaka simply crashed through the normal-> abnormal-> destruction process a lot faster than most other characters he put through this situation. After Hitomi's ultimatum, she decided to forsake everything for her ideal of saving people by killing witches, including her own preservation. About a day and a half later, she's confronted with the fact that, among the faceless masses she's trying to protect, are those that don't deserve her protection.
Now, an adult with more experience with disappointments in life would have just shrugged her shoulders and moved on. But for Sayaka, that knocked out the last pillar holding up anything good in her world, and so she fell to dispair.
If the series were longer, several episodes could be dedicated to her growing fanaticism and subsequent desctruction, and you would be able to tell she was changing from normal to abnormal. As it was, they only had ep8 and a few minutes in ep7 to show her becoming fanatical and then destroying herself.
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I do see your point here, yeah.
Sayaka's villain-style laughter at the end of Episode 7 was clearly meant to show that she had psychologically snapped, and her mind was in a very bad place. You're right that Hitomi's ultimatum was the key "final straw" that pushed Sayaka from normal to abnormal, and that scene with the two guys on the train did knock down the one pillar still left to support her.