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View Poll Results: Eden of the East - Episode 10 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 35 | 47.30% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 24 | 32.43% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 11 | 14.86% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 3 | 4.05% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 0 | 0% | |
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 | 1.35% | |
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2009-06-15, 09:10 | Link #121 |
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I actually caught those trucks passing by since they were there for a really brief moment, but you know.... do they really expect everyone to blow up and clarify that shot with a graphic editor just to discover that it does indeed say what it says it says? Even without outright finger pointed, the fact that Juiz was somehow spirited away by XII and that there was something massive being moved at the same time makes a connection.
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2009-06-15, 19:38 | Link #128 | |
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I watched the episode again today. I noticed that while Juiz was being moved number 2 stayed in the Juiz room while #10 was in the lobby. If it was moved he would have noticed. #2 must have a connection to #12. And I bet they both know pre memory wipe takizawa. Number 2 didn't seem the least bit surprised by the empty bottle of champagne. Then again he didn't seem surprised about anything. Maybe he was trying to down play his role. |
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2009-06-15, 21:16 | Link #129 | |
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maybe the director intend to let us wondering where did Juiz been move to? and then at the last episode, they'll put a flash back on eps 10 and zoom in on the truck. then we'll know, "Hey, it's that truck that Akira saw on eps 10..." |
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2009-06-15, 21:34 | Link #130 | |
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2009-06-15, 23:33 | Link #134 |
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Since we don't know how exactly Akira was betrayed it is difficult to answer.
Anyway it is certain that Akira prevented a mass murder by evacuating the zones that were hit by the missiles, and considering what Saki said, it is assumed that Akira got betrayed by the people he saved because they themselves hoped for a tragedy to happen. So not only Akira wasn't acknowledged for being a savior he was even criticized. Or so it seems... However I think there must be something even greater.
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2009-06-16, 18:07 | Link #136 |
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everyone thinks that a tragedy would be good. That it would shock their society into giving up their trivial pursuits of make-up and which actor and actress are dating. What the score of a sports team was, political spinsters.
If my state, California, was bombed by nukes who would give a fuck about brad pitt and angelina jole?! Your concern about "oh I need new shoes. These ones are last season" become "how can I protect my family against bandits?". Watching American Idol (or english or australian or where ever it is that you come from) in the evening to kill time becomes making sure you get to shelter before nightfall. Okay maybe I'm being overly dramatic. But look at New York City. I think it was the summer of 1999. Two years before 9/11. Because of excessive draw during the hottest day of the summer there was a black out. What did the people do? They robbed and vandalised their own neighborhood. Their own communities. Two years later they had another summertime power outage. But this time there were no mobs. Your neighbors weren't robbing the convenience store. They knocked on your door to make sure you were alright. Did you have any candles? They had extra. They took care of eachother. Having a large scale disaster that rocks the very foundation of your community or even society. 30% of the Japanese population live in or around Tokyo. After 60 missiles hit Tokyo the city and people would never be the same. When you come close to losing you life or have a close friend/family die you find that your priorities in life are all wrong. So my point is that all these people want something like this to happen cause they want the society to be changed for the better. But people have to die. Ask those same people to volunteer to be among the slaughtered. Does anyone else have any opinions on this? In the show they were talking about going to the post war era. What caused the post war era? 2 nuclear bombs. Sorry I was up all night and I can't really think straight. I don't even know if the about writing makes any sense. |
2009-06-16, 18:59 | Link #137 |
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No it makes sense, and you raise a good point. No. I and X's plan probably would have the desired effect. The question is, is that worth the lives that would be lost? Can you save the country without resorting to such means?
You get a pretty similar moral question in Watchmen and season 1 of Heroes, and I'm sure it's been raised in many other works as well.
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2009-06-16, 20:07 | Link #138 | |
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I've read Watchmen, but I havnt seen heroes. In what ways in the Hereos' moral dilemma and EOE's alike? And like I said people like that will say yeah, lets just kill half the population and start over, just as long as it isn't their neck on the line. I really do sympathize with their goal. However genocide is never a justified means to an ends... Unless its Canadians. Oh how I hate Canadians Spoiler for Canadians:
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2009-06-16, 20:37 | Link #139 |
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Heroes' dilemma was pretty much Watchmen's (I get the feeling they were a bit more than inspired by said graphic novel) except - spoiler - they prevent it from happening. And it didn't involve a biologically engineered freak of nature. But the whole blowing up New York thing, in order to bring about solidarity and unity and rebuilding and progress among the people of the nation (well in Watchmen it was the whole world)? Yeah, pretty much the same idea.
And what's going on here in Eden is basically the same idea, except replace New York with Tokyo and replace the nuclear man/psychic monster with Tomahawk missiles. I'm not sure genocide is quite the right word here (they're just aiming for the parts of Tokyo that would have the most dramatic effect, not targeting a race or social class or anything) but as for mass murder as a means to an ends... all comes down, I suppose, to your own cynicism and the cynicism of the writers. Is the human race so beyond hope that it cannot be saved through peaceful means? Alan Moore seemed to think so... or perhaps not. But that would be getting into an analysis of Watchmen. Just playing devil's advocate here, but what if by killing, say, 1% of the population, everyone else's lives could be made 200% better? What if it was an even bigger margin? If killing one (average, innocent) person would make life much better for everyone else in the world, would you do it (or condone it)? What about two people? Ten? It's kinda a tricky question and it's why I don't like taking sides on these sort of ethical issues because looking at it from both sides, there's never really an easy answer.
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2009-06-16, 22:49 | Link #140 |
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It only gives the impression of provoking a good result in practical term it doesn't.
To take the fish eric example. Before 11/9 certainly the people in new york weren't that united, but can you say that if it wasn't for that more than 2000 people would have been killed? That's highly improbable. So unless you think there's a worse crime than murder as a matter of fact there is no real gain. There is also to take in acount the time of effect. Such events really have the power to cause a shock, but how long such effect can last? I think it's very optimistic to think it would last more than 5 years. Humans are very forgetful beings. In the case of Higashi no Eden, as much as they are dissatisfied with their current society, they completely fail to notice how the murder rate in Japan is one of the lowest worlwide. So they want to fix that by causing a mass murder themselves. Clearly their priority scale is completely fucked up. There's only a word to describe what drives number X and I actions: Totally blind selfrighteusness. They judge so harshly the Japan they live in, they don't get how much greater is the corruption in their own hearts for wanting to destroy that many human lives for an outcome that is bound to be very short lived.
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