2009-11-16, 15:34 | Link #3321 | |
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Bern just pretty much wants to win. Throwing in Erika and letting her twist around red and even mocking Natsuhi herself just shows it. As Ssol said, Bern was ready to leave Battler and even she was shocked and freaked out when Battler suddenly came back from the grave. Honestly people holding on to the hope that Bern is somehow good I want to see legible reasons other than "she's just toughening him up". I mean really, how much tougher can one get from turning someone's little sister into a burger. |
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2009-11-16, 15:59 | Link #3323 | |
別にいいけど
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"if you want to trick your enemy, trick your allies first" Though I'm more bent into believing that Bern is just an antagonist, I'm just not buying it completely yet...
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2009-11-16, 16:33 | Link #3324 |
Dea ex Kakera
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Bern being an antagonist doesn't necessarily preclude her also being part of a huge Xanatos Gambit by Meta-Beatrice to help Meta-Battler solve the mystery. Virgilia basically admitted as much in Episode 5 by saying Bern and Lambda couldn't remain in Beato's kakera without her permission.
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2009-11-16, 16:47 | Link #3325 |
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Bernkastel did have the line: "Not only do I sympathize with you, I'm almost brought to tears by your tragic fate."
So if you believe the 'Bernkastel always tells the truth' theory then mabye she's using extreme measures to avoid a repeat of the 100 year battle. Still, I think it's more likely that she's simply an evil witch. The question I have is regarding Lambdadelta. If she beat Bern for over 100 years why was she about to lose to her so easily? As soon as Battler came back from break she was like, "Looks like it's game set for Bern!" It's not like she didn't know what she was doing. Ronove commented that Lambda understood Beatrice's rules. ...
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2009-11-16, 17:54 | Link #3326 | |
Homo Ludens
Join Date: Nov 2007
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Since Battler, at this point, has basically accepted witches... yeah... Was she really about to lose to her so easily? I'm not sure. Considering that she effectively "won" anyway, what with Battler perpetuating the game further, I'm not so sure it wasn't all just yet another plan on her part. |
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2009-11-16, 18:11 | Link #3328 | |
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Not to mention several red truths pretty much make it impossible that this is the case. |
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2009-11-16, 18:11 | Link #3329 | |
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If it was an act she must have had a ton of faith in Battler finding the truth because it really looked like Bern and Lambda were about ready to leave Battler dead.
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2009-11-16, 18:11 | Link #3330 |
Gamilas Falls
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It feels like a trap. The problem is...who is the trap for? While one logic would be that the trap is for Battler, the other suggests it is a trap for Lambdadelta. Beatrice may be setting up the trap or maybe it is Bern. Either way, the goal seems to be to get Battler to fight and look for "the truth" rather than his usual deny witches stance. If it is a trap by Beatrice, then what is her goal? If it is a trap by Bern and Lambda the goal is to get an everlasting game so they won't be bored. If it is a trap by Bern, it is to counter Lambda and Beatrice and perhaps give Battler the cause and tools to actually win the game via finding the truth, rather than just beating the witch by denying her and proving the crimes could be done by humans. That's not enough. Just that it can be done by humans isn't enough to solve a mystery. One has to figure out who, how, and why for there to be a final truth to this mystery.
Finding the how is the first step. Finding the who is the second step. Finding the why is the step to prevent it from happening.
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2009-11-16, 18:33 | Link #3332 | ||||
Homo Ludens
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Unused sprites, a troll/bonus for sprite extractors, or something to be used in future episodes? I'm just questioning the validity of the recent behaviour we've seen from Beato... Quote:
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Speaking of traps, I think everyone is forgetting the "trap for the readers" that Ryukishi warned us all about... Does anyone have any idea what that could be? Quote:
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2009-11-16, 18:44 | Link #3333 | ||
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In Ep5 a reliable perspective doesn't exist, so you just have a wall of text of red truths, and while there are many of those they are not enough to reach a solid conclusion. Any theory you will make will be highly far-fetched and haphazard. Not having a reliable perspective just makes too many variables undefiened. In the previous episodes you knew that whatever Battler sees is the truth, but in Ep5 every scene might be fake, you have absolutely no way to tell a fake scene from a true scene. BTW Erika lied in the trial, there is absolutely no doubt about it, unless you are claiming that she really made analysis in CSI style using Kinzo's equipment. Please don't tell me Ryukishi really expects me to believe this. Also Erika knows that Natsuhi isn't the culprit, she didn't even flinch when she saw Battler's red truth. It doesn't matter if by the trial rules that red couldn't be used, Erika has seen it and red is indisputable. By claiming that Natsuhi was the culprit, she lied, and she knew it. Another evidence that the trial was rigged, is the fact that the detective was supposed to provide proofs to back its claims. However in most situations Erika, in the trial, didn't bring any logic proof for her claims. I have mentioned the Genji's case above, which is based on a blatant lie, then there are Kinzo and Krauss cases, which do not prove anything at all. Regardless of that Bern used red, even though she wasn't supposed to, hinting that she and Lambda were conniving. After all this, can you really say that the trial wasn't rigged? Quote:
Are you telling me that they are all lying about Battler grabbing Beatrice and jumping from the window? That doesn't work, later we find out that everyone knew that Battler simply climbed down (and no Beatrice was involved). Therefore in EP5 a fake scene can happen in front of everyone including Battler and Erika regardless of what they truly see and believe.
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2009-11-16, 19:28 | Link #3334 | |
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As I've said before, it's also possible that the whole scene occurred in the meta-world instead of a game board. You could say that the mere fact that living people interacted with meta-characters is proof that the scene is even less credible than a normal fake scene. Because we have this proof, such a scene can be allowed. The only other scene which matches these qualifications is the one when the corpses are first discovered. Either this scene is a total lie too, or it can be explained away as a lie told by one or several of the pieces.
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2009-11-16, 19:44 | Link #3335 | |
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Almost the entire fifth game we see is a replay. Everything that happens before Erika claims that Natsuhi is the culprit is subjected to the same possibility. As for what happened next we have only seen a small fragment and then everything was cut. As for Bern and Lambda that might apply to all the game. Therefore your blue truth is only a slight adjustment of my previous statements. pieces jumping in the metaworld would be a real mindfuck. Since you claim that the gemeboard is actually a real world kakera, the pieces cannot jump to another dimension without assuming magic exists. Until this point we have always assumed that rather pieces can have a metaworld counterpart. I.E. the people we see in the trial are meta-world counterparts of the people in the island and not the pieces of the gameboard that jumped in the metaworld. We can imagine that fake scenes exist in a third layer above the gameboard. However the protagonists of the fake scenes are still the gameboard pieces. I'd rather not think of the possibility that you can have a piece for the third layer that is different from the piece in the real gameboard because that would mean we'd have 3 Battlers instead of 2!!! Please... give me a break... ; ;
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2009-11-16, 19:54 | Link #3336 | |
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My guess is that the middle layer for both of these characters is an illusion created by Lambda. Still, even an illusion can be based on something real (a vessel).
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2009-11-16, 20:15 | Link #3337 |
別にいいけど
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Oh man... is it official? Three layers and three versions of the same people.
Let me summarize it: Real layer - what really happens in the gameboard Fake layer - false scenes covering the real layer Meta layer - that's where the spectators are And each layer can have a version of the the same person. So far confirmed: Real Battler - Fake Battler - Meta Battler and Real Beatrice - Fake Beatrice - Meta Beatrice Now it would be really confusing if these three versions could jump from layer to layer therefore allowing the possibility of two of them being in the same layer. However that would mean that red and blu can be used not only in the metaworld but also in the fake layer. I don't think that ever happened before Ep5. in Ep5 during the Kinzo study scene we clearly see fake Beatrice and fake Battler using blue against Dlanor and company. What layer is that? If that was a meta layer then that means we have two Battlers in the metaworld! And two Beatrices. That's messed up. And then again is that really possible? Since it is said that Lambda was controlling their actions then it means they were in the gameboard. I think it can be safely stated that the fake layer and real layer are both inside the gameboard.
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2009-11-16, 20:53 | Link #3338 | |
Gamilas Falls
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Actually having another board makes sense in some ways. This is Lambda's game. Instead of recreating the gameboard, she makes another gameboard based on both the Meta and the real world, and then Meta-Battler enters the game. Thus it is possible that the Game 5 board is not on the real gameboard at all, and Erika is a fake as well...birthed from Lambda's game via Bern. The difference is that some layers are pulled back and exposed while others go all wacky and confusing. Battler's challenge, if this is the case, would be to break through the new meta-gameboard and use that knowledge to solve Beatrice's gameboard...since he's the gamemaster now. And if he's the GM, Beatrice isn't anymore. Thus Battler can finish the game his way. Now if there are two GMs...well...it will be amusing to watch.
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2009-11-16, 21:44 | Link #3339 |
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I've assumed a 3-layer world at least since EP5 came out.
Real Beato(You can't stop me now, anti-shippers!) who can't do magic but CAN not crush the spirits of an abused little girl - Magic world Beato - Meta-Beato(Hair down). |
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