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Perfect 10 | 92 | 52.27% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 36 | 20.45% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 29 | 16.48% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 12 | 6.82% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 4 | 2.27% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 0 | 0% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 0 | 0% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 1 | 0.57% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 2 | 1.14% | |
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2011-03-04, 04:50 | Link #201 | |
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Edit: DSM-IV criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder (Sociopathy)
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2011-03-04, 04:58 | Link #202 |
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It'd be interesting if QB was right after all, in that Madoka's sacrifice would be enough to permanently prevent entropy-death for the Universe, and also end the need for Witches/Peulla Magi. However, since Homura is unable to let go of Madoka, she uses her powers to try to prevent this every time. Madoka's original wish in Homura's own timeline could have been to grant Homura happiness, but since Homura cannot find happiness without Madoka, the wish manifests itself as a way for Homura to make that happen.
The ending would be that Madoka somehow finally remembers all of this, and decides to willingly sacrifice herself, and makes her wish for Homura to find happiness without Madoka to stop the time loop. World would be saved and we skip to an epilogue where we see Homura living a normal life with friends. Cue some apparition/look-alike of Madoka to walk by quickly. Despite not knowing who that was or why it caught her attention, tears roll down Homura's cheeks. Not too original and slightly cheesy, but still better than any kind of ending involving some kind of deus-ex-machina solution, or where everyone dies tragically, or anything involving getting turned into tang. |
2011-03-04, 05:04 | Link #203 | |
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it is easy enough to speculate if this method is the only one or simply the most convenient, how these issues compare to the universe's cessation, how responsible various species (one in particular) are in this supposed all-or-nothing situation etc |
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2011-03-04, 05:17 | Link #204 | ||
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I see you're thinking along the same lines I am. I'll just respond to some of your comments though, since I'm still sorting out a lot of this myself.
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2011-03-04, 05:27 | Link #205 |
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One thing we have to always keep in mind, is that QB has been shown to be entirely untrustworthy.
Taking QB at his word had been disastrous to hundreds of innocent girls in the past, all because QB finds it convenient to not tell the whole truth. I ask you; why should he tell the truth now? And why the hell would anyone in their right mind believe him, knowing that he is a walking fur ball of deception? Characters can lie. And even more so, when we know he has lied before, repeatedly. I did not trust a single word that came out of his mouth up to now, and I am not about to start any-time soon.
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2011-03-04, 05:30 | Link #206 | |
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Why the tantrum about QB being an alien? There are other kind of aliens than Little Greys, Xenomorphs and Spock you know? Have people ever head about Shoggoths or the Great Race of Yith or the Mi-Go?
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2011-03-04, 05:31 | Link #207 | |||
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"... soushite mitsuketano wa mahou shoujo no maryouku da yo" ...and that's when we discovered Mahou Shoujo's magic. It is possible that if QB did not implement a slightly altered system for more efficient harvesting, that girls with potential would naturally develop into Mahou Shoujo. Quote:
Up until episode 9, we actually had NO evidence he even bent the truth. We see in episode 9 that there is a possibility in which QB has outright mislead Kyouko, but that remains to be seen, due to an equal possibility that QB simply doesn't know. Quote:
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2011-03-04, 05:39 | Link #208 |
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Fine then, QB isn't guilty of lying, he is guilty of leaving out all the important information he doesn't want you to know. Happy?
Now, using past history, how many pieces of important information do you think he "convenient" forgot to mention in this episode?
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2011-03-04, 05:39 | Link #209 | |
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I didn't want to respond to this for fear of it degenerating into a QB debate but...
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2011-03-04, 05:41 | Link #210 | |
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2011-03-04, 05:41 | Link #211 | |
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Human emotion is two sided. It's very difficult to be, for example, angry and happy at the same time. We're generally either one or the other. Now, imagine if you could "bottleneck" negative emotions, which are typically more powerful than positive emotions (rage, hatred, apathy, greed, lust, etc.). If you can't release these emotions normally, eventually you would "explode" into a furious amount of emotion. Like a psychotic breakdown, or a fit of rage. So the idea is similar to other MG shows, where the good and bad guys can flip flop depending on how easily they can be tempted to change. Witches fight Magical Girls, sure, but in an uncorrupted system it would be a sliding scale and not an either/or like it is under Kyubey's system. If this were the case, then Kyubey isn't lying when he said that he didn't know if Witches could return to normal. He just knows that under the current system such a thing would be impossible. Wild and crazy theory edit: A bit more thinking on this. We know that Soul Gems collect darkness simply from use. Assuming that potential is tied to emotional use, would it possible explain why Homura has not been so emotional until these last two episodes? To conserve magical power, and slow the rate of corruption? More thinking edit: This might also tie into his comments about different potentials. Obviously he can "read" the potential strength of a magical girl. This suggests he has good knowledge of how the system works. On the other hand, he admits that MG's defy explanation (paraphrased). He talks about how Madoka could be stronger than he is, strong enough to warp reality even. The wishes granted, the powers given, all defy the scientific reasoning he gives for the system. Humans normally can't summon giant spears, dump hundreds of guns out of their skirts, or stop time....so why would he give such a scientific reasoning for his motives? Ugh, my head hurts.
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2011-03-04, 05:45 | Link #212 | |
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A sales term? So you are saying the girls are stupid suckers who deserved to be deceived by a salesman? Fine. But caveat emptor to you too, if you think QB is being honest this time.
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2011-03-04, 05:51 | Link #213 | ||
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QB himself states, while speaking with Madoka, "We can't understand what it means "to trick" to begin with. When you regret a wrong decision based on a misunderstanding, you humans tend to hate the other party for some reason... It's hard for us to understand the value standards of humans." This is because most human beings, especially in the western world value the notion of "informed consent". All information of value is put on the table for inspection before we make a decision or become contractually obligated, etc. However there are many cultures, even on this planet who do not feel the same way. They will think, oh sucks to be you for not being as intelligent as I am, or sucks to be you for not looking at the small text. You'll learn from this experience and grow smarter! Quote:
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2011-03-04, 05:52 | Link #214 |
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Wow.. Anyway the ED says it all. You guys are so hung up on trying to defend Kyubei that you're not even trying anymore. Moving onward to the Homura camp.
My final prediction, those fucking earrings on Kyubei are hiding his true form.
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2011-03-04, 05:55 | Link #216 | |
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That's a friggen plain fracking lie. QB understands human emotions just fine when he feels like using it (to push a contract). See withholding all information causing distress and rejection from contract-willing girls. See the exploitation of Sayaka's Kamijou crisis to just be around in time for her to contract (I consider it very likely that QB incited the Kamijou breakdown leading up to it). See the kind of QB's final contract offer to Madoka ("Call me when you're ready to die for the sake of the universe"). |
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2011-03-04, 06:04 | Link #217 | ||
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All emotions are not on a single bipolar spectrum. Humans possess the capacity to feel many different things all at the same time. Some one would argue, that is partly what makes us such complex beings . Quote:
Isn't that simply the way you are seeing it? You are interpreting QB's behavior as an individual who understands emotion, but you are making a fundamental attribution error? You attribute it to his "evilness" or his propensity to manipulate others, but isn't it just as likely as him simply not understanding human emotions? Is it so difficult to imagine what it would be like without emotions? It would be like a race of machines driven by data and ruthless efficiency. And how exactly did QB exploit Sayaka in relation to her "Kamijou crises"? What he told Madoka was true. As QB sees it, Madoka is the ticket to producing a huge amount of energy. If this helps save the universe, then is his statement really false? |
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2011-03-04, 06:05 | Link #218 |
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My personal theory is that this mirrors Bokurano in many ways , not just in grim darkness . I seriously suspect that Kyubey , too is not from the Madoka-verse, but rather , from a much much older universe sliding towards heat death . To forestall it , the denizens of that older universe are tapping and harvesting the souls of humans not only in Madoka's native time-line , but an immense number of similar time-lines. Even if Madoka was to wipe out this time-line , there are uncountable quadrillions more time-lines to harvest. All for the sake of a single ancient time-line , or perhaps a group of time-lines. It might be that overall , the Multi-verse of time-lines are close to heat death , though there are still numerous time-lines fairly far from heat death .
Or , the situation might not be as desperate as it Kyubey implies . Kyubey's native time-line is far from heat death , yet , rationally , it is best to begin reversing entropy now , than when the universe approaches heat death. Which actually mean that , from the perspective of Kyubey's race , the Madoka manga , Innocent Malice , and the Madoka Magica anime both are real , and are in the same Multi-verse, even if they take place in different time-lines. |
2011-03-04, 06:12 | Link #219 | |
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QB know what human emotions is and utilize it to push girls to make contracts, however he doesn't have human emotions nor understand the value us human uphold. Up to this point QB never lied before. He just played around with words. Hiding an information isn't a lie. Think of QB words as Umineko's Red Truth. It's 100% correct, but doesn't necessarily represent the real truth nor speaker's real motivation. Just my thought: Just like when Soul Gem gathers enough grief and turns into Grief Seed, Grief Seed may be able to release enough grief and revert back to Soul Gem. However, this has never been done before, because all the witches got hunted by Magical Girls, received new grief from their Soul Gem and then got dumped into QB, so QB stands correct when he said that there is no precedent in saving a witch. But he never said reverting from a witch back to a magical girl is impossible. What is impossible is for a magical girl (Kyouko) to save another witch (Sayaka). The reverting process has to be done by the witch herself. |
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2011-03-04, 06:25 | Link #220 | |
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It's possible he knows how to provoke a reaction without actually understanding the reaction itself. He could be lying, but I'm not so sure I'd call this evidence. |
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