Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity - Grand Temple Of Time: Solomon Discussion / Poll

[Kairin]

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[Cosmic Eagle]

I can't remember, but was the original Solomon chapter this Guda centric? It was also right?

Anyway though, who was that figure kneeling before Goetia?


All in all a far better movie than Camelot

[azenable]

Far too much Dialogue. Music was awesome but didn’t hit the right emotion with the pace and effect. Beast iv didn’t get any airtime.

[FlareKnight]

Now this is where a movie is a perfectly justified option. And where making adaptation changes make sense and add to the story. Giving Ritsuka some extra gear with solid limitations actually worked well and helped the story play out in an interesting way.

Sure I'd have loved to get even more little moments for the various servants. It would have been hilarious having Jalter wrecking enemies or a weirdly appropriate cameo from the Fate/Kaleid cast. But there are just things you can't fit into a movie like this. Those would have just been icing on the cake.

It was a really good cake. The only real issue I had with it was the lack of good explanation for Mash being alive at the end. They give a visual hint, but really could have used an extra couple minutes to actually explain that.

There's so much good here though. The servants coming to the rescue multiple times was great. You had Enkidu getting some shots in on Goetia, the moment of "here comes the Umu" and Jeanne's speech was handled well. There was just a lot of enjoyment in this and it doesn't drop the ball as an adaptation with the excuse of being a movie to back it up. It's just very solid.

No idea what the future holds for FGO adaptations. If they can handle it more like Babylonia and Solomon then great. Longer stories need the tv series treatment to actually give some time and depth to the encounters. While short ones like Solomon can definitely succeed with the runtime of a film. Hopefully we get more good ones.

[Kanon]

Didn't like it much. Having missed five singularities and the servants in them definitely hurt. For every servant I recognized, there were 5 others I had never seen before. I knew the ones who were said to have the strongest bond with Ritsuka, at least.

And it left me with a lot of questions. Why did Goetia care about Mash so much? Was he getting feedback from Romani or something? What did Romani/Solomon erasing himself from the throne of heroes even accomplish? Make Goetia mortal? How did Romani even recover his powers even though he became a regular human? How did Fu/Cath Palug bring Mash back?

The movie ending with a fistfight was completely unnecessary and such blatant retread of Shirou vs Kotomine.

But the main issue is that this was a Mash and Ritsuka movie, and I don't care about them.

[Tenshijun]

Solomon is surely a very weird adaptation choice since at due point just two things have been adapted (not counting Camelot since the movies were almost concurrently with it). Feels like DC trying to make Justice League a epic climax with just three solo movies to build it up beforehand.

As game-fan I think it was an welcome fanservice for the original material, but I wouldn't really stand for it as a movie on its own. I just wish the servant all-go had more screentime since part of the Singularity's appeal comes from that too.

[FlareKnight]

Originally Posted by Tenshijun

Solomon is surely a very weird adaptation choice since at due point just two things have been adapted (not counting Camelot since the movies were almost concurrently with it). Feels like DC trying to make Justice League a epic climax with just three solo movies to build it up beforehand.

As game-fan I think it was an welcome fanservice for the original material, but I wouldn't really stand for it as a movie on its own. I just wish the servant all-go had more screentime since part of the Singularity's appeal comes from that too.

Their adaptation choices were weird from the start. I don't even think it's like DC's approach to Justice League. Rather a "this is for the fans of the game" and that's about it. Otherwise there's no reason to animate Babylonia...then Camelot/Solomon with different studios working on both. Consistency between Babylonia/Solomon and Camelot was lacking anyways.

Honestly it really is just a follow-up for Babylonia and should be treated exactly as that. It was quite literally set up with the final episode of Babylonia.