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View Poll Results: Madoka Magica - Episode 10 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 294 | 82.12% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 39 | 10.89% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 13 | 3.63% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 7 | 1.96% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 2 | 0.56% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 2 | 0.56% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 1 | 0.28% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 0 | 0% | |
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2011-03-10, 23:29 | Link #242 |
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In a series that may have set a modern record for death flags - and has honored every one of them so far - I don't see any way Homura makes it out alive. There can be no real closure if she's alive.
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2011-03-10, 23:32 | Link #245 | ||
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2011-03-10, 23:35 | Link #246 | |
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Homura probably doesn't care. Madoka is her top concern.
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2011-03-10, 23:50 | Link #250 |
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Gah. I would love that. Bern's playing the Witches' side, and Lambda playing the Mahou Shoujo (Homura) side. Sure, neither side has nearly no chance of winning, but the Witches gives Bern the senseless destruction she wants, and with Lambda's power of Certainty, she'll allow Homura to gain her victory. 'Course then she'll show that in the end, Homura is still a Mahou Shoujo, forcing her to succumb to the despair which comes with her inevitable Witch-ification.
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2011-03-10, 23:55 | Link #251 | |
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I'm bounding more on her super-powerful magic circumventing this whole charade. |
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2011-03-11, 00:09 | Link #253 |
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Looking at this episode, as a Ryukishi fan, I can't help but think that this would have been better if it had been less of a "reveal" and more what the premise of the series centered around. I'm glad that Homura stopped being an obnoxious plot device this episode, but it also just didn't ring true to me emotionally except for the very first iteration, which was really the thrust of what we needed to see anyway.
I felt like the execution was just perfunctory. There wasn't any nuance to how Homura acted towards her situation. It was exactly by the book in almost every respect. I was sort of gratified to see that QB was exactly what I thought he was--simply a high pressure salesman that skips off once he's hit his quota.
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2011-03-11, 00:16 | Link #254 | |
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2011-03-11, 00:23 | Link #255 |
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KYUBEY SALARYMAN IS NOT A LIE! =OOOOOOOOOOO
and lol at madoka oneshotting WN. The thing was tossing buildings around for teh lulz and it seemed like it brought the entire city to ruin this also explains how homura knew mami would die. In a past loop Charlotte probably killed mami, or mami had great trouble and was saved by madoka/sayaka etc, so homura knew it was too much for mami alone
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2011-03-11, 00:37 | Link #256 |
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Madoka's power argument is troubling. She's clearly nothing special in the power department in most of the previous timelines.
The argument that it's tied to your wish holds no water since QB clearly feels her potential in this current timeline, and the last one. I'm not even going to bother trying to argue how Mami knew Madoka's potential, other than saying it's entirely possible that Mami's comment had nothing to do with Madoka's power, and instead was a comment on her potential to being a force of justice seeking out witches to destroy, but that sounds weak even to me. The argument that it's additive, possibly a side effect of the time loop, where the power keeps adding to itself every time Homura resets the timeline also holds no water. It'd mean everyone's power would do the same right? Or, at the very least, it'd mean Sayaka's would (the only other person who would have only been turned into a magical girl during the time frame of each time reset; Mami/Kyoko were prior to the start point of the time loop). She's already a weakling in this timeline. Should we accept that she's even weaker in the previous ones? Though I could definitely see this being a minor issue that is simply glossed over if this argument ends up being true. It's also possible there's a difference between potential and actual power. It's possible she's been potentially ridiculous in strength in every timeline. It's just the previous one in which she actually realizes that potential. I dislike this one as well, as I'd like to think if she was capable of killing the Walpurgis in one hit in any of the timelines, she'd have done so. She seemed pretty darn serious in all of them. I dunno. It bugs. If I had to guess, I'd go with the additive theory, even if there are issues with how it should have effected other magical girls, specifically, Sayaka. Never mind that if that's how it works, QB's race would seemingly just keep resetting time to harvest the perfect magical girls in every case. Still, it's obvious SOMETHING is residual in this time reset. I'm pretty sure the static Madoka had concerning Homura in episode 9 is supposed to show us this. I almost thought it was to make us realize Madoka was already technically a magical girl since she'd been one in the previous timeline, than I realized that didn't work since Sayaka had been one as well, and she had to be made one again in this one (though one could argue the only thing that matters is the first timeline, where Sayaka wasn't, but Madoka was-but that has nothing to do with the theory behind Madoka's super strong potential power). So, it's possible the hints of there being residual effects from the previous timelines are, indeed, supposed to support the idea that Madoka's power is additive. Gah. We'll see. |
2011-03-11, 00:44 | Link #258 |
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Homura is tech the official main heroine of this series now isn't she?
Also to fix everything Madoka need only make one wish: "I Wish QB had never existed" Thus solving everything with a self destructing paradox.
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2011-03-11, 00:47 | Link #259 | |
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So far Homura's results have been beneficial to Kyubey. Initially Madoka died and never became a Witch. Then Homura intervened, leading to Madoka's survival on Walpurgis Night, which allows her to become a Witch. Sayaka, who also was not initally involved, became a Witch as well. Homura herself will inevitably either become a Witch or die, unless she finds a way out. |
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2011-03-11, 00:49 | Link #260 | |
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Well, I do. |
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