--- On Thu, 6/19/08, Dr. Briefs <glenn@capcorphq.com> wrote:

> From: Dr. Briefs <glenn@capcorphq.com>
> Subject: [tenchi:106281] Re: [Semi-OT] Tenchi meets Belldandy?
> To: tenchi@usagi.org
> Date: Thursday, June 19, 2008, 11:43 PM
> At 11:00 AM 6/19/2008, Joseph Riggs wrote:
> >My point, though, was that if there is a link to
> >Lind, it's a rather odd thing to stick in the
> closing credits after the 
> >big season finale episode (which ends with the Lord of
> Terror story - Lind 
> >gets inserted into it but doesn't modify it that
> much) - particularly 
> >since there's absolutely nothing
> >in the season one animation or the still to connect it
> with her.  It's 
> >seemingly an antagonistic silohuette (based on pose) in
> the ED of the 
> >season finale that doesn't seem to fit with
> anything seen up until that 
> >point (the backdrop - a bridge -
> >doesn't connect it with anything either).
> 
> Good lord, man!  Is it that difficult for you to understand
> the idea of 
> "hinting at upcoming events"?
> 


I do...

BUT...

My point once again is that if you haven't read up through volume 25 (or whenever
this thing that's apparently attached to Lind finally shows up in the manga), it means
nothing to you.  It look like some random grimacing person's silohuette in front
of a random piece of Earth scenery (in this case a bridge across a bay - they're not
threatening anything recognizeable).  And the way that they've got it set up doesn't
really fit either.  In fact, my first thought on seeing it was that it was
supposed to be Mara (who's conspicuously absent), but I don't think that the hair
is right.

You've got a couple of watercolor-style stills of Keichi (still in the Lord of Terror
garb) and Belldandy sitting on the roof of the temple.  Then you've got the silohuette
standing in front of a bridge that extends across a bay.  Then you've got Lind
back in heaven handing in the disc.  Then you jump back to Keichi and Belldandy and
show a sequence of scenes with Sculd trying to seperate the two, followed by Urd trying
to squeeze them all together.

It would make more sense for the "upcoming threat" bit to be toward the end of the
sequence instead of practically at the start (or at least after the scene with Lind).
i.e. resolve the immediate story first, and then suggest what's going to come..

Like I said, the way that the scene is presented suggests that it's someone that we're
supposed to recognize (this isn't the only still in silohuette - there's one or two
with Keichi and Belldandy later on as well) from the events that have already
taken place. 

A much better example of the "upcoming threat" idea is the pair of legs extending
in from one side of the screen, evidently belonging to someone who secretly watches
Mara claim the urn during the previous episode.



junior