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Well having watched the bento version of the movie...
I'm not sure what to say. On one hand is was a good ending, but a very sad ending.
I can understand why AN died like it did after the movie came out, plus the
internal problems... a lot of that makes sense now. There wasn't much to talk about
further... the largest topics were nailed dead due to the movie wrapping up ties.
Of course we're still here...
But some observations:
Lafiel and Jinto have an understood love for each other. Jinto being softer on the outside, harder on the inside... while Lafiel is the reverse. They've evidently decided on children.
Their relationship has changed after him nearly dying on Lobnas II, and also it appears to have changed some due to age. I'd almost say that Lafiel, and maybe it's the Japanese language verses listening to the dub, but was hard and bitter. Very few times unless they were "having a moment" did she display as much as previous animations. I was sort of taken aback by this... wishing for the desperate emotional Lafiel.
The exchange about her needing a disguise again, and the flashbacks, was one of the best scenes.
Miss. E (since I can't spell her name) drives like a psychopath, and seems to have shed her cutesy exterior in favor of being blunt, kinda rude, and addicted to speed. Pretty sure she was hoping Jinto would do something to her in the "dead" communication's ship.
Ultimately I just about had a heart attack at the ending when Till wanted him to seek asylum and abandon the Abh. The concept sent me into a shock, hoping he wouldn't consider it. The next scene flashed through - or maybe it was poor editing... faster than I could really grasp what had happened and suddenly they were to the point of signing documents.
Till is a low down dirty.... whatever.. from what I remember he actually helped turn Rock Lin over to have him murdered. Now he spins the story like he was a saint. He corner's Jinto, taking away that which he had longed for so dearly... not just for himself, but to be with Lafiel on his home world. Till sickens me. It was entirely a power play by him to retain his power over Martine... he cared nothing for Jinto, even with the hugging. To even go so far as to even banish him from the area...
Ultimately as Jinto said, he made his choice a long time ago... and more than the world he grew up on... he desired Lafiel's presence.
The ending song was rather sad.. and the fact that the closing words were not of Lafiel's design... sort of made it feel a little hollow.
To know that Jinto was left as a man without a country (read the book sometime) but had found a greater love was ending on a good note.
To say goodbye to the series (as the entire ending was I felt, a send off to the anime fans), in such a fashion sort of makes me wish there were more "adventures of Jinto and Lafiel" - instead of being left to imagine a broken Jinto growing old against Lafiel.. always bound to her duty.
Yet that vision might be offset by knowing they would have children, that might do better.... perhaps bring some measure of joy to them... is a good thought. Maybe the flower, as it showed at the end, having bloomed again... signified a rebirth...
The Abh obviously will win the war... although that leaves fans no where basically...
It just left me a with a rather conflicted ending... but one I suppose we could have seen coming a long time ago.
Personally after blowing up the Martine laser.. I'd have told Till to leave or something. I can't see a "good way" out of the situation as long as you maintain that Martine is to come to no harm in any fashion. What you need is basically a assassination... so Jinto could return and open Martine's borders.
*sigh*
I'm not sure what to say. On one hand is was a good ending, but a very sad ending.
I can understand why AN died like it did after the movie came out, plus the
internal problems... a lot of that makes sense now. There wasn't much to talk about
further... the largest topics were nailed dead due to the movie wrapping up ties.
Of course we're still here...
But some observations:
Lafiel and Jinto have an understood love for each other. Jinto being softer on the outside, harder on the inside... while Lafiel is the reverse. They've evidently decided on children.
Their relationship has changed after him nearly dying on Lobnas II, and also it appears to have changed some due to age. I'd almost say that Lafiel, and maybe it's the Japanese language verses listening to the dub, but was hard and bitter. Very few times unless they were "having a moment" did she display as much as previous animations. I was sort of taken aback by this... wishing for the desperate emotional Lafiel.
The exchange about her needing a disguise again, and the flashbacks, was one of the best scenes.
Miss. E (since I can't spell her name) drives like a psychopath, and seems to have shed her cutesy exterior in favor of being blunt, kinda rude, and addicted to speed. Pretty sure she was hoping Jinto would do something to her in the "dead" communication's ship.
Ultimately I just about had a heart attack at the ending when Till wanted him to seek asylum and abandon the Abh. The concept sent me into a shock, hoping he wouldn't consider it. The next scene flashed through - or maybe it was poor editing... faster than I could really grasp what had happened and suddenly they were to the point of signing documents.
Till is a low down dirty.... whatever.. from what I remember he actually helped turn Rock Lin over to have him murdered. Now he spins the story like he was a saint. He corner's Jinto, taking away that which he had longed for so dearly... not just for himself, but to be with Lafiel on his home world. Till sickens me. It was entirely a power play by him to retain his power over Martine... he cared nothing for Jinto, even with the hugging. To even go so far as to even banish him from the area...
Ultimately as Jinto said, he made his choice a long time ago... and more than the world he grew up on... he desired Lafiel's presence.
The ending song was rather sad.. and the fact that the closing words were not of Lafiel's design... sort of made it feel a little hollow.
To know that Jinto was left as a man without a country (read the book sometime) but had found a greater love was ending on a good note.
To say goodbye to the series (as the entire ending was I felt, a send off to the anime fans), in such a fashion sort of makes me wish there were more "adventures of Jinto and Lafiel" - instead of being left to imagine a broken Jinto growing old against Lafiel.. always bound to her duty.
Yet that vision might be offset by knowing they would have children, that might do better.... perhaps bring some measure of joy to them... is a good thought. Maybe the flower, as it showed at the end, having bloomed again... signified a rebirth...
The Abh obviously will win the war... although that leaves fans no where basically...
It just left me a with a rather conflicted ending... but one I suppose we could have seen coming a long time ago.
Personally after blowing up the Martine laser.. I'd have told Till to leave or something. I can't see a "good way" out of the situation as long as you maintain that Martine is to come to no harm in any fashion. What you need is basically a assassination... so Jinto could return and open Martine's borders.
*sigh*
Jinto should have used that opportunity, but oh - it's "the Jinto" i'm talking about 