Other thoughts about Madoka
Still on ep6, and will be until this week-end at the soonest.
- was Homura’s wish “I want to be special” or?... Because she stands apart as ~good at everything and popular and cute at school, and she’s apparently something of a wildcard as a Magical Girl. Was it her wish that set her apart, on top of the strains of being a Magical Girl? (It would work well with Mami’s assumption that Homura used to be bullied, but I’m not sure it explains Homura’s ‘splosions+teleportation powers. And it doesn’t fit with her costume at all, which is basically a school’s uniform. Unless her wish was “I want to be special at school”.)
- reading various watch-alongs up to the point where I am, I’m finding pretty interesting stuff. Especially with regards to the fact that Kyubey seems more interested in the girls’ wishes than in them fighting witches. He doesn’t present being a Magical Girl as being the right thing to do; he doesn’t try to sell them the powers or the glamour of being a MG. That’s not part of the sales pitch at all. He tries to sell them their wish. Wouldn’t that be interesting, if it turned out that the thing that’s supposed to be a compensation for your eternal services was even more useful to the-the whatever it is Kyubey tries to achieve/serves/sides with?
- the biggest twist would be if Kyubey turned out to be a perfectly benevolent if inhuman entity. Heh, maybe he is working for a greater good, even for our human criteria, such as trying to keep the world from being destroyed, and making pacts with Magical Girls and using their soul/life energy is the Only Way to keep the walls between reality to shatter.
- so I wonder: is the wish the price or the prize?
- one thing about the girls’ fighting style: Homura hasn’t used a weapon yet (no clue whether she’s got one she just hasn’t taken out yet or not) ETA: has her tiny shield, Kyouko has her articulated spear thing, and Mami and Sayaka have their cool and metaphorically incredibly disturbing throw-away weapons. If the weapons say something about their users, and I have no reason to assume they don’t and plenty to think they do, that means Kyubey considers Mami and Sayaka cannon fodder - use them once and throw them away, there’s an endless supply where it comes from.
- I wonder what Kyouko’s backstory will turn out to be, because so far I’m perfectly fine hatin’ her.
- also read the theory that becoming a Magical Girl = not growing up anymore. (man, the more I read these things the more I want to shove them in a room with the Robins.) Which is appropriately interesting and terrifying, but I’m not sure how it parses with Mami having been a MG “for a long time” and still not mentioning it to Sayaka and Madoka. Having decided that Mami is basically the most sensible and ethical character on the show, it doesn’t hold.
- ending with a superficial note: I hate Sayaka’s costume. THAT SKIRT. WHY.
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- was Homura’s wish “I want to be special” or?... Because she stands apart as ~good at everything and popular and cute at school, and she’s apparently something of a wildcard as a Magical Girl. Was it her wish that set her apart, on top of the strains of being a Magical Girl? (It would work well with Mami’s assumption that Homura used to be bullied, but I’m not sure it explains Homura’s ‘splosions+teleportation powers. And it doesn’t fit with her costume at all, which is basically a school’s uniform. Unless her wish was “I want to be special at school”.)
- reading various watch-alongs up to the point where I am, I’m finding pretty interesting stuff. Especially with regards to the fact that Kyubey seems more interested in the girls’ wishes than in them fighting witches. He doesn’t present being a Magical Girl as being the right thing to do; he doesn’t try to sell them the powers or the glamour of being a MG. That’s not part of the sales pitch at all. He tries to sell them their wish. Wouldn’t that be interesting, if it turned out that the thing that’s supposed to be a compensation for your eternal services was even more useful to the-the whatever it is Kyubey tries to achieve/serves/sides with?
- the biggest twist would be if Kyubey turned out to be a perfectly benevolent if inhuman entity. Heh, maybe he is working for a greater good, even for our human criteria, such as trying to keep the world from being destroyed, and making pacts with Magical Girls and using their soul/life energy is the Only Way to keep the walls between reality to shatter.
- so I wonder: is the wish the price or the prize?
- one thing about the girls’ fighting style: Homura hasn’t used a weapon yet (no clue whether she’s got one she just hasn’t taken out yet or not) ETA: has her tiny shield, Kyouko has her articulated spear thing, and Mami and Sayaka have their cool and metaphorically incredibly disturbing throw-away weapons. If the weapons say something about their users, and I have no reason to assume they don’t and plenty to think they do, that means Kyubey considers Mami and Sayaka cannon fodder - use them once and throw them away, there’s an endless supply where it comes from.
- I wonder what Kyouko’s backstory will turn out to be, because so far I’m perfectly fine hatin’ her.
- also read the theory that becoming a Magical Girl = not growing up anymore. (man, the more I read these things the more I want to shove them in a room with the Robins.) Which is appropriately interesting and terrifying, but I’m not sure how it parses with Mami having been a MG “for a long time” and still not mentioning it to Sayaka and Madoka. Having decided that Mami is basically the most sensible and ethical character on the show, it doesn’t hold.
- ending with a superficial note: I hate Sayaka’s costume. THAT SKIRT. WHY.
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comments there.