Anime Rewatch Episodes 69 & 70

[mellowcandle]

This is the post for discussing the last two episodes of our community anime rewatch. If you wanted to be fashionably late, this is your time to jump in! All previous posts can be found by using the "anime discussion" tag

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[peacewish]

I've had so many new ideas and thoughts during this rewatch about how season 3 was structured, and what was prioritized and what SHOULD have been prioritized, that I swear I'm almost tempted to do an entire S3 rewrite. I'll abstain because I've always thought episode rewrites are way down on the scale of fanfic for what's worth our time writing, and anyway the audience for CCS has long since moved on. But I am glad we did this rewatch, even if it was a party of two for the most part, because it gave me so much to think about and re-evaluate in new and interesting ways. See you all again in ten years?

PS: I would like to add a quickie addendum to post my final thoughts about Yue, because there was never really a moment in the series that gave me a chance to segue into that. A latecomer, after reading through my various comments in Season 3, could be forgiven for thinking I loathe and scorn Yue. I want to stipulate that this is not true. I complain a lot about his waify appearance and total lack of ability to contribute helpfully in a fight because I’m frustrated on his behalf, not angry at him. I think the writers shortchanged him almost as badly as Meilin. Looking over my way-too-prolific supply of AU fanfic, I noticed that whenever I write Yue in an alternate setting, he comes off as far more dangerous and powerful than he ever did in the actual show. Sun and Moon, Labyrinth, and Pleasure Slave all depict Yue as a near-undefeatable, lethal warrior whose mere presence makes enemies shut their mouths and back into the shadows so they won’t be noticed. So I like Yue, I really do. I really like him paired up with Touya, as opposed to the blandly vanilla Yukito. I just wish Clamp had been willing to give as much to him as I ever did.

[mellowcandle]

Yeah, I don't know where everyone else went, but it was sure fun for me. (And for D, who's only seen the whole thing through once before and remembered very little. He still doesn't get my Yuki-hate though.)

After the last movie thread goes up, I thought about maybe doing one more post as sort of a catch-all series/canon overview thread in which more general, overarching things like plot and characters could be discussed rather than in an episode-by-episode breakdown. I don't know if anyone would be interested in that or if it would just be the two of us repeating ourselves, but if anyone is lurking and would like to do that, we could.