I like to think we have all had realizations or revelations about series well past the time we probably should have. Moments where things become infinitely clearer because a tiny bit of information crosses our mind just as we think about the weirder or more confusing parts of a series.
Occasionally, it's because we didn't think too hard about it at the time. Maybe they didn't spoon feed us enough relevant information in the medium we saw the series (especially if there's adaptation decay or just changes in general), and sometimes we just weren't in the right mindset to come to the right conclusion.
Since I had one of these moments of Fridge Logic today, I felt it might be an interesting topic to discuss. And since these moments are hardly exclusive to video games, movies, novels/manga or anime, I chose to put this here.
Mine has to do with Revolutionary Girl Utena and a potential spoiler for anyone who might want to see the series, so I'll toss it into a spoiler:
This scene bugged me for so damn long, and it's kinda sad that I just NOW got it.. :no:
So, have any of you guys had moments like this?
Occasionally, it's because we didn't think too hard about it at the time. Maybe they didn't spoon feed us enough relevant information in the medium we saw the series (especially if there's adaptation decay or just changes in general), and sometimes we just weren't in the right mindset to come to the right conclusion.
Since I had one of these moments of Fridge Logic today, I felt it might be an interesting topic to discuss. And since these moments are hardly exclusive to video games, movies, novels/manga or anime, I chose to put this here.
Mine has to do with Revolutionary Girl Utena and a potential spoiler for anyone who might want to see the series, so I'll toss it into a spoiler:
Late in the anime, there's a scene of Kyouichi Saionji recounting him and Touga Kiryuu having met a little girl (Utena) who'd run away from home, only to be found by them in a church where there's three coffins. Two are occupied by Utena's mother and father, who died in a car accident. Utena is lying in the third. Utena says that there was no reason for there to be three coffins, so the last one must've been hers and that there was no point in living any longer since nothing ever lasts, so she asks that they close the coffin. IIRC, Saionji comments that it must've just been a mistake as Utena's clearly alive.
A while later, the two boys see Utena with her remaining family.
Saionji's story then fixates on the fact that Touga, whom he believed to have shown Utena something that was eternal, and this actually led my brain away from the whole three coffins thing.
Only now do I realize that we have next to no information about Utena's parents, aside from their death in a car crash. So, it's probable that Utena's mother was pregnant and that the third coffin was for an unborn sibling.
Edit: Additionally, I just realized that this means Anthy and Utena both had dead parents and a dead sibling. While this becomes very obvious as to why in the Manga's ending; in the anime, it's quite a bit more of a twist as the anime's ending doesn't infer that Anthy and Utena are the same person, and in fact, seems to imply the exact opposite.
A while later, the two boys see Utena with her remaining family.
Saionji's story then fixates on the fact that Touga, whom he believed to have shown Utena something that was eternal, and this actually led my brain away from the whole three coffins thing.
Only now do I realize that we have next to no information about Utena's parents, aside from their death in a car crash. So, it's probable that Utena's mother was pregnant and that the third coffin was for an unborn sibling.
Edit: Additionally, I just realized that this means Anthy and Utena both had dead parents and a dead sibling. While this becomes very obvious as to why in the Manga's ending; in the anime, it's quite a bit more of a twist as the anime's ending doesn't infer that Anthy and Utena are the same person, and in fact, seems to imply the exact opposite.
This scene bugged me for so damn long, and it's kinda sad that I just NOW got it.. :no:
So, have any of you guys had moments like this?