2011-04-22, 03:52 PM
Spoiler
All in all, it was a very good series though, and I think I like it enough to place it in my top 2 to 3.
expected/10 ending, but a bit more meaningful than I expected. Various things seemed to pop out at me; the first being, QB seemed to not want to grant her wish, so one of two things happened there...he cannot deny any wishes, or her wish had gathered too much potency from the strings of fate Homura's time travel had been winding around her, making her wish more powerful than any being from a single dimension/universe could handle, thus he had no say over whether or not he could grant the wish.
Second, it was never commented upon whether or not the grief cubes provided the same amount of energy or less than the seeds for QB, so we cannot make a guess at that I guess...nevertheless, I'm assuming it is enough to stave off lolentropy. Many seem to think that where she is currently fighting is a post-apocalyptic afterscape, but that is entirely incorrect even basing things only on the little information we have. Despair dies with the person, therefore the same must hold true for the demons. Rather than it being a world where only she is left alive with leftover demons, it is simply a barrier-zone that she now inhabits and fights the hopelessness of humanity in the form of demons instead of witches; outside of the barrier, life goes on as normal.
Madoka becoming a goddess was no surprise really, it was the only option for a slightly good ending; the other option was bad end I suppose, but "bad end" in this case is just endless recursion for Homura until she gave up hope and became a witch. Rather, it was a bit of a twist for her to become a "concept" and not a physical goddess, but I suppose that is the only way for one to directly influence all planes of existence; even Homura could only exist in one dimension at a time.
Many have commented on the fact that Homura is now Madoka's "Metatron", which I think is about right, but then they go on to say that at the end she simply uses up all her power and vanishes, which I don't necessarily agree with. The fact that she had a white and a black wing indicated that she now held the powers of a witch as well as a magical girl, so, just because the distortions of the barrier were occurring around her does not mean she was dying. With the open-endedness of the ending, I suppose that could have occurred, but I prefer to think that, since she is now the equivalent of Madoka's chief Archangel in the real world, that she thus is sustained by Madoka's own infinite power and can never die unless she gives up hope, which she has already said she will not do "because this world is the world Madoka believes in".
One thing that does suck for her, she pretty much got friendzoned by Madoka right there, eh. No more lesbian vibes for her, LOL.
Oh wow, it just occurred to me, Homura's wish was to "save Madoka". Madoka is now immortal, rather, mortality is not a concept that applies to a law of time/space. Doesn't that in turn make Homura immune to mortality as well, since "saving Madoka" could be taken to the extreme of keeping her alive until her natural lifespan reaches an end?
Second, it was never commented upon whether or not the grief cubes provided the same amount of energy or less than the seeds for QB, so we cannot make a guess at that I guess...nevertheless, I'm assuming it is enough to stave off lolentropy. Many seem to think that where she is currently fighting is a post-apocalyptic afterscape, but that is entirely incorrect even basing things only on the little information we have. Despair dies with the person, therefore the same must hold true for the demons. Rather than it being a world where only she is left alive with leftover demons, it is simply a barrier-zone that she now inhabits and fights the hopelessness of humanity in the form of demons instead of witches; outside of the barrier, life goes on as normal.
Madoka becoming a goddess was no surprise really, it was the only option for a slightly good ending; the other option was bad end I suppose, but "bad end" in this case is just endless recursion for Homura until she gave up hope and became a witch. Rather, it was a bit of a twist for her to become a "concept" and not a physical goddess, but I suppose that is the only way for one to directly influence all planes of existence; even Homura could only exist in one dimension at a time.
Many have commented on the fact that Homura is now Madoka's "Metatron", which I think is about right, but then they go on to say that at the end she simply uses up all her power and vanishes, which I don't necessarily agree with. The fact that she had a white and a black wing indicated that she now held the powers of a witch as well as a magical girl, so, just because the distortions of the barrier were occurring around her does not mean she was dying. With the open-endedness of the ending, I suppose that could have occurred, but I prefer to think that, since she is now the equivalent of Madoka's chief Archangel in the real world, that she thus is sustained by Madoka's own infinite power and can never die unless she gives up hope, which she has already said she will not do "because this world is the world Madoka believes in".
One thing that does suck for her, she pretty much got friendzoned by Madoka right there, eh. No more lesbian vibes for her, LOL.
Oh wow, it just occurred to me, Homura's wish was to "save Madoka". Madoka is now immortal, rather, mortality is not a concept that applies to a law of time/space. Doesn't that in turn make Homura immune to mortality as well, since "saving Madoka" could be taken to the extreme of keeping her alive until her natural lifespan reaches an end?