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The shot is from this sequence at about the 2:00 minute mark: Cloud’s memory of his mother And you can find my thoughts on what the shot means in this post:

Perhaps I’m reading that shot the wrong way then. Following the memory of Cloud’s mother urging him to meet an older woman, which clearly ties into his present experiences with Aerith, I thought this shot of his eye with these deliberate and impossible lights sparkling in them is intended to...

That’s because Barret already died in Remake. (Sorry for the double post!)

I’ll try my best to respond to many of the points you’ve made since my last post here, Eerie. Forgive me if I miss some of them. In many regards we agree on much Eerie. We’re just operating on different assumptions. You believe that since much of the Final Fantasy VII story and our characters...

Great post, Eerie. But after reading the analysis you have shared and the linked Reddit thread, I have to say that it leads me to a pretty different conclusion than the one you have arrived at. In the past, I have wavered on the idea of whether Tifa is going to be the one to die this time...

In season 2 of Nibel Peaks, Claudia Strife finds herself torn between the tormented Brian Lockhart who she knows is bad for her, and the sweet but goofy Zangan, who just doesn’t excite her the way Brian does.

Claudia seems like a pretty loving and thoughtful mother, no? May I present the following: During the Nibelheim flashback, why does Claudia encourage Cloud to date an older woman who can take care of him? Broke: Claudia knows that her son is going to be an emotionally stunted man-child for a...

Haha. Guilty as charged. I agree that it’s weird and that I got carried away in my last post. I think my points would be better framed via the following premise: each of the creative leads on Final Fantasy VII’s multiple instalments have different interests and priorities as storytellers, and I...

My interpretation is that Hamaguchi is going to be the day-in-day-out director: he will manage the project and it’s key deliveries and milestones, and that he comes from a technical background and can more fluently discuss coding and engine challenges than perhaps Nomura can. Nomura will remain...

I’m putting money down that Braveheart was popular with the creative team back in ‘95/‘96 and someone then decided that ‘Wallace’ would be a fitting surname for the game’s revolutionary figure.

To be honest, I try not to hold fiction I have the luxury of enjoying for free to the same standard as fiction I actually pay for. But I agree that even the better writers I’ve enjoyed can at times be a bit liberal with FFVII’s characters. It’s absolutely not for everyone, but there’s some...

It’s really hard to predict at this point. I still go back and forth on whether Aerith in the dream is another version of Aerith entirely. There’s multiple versions of Sephiroth, so it wouldn’t be a stretch. I’m sure there’s going to be a lot more Zack in the sequel, even if there aren’t...

So this week is going to be a doozy - thanks, Blue Monday. I’ll have to put my deeper dive into Pollen Annie’s second video on hold for a bit. Didn’t want to miss out on all this discussion in the meantime though. You’ve touched on a topic that I’m quite intrigued by, Eerie. The post-Advent...

Yeah, this is going to factor into my response, but if we take both the OG and the Remake into account, which the video does too, and accurate translations of the OG’s text, Tifa has never purposefully excluded Cloud. Cloud has frequently excluded himself - which is underlined by Barret’s...

Loving the responses that everyone is sharing. And a massive thanks to @Torrie and @KindOfBlue for providing further summaries. I’m glad to see the author’s arguments matured over the course of their videos. Ive only just finished digesting number 2, but I’m looking forward to getting through...

Apologies for double-posting, but I did promise to report back on the above. I’ve only watched the first video, titled ‘Why Cloud loves Aerith’. I’m not sure I’m going to do a write-up of the rest, but I’ll probably check them out. A few notes before I abridge the video’s main points: the video...

The “Trigger Warning” in the title of the first video gives me great confidence that these videos are going to be argued in good-faith. I’ll report back on my findings...

@Graymouse - I agree with KindofBlue’s assessment. There’s not enough to go on within the scene alone - if anything there’s a whole bunch of Aerti material going on in this scene with all the handholding and affectionate stares. We should defer to the original Japanese text for any nuance in...

Many thanks for the welcome and for entertaining my thoughts. To be honest, even if we were to assume that Cloud and Tifa had not become romantically involved in any sense (sharing a bed; going on dates; making some kind of commitment to one another) in the two years between the OG and Advent...

Hi All, Dr Frasier Crane, here. Long-time lurker, first-time poster. If it’s of any use, I’ve recorded my history with this topic in the spoiler below. With that giant spoiler over and done with, I’ve been wondering if Aerith’s line in her resolution scene has been interrogated from this...