Well if we're playing this game than I don't even know why we're gonna debate. Advent Children was fanservice. Anyone who didn't think Sephiroth was going to be present in the first piece of FF7 media in seven years were fooling themselves. And I'll bet there would have been a lot of complaining if Sephiroth hadn't been in it. But Jenova's nature made it fairly easy to explain, but given what they have established since the movie, it would damn hard to bring him back again.
I'll level with you, I have trouble getting my thoughts in order. Please be patient with me
I'm not trying to play a game. I was just stating the fact that they've brought Sephiroth back before, and that they
could do it again (although that is admittedly difficult, if they did it wouldn't be the first retcon would it?)
(I haven't really understood much of the compilation thoroughly enough. It doesn't even make sense to me that Jenova's 'head' would still exist, Sephiroth
was Jenova for much of the game, why didn't it reabsorb its own head? Doesn't that run counter to the reunion theory?
)
Aaanyway, they could find a way around that, say that Hojo had a bunch of Jenova cells stashed away somewhere if they wanted to
Why does any of this justify bringing back Sephiroth again?
It doesn't. I was making a separate point about the shoddy treatment of the other characters.
The whole of FFVII essentially hinges on Cloud and Sephiroth though. If Sephiroth is dead and gone, then the compilation is wrapped up as far as I am concerned.
They could still do a sequel without Sephiroth, but that would be the '
continuation of the compilation of FFVII'....which makes my head hurt.
I am of the opinion that you can only go bigger with these things. A sequel would have to be pretty spectacular and epic. Otherwise, like I said, we're back to Luke Skywalker shooting Womp rats after saving the universe. Its crappy, and whats the point?
I think they said his name maybe twice, and there's a split-second flash of him. But what does that even matter? Bringing him back would be stupid, pretending he never existed might be even dumber.
Ah-ha! A split second flash! I knew it
...I wasn't saying that anyway, I was just responding to your pointing out that he wasn't in it.
I...don't see this. They were total bastards before, and Rufus continued to be a total bastard, what would the fact that there's a fandom have anything to do with that?
Tifa giggling may have been a bit much, but by the end of VII it's pretty much established that the Turks and Avalanche don't hate one another. The Turks understand Avalanche's position and do what they do solely because of their orders, and Avalanche - Tifa in particular - knows she took plenty of innocent lives herself and probably doesn't consider herself to be in a position to judge.
Rufus was quite bastardy and manipulative. The fact he was in it
at all is a result of the fandom. They couldn't revive Sephiroth and not Rufus without the Shinra fangirls getting angry.
I think they still hate each other at the end of FFVII, (although I doubt the Turks
hate anyone, they're just doing a job) The option not to fight at the end of FFVII comes from the fact that as far as the Turks were concerned, Shinra was finished. They were all going to die, and why waste time fighting?
Even if Tifa acknowledges her own crimes, her reaction to Reno is still odd. He did kill her friends. So giggling and smiling is totally inappropriate. "I remember you, you killed my neighbors!....remember when we killed your superiors? Ha ha, classic times. We must do this again!"
It should have been thinly veiled hostility, as it was between Cloud, Rufus, Reno and Rude.
Anyway, this is all speculation on my part. I don't even think a sequel will happen, I actually think a remake is more likely.
